FINDING CENTRE
Over the last two years, “survival mode” has been a constant state of being for Jesinta Franklin. But now, with a refreshed approach to her health and wellbeing, the Sydney-based model, businesswoman and Swisse ambassador has “come right”. Here, she chats candidly about postnatal depletion, dealing with mum guilt and why five-minute workouts are her jam.
WH: The last time we chatted with you was for a WH cover story back in 2019 and – the team didn’t know at the time – you were in the early stages of pregnancy with your daughter, Tallulah, now two.
JF: Yes, I was! I remember being on set and being very… not self-conscious but I’d been through a lot. I’d been through IVF at the time, injecting myself with all of these hormones, I’d had my egg retrieval and then the transfers. I was just not feeling my best in my body and no one knew. I felt like I was living two very different lives.
WH: That would’ve been so hard.
The hardest thing throughout that whole period is that I would always get asked when we were going to have a baby or if I wanted to have a baby [with husband, AFL player Lance “Buddy” Franklin]. At that time, I didn’t want
