'If you want something enough, then you can achieve it'
"You're given one life and it's down to you what you do with it," Hague said, according to Sky News.
"When I've spoken about that in the past, I have been slammed a little bit, with people saying, 'It's easy for you to say that, you've not grown up in poverty, you've not grown up with major money struggles, so for you to sit there and say that we all have the same 24 hours in a day, it's not correct'."
Hague acknowledged that while "we all have different backgrounds and we're all raised in different ways and we do have different financial situation" she believes that "if you want something enough, you can achieve it".
"It just depends to what lengths you want to go to get where you want to be in the future," she said.
"And I'll go to any lengths. I've worked my absolute a*** off to get where I am now."
'Tone deaf': Fans savage Molly's success claim
On Twitter people have slammed Hague's comments, likening it to telling homeless people to "just buy a house".
Hague's Wikipedia entry was even briefly edited to change her name to Molly-Mae Thatcher, in reference to conservative UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The entry said she was famous for "having worked harder than anyone less successful than her".
Not Molly's words
In response to the controversy, Hague has claimed her words were taken out of context and she is now having fake quotes attributed to her.
"If you listen to the full conversation and interview Molly was asked about how the nature of her potential grows and how she believes in herself," a spokesperson for the influencer told The Sun.
"This part of the interview was discussing time efficiency relating to success. Molly refers to a quote which says, 'We all have the same 24 hours in a day as Beyonce'. She was discussing her own experience and how she can resonate with this specific quote."
The spokesperson claimed that Hague's comments that if you "want something enough you can work hard to achieve it" was about "her own life" and "personal circumstances".
"Molly is not commenting on anyone else's life or personal situation she can only speak of her own experience," they said.
Her spokesperson now claimed Hague was having quotes attributed to her which she had never said.
"Social media users have shared a short snippet from this interview with words such as 'if you are homeless buy a house' and 'if you are poor be poor' these are absolutely not Molly's words, these are not Molly's thoughts and this isn't at all the meaning or thought behind that conversation," they said.
