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The Sun
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The 45-second trick to get a snatched waist for summer that Love Island star swears by as people hail it ‘new life hack'
WHETHER it's that time of the month or something you've eaten, bloating can affect many of us. It's a common condition that leaves your body feeling tight, stretched, and swollen - and your clothes feeling uncomfortable. 4 4 Fizzy drinks, eating certain foods and swallowing air when eating can all lead to bloating. Water retention, constipation, stress and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can all trigger it too. You might avoid triggers the best you can, but sometimes bloating can feel inescapable. However, there is a treatment celebrities absolutely swear by to reduce it - lymphatic drainage. Lymphatic drainage is a non-invasive treatment that's particularly popular in Brazil. It's a lot like a gentle therapeutic massage and used to alleviate digestive issues, hormonal imbalance, and reduce cellulite. Lymphatic drainage involves massaging inflamed areas with the fingertips in a clockwise motion to stimulate the lymph nodes. And Love Island star Mal Nicol has revealed she swore by the technique on the show to look bikini-ready at all times. in a TikTok video demonstating the technique, she said: "I genuinely did this, but I didn't know this was lymphatic drainage. "I've always done it. Like, any time my belly's out, any time I've ever felt a bit bloated, I would put a bit of cream on so it's a bit glidy [and massage my stomach]. "I remember doing it in the villa when I was in my bikini. "It's really gross. I do it both ways. I always end it this way, clockwise. "It's very weird, but yeah, have a go this summer." Mal's clip - captioned "burping my way to a flat tummy hahahahahh" - went viral with more than 1.6million views. And social media users are loving her simple hack. "Ur so real for this babe", one gushed. A second insisted: "It acc helps so much." 4 A third echoed: "Crying, this is my new life hack now." "Brb, burping myself rn", joked a fourth. A fifth added: "Why is this so funny but such a good to know hack." Meanwhile, a sixth said: "Love thissss, my new routine." What are the after effects of lymphatic drainage? Lymphatic drainage has physical, and mental benefits. The treatment reduces swelling around the target area, but it can also leave you feeling calmer, energised and more focused. Physiotherapist and lymphatic drainage expert, Flavia Morellato, has worked her wonders on Maya Jama, as well as supermodel Lottie Moss, presenters Rochelle Humes, Vogue Williams, and singers Ellie Goulding and Anne-Marie. She explains: 'After treatment, reduced bloating or constipation are the main benefits, and it helps settle IBS flare-ups. 'You feel lighter, flatter and less bloated. 'But it also helps with brain fog, memory, and improves your mental health, as some feel more energised, with greater focus and concentration. "But, it depends on each individual.' When is the best time to have lymphatic drainage? 'There is no best treatment time,' says Flavia. 'Lymphatic treatments are recommended to flush out toxins and excess water retention from progesterone (PMS), but it is beneficial after a period to help with body detoxification.' While the effects of lymphatic drainage can be noticeable immediately, they can also last for up to ten days post treatment, depending on your metabolism and lifestyle, which is why Flavia recommends MLD every ten days.
Daily Mail
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Olivia Attwood gasps in shock as woman who spent £250k on plastic surgery reveals what she looked like BEFORE extreme human Barbie transformation
Olivia Attwood gasped in shock as a woman who spent £250,000 on plastic surgery revealed what she looked like before her extreme human Barbie transformation. The TV personality and former Love Island contestant, 34, returned last month to host the second series of her ITV documentary Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection. Over the six episodes, the Loose Women panellist meets with patients and doctors to investigate the changing world of science, social media and cosmetic surgery. In each 45-minute episode, she explores a different theme: weight loss, smiles, skin, mummy makeovers, men and people with more than £100,000 total spends. Olivia joins women before, after and during their procedures - and even goes under the knife herself to try out some of the wackiest treatments. One particularly shocking moment sees her meet with a woman named Alicia, who has spent an eye-watering more than £250,000 on cosmetic surgery. The TV personality and former Love Island contestant, 34, returned last month to host the second series of her ITV documentary Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection (pictured) It has left her with large lips and breasts, a striking look alongside her incredibly long platinum blonde hair and Barbie pink outfit with long nails and large hoop earrings. Olivia looks through a scrapbook of old photos of Alicia, who points out some snaps of her taken when she was around 18 years old, in 2016. Her look nearly ten years ago, before all the procedures, is completely unrecognisable compared to how she looks now. Though her hair was still the same bright blonde shade, she was seen in the pictures wearing much more lowkey clothes than her habitual all-pink look now. Alicia laughs nervously as Olivia gasps, 'Oh. My. God.' The host asks: 'Do you think this girl had any idea how your life would be and how you'd look?' Alicia replies: 'No! To people who really knew me back then, knew what I was like, it wouldn't be a big shock because I've always sort of been quite outgoing and confident and sexual and stuff like that. 'I just needed to find my niche, you know?' As Olivia flips through more pages of the scrapbook, Alicia points out more images at various stages of her transformation. The procedures she has had include breast implants, lip filler and a rhinoplasty. Olivia asks if Alicia has ever gone without other things in her life, so as to be able to spend more money on surgery. 'There's never been anything I didn't do just because I had my plastic surgery', she replies. 'I choose my health and my looks over everything so I spend a lot of money on the stuff I put into my body such as food and that kind of thing. 'And I spend a lot of money on getting the right kind of filler, the best products.' The presenter asks if she thinks she will ever wake up, wanting to look how she used to look - and Alicia is sure about her answer: 'No, this is so much fun! 'I just have such a fun life and I would never want it to change.' The former TOWIE star has previously warned of a 'national issue' when it comes to injectable cosmetic procedures - and the 'dystopian' future of anti-ageing. In an interview with MailOnline last month, Olivia said: 'There are a lot of people injecting a lot of stuff into themselves and when you actually ask the questions about what's in them, they don't have the answer. 'That highlights a national issue which is really important we put a light on. 'At worst, these things are dangerous and at best, it's salt and water that you're injecting and you're basically just washing your money down the drain. 'Either way, people need to be informed about what they are putting in their bodies.' She was speaking in reference to Lemon Bottle Fat Dissolving - an injectable cosmetic treatment which allegedly combines Vitamin B2 and other natural ingredients to accelerate the metabolism of fat cells. The process promises 'minimal swelling and minimal pain' and can cost up to £250 at a clinic. But when asked by Olivia in her ITV documentary, several professionals did not truly know what was in bottles. She said: 'It was a double-edged sword because I hated the fact [the clinician] couldn't answer the questions because I'm like, "We have to tell this story now", but obviously, it didn't look great.' When asked about Kris Jenner's alleged facelift, which has left fans reeling at her new look, Olivia said: 'I mean, she looks fantastic, it's unbelievable. 'Work is becoming so sophisticated now, so undetectable. 'There are so many things that are happening on the surgery table like facelifts, fat grafting, and stem cells that are literally turning back the clock. 'It's dystopian, it's very exciting to watch the industry develop at such a fast rate and there's no limits to what we'll see in the next ten years in terms of scientific development of anti-ageing procedures.' Olivia is open about her personal cosmetic surgeries, which include veneers, lip filler and Botox. She revealed she does not regret any apart from her first boob job, admitting: 'Went too far, I went too big, also with my lips.' The TV personality has also previously claimed her husband Bradley Dack, 30, would never have dated her before she had a boob job and lip filler. When Olivia (pictured on Loose Women earlier this month) asked Bradley if he would have been keen to date her before her boob job, he replied, 'No', before she pushed him further and he confirmed, 'No' When Olivia asked Bradley if he would have been keen to date her before her boob job, he replied, 'No', before she pushed him further and he confirmed, 'No'. Rather than having an argument over Bradley's confession, Olivia insists that she got a 'big kick' out of him being that upfront because she believes most men are initially drawn to looks over personality. She said: 'I got a big kick out of him being that honest... 'Even though Brad has been a footballer for many years, and he's done my show, he's not PR trained so he is quite off the cuff sometimes... I thought it was cool. 'He's not saying that he would never have loved me but what turned his head the first night we met was the way I looked, some of that is what I was born with and some of it, the blonde hair and my lips, is stuff I wasn't born with. 'As we know, typically, stereotyping here, men are image-based and are drawn to looks, more so than women... 'If I see a really handsome man, I think, "Would he be boring?", but men are turned on by that instant look, it's interesting that Brad was truthful about that. 'We are very secure, he knows me, I am very secure in our relationship. We talk honestly.'
