New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

‘GUILTY, TIRED & STRESSED’ Busting the super-mum myth

Kat Gee was on a plane with her baby daughter when she suddenly broke down in tears.

She’d been on a photoshoot for her jewellery brand, Kagi - a business she’d built from humble beginnings at the kitchen table and which had become a household name, stocked by hundreds of stores in New Zealand and Australia. Its Hope range had even raised almost $30,000 for child cancer.

“I’d been up late racing around getting clothes and styling the shoot and Ayla was awake all night teething,”

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