The unique ministry of a ‘Big Fat Greek Mother’

Becky Hunter-Kelm spoke with actor, writer, speaker, comedian and mum of three, Olga Thompson about her dramatic encounter with God, a breakdown during early motherhood and how she lives out her faith in the comedy and entertainment space  

Ever since she can remember, Olga has loved to make people laugh. When you initially land on Olga’s Instagram account @big_fat_greekmother (which has over 50K followers) or her TikTok (over 15K followers), you can’t help but start chuckling at her hilariously relatable reels about texts from teenagers, her ‘then and now’ takes on parenting, and the adventures of her character Adroulla (the influencer with far-too-much-fake-tan). When you dig a little deeper into Olga’s social media content, however, you find refreshingly honest stories about life behind the screen and encouraging messages to help us stop comparing ourselves to others, and reminding us that we have been fearfully and wonderfully made.