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Love Island’s Huda Mustafa Lays Bare Abuse and Secret Teen Pregnancy

Huda Mustafa’s revelations offer insight into her experiences with trauma, motherhood, reality-TV pressures.

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Overview

  • She described years of physical and sexual abuse by her father, saying she last spoke to him eight years ago after witnessing him attack her mother
  • Mustafa recalled being bullied in school for her Muslim and Palestinian heritage, which she linked to the onset of a bulimia struggle in middle school
  • At 18, she learned she was pregnant in a Walmart bathroom, kept the news from loved ones for months and now shares primary custody of her five-year-old daughter
  • She defended her bold Heart Rate Challenge tactics as competitive strategy and criticized Love Island USA’s mental health screening for failing to flag trauma triggers
  • Mustafa explained her breakup with Chris Seeley by accusing him of a wandering eye and overstating their intimacy, and revealed online backlash that included CPS threats against her parenting