Juggling politics with pregnancy won’t stop our prime minister from achieving her goals.
In a busy Auckland café, she looks like an ordinary customer, hungrily tucking into a late lunch of a cheese baguette. But a week earlier, she was sitting near Prince William at dinner and having tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. And next month, she will be the second world leader in history to give birth while in office.
Since she became our Prime Minister in October, Jacinda Ardern’s life has been a whirlwind. Juggling the country’s top job with her first pregnancy must be incredibly tough at times, but today she seems rested and glowing. Even if she didn’t feel as great as she looks, you would never know it because Jacinda (37) isn’t one for complaining.
Yes, she’ll admit to having had terrible morning sickness, which struck on the very day she was sworn in as Prime Minister and continued up until Christmas. And yes, she did feel like she was car-sick for pretty much all of that time.
“But at that point, no-one knew I was pregnant so there was only a handful of people I could talk to about it and that was probably helpful,” she says cheerfully. “It meant I couldn’t fixate on it too much. I just had to fight it and get on with it.”
So Jacinda ate a lot of bread and crackers, and kept her mind firmly fixed on the task of setting goals for her stint in government.
“Those were busy days,” she admits, “that period of getting us up and running, and laying down the foundation for what we need to do. It was good to have that distraction and focus.”
Many of us probably feel we could never cope with the challenges Jacinda is facing on a daily basis, but she isn’t so convinced.
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der 14 May 2018-Ausgabe von New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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