Marriage and babies for AFLW star Moana Hope and model girlfriend Isabella Carlstrom

AFLW star Moana Hope and her model girlfriend of almost two years Isabella Carlstrom are set to take their relationship to the next level with plans to marry and begin a family next year.

AFLW star Moana Hope and her model girlfriend of almost two years Isabella Carlstrom are set to take their relationship to the next level with plans to marry and begin a family next year.

“My greatest dream in life is to have a family, and who better to have a family with? If I had my way it would be tomorrow, but it’s model life and my finger is still bare (indicating her wedding finger),” Hope joked.

Carlstrom said they planned to marry next year in a family ceremony.

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Moana Hope and partner Isabella Carlstrom with Aya the dog. Picture: Tim Carrafa

Isabella Carlstrom and Moana Hope. Picture: Tim Carrafa

“I’ve never really fantasised about a wedding or getting married, but with Mo I want it all,” she said.

“I’ll be getting my brother as a bridesmaid, we’ll be breaking all the rules. No dresses, just friends and family, we want to share it with them.”

Hope said: “It’s just going to be very us, I’ll walk down the aisle with my mum and she’ll do the same with her dad.”

The couple has started looking into procuring donor sperm in the hope Carlstrom will fall pregnant late next year.

“I plan to play footy for another 10 years because I love football, so a couple from Bell and I’ll definitely be having one too. I can’t wait to have a child myself,” Hope said.

Hope endured one of the toughest years of her life last year, struggling with depression.

Moana Hope in action for Collingwood in 2017. Picture: Getty Images

“I was injured for the first year of AFLW and the second year was mentally more of a depression, so Bell has had to deal with both sides of it. For her, last year, there was a lot of holding me in her arms while I’m in tears or me calling her on the way to training with anxiety and her saying ‘you can do this, just go and train’,” Hope said.

“It was a collective of things. I play football because I love it and then you get put into this environment, and people treat you differently and make it like they own you and you will do this and nothing else.

“The media only see one side of it. I was getting smashed left and right but nobody knew what was really going on and nobody knew or really understood maybe I was getting told to play a certain way, maybe that was the instructions I was given.”

Hope was the poster girl for the highly anticipated women’s league and her childhood dreams of playing professionally were tarnished by her two years playing for Collingwood.

But she is excited about the season ahead after signing with North Melbourne.

“I’ve felt that hug of love both off and on the field and I can say that’s the first time I’ve felt that hug of love from a football club. I know this year is going to be a lot different,” she said.

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