{"id":142849,"date":"2023-11-01T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=142849"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:47:16","slug":"i-grew-up-on-a-council-estate-and-left-school-at-16-everyone-underestimated-me-but-now-i-run-a-25m-beauty-company-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/lifestyle\/i-grew-up-on-a-council-estate-and-left-school-at-16-everyone-underestimated-me-but-now-i-run-a-25m-beauty-company-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I grew up on a council estate and left school at 16… everyone underestimated me but now I run a \u00a325m beauty company | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MUM who grew up on a council estate has opened up about her journey to running a \u00a325million beauty company. <\/p>\n

Maxine Laceby, 57, says everyone underestimated her – especially since she'd dropped out of school at 16. <\/p>\n


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But she went on to found Absolute Collagen – which is now a thriving, multimillion-pound company.<\/p>\n

And Maxine looks back on her efforts with a smile, saying: \u201cIf I can help one person just to step into their own skin, and not be scared, and everything that takes\u2026 that is my mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mum-of-two admitted "life was tough" growing up – she was adopted, grew up in a council estate in Bath, and left school at 16 because she hated it. <\/p>\n

In the years that followed she stepped into a range of different jobs, until she found her favourite one of all – raising a family. <\/p>\n

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At 25, Maxine became a full-time mum and moved to Wolverhampton, which she still calls home today. <\/p>\n

But it wasn't until her daughters – Darcy, 26, and Margot, 23 – flew the coop that she headed to university to study fine arts.<\/p>\n

It was while there that she discovered the benefits of collagen after taking part in a challenge to embrace her insecurities – by removing all her makeup and letting her hair turn grey. <\/p>\n

Maxine said: \u201cI just had these insecure moments where I used to sit on my bed and go, \u2018I don\u2019t know who I am? I\u2019ve been a daughter, I\u2019ve been a mother, who am I?'<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had to really deep dive into myself and ask, \u2018What\u2019s going on? Why am I feeding these insecurities? It\u2019s only what I look like, who cares?\u2019 But it was more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mum started creating her own bone broth at home – simmering chicken feet and pigs trotters in pans at home. <\/p>\n

After drinking the concoction, which took hours of cooking to make gelatinous stock, Maxine's hair and skin started reaping the rewards. <\/p>\n

Then, in 2017, she launched Absolute Collagen – after her friends and family noticed she was "glowing".<\/p>\n

It offered a small sachet of liquid containing the right amount of the best form of collagen, with Vitamin C.<\/p>\n

The leap into starting her own business wasn't easy – she remortgaged her house, sold belongings and was forced to borrow money from friends. <\/p>\n

But within two years the company had turned over a whopping \u00a31m, and that number kept growing. <\/p>\n

She puts her success down to the life she's lived, saying she's solution-focused and she \u201cgets stuff done\u201d.<\/p>\n

Maxine said: \u201cI look back and it\u2019s about showing up as me, my authentic self, especially in a world where everybody is shown to be anything but their authentic self." <\/p>\n


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