Do you still recognize her?
Olcay Gulsen is definitely one of the most beautiful women in the Netherlands. She is now 43 years young, but what did she actually look like as a teenager? Time for a dive into the archives!
Difficult youth
Olcay has all the facets of a power woman: she has spirit, knows what she wants and is extremely successful. Yet that is not so obvious. Olcay had quite a difficult childhood. Her father was an addict and suffered from schizophrenia, and this had painful consequences for Olcay herself and her mother and sisters.
In 2022, Olcay was very open about what her childhood was like. “I was always afraid that my mother would be dead, that was my greatest fear,” she said at the time in Isola di Beau. “That one day I would come home and she would be gone. And that feeling was just very dominant. When I came back from school, during lunch breaks, at the end of the street I heard all the screaming. Then I always thought: oh no, not again.”
Stabbed
In Dream School, Olcay previously told how things once went terribly wrong at home. One terrible night, her father stabbed her mother. “I was so angry so often; on my father, on my mother – because my mother put up with it and accepted it all, that six children had to suffer like this. And afterwards I thought: I can be angry at everyone, but what I can also do is convert my anger into commitment.”
And that is what Olcay did, because we now know her as one of the most powerful women in the Netherlands. We are also regularly reminded of her beauty on her Instagram, but was the brunette actually such a beauty in the past?
Twelve years
When we scroll through Olcay’s Instagram page, one photo stands out among all the glamorous snapshots. It is a photo of Olcay when she was only twelve years old.
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“Had to look for photos from my youth for a TV program,” explains the brunette. “A difficult task anyway because there are hardly any photos of me. My sisters & family are busy and they are trickling in.” Olcay finds the photo quite confrontational. “Quite a mature look for a young girl.” And indeed: we had estimated the entrepreneur to be a lot older in the snapshot. But given her life story, that is not surprising.
New palace
Fortunately, Olcay is now doing very well and she is radiant like never before. She recently shared the nice news that after a renovation that seemed to have no end, her house is now finally almost finished. On Instagram she shared a house tour in which she gave us a glimpse into her palace.
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Marble floors, four-metre high ceilings and plans for a huge walk-in closet and a roof terrace with jacuzzi: Olcay’s renovated house is everything we ever dreamed of. We hope for Olcay that the renovation is now really coming to an end, and that she will soon be able to plop down on the couch with a good feeling. By the way, the video says ‘part 1’, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for a second part!
Source: LINDA., Glamial archive | Image: NL Image
