An influencer who made headlines worldwide last year with a bombshell plan to turn himself into an asian woman has revealed the shocking scale of sickening abuse he received after the incident.
“Transracial” influencer Oli London, who has spent over a quarter of a million pounds on surgery to achieve his dream of physical perfection, has told the Daily Star that he has been “bombarded with abuse” after abandoning his plans for gender reassignment surgery.
Oli hit the headlines earlier this year when he went public with his plans for a penis reduction in order to match “the Korean average”.
He tells the Daily Star that soon after this revelation he was “considering removing it all together and becoming a trans woman”.
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But all this was just one part of a complex journey that began in 2013, and has – $300,000 of surgery later – brought him almost back to where he began.
Oli explains that it all began when he spent a year on the South Korean island of Jeju. “I was surrounded by plastic surgery advertisements, beautiful looking K-Pop singers on TV and everyone looked perfect,” he says.
He was just 23 when he paid almost £6,000 for a nose job that he describes as “scary”.
“The doctor put me under local anaesthetic,” he says, “when normally plastic surgery is under general anaesthetic and they left me with a disfigured and crooked nose”.
He’s paid for all that work with a career as an influencer with “major brand partnerships on TikTok such as Amazon Prime and Netflix” and several big-name fashion companies.
Over the past nine years Old has undergone 32 plastic surgery procedures. He also has regular Botox, fillers, and facials “to maintain his look”.
“In December,” he says, “I was actually planning to go to Bangkok, Thailand to have gender reassignment surgery but I am extremely glad I realised that was not right for me and thank God I was able to see the light and avoid this as I feel it would have ruined my life and left me in misery”.
However, Oli’s decision has led to criticism from some.
“I have been bombarded with abuse for the last few weeks since sharing my transition story originally on Fox News and E! News in America,” he told us.
“The abuse I received has been awful. I describe certain elements of the Trans Lobby as a ‘Cult’ because it has so many cult like aspects.
“They celebrate you becoming trans and try to push and persuade you to transition and give you positive reinforcement that you are a great person. However when you decide to leave the ‘cult’ they vilify you, cast your aside, hurl abuse and death threats in an effort to silence you”.
But on a more positive note, he says his dream of "becoming Korean” has been welcomed in South Korea.
“The Korean people really love everything I do they appreciate how much I love their culture and want to be one of them,” he says.
“They also love the fact I am always promoting their culture, music and way of life every time I am on TV or on social media…the majority of them do accept me as Korean and think it’s sweet the effort I have gone to to try and become Korean”
His passion for Korea started with K-Pop music and Oli has gone on to launch his own music career. Last year he released a single called Christmas in Korea which, he tells us, scored over 3.5 million views on YouTube and over 26,000 TikTok plays.
“My new single ‘Christmas Bells of Korea’ offers the same Christmas cheer and catchy hooks as Christmas in Korea and will no doubt have everyone singing along around the world,” he says.
Oli tells us that he hopes the single will make people smile and spread Christmas cheer and joy.
Whether that Christmas cheer and joy extends to the people abusing him online or not remains to be seen. Oli’s optimistic though” I am sure people are going to love it,” he told us.
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