Olivia Attwood claims her husband Bradley Dack would never have dated her before she got a boob job and lip filler.
The ITV star, 32, examines the multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry in her new documentary The Price of Perfection and reflects on her own procedures, including her first breast enlargement at just 20 years old.
Since increasing her breast size, Olivia has been honest with her more than 2 million fans about using veneers, lip fillers and Botox to maintain the look that got her noticed by Love Island producers.
And it wasn’t just TV bosses who recognized Olivia’s beauty, with the Loose Woman admitting Bradley, 30, wouldn’t have looked twice at her before having cosmetic enhancements.
When Olivia asked Bradley if he would have liked to date her before her boob job, he replied, “No,” before she pushed him further and he confirmed, “No.”
Olivia Attwood claims her husband Bradley Dack would never have dated her before she got a boob job and lip filler
When Olivia asked Bradley if he would have liked to date her before her boob job, he replied, “No,” before she pushed him further and he confirmed, “No.”
As a teenager growing up in the 1990s, Olivia says she was influenced by the likes of Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and Spice Girl Victoria Beckham (pictured in October 2007)
Rather than argue about Bradley’s confession, Olivia insists she got a “big kick” from him being so outspoken, as she believes most men are initially attracted to looks and personality.
She said: ‘I got a big kick out of him being so honest… even though Brad has been a footballer for years and done my show, he’s not PR trained so he can get quite out of control at times. ..’ I thought it was cool.
“He’s not saying he never would have loved me, but what turned his head the first night we met was the way I looked, part of it is what I was born with and part of it, it blonde hair and my lips, is stuff I wasn’t born with.
‘As we know, men here tend to be based on stereotypes and are more attracted to appearance than women. When I see a very handsome man, I think: ‘Is he boring?’ but men are turned on by that instant look, it’s interesting that Brad was honest about that.
‘We are very safe, he knows me, I am very safe in our relationship. We talk honestly.’
Before Olivia became one of Love Island’s most successful entities, she was a grid girl and part of her job involved wearing tiny outfits and baring her cleavage.
She rose to fame at the age of 25 on the ITV2 dating show, where she flaunted her figure in skimpy bikinis on national television for eight weeks.
Olivia, who is grateful for her past opportunities, says it frustrates her when other celebrities are ashamed of the image that made them famous and millions of pounds.
Olivia, who is grateful for her past opportunities as a grid girl and Love Islander, says it frustrates her when other celebrities are ashamed of the image that made them famous
The TV star doesn’t regret getting a boob job at 20, but wishes she had been better informed about the implications of the procedure instead of opting for a quick fix
The Loose Woman says she idolized Victoria Beckham and wanted her breasts to look exactly like hers, while the trend now is to have more natural-looking yet surgically enhanced breasts
She said: ‘I can’t stand it when people have done things and escape that gaze and then say they regret it.
‘In a strange way, the way I looked served a purpose for me, I was happy with it, would I have been a grid girl if I didn’t fulfill that brief? There’s an argument to say I wouldn’t have done that.’
And so she doesn’t regret having a breast augmentation at age 20, but she wishes she had been better informed about the implications of the procedure instead of opting for a quick fix, which she calls the “McDonald’s” approach’ to an operation.
She explained, “It wasn’t my age, I was always going to get a breast augmentation, but I wouldn’t have gone so big and saved more money, gone to a surgeon who was more careful and slower with me instead of the McDonald’s- approach to surgery, which I wanted yesterday, and that’s what I did.
‘I still have breast implants now, I just didn’t have to be as big. I should have taken the advice of my mother and other people who said, “That doesn’t suit your body” and gone to a surgeon who would. told me things like that.
‘I should have been told they would be heavy and give me back pain. I wasn’t told about that and it seems obvious, but I wasn’t told at all.’
As a teenager growing up in the 1990s, Olivia says she was influenced by the likes of Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who enlarged her double A breasts to a huge DD in 1999 before having the implants reduced in size in 2009 . .
But the impact of Victoria’s iconic style had already reached thousands of young women, including Olivia, who says she longed for oversized breasts like Posh.
In Olivia’s five-part documentary, she meets the everyday people who go under the knife in their mission to achieve the perfect body
Olivia had some of her own procedures filmed for the series, including a ‘Botox top-up’
Olivia was filmed for the ITV show using a machine called Emsculpt, which lifts and strengthens the muscles on her bottom without surgery.
Olivia said: ‘It was Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, and in Britain Jodie Marsh, Pamela Anderson, the people you would see in OK! or Heat magazine on Tuesday.
‘Victoria Beckham was one of my boob job idols, I thought “yeah, I want that”, the trend was that if you had breast implants they looked fake… It was the more fake there was around that time, the bigger the better.
‘But with surgeons saying the trend has gone completely the other way, people are now having more breast enlargements than ever, they just want to look completely different. Before you made them look like you had them.”
In Olivia’s five-part documentary, she meets the everyday people who go under the knife in their mission to achieve the perfect body.
Each episode examines five of the most popular body parts for cosmetic surgery, including the face, breasts, butt, vagina and penis, with Olivia discovering a huge increase in men receiving Scrotox, where Botox is injected into the scrotum.
And Olivia had some of her own procedures filmed for the series, including a ‘Botox top-up’ and using a machine called Emsculpt, which lifts and strengthens muscles on her bottom without surgery.
Olivia added: ‘I’ve had a Botox top-up in the face episode, skin care, and in the butt episode I’ve tried a few of the non-surgical options, the Emsculpt, all these energy-powered machines are really changing the market.
‘It’s not the same as a BBL (Brazilian butt lift), but the mortality rate for BBL is higher than any other surgery. My advice to anyone would be to try everything for that.”
- Watch Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection from Thursday 18 January 2024 on ITVX