Olivia Bowen: 'I lost my body confidence as a mum - it made me spiteful'
23.05.2023 - 11:33
/ ok.co.uk
As Olivia Bowen’s son Abel approaches his first birthday, the first-time mum has opened up on her post-baby battle with body image, which left her feeling as though she’d “lost every part” of her former self. The 29-year-old Love Island favourite welcomed her little boy with 2016 co-star hubby Alex, 31, in June last year following a traumatic 30-hour-long labour, which included a catalogue of complications, including when Abel temporarily stopped breathing. And though her son made a full recovery and is now a happy and healthy 11-month-old tot, Olivia says it’s taken a long time to start feeling confident in her own body again, having been advised to rest for months following her exhausting experience.
“It was just a big change,” she tells OK! . “It was more me losing myself on the inside than dealing with how I looked on the outside. For me, fitness and working out are so important and I couldn’t do any of that.
In turn, it made me really spiteful towards my body because I wasn’t able to move how I used to.” Olivia continues, “I was definitely hormonal and up and down, but I think I was just coming to terms with everything and just struggling with the way that I looked. I had very sad days where I would cry all the time, and I had very happy days. “But that’s all part and parcel of the fourth trimester, which people seem to forget.
It’s part of being postpartum. It’s really hard.” Despite making plans for a Caesarean, the reality star’s birth experience was not quite what she expected. When doctors realised Abel’s heart rate had dropped, Olivia had to undergo an epidural and an episiotomy [surgical incision], before forceps were used.
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