MOTHER’S LOVE
SUNRISE host Natalie Barr has admitted she will be "crying" next week when her youngest child graduates from high school.
Speaking to supermodel Miranda Kerr on the show, Nat shared some poignant advice about being a present mother.
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The TV host, 55, sent her son Hunter off to his last day of school on Friday.
She told mum-of-four Kerr: "It's my last child's last day of school today, so I know it gets busy, but make the most of it.
"Because then you'll be crying like I will be next week when they have their assembly."
The former Victoria's Secret angel, 40, shares a son with ex Orlando Bloom, and two boys with her husband Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.
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She is now pregnant with her fourth baby boy.
The heartfelt on-air moment comes just a few weeks after Nat admitted she had, in the past, felt like she was 'failing' as a mum.
She described feeling "useless" when she could not get her firstborn son Lachlan, now 22, to sleep when he was a baby.
Nat explained on the No Filter podcast: "I was so distraught because I had a non-sleeping baby and it was, as lots of mums would know, the most helpless feeling.
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"My dad had just died, I was six months pregnant when my dad had died, so then you think, is that why? Am I still mourning?"
The TV host revealed a woman in her mother's group blamed her struggles getting her son to sleep on her returning to work.
Nat said: "There's all this unhelpful information around. You take everything on, you just feel like a useless mum."
The journalist said she and her husband Andrew eventually sought help from a "baby whisperer", but had an easier time when her second son Hunter was born four years later.
This week on the show, Nat was moved to tears by a mum's generous act for her daughter.
Mum Cat Iler surprised her filmmaker daughter Aurora on-air with the news they would be travelling to Los Angeles together so they could attend this year's Lady Filmmakers Film Festival.
Nat, moved by the gesture, said: "Oh, that's so lovely."
The mum last week shared a never-before-seen snap of herself from childhood, much to fans' delight.
She looked unrecognisable with her dark hair cut in a sleek bob with a box fringe, wearing a white long-sleeve shirt and a collared dress and clinging to a trophy.
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