Carolyn's tears of joy 'ALL MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE'

Why the Uncharted: New Zeal and star is counting her blessings

- Leena Tailor

It was the dream job – a new international travel series that would see Carolyn Keep (née Taylor) jetting around the world, being paid to explore exotic and luxurious destinations.

Then the pandemic hit, closing borders and forcing the Choice TV series to focus on our own backyard. It’d be understandable if the former What Now presenter and Dancing With The Stars contestant, 41, was a little disappointed, but Carolyn insists she saw a silver lining in revisiting childhood holiday spots for Uncharted: New Zealand.

And amid the chaos of filming in between lockdowns came a miracle – after being told she was infertile at age 36, Carolyn and her husband Wes, 41, fell pregnant with her gorgeous son Jasper, who was born in March.

“I often cry because I’m so grateful – I’m getting emotional now,” she tells Woman’s Day. “So many people can’t have families and I know what that feels like. To have it turn out this way… We must’ve done something right, karmically!”

Carolyn – who had been planning to undergo IVF, using eggs donated by her sister Joanna – broke the news to her Uncharted co-host, travel writer and Newstalk ZB presenter Tim Roxborough, at Auckland Airport, en route to Wellington for filming. “I was so thrilled because I knew becoming a mum was a dream for Carolyn,” recalls Tim, 40. “Seeing her and Wes become parents has been so cool.”