Olivia's style has as much to do with strength as sweetness

OLIVIA Newton-John She made wholesome hot at Rydell High, but Olivia's style has as much to do with strength as sweetness

Even the bad girl tight pants that made her a pop-culture sensation in 1978’s Grease proved only that the Melbourne-raised star would always be nice, no matter what the disguise.

At 51, Olivia Newton-John campaigns for children, women and animals, is a devoted hands-on mother to Chloe, 13, and still radiates her inimitable body-and-soul wholesomeness. But more than that, the triple Grammy winner (two for I Honestly Love You, one for Physical) has, time and again, shown the inner steel of a true survivor. Which is why we’re hopelessly devoted to her.

She’s soared for three decades, beaten bankruptcy in 1991 and breast cancer in 1992, and weathered the 1995 end of her 11-year marriage to actor Matt Lattanzi, 41. All with optimism.

“You can go down the tube or you can fight”, she told WHO WEEKLY in 1998. “I realised I could fight.”

She teaches Chloe to “develop her inner self and not put too much importance on the outer self. It’s very well to look good, but you have to be a good person. That’s what my mother taught me.”