Sunrise’s Edwina Bartholomew opens up about the ‘toughest time’ her family faced
The Sunrise host said one life-changing move helped turn everything around.Sunrise’s Edwina Bartholomew has opened up about the “toughest time” her family has faced and how one life-changing move helped turn everything around.While guest-editing Australian Women’s Weekly‘s July issue, Bartholomew revealed why she and her husband, Neil, ultimately walked away from city life and relocated to country NSW.The decision was driven not only by a desire to give their children, Molly, 6, and Tom, 4, the best possible upbringing but by a need to improve their own health and wellbeing.
The couple’s decision came during a difficult period for the family, with both Bartholomew and her husband battling significant health issues.
The beloved Channel Seven star revealed her chronic myeloid leukaemia diagnosis live on Sunrise in 2024.
After managing the rare blood and bone marrow cancer with medication, she shared last year that she had reached molecular remission.
“We didn’t just come to the country to give our kids the best life possible, we wanted to do the same for ourselves,” Bartholomew said.
“The reality was that we were getting crushed in the city. Originally from Lithgow, Neil was done with the urban rat-race and wanted to return to the west.
“He was so sick with chronic fatigue that parenting wasn’t even possible.
“It was the toughest time we have ever faced as a family. Something had to shift.”
Bartholomew was asked to guest-edit the special July issue (on sale now), which focuses on rural and regional Australia.
Edwina Bartholomew speaks on cancer diagnosis and the moment she told her Sunrise co-stars
While celebrating the extraordinary women who live, work and raise their families in the bush, she also reflected on how a chance discovery ultimately changed the course of her own family’s life when they needed it the most.“On a driving holiday, we happened upon the tiny town of Carcoar,” Bartholomew said.“There was a Brigadoon quality to it, a figurative mist parting to reveal a quaint little town hidden in the hills.“We had found our new home.”Since then, Bartholomew has documented the family’s journey, including the mammoth task of renovating a sprawling heritage guesthouse — a project she admits “is not for the fainthearted”.
Page 2
Sunrise’s Edwina Bartholomew opens up about the ‘toughest time’ her family faced
The Sunrise host said one life-changing move helped turn everything around.Sunrise’s Edwina Bartholomew has opened up about the “toughest time” her family has faced and how one life-changing move helped turn everything around.While guest-editing Australian Women’s Weekly‘s July issue, Bartholomew revealed why she and her husband, Neil, ultimately walked away from city life and relocated to country NSW.The decision was driven not only by a desire to give their children, Molly, 6, and Tom, 4, the best possible upbringing but by a need to improve their own health and wellbeing.
The couple’s decision came during a difficult period for the family, with both Bartholomew and her husband battling significant health issues.
The beloved Channel Seven star revealed her chronic myeloid leukaemia diagnosis live on Sunrise in 2024.
After managing the rare blood and bone marrow cancer with medication, she shared last year that she had reached molecular remission.
“We didn’t just come to the country to give our kids the best life possible, we wanted to do the same for ourselves,” Bartholomew said.
“The reality was that we were getting crushed in the city. Originally from Lithgow, Neil was done with the urban rat-race and wanted to return to the west.
“He was so sick with chronic fatigue that parenting wasn’t even possible.
“It was the toughest time we have ever faced as a family. Something had to shift.”
Bartholomew was asked to guest-edit the special July issue (on sale now), which focuses on rural and regional Australia.
Edwina Bartholomew speaks on cancer diagnosis and the moment she told her Sunrise co-stars
While celebrating the extraordinary women who live, work and raise their families in the bush, she also reflected on how a chance discovery ultimately changed the course of her own family’s life when they needed it the most.“On a driving holiday, we happened upon the tiny town of Carcoar,” Bartholomew said.“There was a Brigadoon quality to it, a figurative mist parting to reveal a quaint little town hidden in the hills.“We had found our new home.”Since then, Bartholomew has documented the family’s journey, including the mammoth task of renovating a sprawling heritage guesthouse — a project she admits “is not for the fainthearted”.