It’s not the popular narrative, but there’s something magical about being a single mother to a very young child, as many women who find themselves in that position will tell you. Despite the hardships, the loneliness, the worry that you’re not enough, it can be an experience that forges an unbreak-able and entirely unique bond between a mother and baby, when you’re cocooned wholly, with nothing but each other. When model and skincare mogul Miranda Kerr, 38, talks about her time as a single mother to her first son, Flynn, you get the sense that this is how it was for them. Kerr split from Flynn’s father, Orlando Bloom, when Flynn was only two, and Flynn and his mother were a tightly bonded little pair for many years, much of them spent in Kerr’s four-bedroom Malibu home, which she still owns. “We created a little vegetable patch together and we’d watch the vegetables grow,” she says of her time in the house with her eldest son, who’s now 10. “It’s a very tranquil place, and very calming. Flynn is a very sweet boy and he loves being in nature. It’s very good for his spirits.”
This story is from the November 2021 edition of Marie Claire Australia.
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