It’s a day before the Vogue photo shoot at her parent’s property in Bowral, New South Wales, and Phoebe Burgess is nervous about being photographed. “I haven’t really done anything to prepare,” she jokes, lamenting the lack of time in her schedule for a facial or even to get her eyebrows done. “But it’s too late now!”
“If you can imagine a big ceramic pot being dropped and shattering into a million pieces, with no idea how to put it back together, then that was a little bit of what it was like”
It’s hard to believe that the 33-year-old, golden-haired Instagram influencer, with a following of more than 86k would be worried. “But that’s just it,” she says. “Instagram is your very best self on your very best day. It’s a tiny snapshot of your life; it’s not reality.”
Reality, Burgess says, involves running after her two small children, Poppy, five, and Billy, three, in activewear and gumboots around the muddy farm in the Southern Highlands, where she now lives with her parents. “Beautiful chaos” is how she describes her average day. “I get up
