Queens of Reality
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF MELBOURNE (s5)
Starts October 10, Sundays at 8.30pm and watch On Demand
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If fans needed any further proof of Jackie Gillies’ psychic power, they need look no further than the very first season of The Real Housewives of Melbourne.
Back then, Gillies revealed that the spirit of her grandmother had appeared in a dream to tell her that she would one day be a mother of twins.
Fast-forward seven years and – after a much-publicised struggle with IVF – the now-41-year-old is happily expecting two babies, with her pregnancy journey documented as she reunites with castmates Janet Roach and Gamble Breaux for the Housewives’ highly anticipated fifth season.
Gillies says the dream led her to believe deep in her soul that she would eventually be a mother, even when she was at her lowest ebb with IVF.
“I just didn’t know how or when,” she tells magazine as she reclines on a couch ahead of our photo shoot with Roach and Breaux in a
