Nadia to remain a Bartel
NADIA Bartel will keep her famous married name — for now — despite her acrimonious split with former Geelong Cats star Jimmy.
The 34-year-old lifestyle blogger and TV presenter is keeping mum on allegations her estranged husband cheated with his rumoured new London-based partner, Lauren Mand, but has gone public about her struggle parenting their two sons, Aston, 3 and Henley, 11 months on her own, while filming last night’s Channel 7’s charity special for breast cancer, The All New Monty: Ladies Night.
“I was so post-partum and in the throes of being a mum, so it was challenging and the show was shot up in Sydney … so I brought the boys with me and had my mum there to help. I’d be up all night with the little one, then filming the show in the day,” she said.
Bartel was seven months pregnant with her second child and hobbling through her third trimester on crutches when her agent pitched an unlikely job offer: nuding up (well, almost) on national TV.
A nerve condition affecting one side of Bartel’s body, triggered by a bulging disc in her back, meant walking was a struggle — let alone stripping off and dancing with abandon before a live theatre audience of 2000 strangers.
But after staring down her own breast cancer scare in her early 20s, the 34-year-old fashion designer and lifestyle blogger would eventually throw herself into Seven’s All New Monty: Ladies Night, a celebrity striptease choreographed to raise awareness for the disease.
Four months after giving birth to her son Henley, she was learning the refined art of topless fan dancing alongside an all-star cast including swimmer Lisa Curry, singer Casey Donovan and fellow sporting WAG Simone Callahan.