As the popular host looks worryingly thin, Angela Mollard reveals the demons that are driving her.
With just her beloved dog Sergie for company, Sonia Kruger cut a lonely figure as she walked near her home in Sydney’s north shore on a bleak afternoon last week.
Having worked at least 12 of the past 24 hours at two jobs in two cities, it’s little wonder the usually glamorous Dancing With The Stars presenter was a shadow of her former self.
But it isn’t only the stress of the hard-working performer’s manic TV and radio schedule that is etching the worry lines so deeply into her shadowed face. In fact, Sonia has been driven by a series of personal crises to lose so much weight in recent weeks that members of her inner circle say they fear she is jeopardising her health.
Sonia has admitted in the past to the intense pressure she feels to look her best. Now Woman’s Day has learnt she often neglects to eat at all.
“The real reason she is so skinny is because she doesn’t eat at weekends,” says a source who works with the star.
And with her birthday fast approaching — she turns 44 on August 28 — friends say that Sonia’s drawn appearance is the result of personal tensions.
Not only is she terrified of losing her looks in an industry obsessed with youth, but she’s at an emotional crossroads after her marriage breakdown.
And now cracks are beginning to appear in her relationship with new boyfriend, Today Tonight executive producer Craig McPherson. She’s also had to face the prospect that it is getting perilously late for her to have children — an issue several insiders say is troubling her deeply.
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