Natalie Bassingthwaighte shares sweet photos with new partner

A week after revealing she’s in a new relationship with a woman, Natalie Bassingthwaighte has shared some sweet photos of the pair together.

Australian performer Natalie Bassingthwaighte has given fans a first look at her new partner, a week after publicly announcing that she’s now in a relationship with a woman following the end of her 12-year marriage.

Bassingthwaighte made the announcement in an interview with Stellar earlier this month, telling the outlet she was in a “beautiful” new relationship “with a woman who makes my heart smile and makes me happy.”

Nat Bass (pictured) and Jess Mauboy were the local supports for the Christina Aguilera concert. Picture: Jason Edwards

And over the weekend, Bassingthwaighte was supported by her partner at her first big gig since going public with the news: Supporting US pop star Christina Aguilera at her one-off Melbourne concert on Saturday.

Nat Bass shared a compilation of pictures and video from the day on Instagram, and among the vision were a couple of images of her happily holding hands with a woman the Herald Sun has identified as her previously-unnamed new partner, Pip Loth.

Nat Bass (left) and her partner Pip.

Nat had described her girlfriend as “a woman who makes my heart smile.”

Bassingthwaighte’s daughter Harper was also in attendance at the show.

While Nat Bass is clearly enamoured with her new partner, she told Stellar that she was initially “terrified” about revealing her new same-sex relationship to the world, and sought advice from her ex, Rogue Traders bandmate Cameron McGlinchey, about how to handle it.

Nat Bass on stage on Saturday. Picture: Jason Edwards

“I rang Cam and I was hysterical. And he said, ‘It’s OK. This is your truth and you now have to sit in it and stand in it and own it.’ So to have that support from him has been nothing short of beautiful, and I’m very grateful for it,” she said.

“Now I can speak from my own mouth, on my own truth, and that feels rewarding. I’m OK. Everything is OK, and everyone is OK. We’re in a good space. It feels liberating. But before? It’s terrifying and it’s debilitating because you’re waiting for someone to snap a picture of you and make it salacious. To live like that is … oh, it’s not fun. And I’ve been doing that for a little while now. So it’s nice to say it.”

Reports first surfaced in August that Bassingthwaighte and McGlinchey, parents to two children, had gone their separate ways.

While she stayed silent at the time, she says now the media interest in their split was “challenging” and “overwhelming.”

Now, Bassingthwaighte says she and her ex are “co-parenting beautifully, and I’m proud of us for that.”

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