Love Island legend Olivia Bowen has opened up about her secret struggle after she was cruelly trolled over husband Alex.
The couple met and fell in love on the ITV2 show back in 2016 and have since got married and had a child together.
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But in a new interview on the Saving Grace podcast, she tells host GK Barry that she vile cyber bullies made her feel ‘disgusting’ and not good enough for her man.
Recalling the challenges they faced in the early days coming off the reality show, Olivia described a time when Alex was constantly away doing nightclub appearances.
She said: “Alex had a PA prob five nights out of seven. imagine being with a guy that looks the way he looked, having to deal with him going out to PAs.”
She then jokes: “I managed to trap him down, marry him and make him have a baby with me.”
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On a more serious note, however, Olivia reveals that she will always remember how cruel trolls were to her about her appearance – suggesting she wasn’t a match for her now-husband.
Growing tearful, Olivia said: “All the comments I will never forget, that I was fat, that I was punching, that I wasn’t enough for him, that he’s too good for me.”
She went on to describe how the bullying affected her and her marraige.
” I felt so disgusting, I was hiding myself from my husband and I don’t think I ever really told anyone that.”
After watching the clip, which was shared on the podcast’s instagram account, fans flocked to heap praise on Olivia.
One wrote: “Ah liv is so beautiful I think her an alex are the perfect match no 1 is punching.”
A second commented: “Olivia is such a gem.”
A third insisted: “You are not punching use are made for each other perfect couple.”
“She is beautiful and so funny,” added a fourth.
Olivia and Alex’s son Abel is now two years old and the trio moved into their dream home earlier this year.
They sold their £1.3million Essex pad for a new mansion in the country.
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