liv hates the media too but she gets kind of stuck in a cycle of it because her family are a bunch of media whores and revamping her image became a career necessity, so maybe it backfired but she actually ended up more comfortable with him than she expected to be because of it? like she started out with dubious intentions striving for this "authentic" pr and ended up with something that actually felt authentic, if that makes sense/is something you'd be down for