Sunrise newsreader Natalie Barr has just turned 50, and she’s not exactly thrilled about it! “I know the headlines of these stories are always, ‘Fit and Fabulous at 50,'” she laughs when she chats with The Australian Women’s Weekly about her family, fear of celebrities and her milestone birthday.
“But I’m not excited about turning 50.”
“If you’d asked me this last year I would have laughed it off and thought: ‘Oh I don’t even care.’ But I do care. I’m not keen on it at all.”
“I feel this strange sense of dread about the number and I don’t know why. I’m still comfortable in my own skin. I’m still comfortable about the way I look at feel.”
An online publication recently ran a series of shots of her in her bathers, with a headline screaming that she was showing off her body. But she doesn’t grumble about the intrusion of the paparazzi.
“You can complain all you like, but it’s something that happens in the modern world,” Natalie tells The Weekly. “That’s how I see it. I think there are bigger problems.”
“I don’t get targeted much by paps. I count myself lucky. I think because I’m old and married and boring I just don’t think I’m that interesting to them, which is great.”
In a wide ranging interview in the April issue of The Weekly Natalie reveals how she’d rather interview Barnaby Joyce than a huge Hollywood star.
“They’re set up to be intimidating,” she says.
“They’re there to promote their film. And they give you about four minutes. Maybe five. You walk into somewhere glamorous like the Park Hyatt. And then it’s three-two-one and if you ask anything they don’t like they won’t give you the tape.”
“I do all my research. I read all their back stories. I look at all their past interviews and I just can’t come up with anything better. Then, if you come up with something controversial, you’re kicked out!”
For more of Natalie’s candid conversation with The Weekly, pick up the April issue, on sale now.
