Love Island star slams trolls who say mums shouldn't post underwear snaps

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Olivia Bowen refused to hold back today when it came to her verdict on online trolling. Speaking to The Mirror, the former Love Island star - who shares one year old son Abel with husband Alex Bowen, whom she met on the hit ITV2 dating show - revealed she is often subjected to nasty comments from strangers about what she posts on Instagram.

More specifically, the 29 year old beauty admits she is regularly trolled for sharing snaps in the likes of underwear or swimwear.

Olivia insisted she had started being treated differently by her online followers when she first welcomed her son in June last year: "People don't want women to be sexy and to be mothers, they want them to be either or. "That just doesn't sit right with me," she added. "I feel that women deserve the right to feel however they want to feel regardless if they are a mum or not.That isn't the whole of you, you are not just a mother you are a person as well." Olivia has always been open when it comes to her behind-the-scenes mental health battles, and today told the publication that online mum-shaming can really affect her self-esteem. "If you want to be confident and sexy, then you go and do that," she said. "I think that's what I have had issues with, 'oh you shouldn't be posting in underwear online'.

I think it is such a narrow minded way of looking at someone. People would be like before, 'yeah wear your underwear online', but now I have become a mum they are like 'no don't do that'." Though the doting mum dubbed the trolls' comments as "just silly people's opinions", she confessed to sometimes getting "really caught up" in what other people think of her.The TV star admitted she would "always want to prove people wrong or argue it", but says that, since.