Chloe Lattanzi, 30, is a singer and actress and she’s Olivia Newton John’s daughter, so she was born into fame and wealth. We’ve talked about her before, when outlets first noticed that she’d had extensive plastic surgery and when she was calling out Internet trolls on her Instagram. Chloe has that kind of homogeneous doll look that I see often enough in the media, but not much in the rural south where I live. She’s a lovely woman, you can just tell that she’s had a lot of work done and that she’s gone too far with it. Chloe has struggled with anorexia and with body dysmorphia and she’s been open about that in the past. In a new interview with The Doctors, she talked about the fact that a negative self image drove her to get fillers, which she regrets and has since had removed.
You can see the video above and I do think she’s had plastic surgery even though she denies it, although maybe that’s just tons of injectables. Her face really doesn’t move when she says that she likes the way she looks naturally. I suspect there’s no rolling that back and the way she coped with too many injections was to get more injections to try to offset the original injections.
On her anorexia and body dysmorphia
After my parents divorce I went through this chubby phase. I would eat to comfort myself. I would see comments in magazines about how I was chubby. Around 16 I started to restrict food… along with the anorexia came OCD and depression.
I didn’t have a clear sense of myself so I had my lips pumped up… I looked ridiculous. I got into using drugs and alcohol. I would read in the tabloids I was this alcoholic crazy disappointment. That really hit hard. I was at my lowest.
Funnily enough I met the love of my life at the darkest time of my life. I still have my battles today. When I read these things that they say – having big breasts, not being thin enough, it’s like you can’t win no matter what you do.
On how she’s doing today
I’m really happy. I’m stable, I’m in a loving relationship [plugs her music].
On how it feels to open up
I’m really nervous. This is really terrifying to me. I still have anxiety disorder.
Claims she hasn’t had any surgery
There was rumors that I’ve had like work done, like plastic surgery on my face. Like I really haven’t. When I was in the height of my body dysmorphia I had a whole bunch of fillers. I’ve had all that removed from my face because I like the way I look naturally.
On the pressure for girls to conform
I look back at myself as a teenager and I’m like ‘what a beautiful young woman, what was I thinking, why was I so secure?’ So many young girls are going through body dysmorphia. We’re constantly told how we’re supposed to look via Instagram and filters and there’s constant pressure for us to look person.
[From The Doctors, via People]
Chloe seems like a sweet person and there’s this sense that she’s still really struggling with her self image. In terms of social media affecting women’s self esteem, I’m glad I grew up pre-social media but I also make a conscious choice not to engage in it now. For a while I was doing Facebook, posting photos and chatting to my friends, but then I started thinking “oh I already wore that in photos last month, I should wear something different today.” I was also planning outings around posting to Facebook and noticed it was changing my choices so I decided to stop. Can you imagine social media making you feel like your body and face are inadequate? That’s horrible. I don’t do Instagram, but there are strangers giving you validation and commenting on your photos. Is that even healthy for Chloe? It sounds like she’s still having issues and like she should keep her social media among friends if she doesn’t want to shut it down entirely, which would probably be a better option for her. She’s got to promote herself and her music though.
Here’s Chloe in 2002. She looks like a completely different person. That’s not just fillers and fillers being removed, but good for her for opening up about this.
photos credit: FameFlynet, WENN and Instagram
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