Artist Dina Broadhurst reveals son Leo’s dad is musician Nick Broadhurst
Nude artist Dina Broadhurst has kept the identity of her teenage son quiet — until this week when the family came together for Leo’s graduation.
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She’s the “it” girl artist whose prints hang in just about every Sydney socialite’s eastern suburbs home.
He is the muso health guru, who boasts a huge online following.
However until now, not many had made the link between Dina and Nick Broadhurst.
Nude artist Dina Broadhurst has kept the identity of her teenage son Leo on the down-low, until this week when she posted images of herself with Nick, father of her only child.
Not much is known about when and for how long the pair were together before they went their separate ways.
Nick Broadhurst has since moved on with and welcomed a daughter with fellow wellness guru and author Melissa Ambrosini.
While Dina was dating Max Shepherd for 4½ years until they split earlier this year.
She has most recently been linked to millionaire property investor Tony Benjamin.
It’s understood Dina and Nick weren’t on great terms until recent times.
They reunited this week for their son Leo’s school graduation and Year 12 formal, with the couple both posting images together celebrating their boy.
It was then many of their followers had an aha moment.
“Proudest mumma bear,” Dina captioned a series of happy family snaps.
THE OZEMPIC GUESSING GAME
It is the season for the body beautiful society set to look their best (and thinnest), but thanks to the rise of diabetes-turned-weight-loss drug Ozempic, it’s become a guessing game as to who is and who isn’t using it.
Sunday Confidential receives an image of an A-lister every day, with the sender pondering whether their rapid weight loss is due to the drug.
Confidential revealed this year PR guru Roxy Jacenko had almost died after misusing the drug, revealing she felt like dying after overdosing.
Struggling to lose the 15kg she gained after using Tamoxifen, a hormone therapy used to treat breast cancer, she turned to Ozempic.
“I tried not eating much, I tried cutting out alcohol and I tried exercising,” Jacenko said.
“It didn’t work – I didn’t shed the weight.”
A-LIST DO CHRISTMAS TO THE MAX
Sydney’s young society set put on their best festive attire on Friday night for what they have dubbed a Chixmas celebration.
Home-loan heiress Deborah Symond O’Neil and “it” girl Montarna Pitt decked out Symond O’Neil’s $20.5m Centennial Park home for the invite-only soiree.
Alyce and Caroline Tran, new mum Lou O’Neil, Nicky Oatley, who brought her newborn to the party, designer Michael Lo Sordo and Pilates guru Bernadette Fahey were among those who made their way to Symond O’Neil’s house for the lavish long lunch.
The duo enlisted all the A-list’s favourites to help set the tone for the day, with table settings by Tran’s In The Round House, and candles by Ecoya and Minuty M Rose to drink.
Christmas events have become a regular on this social set’s calendars.
A few years ago, Bobby Oatley, Xanthe Wetzler, Jack Bedwani and Rae Temily, Nadia Fairfax, Tim Holmes a Court and Daimon Downey threw a sponsored star-studded Christmas event branded Litmas.
BIG NAMES ‘BEGGING TO SHOOT WITH US’
What started as a side hustle in a bid to express her creative side has turned into a lucrative and booming business for Australian photographer Bec Parsons.
Fifteen years ago, Parsons and her husband Bart Celestino were begging A-list talent to work with her on her then-zine Love Want — but now the tables have turned.
“We started way back in 2008 as a zine, and we basically just were craving an avenue to be able to print our pictures in a way that we weren’t told by editor how to do it,” Parsons said. “It was borne out of a want for more creative freedom and to express ourselves in a unique way. Then over the years it grew and turned into a magazine and now it is a
300-page reader.
“The last few years it has taken on a life of its own.
“At the beginning, we were begging to shoot great talent and now great talent is begging to shoot with us.”
Parsons has shot Hailey Bieber, Lara Stone, Paloma, Phoebe Tonkin, Lara Worthington and Gemma Ward for the quarterly contemporary art, photography and fashion magazine.
However, her most treasured and moving shoot was with global model Ashley Graham.
Just over a month ago, Parsons travelled to New York to shoot two covers and a 22-page editorial with Graham.
“I really connected with her as a woman, as a mother,” she said. “She has three young boys and somehow, she is a very hands-on mum and as we all know the juggle is real.
“She is intoxicating, her energy. As soon as she walked in, she had this effervescent aura.”
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