A WOMAN who went from living on a rough council estate to a posh one has revealed she’s judged for not sticking to her neighbour’s rules.
Lily Dee, 36, is proud of where she comes from and doesn’t mind showing off her council estate roots to her neighbours – even if some of them hate it.
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Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, Lily who went from being asked to sell drugs and ditching school to making £5,000 a month said she couldn’t care less if they judged her.
Walking around the streets in her dressing gown, Lily said some of her neighbour’s give her filthy looks.
“I know it’s just an arrogance and ignorance thing and it’s a judgemental thing, so it doesn’t bother me,” she explains.
“But if I was younger, it would, I’d be feeling [as if I don’t belong], but these posh totties who haven’t even stepped onto a council estate – they wouldn’t know about saving your money or scrimping and saving, or having drug dealers at the door because your dad’s a crackhead.”
Lily, who goes by the Council Estate Queen on social media, previously revealed that drug dealers threw petrol bombs thrown through her windows when she was younger as her parents were addicted to drugs.
I try not to take it personally, because it’s a different part of society
Lily Dee
While it hasn’t been an easy life for Lily, she’s now moved up in the world making thousands a month on social media and moving to a fancy estate.
“My parents weren’t bad people, they didn’t make the choice to have children and get addicted to drugs,” she explains.
“As I got older, I became obsessed with being successful and making sure I would never go hungry again.”
She was even encouraged to sell drugs and go on benefits when she left school, but ditched the lifestyle to travel the world and work as an entertainer.
Now back in the UK, Lily hasn’t forgotten her council estate roots despite moving up in the world, and regularly pops out in her dressing gown to run errands.
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Taking to social media she shared a clip of herself heading to her car in her robe and hair net.
She said: “When you live on posh estate and half the neighbours judge you by how you look so I make sure I look extra council estate just for them.”
Despite the dirty looks from some of her neighbours, Lily doesn’t take it personally and says she gets on with most of them.
She adds: “They look at me [funny], but they don’t cause me any problems, they’re not nightmare neighbours.
Lily’s top tips on what not to do on a council estate
- Don’t leave your door open/unlocked or the rest of the estate will be in your kitchen nicking your tea bags sugar and toilet roll.
- Don’t buy food for the kids but send them round to the neighbours to get fed.
- To save money, share the bath water .
- Don’t borrow money from anyone becuase they will want double back
- Don’t tell anyone you have a cash in hand job and claiming UC coz someone will grass up to the job centre .
“I try not to take it personally, because it’s a different part of society, it’s not that it’s wrong, it’s just different.
“There are a few of them that have made it clear that I don’t belong around there because of my age.
“But I think that was just an excuse, you know, because everybody’s older. And it was more so when I first moved in a few years ago, there were a lot more judgemental looks.”
Lily reckons the nasty looks comes from class differences in the village, which has around six council properties, predominantly occupied by older couples, making her the odd one out.
“It’s a really quiet, quaint little area, and I’m quite quiet, or I get on with most, half my neighbours.
“They are nice people. They don’t judge, but there are some of them that give me funny looks, who really don’t like me.”
The young woman, who now makes a living making content online of her experience growing up on a council estate added that it’s not just funny looks she gets and some of the villagers love to gossip about her recent antics.
I’ll still go out in my dressing gown, and I probably make more money than half of them that are judging me anyway
Lily Dee
“I’ll go into the local post office and someone will say to me, ‘oh, Sandra was in here the other day saying that she had seen you running in the garden screaming’,” she says.
“I said, ‘Yeah, it’s my it’s my job. I do videos on the internet. ‘”
“I’m just doing funny TikToks,” Lily adds.
“And I do exaggerate sometimes as well. For instance, I do get the funny looks about (it), I don’t care.
“I’ll still go out in my dressing gown, and I probably make more money than half of them that are judging me anyway, they think I don’t have a job, and say ‘Oh, she’s just doing videos, running up and down the street doing videos, get a job’. They don’t understand it.
“I pay my taxes, I work, raise money for charity and any freebies that I get sent through the post from my TikTok channel, I share with a lot of the neighbours too.”
Now, with a massive following of over 1 million followers combined on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, Lily hopes to use her money for good.
Lily adds that she doesn’t think all new build estates are like hers, and that she comes across a few judgemental neighbours because she lives in a small village.
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