sky News Presenter Sarah-Jane Mee reveals how having a baby changes the way she reacts to harsh news.
The 43-year-old East Sussex news anchor revealed that her life has completely changed since she turned 40 – single and care-free, from stepmother to her partner Ben Richardson’s eight-year-old son Teddy.
And the biggest change is to welcome 1 year old daughter Rae lockdownReports broke out as Sarah-Jane admitted that her desperate parents ‘kicked her out of the studio’ after handing a newborn baby to the Marines over a barbed wire wall amid the chaotic US withdrawal. The footage was visible. Afghanistan in August.
Sky News presenter Sarah-Jane Mee (as seen in 2018) reveals how having a baby has changed the way she reacts to harsh news
Sarah-Jane admitted that her desperate parents ‘walked out of the studio’ after reports of a newborn baby being handed to Marines on a barbed wire wall amid the chaotic US withdrawal in Afghanistan in August (viewed)
talking to wireSarah-Jane said: ‘Separation used to be easy before becoming a mother.
‘I came back from maternity leave, as the story of my return from Afghanistan and the picture of soldiers handing barbed wire to a child will haunt me forever. I had to leave the studio while the report was going on because I was crying.
The new mom admitted that she would have laughed if someone told her three years ago that she would move to the countryside, get engaged and welcome a little girl within three years.
The presenter was introduced to 42-year-old Ben, the founder of the branding agency, at a party organized by a mutual friend Autumn Phillips – the ex-wife of Princess Anne’s son Peter.
The 43-year-old news anchor talks about how her life has completely changed since she turned 40 – from being single and care-free, from stepmother to her partner Ben Richardson’s eight-year-old son, Teddy.
And Sarah-Jane says having a baby during lockdown had its ups and downs, admitting that having Ben’s partner in the house meant she didn’t feel isolated during lockdown — and opinion made the first year of ‘Mom and Dad alike’.
Although this has led to more social media trolls than ever before, Sarah Jane admits that a cruel jibe about baby weight upset her.
She said: ‘When I went back to work after Rai, social media was overwhelmingly positive but one comment mentioned my weight. One comment out of hundreds, but that’s what I missed.
‘ I replied, ‘I have no excuse. It’s not baby weight, it’s lockdown weight and I’m sure you got some of it too. I didn’t want them to know that it affected me. But it did. I had such a great day and I thought, “How can you be?” But you have to remember that those people will never walk and say it to your face.’
The presenter is introduced to 42-year-old Ben, the founder of the branding agency, who appears at a party hosted by a mutual friend Autumn Phillips – the ex-wife of Princess Anne’s son Peter.
Sarah Jane admits to a cruel joke on baby weight, social media upset her
In August, the world was shaken by emotional photos showing a 16-day-old boy passing a soldier over a barbed wire fence as his distraught parents drove humans beyond the boundaries of Hamid Karzai International Airport. saw. The crush had begged for her protection.
The Afghan father has since told how he instructed his wife Saadia to flee the airport as reports of missing aides and other US allies surfaced as the Taliban completed their occupation of Afghanistan.
The first-time father said he had been staying at Kabul airport throughout August, serving as a linguist to aid the US Navy evacuation effort and had missed his daughter’s birth 16 days earlier. . Were.
Hameed said that when he was staying at the airport he could not visit his newborn daughter and could only talk to his wife Saadia on the phone as she told that her delivery was difficult.
Hours later, Saadia was able to exit the gate and the family was reunited as they prepared for their evacuation flight.
Hameed said he found out about the now iconic video when the family landed in the US, believing it served as a symbol of reality in Afghanistan.
The family is now living safely in Phoenix, Arizona with their daughter Lia, whose middle name is ‘Marine’, a tribute to the soldier who helped save her life.
Hameed, who was photographed with wife Saadia and baby Lia, now lives in Phoenix, Arizona