Mikyla Dodd

Mikyla Dodd is an English actress and writer, who is most known for playing the role of Chloe Bruce in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 until 2004. She is also an activist, raising awareness about eating disorders.

Early life

Dodd was born in 1978 in Blackburn in Lancashire, and attended Billinge High School.

Television career

Dodd played the character Chloe Bruce in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 until 2004. She also performed in Hollyoaks: Breaking Boundaries, the show's first late night edition, in 2000 and in Hollyoaks: Indecent Behaviour in 2001. She was the first plus-size cast member to appear on the show.
In 2006, she appeared in the ITV Reality TV show Celebrity Fit Club.

Memoir and activism

On 28 June 2007, Dodd's memoir The Fat Girl from Hollyoaks, a record of her weight problems as a teenager and life as an actress in a British television soap opera, was published by Hodder & Stoughton. The paperback version was released under the title Playing the Fat Girl.
In 2009, Dodd explored the dangers of diet pills and extreme diets in the BBC Three documentary When Diets Go Wrong.
In 2024, Dodd featured in the documentary A Day With An Eating Disorder, produced by Lynn Crilly, to raise awareness of eating disorders. During Eating Disorders Awareness Week in 2025, she said that:
She has also spoken about body image and the media industry on radio broadcasts.