Zoe Foster Blake balances her 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 Star Magazine that finding time for a hectic career while raising a family can take a toll on your mental health.
“When you’re really exhausted, you get into that survivor mentality and you know everything will settle down eventually, but most women I know say, ‘This is how we live our lives; things will settle down soon.’ Guess what? They don’t,” she said.
Zoe continued: “I feel like there’s a lot of awareness about mental load, which we didn’t even have a name for, and administrative load, and overstimulation. I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m not a bitch, I’m just overstimulated.'”
‘My friends write to me and say, “Another book? How are you doing?” There’s genuine curiosity and my honest answer is: at great cost: to my mental health, to my time with my family, to my physical health.
‘The things that were left aside so that I could finish this project and do it well are enormous.’
Zoe recently revealed that she has taken a step back when it comes to sharing her family life online.
“We are very reserved and very boring. We are a normal family and I think our inclination to share our life has diminished a lot,” she said. The Sydney Morning Herald.
Zoe Foster Blake manages to balance her career as an author and skincare mogul while raising two young children. Pictured in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine
Despite their penchant for privacy as the kids get older, Zoe and Hamish still post happy family vacation photos, strategically obscuring Sonny and Rudy’s faces.
Zoe went on to say that learning how to raise children has come with many obstacles, but she and Hamish, 42, are learning to overcome 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 as a job, but as a project,” she said.
Having a popular comedian as a father, it seemed the author and businesswoman was at risk of being outnumbered by pranksters, but she insisted that was far from true.
“Rudy is very funny, she has a great sense of humor,” Zoe admitted, but revealed that was not the case for her eldest daughter.
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 busy career while raising a family can take a toll on her mental health.
“My friends write to me and say, ‘Another book? How are you doing?’ There’s genuine curiosity and my honest answer is: at great cost – to my mental health, to my time with my family, to my physical health,” she said.
Zoe said her youngest son Sonny “is a little bit more like me” and is more inclined to follow the rules because “he likes to do things the right way.”
This comes after Zoe broke her silence on buying back her stake in her Go-To skincare brand after beauty company BWX went into administration.
The Australian author first sold her 51.5 per cent stake in her beauty brand to the ASX-listed beauty conglomerate for $89 million in 2021.
But just two years later, Zoe and Go-To co-founder Paul Bates bought back their majority stake in the business for a fraction of the price of $21.8 million after BWX filed for bankruptcy in April 2023.
Reflecting on that turbulent time, Zoe admitted she felt “deeply baffled” by the deal because there is no “manual” for finding the perfect business partner.
The wife of comedian Hamish Blake said she felt “motherly” towards Go-To and did everything she could to save the business after the BWX deal fell through.
Read more in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine