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 reveals how her life has completely changed since she turned 40 – from single and care-free, engaged to stepmother to her partner Ben Richardson’s eight-year-old son Teddy .
And the biggest change is welcoming 1-year-old daughter Rae lockdownReports broke as Sarah-Jane admitted that she ‘dropped out of the studio’ after her desperate parents handed over a newborn to the Marines on 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 she ‘walked out of the studio’ after reports showed her desperate parents handing a newborn baby to Marines on a barbed-wire wall amid the chaotic US withdrawal in Afghanistan in August ‘ (saw)
talking to WireSarah-Jane said: ‘Separation used to be easy before becoming a mother.
‘I came back from maternity leave, as soon as the story of my withdrawal from Afghanistan unfolded 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 if someone had told her three years earlier that she would move to the countryside, get engaged and welcome a little girl within three years, she would have laughed.
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 Peter, the son of Princess Anne.
The 43-year-old news anchor talks about how her life has completely changed since she turned 40 – from being single and care-free, engaged to 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 it led to more frequent social media trolls than before, Sarah Jane admitted that a cruel jibe about baby weight upset her.
She said: ‘When I went back to work after Rai, social media was pretty positive but there was one comment mentioning my weight. One comment out of hundreds, but that was what I remembered.
‘ 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 was having 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 branding agency founder Ben, 42, who is seen, at a party thrown by mutual friend Autumn Phillips – the ex-wife of Princess Anne’s son Peter
Sarah Jane admits a cruel jibe at baby weight social media upset her
In August, the world was shaken by emotional photos, in which a 16-day-old child was passed over a barbed wire fence to a soldier, as his distraught parents saw human beings beyond the confines of Hamid Karzai International Airport. Crush had begged for her protection.
The Afghan father has since told how he instructed his wife Saadia to flee the airport as reports surfaced of missing aides and other US allies 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 assist US marines in the evacuation effort and missed his daughter’s birth 16 days earlier. Were.
Hameed said that when he was staying at the airport, he could not go to meet 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 became aware of 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
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