New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Amanda’s fresh start ‘I’M LIVING LIFE WITH PASSION’

It’s been just over a month since Amanda Gillies signed off from The AM Show after five years of early starts – and she looks amazing. Gone are the designer outfits, and studio hair and make-up, and instead there is a relaxed woman in a simple black singlet dress, with her hair tied back in a classic, smooth ponytail and if there is any make-up on, it’s what beauty editors call “the natural look”.

‘I’ll certainly have to rein it in. There will be no dancing and singing’

She looks like a woman who has had a wonderful night’s sleep and woken up to all the joys of the world. Which she agrees is true after five years of getting up in the middle of the night.

“I had been waking up at 3.30am in the middle of the night for five years and I was pretty sure it would take me weeks to get back to a normal sleep pattern, but it took – oh – one day.

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