Spring weather may have finally made its presence known at Nadia Lim’s Otago farm, but there’s a wee snowball causing a flurry of excitement around the place.
Yes, there’s still some of the white, fluffy stuff lingering on the hills, but the snowball Nadia is talking about is what her two young boys, Bodhi, six, and River, four, have affectionately named their new baby brother or sister, due in late summer.
As the culinary guru and her husband Carlos Bagrie sit down with the Weekly over a café lunch to share their exciting news, she’s relaxed and glowing. At five months’ pregnant, she is adjusting to her sweet surprise.
“I don’t seem to be as big this time around and I’m finally feeling much better now,” she smiles, before digging into a roast vege salad. “Up until 16 weeks, I was just blugh… constantly feeling like I was carsick.
“In the early days, I had citrus cravings and I ate a lot of oranges. And then there was about three weeks where I suddenly got very hungry