Love Island stars slams trolls who say she can't post racy pics now she's a mum
Olivia Bowen has hit out at how differently she has been treated online since becoming a mum.
The former Love Islander, who met her husband Alex Bowen on the hit ITV2 show, welcomed her son Abel last year. She has been open about the many challenges she has faced in the first year other motherhood, including her mental health battle. Olivia has said mum-shaming online can make those challenges even harder than they already are. The reality TV star has also notice a change in attitudes since becoming a mother.
Olivia shared how trolls now say she shouldn't be posting underwear pictures on social media now she is a mum, but were happy with her doing it before. Speaking to The Mirror, she said: "People don't want women to be sexy and to be mothers, they want them to be either or. That just doesn't sit right with me. I feel that women deserve the right to feel however they want to feel regardless if they are a mum or not. That isn't the whole of you, you are not just a mother you are a person as well.
Olivia has found there to be a double standard from trolls now she is a mum (Boux Avenue)
The Love Island star welcomed baby Abel last year (Instagram/ @oliviadbowen)"If you want to be confident and sexy, then you go and do that. I think that's what I have had issues with, 'oh you shouldn't be posting in underwear online'. I think it is such a narrow minded way of looking at someone. People would be like before, 'yeah wear your underwear online', but now I have become a mum they are like 'no don't do that'. It doesn't really make any sense, but it is just silly people's opinions."
She admitted she used to get "really caught up" on negative comments and care about what people thought of her. Olivia, who is working with Philips Lumea on encouraging “me-time”, added: "I would always want to prove people wrong or argue it, but I think since becoming a mum I don't have the time and it is just not that important. If someone doesn't know you, then they don't know you well enough to have an opinion about you. That's helped me deal with it, it is not that deep!"
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However, the reality TV star does still find negative opinions difficult especially when they come from other mums. She confessed: "You do become a massively different person when you become a mum. I feel like a completely different human, I look at the world in a very different way to how I did before. I don't understand the whole judgement coming from other mums, it becomes a bit of a competition.
"I just think we are all in the same boat here, we all find it hard, we are all going through the same thing. We should all be supporting each other. I think society just likes to make women's lives hard, we have a lot of expectations on us so I think you have to go against the grain and do what makes you happy."
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