Olivia Bowen mum-shamed for not having a natural birth with her first born | The Sun

FORMER Love Island star Olivia Bowen has candidly opened up about feeling mum-shamed for not going through with a natural birth with her son.

The 29 year old mum of one, who first shot to fame on the reality dating show in 2016, successfully found love with her husband Alex Bowen and the pair married in 2018.

Olivia, who gave birth to her son Abel last year, appeared on the Made By Mammas podcast, talking about everything related to motherhood.

When asked to talk about her birth, Olivia revealed that she tends to avoid that question as she still "struggles" to process it.

She said: "I was really pro no drugs, I really wanted a water birth and I felt I could breath the child out and I think I felt a lot of pressure to do so, not from anyone else just from myself."

She continued: "It felt like you're a woman, you can do this, you were born to do this. And when it turned out, no,I couldn't do this, I just felt this huge shame around having an epidural, not being able to have a water birth and not being able to push him out just on my own."

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She added: "I felt huge shame, I felt huge disappointment in myself. It just felt like I had failed because everyone had said 'oh you're a woman, you can do this. You are built for this, our bodies are built for it'."

But her plight didn't end there. She then went on to say: "No, that's not the case in every situation. We should start making women feel a bit more, you know, powerful even if they have to choose an option they didn't want to, essentially in the beginning. But at the end of the day he got here, he got here safely."

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