“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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