Love Island star reveals she's QUIT the UK for new life 5000 miles away four years after leaving the villa
LOVE Island alum Abigail Rawlings has opened up on the struggles she's faced since moving to the US.
The tattoo artist and former reality TV star packed up her home in the UK and moved thousands of miles away to Los Angeles.
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Abi, 31, decided to move to La La Land and continue her tattooing career there in what she described as her "dream life."
She had not posted much since arriving and admitted to her 351,000 that she'd been finding the move tough.
Alongside a series of photos, including one of her filling up her car at a petrol station, Abi revealed she felt like she was finally settling in.
"So today is officially my third week living in LA.. I'll be dead honest and admit it's been way more challenging than I ever expected it to be," Abi wrote in the caption of the Instagram post.
"I haven't been posting much on the grid cause honestly it's been mainly pretty boring life stuff, tryna get set up in a new country ain't no joke.. I mean literally no one said it was gonna be easy.. but FECK America why you gotta make everything so dam tricky??"
Abi continued by saying she'd spent the majority of her time there "feeling overwhelmed and stressed."
"But as of yesterday, I finally got my SSN (social security number) through (something I discovered you can't do anything without it here) so now I can finally make a start on finding my own little apartment and create my own little safe space to start building my foundations for my new lil dream La life," she wrote.
"Regardless of how hard it's been to adjust so far, I'm still unbelievably grateful for this opportunity to start again and even more grateful for the beautiful souls I'm so lucky to have in my life that love and support me endlessly."
Abi revealed in earlier posts that she had manifested the life she wanted in LA and could not believe it had finally come true.
She also told her fans that she would be working at the Sasha Tattooing Gallery and doing guest spots at the Be More You studio.
Abi shot to fame on series seven of Love Island in 2021.
She entered on day 24 and coupled up with Toby Aromolaran - but he dumped her during Casa Amor for Mary Bedford.
Abi later chose to couple up with Dale Mehmet and the pair were dumped from the villa on day 42.
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