Matilda's New Reality

There’s been a lot going on in the life of former bachelor star matilda green since we caught up with her last year. Erin Fisher sits down with the tv presenter and business owner to talk motherhood, mental wellbeing and her exciting plans for the future.

As far as life milestones go, Art and Matilda Green have gone for the triple whammy. After moving into their first home in Warkworth, Auckland at the end of last year, the original couple from The Bachelor NZ tied the knot with a secret Waiheke Island wedding in February, and then they had one final big piece of news to share with their friends and family. Two is soon to become three.

“We are so excited. Art has wanted to be a dad his whole life. He’ll make a great dad,” Matilda beams. Since the wedding, they have been back at home enjoying the start of their new life as husband and wife. “It was so beautiful having all our friends and family together, and the wedding was stunning, but now it feels good to be married and just relax into our new married life,” she says. “It’s this new feeling of contentment.”

Despite still looking like she’s just come off the Jockey catwalk and giving us all a big hug when she arrives, the first trimester did not quite deliver the glowing, energetic pregnancy that Matilda had her fingers crossed for. “I had this vision of what I would be like when I was pregnant, eating only organic foods and staying really active, but it’s honestly been the opposite of that. Reality has been pretty different to expectation,” she laughs, hopeful that what she has heard about the second trimester being much better holds true and that she can wave goodbye to the morning nausea.

Listening to her body