New Zealand's prime minister is unmarried, pregnant and going on maternity leave

“I don’t want to ever give the impression that I’m some kind of wonder woman,” said Ardern, an unpretentious wunderkind with an ever-ready smile. “Or that women should be expected to do everything because I am. I’m not doing everything.”

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She’ll have help with childcare from the baby’s father, Clarke Gayford, her partner of four years. Gayford, host of a popular fishing show called Fish of the Day, is planning to be a stay-at-home dad.

The couple’s unwed status, she said, was not a “deliberate decision.”

“It sounds terrible, because we’re very committed to each other. [Marriage is] just not something we’ve really gotten around to.”

“We haven’t correctly sequenced, perhaps,” she laughed.

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