Messenger loves helping others

MELINDA Messenger is training to be a psychotherapist. The 46-year-old former glamour model doesn’t want to give up her career as a TV presenter but also loves to counsel others through difficult times.

She says health and mental well-being are – “my favourite topics ever”.

“I am training as a psychotherapist, I’m doing volunteer counselling and have been doing it since 2012.

“I took a break in between to look at everything in my life. That’s really kind of where my heart lies – just everything is beautiful, I work to be there for somebody else.

“My idea is to try and merge media life and that world together.”

Messenger – who has children Morgan, 17, Flynn, 14, and Evie, 13, with ex-husband Wayne Roberts – has learnt a great deal about herself from her studies.

“You learn about yourself and who you really are and what matters and from that you can move forward in life,” she says.

She is thankful her children are not “hard work” and her parenting policy is to be as honest as possible with her brood.

She says: “People say teens, aren’t really hard work, but mine aren’t. They are question- ing everything: ‘Are we going to have World War III?’

“There are so many things we can control and so many things we can’t. Better that it’s honest than it’s not.”

The blonde beauty admits she would rather her daughter didn’t follow in her footsteps in glamour modelling.

Asked if she’d want Evie to do it, she says: “No, I wouldn’t. I understand why I did it, but I wouldn’t want that for her.

“She has a different outlook in life, a sense of who she wants to be. If it was what she wants I would support her but you have to know why you are doing it and what you think you are getting from it.” – Bang Showbiz