INTERVIEW
Olivia Attwood: I regret having a boob job at 20 and Botox at 25
Olivia Attwood was a contestant on Love Island, followed by I’m a Celebrity, and then she married a footballer. So far, so predictable. So how come the 32-year-old has made a documentary exposing Britain’s £3.6 billion cosmetic tweakment industry?
Olivia Atwood, 32: “Women are doing things younger and younger. Can’t afford it? There’s a payment plan”
EVA PENTEL FOR THE TIMES MAGAZINE
The Times
Olivia Attwood was 14 when she became unhappy with her body, 20 when she had her breasts made bigger, 25 when she started freezing and filling her face and 27 when she had her breasts made smaller. Now 32, she is a one-woman example of what the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons describes as a cosmetic surgery “boom”: in 2022, more than 30,000 people, 93 per cent of them women, went under the knife, mostly in pursuit of bigger or smaller breasts or a flatter stomach. The number of cosmetic procedures in the UK doubled, and the government estimates that the non-surgical cosmetic tweakments industry is worth £3.6 billion a year.
“We have a massive problem in this country with aesthetics and injectables,” says