Aimee Lou Wood was born in Stockport (England) 31 years ago. The actress, who reached the peak of popularity in 2025 as one of the most beloved characters of the third season of The White Lotusshe grew up in the small town of Bramhall (pop. about 17,500) with her parents, who divorced when she was little, largely because of her father’s problems with alcohol and drugs. Acting was her life of escape, according to the actress in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published this Thursday 6 November. “Acting has always been a refuge for me where I can express my feelings,” she tells the magazine. However, her role as cute Chelsea is present The White Lotus It also made him relive past traumas related to his physique, and no, it has nothing to do with his distinctive teeth. The idea of constantly walking around in a bikini, she says, made her relive the painful body dysmorphia she suffered from as a teenager. “I shook off that feeling by thinking, ‘It’s not about whether Aimee wants to show off her body or not; Chelsea does,'” she confesses of her character, whose defining characteristic is her unwavering optimism.
The British actress has never hidden that her teeth were the subject of ridicule during her childhood and adolescence. They called him Bugs Bunny and laughed at his accent. She too had to do something similar again after her growing success, as when comedian Sarah Sherman parodied her in a sketch From Saturday night live with exaggerated prosthetic teeth. The legendary program publicly apologized to the actress after calling her “cruel and unfunny.” However, it’s another example of what it means to fully immerse yourself in the Hollywood whirlwind, especially if you come from humble roots like Lou Wood’s. “Los Angeles seems emotionally bulimic to me, and I say that as exbulimic,” she is honest in the new interview. “It’s a big adventure where everyone’s talking about you constantly and you have to talk about yourself all the time. And then I leave and I feel like throwing up everything,” he admits.
For this reason he prefers to continue living in south-east London. According to what she says in the interview, her ideal day would be to wake up late in her apartment, have a coffee and go for a walk before spending the afternoon reading or watching films, while her boyfriend, also British actor Adam Long, 34, prepares a slow-cooked roast and hides his cell phone from her. “A day to disconnect from the world and relax. That’s all I want,” he wishes. And the interpreter doesn’t stop working. This Friday, November 7, it will premiere Film club, a BBC series in which she stars alongside Nabhaan Rizwan. Additionally, he is participating in seven other projects that are in the pre-production or post-production stage, including The idiotsa darkly humorous film based on the life of Anna Dostoieskaia, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s wife: “It was, without a doubt, my favorite work. My performance was worse than ever in front of the camera, but at no point during filming did I feel inhibited. It was a very confident and creative set,” she says.
Lou Wood now takes advantage of his increasingly powerful speakership to speak openly about mental and physical health. Last April, he said on his Instagram profile, where he has three million followers, that he had been diagnosed with ADHD with autistic traits, something that changed his life when it came to knowing how to manage it. For example, in the interview he states that he started to feel panic while filming a scene for another of his upcoming films, Anxious peoplein which he shares the cast with Angelina Jolie, because too many members of the crew scolded him. Then he asked for calm to concentrate: a single direction, a single voice, no movement of the hands in his field of vision. “For years I couldn’t say something like that for fear of sounding provocative, but now I feel like I can take responsibility for what I need to improve and tell others what isn’t working for me,” she confesses. He says Jolie gave him the thumbs up: “She’s maybe the most famous woman in history, but she’s so normal.”
She has also spoken openly about her body image issues in the past. In an interview with Caretaker in 2023, when she became best known for her role as sweet Aimee Gibbs on the series Sex educationspoke about her eating disorder, which began while she was studying at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. “Your body becomes a kind of enemy. I was so disconnected from my body when I had an eating disorder that it was like I was outside of it, examining it with a magnifying glass. Little by little I’m overcoming it,” she said before interrupting the meeting to cry, as the journalist described it. “I thought it was the comments about my body that made me relapse. But now I realize it wasn’t the comments, but rather the fact that I ignored them with a smile. I didn’t tell people to stop talking to me that way. I expressed it later, through the indirect manifestation of my eating disorder,” Lou Wood said at the time. Two years later, she prides herself on not hiding her problems from her bosses, TV shows, or her fans.
