Kerri-Anne: "I really wanted a child"

For Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s legions of fans, her life has been an open book. We know about her cosmetic surgery, her recurrent bouts of skin cancer, that she’s not a good cook and loves a round of golf. Yet there’s one very personal element of the morning television matriarch’s life that we know nothing about — the often asked but never answered question, why didn’t she have children?

Over the years, some people have simply assumed Kerri-Anne chose her career over motherhood and that she remained childless by choice.

“I have lived with assumptions for 13 or 14 years,” she explains. “There are people who are so very maternal and so family-friendly that they discriminate. In the back of their minds they think, ‘She prefers to have a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes than pay for her child to go to school’ or ‘She’s too busy to have a baby’. I have seen it virtually tattooed in neon lights across their foreheads.”

Read the whole story, only in the November 2006 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.

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