A mother-of-four has revealed how she multitasks looking after her children and running her online business.
Hannah Polites, one of the first truly Instagram-famous girls from the Gold Coast in the mid-2010s, shared a black and white photo taken with her high-tech baby monitor on her Instagram Stories.
In the photo, Hannah is seen curled up around her youngest son inside the crib.
Her one-year-old daughter Alaska appears to be wearing a matching onesie and sleeps with her hand tucked into her mother’s chest.
Meanwhile, the 33-year-old works on her phone in the fetal position, her head touching one end of the child’s bed and her toes pressing against the other.
‘How I respond to your @babyccino queries,’ she captioned with a laughing-crying emoji and a pink love heart.
“Juggling is real.”
Gold Coast influencer Hannah Polites has revealed how she multitasks caring for her brood and running her online business.
In addition to Alaska, Hannah is also raising seven-year-old Evaliah, five-year-old Arlo, and three-year-old Oakleigh.
The fitness influencer once traveled the world and lived a life of “grammable” luxury thanks to lucrative brand deals and sponsored posts.
Today, Hannah still makes a comfortable living thanks to her sizeable online following of one million followers of baby clothing store, Babyccinobear.
The website sells “traditional” baby and children’s clothing and souvenirs, as well as themed family pajama sets.
She lives with her husband Garth Small and their four young children in a sprawling family mansion in her native Queensland.
Polites was one of the first truly Instagram-famous girls of the mid-2010s and is now a mummy influencer.
Hannah became famous at the age of 26 after posting some photos of herself on the social media app while thinking it was just a photo editing tool.
Working for Lorna Jane at the time, her images became “inspirational” to some and were reposted on the internet, leading her to blogging and sharing her life and fitness tips.
The mummy influencer and midwife once had more than 1.5 million followers on Instagram.
Hannah was internationally recognized for her blonde hair, tanned skin and bikini body and appeared in Women’s Health and Cosmopolitan magazines on multiple occasions.
However, she lost hundreds of thousands of her (mostly male) followers shortly after the birth of her first child, Evaliah, in 2016.
The 33-year-old runs a baby and children’s clothing store and lives with her husband and four children in Queensland.
She was forced to make an about-face with her online brand and also attracted countless headlines with her bikini-clad breastfeeding photos and reports about how she “transformed” her body after pregnancy.
Her impeccably curated Instagram account has all the hallmarks of a Millennial social media star: professional photography, swimsuit selfies, and happy family photos.
John and Lee-Ann Polites, parents of Hannah and her bodybuilder brother Aaron Polites, put their Gold Coast mansion on the market last April.
They had lived at the Sovereign Islands oceanfront property for more than 13 years and had hosted several lavish events at the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home.
According to the Gold Coast Newsletterthe property was listed with a price of $5.95 million.
The extraordinary home, which was purchased by John and Lee-Ann for $1.44 million in 2010, sits on a 1,000-square-meter lot.
After renovating the space in 2019, the home features incredible entertaining areas including an ‘Italian Room’ with teppanyaki kitchen, an oceanfront champagne bar, and a movie theater with eight leather recliners.
She has hosted elaborate parties at the house for her children: Evaliah, six, Arlo, four, and Oakleigh, two, whom she shares with husband Garth Small.