Oli London regrets having gone under the knife 32 times in 10 years.
Few people have undergone more elective cosmetic surgeries than the 33-year-old British influencer, who did so in her attempt to identify first as a South Korean pop star and then as a transgender Korean woman.
She has long been controversial in the United Kingdom, and received widespread criticism after she began publicly identifying as “transracial” in 2021. Although she identified as a woman, she said, she married a man.
Now London has officially detransitioned, shed her husband, and identifies as the biological man she was at birth. With his new book, “Gender Madness: One Man’s Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect,” he is on a crusade to stop young people from doing what he says he did: mutilate themselves abroad with hope of receiving praise. on social media and feeling better inside.
“I was in that mental space where I was so determined to achieve a certain look and go through these surgeries that I didn’t care if I died, and that was a very bad mentality,” London told The Post in an interview. from the Venice Film Festival.
Oli London underwent surgery to look more like a Korean boy band singer (center) and came out as transgender (left) at age 30 before transitioning (right). Oli London/ Instagram
“Then I got to the point where I realized that I would always be happy for about three months after my surgeries and then I would go back to the same mindset. “I decided it would be best to take a step back and look at what I was doing and also how I was influencing others on TikTok and Instagram.”
London, who has more than 2 million followers on social media, blames American culture for imposing gender ideology on society and on children in particular. He also says people are being encouraged to idolize weak and weak men, citing singer Harry Styles and failed presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke as examples.
His book details an addiction to surgery that began when he was 22, cost him more than $200,000 and took him as far away as Armenia when doctors in the UK turned down his requests for endless operations.
London’s new book, “Gender Madness,” details her often harrowing journey through cosmetic surgery and her realization that children need to be protected from radical gender ideology.
Since then he “saw the light” and also became a Christian.
But London says his self-loathing and compulsion to undergo surgery to change himself began in childhood, when he was bullied both at school for being a girly boy and at home.
Despite her strange past, London spoke with great ease and sounded very rational and down-to-earth in a Zoom interview.
Oli London recovering after one of the 32 surgeries he had over a 10-year period in an effort to improve his self-image. Courtesy of Oli London
I had a very bad relationship with my father,” London said. “He was very emotionally abusive. I was always more feminine. He wanted me to be basically like him, like a clone. He wanted me to be masculine. He tried to take me camping and hiking…and I just didn’t want anything to do with him. I wanted to get away from any kind of resemblance to my father. I didn’t want to look like him. I didn’t want to act like him. “I wanted to be like my mother.”
The book begins with a chapter called “Hospital of Horrors” and describes the trip from London to Yerevan, Armenia, in April 2018, one of the few places where, as a man, he was able to locate a plastic surgeon who would accept his request for have a breast reduction, areola reduction, and other nose surgery.
He was nervous about how little he knew about his surgeon, the language barrier, and the shady, basic clinic that he said resembled a “Soviet museum from the 1960s,” but said he was willing to risk his life for what he expected. to do to him the happiest.
London, seen here before surgeries that began in his early 20s, says in his new book that a childhood spent being bullied by both his father and classmates left him traumatized. Courtesy of Oli London
London, seen here before his surgical trip, once underwent 11 procedures in a single day. Courtesy of Oli London
“I was wheeled into the operating room through the seemingly endless dimly lit hallways of this worn-out old building with a bright light shining on the unattractive stone floor in a room that looked like a concrete prison cell,” he writes. . “The medical equipment and tools seemed old and worn, the table where I would lie down for the next four hours seemed cold and gloomy… like a scene from the horror movie ‘Hostel’, where kidnapped hostages are operated on and tortured with a variety of methods. sharp and penetrating tools by masked men.”
London writes that he was in agony for three days after the surgeries, unable even to move in his hospital bed.
“After my three days of extreme discomfort, pain, and being practically paralyzed,” London writes, the doctor called him into his office and, without warning, ripped the plastic tubes from his nipples and “then took what looked like an iron.” to brand cattle and I put the hot metal rod on each teat, burning my skin and fusing it together again.
London identified as a woman at London Fashion Week in spring 2022.Getty Images
London said Wednesday that he “shivered in pain” for 45 minutes afterward.
But the nightmarish saga did not stop him from performing more surgeries, despite his mother’s growing panic, he said.
“I wanted people to love me and tell me, ‘You’re beautiful, you look amazing,’ and stuff like that, because my dad didn’t teach me that,” London said. “I didn’t have to be bullied at school. So he was looking for that validation elsewhere.”
London says she is not anti-transgender and counts trans woman Caitlyn Jenner among her friends. He opposes imposing gender ideology on children. Oli London/ Instagram
After undergoing surgery to look like her crush, Jimin from South Korean pop group BTS, London came out as transgender at age 30 and underwent 11 facial feminization surgeries in one day in Turkey.
He was booked to go to Thailand to get breast implants and was considering butt surgery when he decided against it, eventually realizing he had been down a self-destructive path that was applauded by pro-transgender activists on social media.
The last cosmetic surgery in London was in April 2022; He promises not to have another.
London says in his book that his quest to find surgeons who would perform procedures without asking questions led him to dangerous clinics in places like Armenia. Courtesy of Oli London
Now he speaks out against those same activists when it comes to minors receiving puberty blockers or surgery.
London swears that she is not planning any further incarnations of gender and that her crusade to protect children from gender-affirming medical interventions is for publicity or to remain relevant.
“A lot of people online accuse me of doing this for attention, but for the first time I accept myself,” London said. “I’ve been going to therapy since last year. Before that, I never talked about my problems… I just went to the [surgeon]. “That would be my therapy in my head.”
After several facial feminization surgeries, London now says he’s trying to look more masculine.GC Images
London’s breakneck evolution includes her current statement that she now considers herself bisexual.
“When I was in my early 20s, I had three girlfriends,” London said. “I haven’t had a girlfriend since I dated guys, but I have a very open mind. I’m not a judgmental person. So if I find a woman, I would like to have a solid family in about 10 years, not now. I still need to work on myself and get over some things. But yes, in 10 years I would like to start a family, either with a man or a woman.”
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