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Edwina BARTHOLOMEW And baby makes three
The Australian Women's Weekly
|May 2020
The arrival of daughter Molly has helped Edwina Bartholomew find some much-needed perspective. She invites Tiffany Dunk to the property where she and her new family have created a sanctuary from the world.
As our car bumps along the winding drive towards Warramba, a sandstone country cottage in the Greater Blue Mountains region of NSW, a jean-clad woman pushing a wheelbarrow comes into view, her brow shining with perspiration. Raising her arm in acknowledgment, she gestures us to park next to the sheds, before hurrying to welcome The Weekly to her home.
“We’ve got enough wine and toilet paper if anyone wants to stay for a while,” she laughs, swatting away flies and offering to open a bottle in honour of our arrival.
It’s an unexpected first meeting with a woman we’re more used to seeing in a full face of make-up and decked out in designer duds. But for Sunrise star Edwina Bartholomew, this is the new normal and one she’s relished since welcoming her first child, Molly, three months ago.
Along with her husband Neil Varcoe, 38, and brand new baby, Edwina, 36, has been hunkered down in recent days at their family farm. And it couldn’t have come at a better time.
This story is from the May 2020 edition of The Australian Women's Weekly.
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