I’ll start by saying that Chloe Lattanzi, Olivia Newton-John’s daughter, is absolutely a sympathetic character despite looking and posing like a Real Doll. I’m not even being sarcastic, she has serious body dysmorphia, she’s suffered from anorexia and she is not at all happy with the way she looks. She’s deeply insecure and is clearly seeking validation. The last time I covered her, in March, she had made her Instagram private after dealing with trolls. She was back online for some time and recently posted some photos taken of her by her mom. We heard in June that Olivia Newtown-John had a second recurrence of breast cancer that had spread to her sacrum. So Chloe is facing the fact that her mom is really sick and she’s still posting racy preening photos on Instagram. It’s predictably not going well for her at all. People Magazine explains this. Apparently Chloe has quit Instagram a few times. The Daily Mail has some of her old posts and she’s just a bizarre person, likely with some mental health issues.
Chloe Lattanzi… has been sharing a handful of sultry pictures taken by [her mom, Olivia Newton-John] to the popular social media site over the past week — including one of her posing on a bed posted Friday.
“Off to bed. How cute is this bed guys!!! Heavenly sheets! I love you all,” she wrote. “Loving sharing my special moments with my mom with you. Photographer: mommy. I adore you mom! Your [sic] the best photographer.”
Their photoshoots come as Newton-John battles breast cancer for the second time. In May, the 68-year-old Xanadu star announced she was putting her U.S. and Canadian tour on hold after discovering she has breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum.
Other pics taken by Newton-John were shared on Wednesday. They featured Lattanzi modeling outside while wearing a cropped denim lace-up top and ripped jeans.
Lattanzi spoke out on Instagram soon after her mother’s diagnosis went public to thank fans for the well wishes and support.
She wrote: “My mom and best friend is going to be fine! She will be using medicine that I often talk about. CBD oil (cannabidiol oil)! And other natural healing remedies plus modern medicine to beat this. Cancer is the disease of our generation and it is part of my and my mother’s quest to beat this insidious monster.
“We both love you all, and anyone fighting this disease you can beat it. Look for natural remedies as well as what modern medicine can offer. My mom is so powerful she will beat this in no time. All my love to you. And I wish you health, wealth and happiness.”
In June, Lattanzi briefly took a break from social media after getting fed up with negative feedback in her comments section.
“Some woman commented that I couldn’t post happy pictures of myself because of what my mother is going through. I am so sad and no one has any idea what I am going through. I don’t want my life to be public and this [is] the greatest struggle a daughter could go through. And the last thing I need is someone telling me that I can’t distract myself and post normal creative pics on my Instagram,” read her sign-off message in part.
“My mom is fine and the one thing she told me is to keep being creative positive and take my mind off anything negative [sic]. My mom and I are humans and unfortunately my mother’s cancer has to be everyone’s buisness [sic],”
So the stuff at the end is from the last time Chloe quit Instagram. She did it again this time, after this latest crop of photos taken by her mom, and her Instagram is now private. I’m not like “Oh poor Chloe being bullied on social media.” I just feel like she has a lot going on, her mom is sick and she’s incredibly insecure. Of course people are going to look at these photos and assume that she’s just a self-absorbed narcissist and that may very well be the case, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have other serious issues. I guess it just goes to show that you can’t look at social media and assume everyone is happy. Most of us only share the highlights and a lot of that is fake/superficial. The superficial stuff is how Chloe copes with whatever bad feelings she has, just look at her appearance that’s a coping mechanism, and that may be why she amped up her social media recently.
photos credit: Instagram/Chloe Lattanzi and Getty
Omg, everything is sad in this story… the cancer, the pictures. I wish them well.
She needs help. And she most definitely needs to stay off social media. She reminds me of that girl who keeps talking/ hanging out w Scott Disick. I forget her name. She has really long hair and similar to ONJ’s daughter, she has bizarre behaviour and things to say. And she looks like she messes w her face and body too.
Yes, I agree with all the commenters thus far. Poor girl, she needs serious help. The potential for losing her Mom, body dysmorphic disorder (and who are we kidding, most of Hollywood suffers from this), and being in the media’s eye.
@Angie, do you mean Bella Thorne?
Yes! Bella Thorne. I get awful, sad vibes from her too.
Exactly. Social media is the worst thing for someone with her issues. She needs some help and time away from the net
This young woman..if my daughter looked like that I would be devastated.
What she’s done to herself is tragic. She needs to be in the care of a mental-health professional — ideally one who recognizes that this woman is too emotionally fragile to be on social media at all.
Seeing her like this must break her mother’s heart.
I was thinking the same thing. Olivia is so ill and she has to witness her daughter’s mental health issues. What she must be thinking. Like I said last week, life is taking a walk through a landmine, just hoping you take the right steps. Prayers up for them both.
I wonder if doctors have any obligation to refuse treatment to someone like this who clearly has issues? It seems to go against the Hippocratic oath dictum of first do no harm. It seems like anyone who helped her get to this point was doing harm to her but I’m not sure what a responsibility a plastic surgeon has to his/her patient.
I doubt it. Most plastic surgeons only care about that paycheck. If they cared, there would be no “cat lady”
Some will but, as Chicken said, there’s always someone willing to take the check.
My personal opinion is that the really talented doctors are the ones who will turn people away (doesn’t look good for their business, after all), so it becomes a downward cycle of the people willing to do the work are not the most talented.
Years ago, I knew a girl who wanted to get a nose job. Did her research, went to the best plastic surgeon in her area: At the end of the consultation he told her, in his opinion, the nose she wanted wouldn’t work with her face and that she should stick with the nose she had. She went to a couple other doctors but ended up not getting a nose job: his willingness to be honest with her (at his own expense) decided the issue for her. And she went on to recommend him to other people … so he came out ahead in the end.
Her mother was clearly unable to help Chloe with the issues that plague her. I know the reaction of most people is to tone down criticism of Chloe out of respect for Olivia’s condition. But this girl needs help— and a dose of reality.
I agree, she does not look well at all.
This is heartbreaking all around. Is there no one else in the family who can help her while Olivia battles cancer? So sad.
I think there’s her father but I haven’t heard anything about him in years. Unfortunately, Olivia’s siblings have all died of cancer.
Oh man, I didn’t know that. Effen cancer wipes out families. Can’t believe it still exists and there is no cure, or is there? Didn’t Olivia have a boyfriend that disappeared or something. I will have to look it up. Summer Dreams Ripped At The Seams, But Oh Those Summer Nights……beautiful Olivia will always be the young, sweet Sandy.
I thought the top photo was a heavily filtered picture of Lady Gaga.
Same!
I was absolutely convinced that was Lady Gaga in the first picture. So when I read the headline I was so confused…!
Sadly she is still suffering from anorexia. She will always fight the disease as it is something that never goes away.
Actually, in some people, anorexia *does* go away. I’m one of them. I became anorexic at 13-15 (my lowest, hospitalized weight was 59 pounds) and then stayed extremely low weight but fairly healthy until I was in my mid 20s, when my weight and eating became more normal. I knew anorexics who became food addicts, and obese, after recovering from anorexia, or became bulimic—sort of slid across different notches on the breadth of the eating disorders scale. And it’s true–many people w ED don’t fully ever recover. I’m one of the lucky ones in this: Today, I can’t even recall the compulsion that led me not to eat, and the only token of anorexia I still carry w me is that I won’t–can’t–allow myself to be weighed. I’m scared that, should I ever see the numbers, I would become utterly obsessed w lowering them again.
That is a great that you are doing well. You must have worked very hard to beat it especially from the scary place you once were. I wish you continued recovery and good health.
Social media is not a good place for someone who wants/needs lots of positive validation. With the too often extremely posed, filtered/photoshopped images being expected and thus rewarded with “likes”—how can a person with body dysmorphia ever find anything other than pain with this media forum. It emphasizes the ideal exterior no matter how hollow it can make a person feel inside. Just very sad for this young woman who needs to be stronger than ever now.
Wow….that room looks like the 1980’s barfed all over it. Is there a poster of The Corey’s on the wall? Other then that, I feel for her. Seeing someone in constant discomfort is sad. I hope she finds peace.
Cancer patients of the world, rejoice! This dim bulb has the cure.
I love ONJ and wish her the very best. And I hope her daughter gets real help.
Sigh. Looking at these pictures are painful. It’s clear she had a lot of work done on herself. Shame on the doctor who went along with this. I hope she’s not sucking on the cancer sticks in the b&w picture. There’s cancer on her mother’s side (aunt, uncle and grandfather sucummed to the disease).
Its so hard for me to find any kind of real, genuine empathy for people who has access and major resources to top notch medical professionals & can actually work on a healthier them both inside and out but just dont or do but then dont. Idk. I just cant. I do feel bad however for the emotional roller coaster shes on at the moment re her mom
I just audibly gasped at that black and white pic. I also audibly gasped at those images of the human barbie dolls and live anime look-a-likes. I hate to be like that; they’re not circus acts in traveling shows of a bygone era but damn. There has to be a lot going on inside to tip the scales so drastically. Is it any different than full tattoo coverage or risking death daily in extreme sports? Where is the line drawn, who draws it and what has to happen if that line meets danger and/or controversy on all fronts? Only family members and those closest, I guess, have the inside on when things are dangerous and have gone too far. It’s scary to me because delicate living meets social media is not an equation with positive outcomes.
OK, this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but given that Chloe has never had a job in her life and is entirely bankrolled by Olivia, I can only assume her mum also paid for her extensive plastic surgery.
Obviously this doesn’t mean that every procedure was approved and signed off by her mother – she is an adult after all – but my sympathy for Chloe is tempered by the fact that she has never had a job in her life and was (and is) obviously spolit to a ridiculous extent.
So, yes, I can have empathy for Chloe’s body dismorphia at the same time that I can be super-judgy about her narcissism and self-indulgence, and her mother’s parenting choices that have enabled a 30+ year old to never have an education, a job, or any financial independence.
And I’m going to agree with your opinion. You can see the angst she suffers in some pictures. When she’s not giving off the “can you stand how sizzling hot I am” looks and vibes and poses, she just looks profoundly uncomfortable posing with her mom. And as for her saying she likes how she looks now, BS, as her face has more fillers than I’ve ever seen anywhere in anyone.
Well said!
I agree. I’m into embracing mixed emotions. I can pity her while also being disgusted by her narcissism and complete refusal to do anything meaningful with her life. How does one grow up with all the priveleges of wealth and resources and never further your education? I realize it’s difficult for a kid to grow up with a beautiful parent adored by the world when said kid is not beautiful and people sort of expect the child would inherit the pretty gene. All the morr reason to focus on the nonsuperficial. But in this case and many insecure celeb spawn her insecurities about her outward appearance were prioeitizef and fueled by cateting to her symptoms rather than the root cause. I’m sure ONJ thought she was making her daughter feel better not realizing she was actually enabling and perpetuating chloes insecurities. But her daughter would have been much better off pursuing a formal education and making a life for herself. Living in the bubble she’s created for herself is the worst thing she could have done for her problems. And while I know cancer is a horrible disease I also think social media is a horrible disease. Not in the same way of course but it lays waste to people like chloe.
Her mother took the picture of her in the shorts? Wow. Is she smoking in that picture? If so, she really needs to reconsider that, especially since her mother has cancer.
Of course she can post pictures and try to be happy with her mom unwell. Caregivers – if she is one – must take time off for themselves to recharge, and even if she’s not actually caring for her mother, she’s allowed to have good times, too. My mom battled metastatic breast cancer for 19 1/2 years, so I know of what I speak.