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Olivia Bowen: I Lost Myself After Giving Birth & What Love Island Never Showed
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Olivia's Biggest Highlights After Love Island
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This chapter covers the remarkable professional trajectory Olivia built after Love Island. She was the first contestant to secure a major high street brand deal (with Quiz), the first to present on This Morning, and the first to host her own show, Second Chance Dresses. That show was then commissioned by Netflix for a US version, with Olivia's visa secured, boutique chosen, contributors met, and flight booked — before COVID-19 ended the project overnight. Olivia is remarkably equanimous about it: even getting to that point, she says, was extraordinary. She and Alex were actively planning an apartment in New York. Her life would have taken an entirely different path, and she might never have had children.
Alex Bowen proposed to Olivia just six months after they left the Love Island villa, partly because he wanted her to believe he truly loved her.
Olivia simply wouldn't believe Alex loved her. He FaceTimed, texted, defended her publicly — and still the self-doubt won. Six months after Love Island, he bought an engagement ring. He later told her straight: I partly did it because you need to take me seriously. What else could I do?
