Grace & Eve Palmer A BABY & A BREAKDOWN

The star sisters dish the dirt on new husbands, pregnancy and grief

- LEENA TAILOR

Whether it’s getting through their parents’ divorce, navigating showbiz careers or working together for the first time on their new online comedy series Good Grief, Grace and Eve Palmer have constantly been at each other’s sides.

So when Eve and her new husband, The Adam and Eve Show co-host Adam Percival, revealed during their intimate wedding in 2020 that they were also expecting their first child, it’s little surprise that the pregnancy announcement turned sister Grace into a blubbering mess.

“I had a mental breakdown,” former Shortland Street star Grace, 26, candidly tells Woman’s Day. “I’ve always been her little sister and I felt like, ‘Now she’s got her own little baby to look after!’ It was already such an overwhelming day because it was like, ‘Adam’s now your husband and you have your own family.’

“Eve’s always been my family – particularly when you have parents split up and you’re going between houses. Eve and I were often on our own journey. So to have her start her own family… I was crying, then I thought, ‘I need to grow up!’”

“No, you don’t!” chimes in Eve, 31, placing a comforting hand on Grace’s knee during our summery shoot at Auckland’s Takapuna Beach Holiday Park. “You need to keep having fun, so I can live vicariously through your good times while I’m home breastfeeding.”