Olivia Wilde’s Transformation From Childhood to Age 38

There’s no doubt that Olivia Wilde is one of the great beauties of our time, and also one of the most talented actresses. Growing up in Washington D.C raised by non-actors, she was always encouraged to do her own thing. After establishing an acting career, she decided she wanted to try her hand at working behind the camera as a director. She was inspired by gender inequality in the industry, as there are very few female directors.

Wilde now juggles acting, directing, activism and being a mother. We don’t know how she does it! Let’s take a look at how this multi-faceted woman turned into the empowered celebrity she is today.

Parents with a reputation

Her father was a famous journalist and author while her mother is an investigative journalist. As a result, Olivia met many celebrities as a kid due to the people her family members interviewed. In her teen years, she attended prestigious schools thanks to her well-known parents. One of them was the Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts that has an annual tuition of over $66,000. During high school, she changed her name from Cockburn to Wilde. This wasn’t an unusual decision since her family often used pen names.

She became a princess

After being accepted into Bard College in New York, she decided to skip college altogether and marry a prince. At the age of 19, she temporarily became a princess after her wedding to Tao Ruspoli, the Prince of Cerveteri’s son. Their initial wedding took place on a school bus, but later on, they had one at a property belonging to Wilde’s family.

She was embarrassed of “The OC”

Olivia was offered an internship in LA with casting director Mali Finn. She landed some surprisingly high-profile gigs, starting with “The Girl Next Door” in 2004. Then, she got a bigger role in “The O.C” where she played the bisexual character Alex Kelly. While Wilde looked back initially with embarrassment on doing a teen soap, she later on called that experienced “formative” to the “New York” Times in 2019.