After divorcing Ethan Plath, Welcome To Plathville star, Olivia Plath is revisiting her roots. While exploring a farm with her sister, Lydia Grace Meggs, brought back sentimental memories she cherishes, some of her past still haunts her. Furthermore, she speaks about how some of her religious upbringing has held her back. Admittedly, Olivia Plath talks about how purity culture really ‘f*cked’ her up.
Olivia Plath Revisits Her Growing Up
Undeniably, Welcome To Plathville star, Olivia Plath is a product of her raising. While she focuses on her inquisitive strengths, she also has been clear that her fundamental upbringing has stifled her in many ways. One of the major areas she feels was stunted was understanding sex. Both Olivia and her sister, Lydia Grace Meggs, were raised on a farm with deep religious beliefs ruling their lives. While taking a country outing to go to a nearby farm with her sister, Olivia discusses her shortcomings. Since she is in a new relationship, it has become apparent how open and free he is with his sexuality. By comparison, she tells Lydia when it comes to sex, “I’m realizing that I actually have way more handicaps than I thought I did.”
It’s A Man’s World
Furthermore, Olivia Plath was raised alongside her nine siblings, Micah, Elijah, Joshua, Elise, Lydia, Sophia, Nathan, Carris, and Kristen Meggs. Within their family, they were heavily influenced by a religion that taught strong patriarchal principles. While it was a teaching of respect, it also skewed her interpretation of living in a healthy relationship. During a confessional, Olivia admits, “What I knew about sex growing up was don’t have it until you’re married, and that resulted in so much misinformation even as a teenager.”
For instance, it brought up fear and confusion. She says, “I remember being a teenager and thinking I could get pregnant if I was literally, like, sitting too close to a guy.” Additionally, her indoctrination also led to beliefs that women must think of men before themselves. Olivia recalls, “The other thing that I was told is, like, once you are married and you can have sex and not go to hell, your job is to make him happy.” Then, elaborating, “Your job is to please him. It’s about him.”
Olivia Plath Reveals How Purity Culture ‘F*cked’ Her Up
During Welcome To Plathville, Ethan and Olivia Plath’s marriage standards came from their similar raising. However, now Olivia isn’t subscribing to the submissive lifestyle. She says, “That doesn’t work for me anymore.” Instead, she is confronting her previously accepted ideas, understanding how they affected her life and mindset up to this point. She says, “Being out on my own, I feel like I’m realizing for the first time how much purity culture really f–ked me up.” Admittedly, she adds, “That’s why I married the first boy that I held hands with.” Furthermore, she is beginning to understand why she was so unhappy in her relationship with Ethan Plath.
Olivia Plath Had Grooming To Be A Good Wife
In an earlier interview reflecting on her courtship with Ethan Plath, she said, “I knew that I was being controlled in what we were allowed to do [and] what we were allowed to say.” Likewise, in her interview with Teen Vogue, she admits she to grooming for the same lifestyle as both her and Ethan’s parents had. She said, “By the time I was 13, I was being given books on how to be the best wife possible.” All in all, she feels it is “a cult.” Then, she elaborates, “From a very young age I assumed that what was expected from me in life as a woman, and what I was told what was expected of me as a woman was to get married and to have kids and to be a stay-at-home mom.”
Olivia Plath Confronts Her Indoctrination
But now that Olivia Plath and Ethan are divorcing, she is pursuing and exploring her newfound sexuality. In the latest episode of Welcome To Plathville, she reconnects with Micah Plath’s friends and hosts a sex education party to draw back the curtain and unveil the hidden secrets of sex. Since she feels uncomfortable in her own skin, she is attempting to make the conversation around sex more open. Likewise, allowing for questions and communication from friends without embarrassment. Although the tension was still in the room, with giggles and bashfulness when it came to learning about the female anatomy, it provided the friends with a safe place to be vulnerable with their inquisitive thoughts.
What do you think about Olivia Plath’s journey to finding her freedom in sex? Have you been through anything similar? Do you think her newfound path is liberating or debaucherous? Do you like the direction Welcome To Plathville is taking? Drop your comments below.
Bonnie Kaiser-Gambill is a graduate from Oklahoma State University. Her freelance writing primarily focuses on streaming series, reality TV, and celebrity news. During her free time she enjoys spending time with family and friends, baking, and traveling as often as possible.
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