Olivia, 26, recently sat down with Parade for a Zoom call, during which she dished on dating as a newly divorced woman after moving to Los Angeles. She also validated fans' suspicions that she is dating a new man.
"I have met someone and I am dating, if you can't tell from my smile," she said. "It has just been such a healing experience and just such a fun experience."
Although Olivia didn't reveal the identity of her mystery beau, she has offered a sneak peek at her boyfriend via social media. (Check out the sixth photo in this recent Instagram carousel .)
"Dating in today's society is so bizarre," Olivia explained . "On the one hand, I feel like I've had several encounters with people that I'm like, 'Wow, really nice people exist.' On the other hand, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, where is the bar? It's actually like below the floor. Like, what are people doing?'"
In the process of dating, Olivia said she "discovered a lot of my own hangups in dating" and realized that she "grew up in purity culture and I married the first boy I ever held hands with."
Explaining her divorce to others was also something she worked through in relation to her fundamentalist Christian upbringing.
"I started out dating being ashamed to tell people that I was divorced at 26, because that obviously brought questions and kind of made me have to, like, give a deep dive of my previous life. Like, why did I get married so young? So it just kind of felt like a lot to unpack," she shared.
"And then the more I sat and thought about it, the more I came to the conclusion that it was nothing for me to be ashamed of," Olivia continued. "It's my story. And there's some parts of it that maybe are not as pretty, but it's my story and I don't have to be ashamed of it."
As for how she met her new boyfriend, Olivia teased, "I guess you'll have to tune into Season 6 to see a little bit more of that process."
Catch the Season 6 premiere of Welcome to Plathville on Tuesday, July 16, at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
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