‘Boys were a no-no, so I wasn’t allowed to date. I rebelled and often got caught!’
She’s travelled the world, advocated for issues like domestic violence, emigrated to Aotearoa, found love outside a shoe shop and is New Zealand’s first minister of Indian descent. But of all the interesting topics people could raise when meeting Priyanca Radhakrishnan, there’s one question she can’t shake: “When are you having kids?”
The 43-year-old politician and her husband Ewan Richardson have happily built a life without children, yet Priyanca frequently finds herself interrogated over the decision.
“At the start, it was very much, ‘Why don’t you have children?’” says the Aucklander. “Now people assume I have kids, but I still get, ‘You don’t
