A POPULAR mumfluencer has lifted the lid on the strict rules she had to follow as a teen - from dating and makeup bans to cinema blacklist. Jules Spence , from Scotland, is a bubbly TikTok personality who regularly inspires her 85,000 followers with her upbeat and motivational content. The mum of three, 46, also likes to show off her figure-hugging outfit picks and fashion choices.
But life wasn't always as carefree and liberal for Jules, as her family were members of a very strict church in her youth. Some groups of the Pentecostal Holiness Church strictly adhere to set rules, such as modest dress among women and hair guidelines for all adults. Many even forbid movies, sports and “mixed” swimming.
In select divisions of Pentecostalism, women are not even allowed to wear trousers, makeup, tight clothing or jewellery. Jules told The Jim King Show : "Part of the journey that my parents went on, they found God. But the church that I was part of had very strict guidelines.
"I was brought up in that for 10 years and it became my whole life. "It was all I knew so in a sense I was happy because that's all I knew I didn't know any different. "I didn't wear makeup, I didn't have jewellery, I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, didn't do drugs, I didn't socialise with non-Christians, I didn't go bowling, I didn't go to the cinema.
I didn't have a TV either. Most read in Fabulous "For me, boys were a no-go. Relationships weren't allowed unless we were advised by the church that they were .