Chris O’Dowd married British writer, director, and television presenter, Dawn Porter in 2012. After their wedding, she changed her surname to O’Porter.
Porter first came to widespread public attention when she attempted to slim down to a size zero by using drastic dieting regimes for the BBC documentary Super Slim Me. Porter also presented the product-testing section of How to Look Good Naked on Channel 4.
O’Porter writes for many publications, on feminism and aspects of women’s lifestyle.
In 2006, she published Diaries of an Internet Lover In May 2013, she released her first novel, Paper Aeroplanes, the fictional tale of an intense female friendship loosely inspired by her own childhood in Guernsey.
Her publication, The Cows, was released in 2016 and has since been featured on the Sunday Times Best Sellers list.