New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Wendy’s wonder ‘I’M LIVING MY DREAM LIFE’

Last summer, Wendy Petrie was adjusting to her eldest daughter moving to America and fearful that being a fill-in newsreader would be the only work to ever come her way.

A year on, she’s walking into 2023 – and indeed our Weekly photo shoot – like Wendy version 2.0. Animated, upbeat and wearing a black Led Zeppelin T-shirt, she’s fresh off a plane from Invercargill after giving a keynote speech to 200 women in the dairy-farming network.

Yes, it was nerve-wracking and

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