New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Amber’s happy homecoming ‘I’M BACK WITH MY GIRL MIA!’

As former Shortland Street actress Amber Curreen and her 17-year-old daughter Mia are getting their make-up done for our Weekly photoshoot, Amber reminisces about the last time the mother and daughter featured in a women’s magazine.

Amber was 20 and was playing teen mum Shannon Te Ngaru on the popular Kiwi soap. She had just given birth to Mia and her real-life pregnancy was written into the show. Amber gets emotional remembering the moment when she

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