I've spent £1000s on cosmetic surgery but there's a procedure I'll never have & won't touch fat jabs says Olivia Attwood
Olivia also opens up about her future on Loose Women after the savage cuts to the ITV daytime favourite
ATTA GIRL I've spent £1000s on cosmetic surgery but there's a procedure I'll never have & won't touch fat jabs says Olivia Attwood
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THESE days, it's more shocking to discover a celebrity ISN'T on fat jabs than one who is.
But despite unashamedly admitting to her love of a cosmetic trend, Olivia Attwood vows she'll never jump on the Ozempic bandwagon.
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Olivia Attwood is a self-confessed cosmetic surgery fan - but there's one operation she'll never have
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Olivia also opened up about her sex life with husband Bradley Dack, saying it's an 'as and when' thing
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The reason? She wants a BIGGER bum, not a shrinking one.
'I'm always here for the latest fad, but the jabs are actually the one thing that has never tempted me,' reveals Olivia.
'My whole goal is to actually grow an arse in the gym, so I feel like it would be counterproductive.
'I'm constantly chugging protein shakes and doing squats. I'm trying to get more curves, not have less.'
Fat jabs are just one of the cosmetic surgery trends that the Love Island legend delves into in the new series of her ITV2 show, Olivia Attwood's The Price of Perfection.
And after investigating the surge in popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro – or GLP-1 receptor agonists, as they are known in the medical community – Olivia also has serious concerns about their safety.
'I think we are still in our infancy of knowing how these drugs behave,' says the 34 year old.
'For some people, they can be very powerful and life-changing, but people are having massive health issues when they are being dished out by non-medics and they are being abused back to back over several years.'
Given her penchant for a bigger butt, Olivia admits she has considered a Brazilian butt lift [BBL] – a procedure which sees a surgeon suck fat from the belly, hips, lower back and thighs, then transfer it into the bum to create bigger hips and a smaller waist.
BBLs are the fastest growing cosmetic procedure in the UK, with its popularity soaring by 20 per cent year on year.
Olivia Attwood shares truth about 'romantic' super yacht date with Chris Hughes & 'gross' act she does with Bradley Dack
Frighteningly, however, it has also earned the terrifying reputation of being the deadliest procedure, with some figures estimating one in 3,000 BBLs can result in death.
Naturally, Olivia tackles the rising demand for a Kardashian-style booty in her new series, travelling to Turkey to be there in the operating theatre to watch one girl go under the knife in pursuit of her dream derriere.
'A BBL is definitely one of those things I have looked into having,' Olivia admits.
'But for me, the risk doesn't outweigh the result.
'It's really hard to find someone who has had it done once and is super happy.
'It's the procedure that requires the most revision surgeries and most people go back, like, three times.
'Who has the time to lie on your front for eight weeks, three times a year while you are healing?
'For that reason, it doesn't appeal to me.'
Olivia has confessed to undergoing a boob job followed by a reduction, chin liposuction and contouring, veneers, lip fillers and Botox.
I could easily hit the £100,000 mark if I get my teeth done again
Olivia Attwood
But while her open nature is one of the reasons she has so many devotees – Olivia has more than 2.5 million followers on Instagram, while her So Wrong It's Right podcast has had more than 7.4 million YouTube views – she confesses she hasn't told her fans everything she's had done.
'I have done things that I haven't explicitly talked about,' she reveals.
'But of course, I've had some help and I'm not ageing backwards.'
In fact, Olivia estimates that, at some point, she'll have splashed out six figures on transforming her appearance.
'I could easily hit the £100,000 mark if I get my teeth done again, or when I have to get my boobs redone,' she admits.
'The guidelines are that you have to get your boobs redone every 10 years, so I will have to get them changed at some point.
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Given her penchant for a bigger bum, Olivia admits she has considered a Brazilian butt lift - but admits the risk doesn't outweigh the result
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Olivia says she will always be grateful to the show that launched her career back in 2017
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'But I want to wait until I have kids before I outlay that money again.'
There's another surgery she'd happily consider once she's had babies – a designer vagina.
'If I needed to do that, I would – 100 per cent,' Olivia says.
'We look at mummy makeovers in the new series and the thing I realised is, you never know how your body is going to react to pregnancy.
'Some women see very little changes to their body, while others suffer incontinence and all sorts of health issues.
'So if I felt like something made me unhappy or I had issues, then yeah, of course.'
While she hasn't planned when she and her footballer husband of two years, Bradley Dack, 31, will start a family, she admits they have fun practising in the bedroom – when they are actually under the same roof, that is.
'There are times when we struggle for time together, because he was in Sunderland for a whole year and often I'm away filming. So we can't do designated sex nights,' she laughs.
'For us, sex is more of an 'as and when' thing.
'But one of the positive things about spending time apart is that, when you are back together, it feels a lot more exciting.
'I think missing someone is a nice feeling and I still get butterflies when I see him at the airport.
'One way we really keep the spark alive is by texting.
'I always tell people: 'Remember to flirt with your partner.'
'So when I'm texting him, I flirt with him, rather than just asking him if he has walked the dog.'
Love Island gave me my big break and changed my life, so I'll always feel very nostalgic about it.
Recently, Olivia came under fire after she commented on her Love Island ex, Chris Hughes, and his new girlfriend, Celebrity Big Brother co-star JoJo Siwa.
After fans on TikTok asked for her take on the unlikely romance, Liv suggested Chris might have ulterior motives by commenting that JoJo is 'really famous'.
Quizzed about her reaction – which led to some of Chris and JoJo's fans slamming her – Liv sighs.
'Basically, when they went official, I got tagged in like 200 TikToks saying they were dying to know what I thought,' she explains.
'The people that follow me know how I say tongue-in-cheek things.
'I just gave them one little line in the spur of the moment.
'Sometimes these things land well and sometimes they don't.
'But the right side of the internet liked it.'
She smiles, cheekily, clearly wondering if she will land herself in trouble again.
Olivia Attwood's Career History
From Monster grid girl and Love Island star to daytime telly panellist and respected documentary maker, Olivia Attwood has made a huge career pivot in recent years...
Olivia first started as a Monster grid girl at motorsport events in 2012 when she was 19-years-old, and did it right up until she went into Love Island in 2017.
After placing third in the reality show with then-boyfriend Chris Hughes, she starred in their own spin-off series, Chris & Olivia: Crackin' On, in 2018.
Later that year, she appeared on Celebs Go Dating and then joined the cast of The Only Way Is Essex in 2019, where she had a number of fiery on-screen rows.
In 2020, the reality TV veteran began starring in her own reality series on ITVBe titled Olivia Meets Her Match, which followed her wedding preparations with footballer Bradley Dack.
In 2021, the tide started to turn.
Olivia made appearances on household shows Lorraine, Tipping Point: Lucky Stars and Loose Women.
Then, in 2022, ITV commissioned her for her first ever documentary series.
She presented Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich, which explored women selling sexual content online.
In June 2023, ITV commissioned Olivia Marries Her Match and made her a regular guest panellist on Loose Women.
Her most recent docu-series, Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection, aired in 2024 where she sensitively explored the cosmetic industry.
'The truth is, [their relationship] is not something I think about,' she says.
'I've got a lot going on.'
That's quite the understatement.
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Olivia came under fire after she commented on Love Island ex Chris Hughes and his new girlfriend JoJo Siwa
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Olivia says she'd be 'open' to hosting Love Island if Maya Jama ever threw in the towel
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Olivia Attwood's The Price of Perfection returns on Thursday 12th June
As well as the new series of The Price of Perfection, she recently wrapped filming the next run of Olivia Attwood's Bad Boyfriends and is about to start shooting a fourth round of her other hit show, Getting Filthy Rich.
On top of that, she manages to squeeze in her podcast, a radio show with pal Pete Wicks and being a Loose Women panellist.
And despite the recent cuts to the ITV daytime favourite, Olivia confirms that her place on the panel is safe.
'I'm definitely staying on Loose,' she says. 'I literally adore that show and the women on it.
'But there are a lot of people who will be impacted [by the changes] behind the camera.'
With a new series of Love Island kicking off this week, Olivia says she will always be grateful to the show that launched her career back in 2017.
'Love Island gave me my big break and changed my life, so I'll always feel very nostalgic about it,' she insists.
And with rumours swirling that Maya Jama might trade in her keys to the villa after this upcoming series, might Olivia fancy slipping into her stilettos and hosting the nation's favourite dating show?
'I think Maya's fantastic for the show and I don't think she's going anywhere,' she says.
'But I'll be completely honest – I'd definitely be open to it if Maya didn't want to do it anymore. So, if the powers that be asked me to have that conversation, of course, I would be ALL ears.'
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