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s P L U S Hearty & filling one-pot wonders At home with Nicola Willis RRoyall EXCLUSIVE star The one that we loved BBrrrave beach babes! Good therapy Mike’s no dummy when Who c k it comes to keeping son Lucas quiet. Zara in action on her handsome steed. Love Giddy up! Lena wants a horse like her mum’s one. Mia’s just nutty about her baby brother. Left: Anne on parade. 2 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Dad rests his legs on the Ferris wheel with Lena. TINDALL! Mia’s raising the bar a little too high! The spirited royals were naturals on the rides T he Tindall family was out in full force for the Magic Millions Festival of British Eventing recently. The Queen’s granddaughter Zara, 41, was full of smiles as she shared the fun and games with her rugby star husband Mike, 43, and their three children, Mia, eight, Lena, four, and one-year-old Lucas. The keen equestrian, who won silver at the 2012 Olympic Games, also competed at the event, which took place at her mother Princess Anne’s sprawling Gatcombe Park estate. The casually dressed Princess Royal, 71, was spotted out and about, checking up on her beloved grandchildren. After Luca Mike reveale claimed the her very ow Luc p Z yo Luc rst offi cial appearance l b ti mum’s delight, he is already showing interest in horses. 3 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 14 August 22, 2022 A s I’ve shared previously, this year the Weekly is celebrating its 90th anniversary and we’re connecting with people who have been a part of the magazine through the years. Earlier this year, we caught up with April Ieremia and this 30 week we talk to Sally Ridge. Some readers will remember her as not only a cover star but also a columnist for the Weekly more On the cover 22 Laura’s than a decade ago. While she was somewhat Style 6 Sally Ridge’s joy back on TV reluctant to be back in the limelight, she was ‘Love, family and The Shorty star works 48 Fashion very welcoming when the team arrived for what I know now’ in mysterious ways 50 Beauty our photoshoot at her home and her cute pup 12 Royal star The secret Valli posed for pictures like a professional! Lifestyle to Kate’s success Sally’s had many exciting changes in her life, 14 The one that we 52 Health including becoming a grandmother, which loved Farewell 56 Craft she absolutely loves, as you’ll read on page 6. to Olivia Meanwhile, our Weekly people section Timeout 18 Kids and chaos has two very diff erent but equally interesting At home with 60 Puzzles stories. Firstly we meet a group of Wellington Nicola Willis 68 Kevin Milne women who call themselves the Better Beach 30 Brrrave beach babes! 70 Michele A’Court Babes. Twice a week they venture into the ‘We’ve never felt 71 Horoscopes ocean in the early hours for a “bob” in the so good!’ 72 Join the conversation water, even when the air temperature is just 24 32 Good therapy 74 Retro Weekly three degrees! These brave women, who are ‘My dog is healing 76 Colin Hogg following in the footsteps of an older group teens’ 77 Kerre Woodham who did the same for around 25 years until 24 Meet the bakers! 78 Entertainment the early 2000s, are reaping the benefi ts. 32 The home cooks 81 Books with Nicky They have found these chilly dips are good looking to impress Pellegrino for both their mental and physical health. 26 Diver’s new goal I admire these women a lot, but I’m not Celeb watch Lizzie makes a splash sure I could do the same! as a mum 2 Star news And on page 32, we meet counsellor 28 Coro dad Sam 82 Star weekly Pip and her greyhound Juggling babies at ¯ki, who’s helping home and on TV her connect with the Stories teens at her school, Food 10 The wrap-up particularly those who Serena hangs up her 36 Love me tender are struggling with racquet, sons reject 40 Easy pea-sy 82 anxiety. Britney, and Gillian’s 44 S’mores the merrier Enjoy your mag evil plan 46 Shop window and have a lovely week, CONTACT DETAILS FIND US ONLINE NZ Woman’s Weekly, ADVERTISING facebook.com/ PO Box 52122, Kingsland, Email Chloe Jordan newzealandwomansweekly [email protected] Auckland 1352 WOMAN’S WEEKLY STAFF EMAIL instagram.com/ See page 73 for details [email protected] newzealandwomansweekly Marilynn SUBSCRIPTIONS PHONE The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly McLachlan, 0800 624 7467 is published by Are Media Ltd, Level 1, 317 Editor New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland 1021. EMAIL WEB Printed by Webstar, 114 Swanson Road, Henderson, Auckland 0610. © 2021. email [email protected] [email protected] magshop.co.nz All rights reserved. 4 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly This Blue September do something blue to help a mate through. Every year 4,000 kiwi men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. The funds raised by every Blue Do help us make a real difference Prostate Cancer to the lives of blokes living with prostate cancer. Foundation NZ Organise your Blue Do or DONATE NOW blueseptember.org.nz Te Kahui Māte Pukupuku Repe Tātea o Aotearoa From society girl to grand shares her fabulous family he may have been the Weekly’s crafts editor a decade ago, but don’t expect Sally Ridge to be bedazzling baby onesies just yet for her precious new grandson Porter. Her trusty hot-glue gun has been sitting idle of late while the 52-year-old juggles life as a busy real estate agent, interior designer and devoted mum. As she sits down to reminisce over her popular former column for the magazine’s upcoming 90th birthday – the only interview and photoshoot she has done in a number of years – Sally is clearly smitten with the new little man in her life, who is aff ectionately known as Portie-pants. He’s her fi rst grandchild after eldest daughter Jaime and husband Tommy Bates welcomed Cover story Weekly’ mo ts editor ne p on love duate, presenter on shows like Home Front and Rooms, ders with as she had hoped. n a craft “I just couldn’t wait to o 2012. nally got children ap Adam old and stayed for a month,” 19, and smiles the former TV star. often “Yeah, he’s pretty cute. I when they mum when kids. l fun doing it,” she refl s. “A t ed what fi rst Christmas this year. tos to “I’m so close to Jaime, so ting I their feedback.” day via FaceTime. Jaime er having [who turns 29 this month] is e struggle such a great mum… she’s so w craft r ideas each week. m “Half the time I was an amazing dad too. They’re inspired by using up all the such a cute family.” crap that the kids used to Sally will be known to leave around the house like dice, marbles, Lego and h beads! I could buy a vase from “I didn’t want to be called a two-dollar shop, then glue Grandma, so Gigi is what I all those little bits and pieces am now and it works for me.” on and make it look cool. When the Weekly visits at “My most popular craft h was when I did an arty map H of New Zealand, again just r placing inexpensive stuff on it v from a junk drawer like beads r The Ridges – and pegs. So many people Sally has her phone out, replicated it.” Using fun items lying about her house, Sally’s l Sally stumbles upon a craft pages appealed c column featuring a small to Weekly readers. e egg carton that she turned 7 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Sally has found love again with Scott (far right, at Kiwi artist Shane Cotton’s exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery). ‘ s p r “I’ve really kept out of the l q a r s . They’ll take something a b c Our cover girl ‘I feel like 20 years ago. a person. “People are time has “I didn’t consider leaving probably going New Zealand, but it does marched on, to say, ‘She’s tarnish you as a person. sooo old now!’” the kids have People do believe the rumours into a pink trinket grown up decorative fi re squad got brought in. It was that they read. And they say box and laughs extinguishers really bad. The police rang people forget, but they don’t. but I’m in horror. “Oh, from the Adam, saying, ‘There’s a “It’s what you get from that’s quite out so happy’ Netherlands. suspicious package for being in the public eye, I there, isn’t it?! I “I’m so into A. Parore’ and he said, ‘Oh, suppose. But the Weekly don’t know what art and Astin that’s my son.’ doesn’t write nasty stuff , so made me think of making has created a really good “The police then rang us it’s quite refreshing!” these things,” says Tauranga- website,” she enthuses. “He and weren’t happy. We fi nally During her self-imposed born Sally, who grew up loves art and respects what got the pieces two weeks ago. media break, Sally poured collecting buttons, stamps artists create, but he’s more The artist we are working herself into her work as a real and erasers, and loved making intellectual than creative with never imagined there’d estate agent for Bayleys – “I’m handmade cards. himself, and is enjoying his be such a problem!” still shy but I think doing real “I don’t think we do fi rst year doing a business For someone who used to estate has brought me out of enough crafts any more.” and law degree at Auckland regularly fi nd herself in the my shell” – and focused solely However, a passion for art University.” headlines – more often than on what matters most to her... still drives her. Before they had even not reading inaccuracies her four beautiful children. Last month, she and son launched their business about her personal life – she These days, with sons Astin launched a small side however, the pair unwittingly says it’s been a breath of fresh Astin and Boston spending business together called found themselves in trouble air to have spent the last few time with their girlfriends, Essentials NZ (fi nd it on with the police. years going “under the radar it’s mostly just Sally and Instagram @essentialsnz), “It’s one of those funny- a bit”. youngest daughter Mclane where the pair import and sell but-not-funny stories,” admits So, is she nervous about at home. The teenager is in high-end art pieces sourced Sally. “Four months ago, we being on a magazine cover Year 11 at school and has just globally from an array of brought in these ‘designer again for the fi rst time in over started learning to drive. established international dynamite’ pieces by a French 10 years? “All the kids are so artists. Think glow-in-the- artist. But they got held up “No, other than people strong-willed, enthusiastic dark gnomes and designer at the airport and the bomb are probably going to say, and motivated,” tells Sally. 8 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly “They’re such good kids but they’re also so, so diff erent. When Jaime moved away to America, it was actually quite When she’s missing a shock to my system to be cuddles with apart from her. I didn’t think grandson Porter, she’d stay over there at fi rst, Sally’s got curly but now she’s got a full life mate Valli to hug. there and loves it. “Boston is 25 and has been working with his dad [former league star Matthew Ridge] for several years at his carwash sites, Carfē, and is now the managing director. He’s doing super-well and is the most focused, hard- working kid I’ve ever met. But if you want to have nice things in life, you’ve got to work bloody hard to get them.” Between running her diff erent businesses, putting her house on the market and cooing daily over her grandson on the phone, Sally has enough to keep her busy – but she’s also dipped her toes into the dating pool again. “I do have a partner, Scott, and he’s lovely. He’s very close to all the kids – they adore him and jokingly call him ‘Fitty Cent’.” The couple met a few years ago through Sally’s friend Cathy, but a romance didn’t blossom until a year later. “I wasn’t interested in him at all initially and I don’t think he was interested in me either!” she tells. “And then whenever Cathy came up to Auckland, she’d say, ‘I’m going to have a drink Y. O with Scott, do you want to R N come?’ So I got to know him O C E for ages, and we built a really N TI nice friendship before things Quick fi re S U evolved and we got together. P: J What’s the last TV series U “That’s one thing I anything like them in New of things from there. I’d like - E you’ve binge-watched? K have learnt with age – it’s The Zealand. I love to see what to buy him a nice piece of art A M The Crown important to be really good entire series of – they do interior-wise. when he’s older, as that’s what & R mates fi rst and foremost. my partner and I would watch My life philosophy is… I have given all of my children. AI H Scott’s also the opposite of six episodes in a row! It was “Two wrongs don’t make a Did you grow up with the KE. who I am, but maybe that’s so good. I became addicted right” – I say that to the kids Weekly in your home? O O what I needed in my life? like a royal family drug addict, all the time. Gosh, yes. My mum Sue, who R L What was your fi rst gift to E “I feel like time has whereas previously I had zero is 74, was a reader as was my A H your new grandson? C marched on, the kids have interest in them. I also love Well, nana, who loved the celebrity MI Selling Sunset S: grown up but I’m so happy to watch . The I practically live at (baby news as much as the younger O at the moment.” houses on that show are just clothing store) Nature Baby generation. She passed away T O H Fleur Guthrie outrageous and we don’t have now, so I sent him a number aged 99 and a half. P 9 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Serena wants daughter Olympia to have a sibling. It’ll be double the fun having mum at home! She doesn’t want to compete pregnant again. GOODBYE TO A GREAT Serena’s thrown a curveball in her quest for another baby I t was a wistful Serena athlete,” the 40-year-old “A lot of people don’t played through postpartum Williams who announced champion wrote last week. realise that I was two months depression. But I didn’t get last week she was “I need to be two feet into pregnant when I won the there. These days, if I have stepping away from the tennis or two feet out.” Australian Open in 2017. But to choose between building career that made her not just The star, who also won I’m turning 41 this month and my tennis resumé and a star but an inspiration to gold at the 2012 Olympics, something’s got to give.” building my family, I choose women all over the world. shared, “Believe me, I never Serena hasn’t won a Grand the latter.” The 23-time Grand Slam wanted to have to choose Slam since 2017. The sports legend, who singles winner revealed she between tennis and a family. “I had my chances after married billionaire Reddit has been trying for another I don’t think it’s fair. If I were coming back from giving co-founder Alexis Ohanian child for the past year – a a guy, I wouldn’t be writing birth,” she says. “I went from in 2017, has yet to put a fi rm sibling for her four-year-old this because I’d be out there a C-section to a second date on her retirement and daughter Olympia. playing and winning while my pulmonary embolism to a hopes to compete in the “I defi nitely don’t want wife was doing the physical Grand Slam fi nal. I played US Open in New York this to be pregnant again as an labour of expanding our family. while breastfeeding. I month. 10 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly