Woman's Day Magazine NZ

Toni’s emotional message for her girl ‘YOU’REPERFECT AS YOU ARE’

When Toni Street was growing up in New Plymouth back in the ’90s, life seemed pretty simple. She kicked around in rugby shorts and t-shirts, plans were made by landline, and her beauty regime consisted of a lick of sunblock and a hairbrush through her thick blonde mane each morning.

“It was a simple time,” she laughs, welcoming Woman’s Day into her new beachside home in Auckland, which she shares with her husband Matt France and their children, Juliette, nine, Mackenzie, six, and Lachie, three.

“I look at young people today and feel like my experience growing up was a world away from what they’re dealing with. No internet, no selfies… I didn’t even get a mobile till I was about 15! Social media can be great,

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