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Gemma Owen: ‘I tell my female followers: earn your own money’

The Love Island star, 19, has 2 million fans on social media, a fashion label, joined Team GB in dressage and is the face of the Princess of Wales’s favourite brand. Can anything stop her?

Gemma Owen, 19, photographed at home in north Wales
Gemma Owen, 19, photographed at home in north Wales
TOM JACKSON FOR THE TIMES MAGAZINE
The Times

What do you give the girl who has everything for her 18th birthday? And I mean everything: a horse, a stable, an haute couture wardrobe, not to mention cover girl looks. And that’s before you get to the £50 million family fortune and the north Wales manor house set in 42 acres that she and her family call home.

Gemma Owen’s first love is equestrianism, so a diamanté riding helmet might have made a decent gift, but she already has one of those. It is sitting next to us on the coffee table.

Soccer - FA Barclays Premiership - Newcastle United Press Conference - Michael Owen Signing - St James' Park
Michael and Gemma Owen at Newcastle United, 2005
PA

“Both my parents have always been like, ‘There’s a pub down the road. When you reach 18, your pocket money stops and you go get a job.’ It’s been drummed into us.

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