Zoe Foster Blake reveals the toll that balancing motherhood and her multimillion dollar career takes on her mental health: 'You get into that survivor mentality' READ MORE: Hamish Blake and wife Zoe welcome surprise new additions By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:52, 21 September 2024 | Updated: 11:57, 21 September 2024 e-mail View comments Zoe Foster Blake manages to balance a career as an author and skincare mogul while raising two young children. The 44-year-old, who shares Sonny, eight, and Rudy, five, with her radio star husband Hamish , tells this week's issue of Stellar Magazine that finding time for a bustling career while raising a family can take a toll on her mental health. 'You get into that survivor mentality when you're super slammed, and knowing it will calm down eventually is the carrot to dangle, but most women I know say, "It's just how we live our life; things will calm down soon.
" Guess what? It doesn't' she said. Zoe continued: 'I feel like there's a lot of awareness about the mental load – which was something we didn't even have a name for – and the admin load, and being overstimulated. I go, "Oh, I'm not a bitch, I'm just overstimulated.
" 'My friends will text me and say, "Another book? How are you doing it all?" There's a genuine curiosity and my genuine answer is: at great cost – to my mental health, to my time with my family, to my physical health. 'The things that got put aside for me to be able to finish this project and do it well are quite enormous'. Zoe recently revealed that she has taken a step back from sharing her family life online.
'We're very private and we're very boring. We're just a normal family and I think our inclination to share our life has gone down a lot,' she told The Sydney Morning Herald . Zoe Foster Blake manages to balance a career as an author and skincare mogul while raising two young children.
Pictured in this week's issue of Stellar Magazine Despite their inclination toward privacy as the kids grow older, Zoe and Hamish still post happy snaps from family holidays, strategically hiding Sonny and Rudy's faces. Zoe went on to say learning to raise children came with plenty of obstacles, but she and Hamish, 42, are learning to navigate them together. 'We read a lot about [parenting], we're doing the work, we want to raise our kids the best we can.
We want to treat it not like a job, but as a project,' she said. With a popular comedian as their father, it seemed the author and entrepreneur risked being outnumbered by jokesters, but she insisted that was far from true. 'Rudy is very funny, she's got very good comedic timing,' Zoe admitted, but revealed that wasn't the case for her eldest.
The 44-year-old, who shares Sonny, eight, and Rudy, five, with her radio star husband Hamish, tells this week's issue of Stellar Magazine that finding time for a bustling career while raising a family can take a toll on her mental health. All pictured 'My friends will text me and say, "Another book? How are you doing it all?" There's a genuine curiosity and my genuine answer is: at great cost – to my mental health, to my time with my family, to my physical health' she said Zoe said her young boy Sonny is 'a bit more like me' and has more of a penchant for following the rules because 'he likes doing things the right way'. It comes after Zoe broke her silence on buying back her stake in her skincare brand Go-To after beauty company BWX went into administration.
The Australian author first sold her 51.5 per cent stake of her beauty brand to the ASX listed beauty conglomerate for $89million in 2021. But just two years later, Zoe and Go-To co-founder Paul Bates bought back their controlling stake in the business for a fraction of the price at $21.
8million after BWX collapsed into administration in April 2023 . Reflecting on the turbulent time, Zoe admitted she felt 'deeply out of her depth' with the deal because there is no 'handbook' for finding the perfect business partner. The wife of comedian Hamish Blake said she felt 'maternal' towards Go-To and did everything she could to save the business after the BWX deal unraveled.
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