By Jenny Brown
Pictures: David Hahn. Hair and make-up: Deanne Dority. Shot on location at Rydges Cronulla, (02) 9527 3100.
Smiling softly, tenderly cradling her newborn baby, it seems the long years of heartache are finally over for marathon swim star Susie Maroney.
Daughter Paris Seana has healed so many hurts: the tragic death of Susie’s twin brother Sean, the loss of two unborn babies and even the too-recent breakdown of her marriage to banker Rob Daniels. In a life that has already seen wild crests and troughs to rival the surf at her beloved Cronulla, at last Susie has a perfect pink reason to celebrate.
A precious bundle
Her first words after Paris’s arrival on June 19 were, “I love you, I love you, I love you so much.” She can’t stop cuddling her precious bundle, seldom lets her out of her sight and even laughs when the nappy-less bub wees on her foot.
According to Susie’s stalwart mum Pauline, “The hole she’s had in her heart since losing Sean has been filled. All this time she’s been missing him, and suddenly she has someone else to love.”
Yet the greatest joys are too often shadowed with drama for the tight-knit Maroney clan, which was devastated by Susie’s marriage split less than three months ago.
Fate snatched away the former couple’s first baby in a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, while little Paris’s unborn twin died in the womb beside her — leaving her with only a 50/50 chance of survival…
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