Data retrieved from database ignoring line breaks

JimmyBanks

Data that is stored in my mysql database, has the breaks of text input properly, but when retrieved the data no longer has the breaks, and everything is displayed as one string without any <br>. Any idea why this would occur?

The data column is the format text,
for example: in a table there is:

hey
how
do
you
do

After retrieving the data ill echo $mesarray[0][message]; and the result is:

hey how do you do

I want the line breaks to appear, but they dont.