BABY LOVE
Resplendent in a rose-pink Prada gown, Jennifer Hawkins is working the camera. For the model – who shot to stardom as Miss Universe in 2004, going on to become the face of Myer, the host of Australia’s Next Top Model and now a successful entrepreneur – it’s just another day at the office (or, in today’s case, her stunning home on Sydney’s Northern Beaches).
But this shoot is a particularly special one for Hawkins: the first with her baby girl, Frankie. She holds the five-month-old close to her chest, then lifts her lovingly to the ceiling, gazing into her eyes.
While the new mum and businesswoman (founder of Jbronze self-tan and Sesión tequila) is quietly bursting with joy, it’s been an emotional journey to get to this point. Two years ago Hawkins and her husband Jake Wall fell pregnant, but received the devastating news that there was no heartbeat at their first scan. Hawkins recalls her world crumbling around her and her deep desperation to conceive, memories that make life today with Frankie – who’s also a natural in front of the camera! – that much sweeter. Here, she chats to Sarah Grant.
marie claire: Congratulations on the birth of Frankie! How are you finding motherhood?
