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‘I’d rather be homeless than not meet my baby’: Inside Tanya’s long road to motherhood

The Sydney Morning Herald·Benjamin Law·6 months ago
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Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Tanya Hennessy. The comedian, radio announcer, podcaster, TV presenter and author , 40, has more than 2.3 million followers across social-media platforms. The first book in her junior-fiction series is Sunny and Storm .

Tanya Hennessy: “I’ve done everything I ever wanted to do. I never live with regret.”

MONEY

What did your parents do for money? My dad ran a business called Mars Fundraising. You know how you get crates full of Mars Bars, Maltesers and Snickers to sell for your school? My dad ran that. We had an unlimited supply of M&M’s. Unlimited.

So you were rich … in chocolate. Yes, then I’d wonder why I had a weight problem and a sugar addiction. Then my dad moved into coffee. The world’s most addictive substances and I had access to an unlimited supply of both!

What did your mum do?…

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