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Holly was Big Brother's most divisive housemate. This is what she wants you to know.

Few housemates have made such a huge splash in the Big Brother house as model and influencer, Holly.

From the very beginning, the 31-year-old divided viewers and housemates alike with her comments on everything from 'pretty privilege' to her tumultuous relationship with fellow housemate, Colin.

And now, the curtains have closed over Holly's time in the house, as the WA jetsetter was evicted on Sunday night, alongside Abiola, who chose to leave the game in return for a cool $15k.

Holly told Mamamia that she had a feeling it was her time to go, as she had endured enough criticism from her fellow housemates. "I actually did have a hunch, hence why I wore my brown pants. I walked in in these pants and I'm gonna walk out in them too," she said.

"I hadn't achieved as much as I was going to without the Karens getting to me. The universe has a way of protecting me."

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Holly said she was on the brunt of constant criticism from the rest of the house. "From the moment I opened my eyes to the moment I closed them, I had to keep my guard up, which made it a lot harder to enjoy the experience," she said.

"A lot of conversations were done behind my back. That was sort of the thing that I really didn't enjoy with the show."

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This brought us to the topic of Coco, a single mum who (for the most part) was kind to Holly's face, but expressed growing frustrations with her in the diary room and in conversations with the other housemates.

Since leaving the house, Holly has discovered what was said. "At the end of the day, it shows more about her than me. I can hold my head up high because I was trying to see the best in her," she continued.

"Some of the things she said were so vulgar and very uncalled for. I'm quite disheartened by that because I thought: we're 30, we're the same age, we have similar hair, where's the girl code here?"

One controversial moment involving Holly had the model rejecting the notion of pretty privilege — that conventionally attractive people have an easier life — but she has since changed her stance after hearing Abiola's perspective.

"I learnt so much from that entire conversation from Abs, like her perspective and the way she broke it down and explained it to me. I'm so grateful because I just didn't have that understanding," Holly said.

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"Sometimes, I can seem so glued onto something, but so oblivious to the other — that's just a characteristic that's in my personality. It comes with having a little bit of an auditory processing situation that I've had my whole life. Sometimes things come out not the way that I intend them to."

Holly admits the Big Brother house didn't always feel like an inclusive environment. "Why do we have to be at each other's throats the whole time? That's my view and how I felt a lot of the time in there — I was excluded and isolated. I felt that there were a lot of cheap shots taken."

A lot of the criticism from the house surrounded Holly's relationship with 21-year-old, Colin, with accusations that she was leading him on.

"I think everyone just didn't have anything to talk about, then they slightly became obsessed," she said.

"At the end of the day, I really feel like beauty comes from the inside out, and I think that Colin, I find him very attractive, obviously — there's no question or doubt about that.

"The people outside the relationship, they're not qualified to judge. They don't know the conversations that we're having when people aren't around — no one else had the connection that we had on the show. When it came to Colin, he really showed up for me and I showed up for him."

As for what's next for the blossoming couple, Holly hopes to have the chance to date away from prying eyes.

"We have a plan. We're really looking forward to actually being able to hold each other's hands, go to Luna Park, ride the roller coasters, without all the people in the house judging us... it's all been a little bit cruel."

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In response to Mia claiming in a chat with Mamamia that Holly had only joined the show to build her social media platform (she has over 100k followers on Instagram), Holly had one thing to say.

"I don't need Big Brother to grow my influencer platform. My process into the Big Brother house was a little bit different to others… I was actually approached. She just didn't know that, and that's fine. But you know what? Mia didn't really give me the time of day either. She loves to say that she did."

When Holly went into the house, reports emerged that she had a falling out with Married At First Sight bride and former friend, Carina Mirabile.

"Carina and I have known each other since we were 15, and I have nothing negative to say about her. I have noticed a few articles, but to be honest, I think that's another thing that's been blown massively out of proportion," she said.

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"I only wish Carina the best in life — people go on separate journeys at different times, sometimes friendships drift apart, and they come back together. Potentially, we're on a drift right now, and one day I'm sure we'll sit back, have a conversation and probably have a laugh about a few different things."

When asked about the reports she had previously dated Usain Bolt before, Holly didn't want to get into it. "I'm leaving any of my dating histories in my twenties, you know," she said.

Overall, Holly went into the house to break the stereotype some people have about models and influencers, but she didn't feel like the house was open to getting to know the real her.

"I realised very quickly that the fellow house did not want that mould to be broken, and I think they all went into overdrive to prove it," she said.

"I do sometimes mix my words up; I am dyslexic. I have no issues with that. But sometimes you don't want to disclose things to people because you don't feel safe, and I also don't want to use that as an excuse, but take me for who I am. Please don't judge me. Please don't make a mountain out of a molehill."

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