Olivia Attwood: Botox, catastrophising, and trolls
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Botox, fillers, and surgeries – you’re judged if you do and you’re judged if you don’t. Love Islander & documentary maker Olivia Attwood is clear that the critical narrative about women’s looks is just a tactic used to control us regardless of what we choose to do to our bodies.
In this chat, live from the Happy Place Festival, Fearne and Olivia ask if our mental health is suffering in our pursuit of physical perfection. Plus, they’re both candid about what work they have and haven’t had done.
Olivia also opens up about how fearful and shy she used to be. Maybe you often feel blocked by a lack of self-confidence; Olivia explains how making a point of putting herself in situations that scared her helped build her self-worth.
Olivia Attwood’s ITV2 show ‘Bad Boyfriends’ is out now on ITV and ITVX, and episodes of her podcast So Wrong It’s Right drop every Thursday.
Stick two fingers up to beauty standards – listen to our body image episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. |
| 0:04.3 | Today we're heading back to the Happy Place Festival in Tatton Park for a chat with Olivia |
| 0:10.0 | Atwood. You have that rhetoric and you see it the few women broadcasters and people who |
| 0:16.3 | actually you know age naturally and they don't do Botox whatever the you know everyone's |
| 0:20.3 | like oh look at her she looked you know how terribly she's aging and she looks like this and looks like that and then you |
| 0:25.8 | flip to the person who's done a face of it oh mutton also many people who want to criticize and |
| 0:32.0 | they want to control and guilt women it's a really easy way to do it |
| 0:36.0 | through the way that we look and they feigned concern for well we've gone really concerned |
| 0:40.5 | about her she had too much surgery so she's too thin or she's put on |
| 0:43.9 | weight it's not concerned it's just a really clever tactic to try and control us |
| 0:48.1 | Olivia shot to fame literally overnight and we talk about that petrifying whirlwind after Love Island in 2017. |
| 0:57.0 | With so many young people hanging off her every word she's used her voice |
| 1:01.3 | amazingly to make documentaries like The Price of Perfection which I loved. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean I was horrified watching at times, completely titillated. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It's really, really good. |
| 1:15.0 | And Olivia Atwood versus the trolls, which again is essential viewing and really digs deep into some properly meaty topics and she's got a new i TV too show bad boyfriend |
| 1:26.7 | that started the night that we recorded this actual chat. |
| 1:30.8 | It was such a beautiful day at the Happy Place Festival. My heart was absolutely full. I'd had a day of laughing and crying quite a lot. It was definitely an emotional one. And I was so chuffed that Olivia was up for coming to the |
| 1:44.0 | festival luckily she lives down the road so that was handy but I really wanted to |
| 1:48.3 | talk to her about a whole range of things definitely trolling definitely how |
| 1:52.1 | she's dealt with fame, but also I think the age I'm at now at 43, |
| 1:57.2 | there is this constant pressure that I should not be aging, and I think that that sort of messaging and also imagery can feel really thrust in |
| 2:05.8 | your face at times at my age but at ages a lot younger than me too. So it's a |
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