Pip Edwards fires up about public interest in her ex-boyfriends, leaving P.E. Nation and rejoining Ksubi

She has courted attention for her dating life – and her career success. Now, Pip Edwards is taking aim at the interest in her famous ex-boyfriends.

Pip Edwards has opened up about her departure from P.E. Nation – and the public’s obsession with her love life.

In her first in-depth interview since stepping down from P.E. Nation, the activewear

brand she co-founded in 2016, Edwards said: “I don’t know what’s so interesting about my boyfriends”.

Speaking to the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, Edwards said: “I think I’m more interesting [laughs]. When you quote me on that, can you quote that with a bit of laughter?”

“I was being quite funny there. Respect to the ex-boyfriends, but there are way more

interesting things and more layers to me than that,” Edwards said. She publicly dated ex-cricketer Michael Clarke and other high-profile figures, including Ksubi founder Dan Single, with whom she shares her teenage son, Justice.

“And if that’s how [the paparazzi] want to portray me for clickbait, that’s on them and it’s actually on the audience, too.

“And anyone that meets me knows that that sh*t doesn’t even touch the sides.”

Pip Edwards on the runway at Australian Fashion Week in May, where she showed off the rebrand of P.E. Nation. Picture: Richard Dobson

Picture: Getty Images for AFW

Edwards said she was frustrated by the narrative that the most interesting thing about a woman is her love life.

“It’s kind of like, why aren’t you seeing the woman that’s had an incredible career

trajectory in an industry, worked for some incredible businesses, made some kind of

inroads, raised a child on her own, independently, financially, who’s a great friend,

who’s got energy?,” Edwards told Stellar.

“I mean, I know I’m talking about myself here but I kind of have to – because all of that gets wiped by some man that I happen to have some experience with.

“I’ve come to terms with it, it’s fine – but I’ll happily now just talk about the real sh*t.”

Pip Edwards is on the cover of the new issue of Stellar, out on Sunday. Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar

Listen to the full interview with Pip Edwards on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:

Speaking to the Stellar podcast, Edwards revealed why she decided step down from P.E. Nation and rejoin Ksubi, the label where she worked at the start of her career in fashion – this time, as creative director.

“The decision around [leaving] was a holistic life decision,” Edwards said on the podcast, Something To Talk About.

“There’s a whole lot of change going on. I actually thrive on change.

“The timing of going through the rebrand for P.E. Nation [in May, Edwards revealed

the brand’s new aesthetic direction at Australian Fashion Week] and seeing that go down the runway and seeing the results of that, it was tying into [what] was going on in the background for me personally with life and Justice,” she said, referring to her son, who is now 18-years-old.
“So it’s part of my own rebrand.”

Pip Edwards has given a revealing interview to the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About. Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar

In Stellar, Edwards also discusses her close friendship with radio personality Jackie “O”

Henderson, as she reveals how she paid her a visit the night that Henderson went public with her story of a years-long drug and alcohol addiction last month.

“We’re putting ourselves on the line every time. We’re showing up to work. We’re good women. We’re raising our children.

“That’s what people don’t see. All they want to see is that clickbait story that brings someone

down.”

Listen to the full interview with Pip Edwards on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:

BFFs! Pip Edwards and her close friend, Jackie O. Picture: Henne

See the full shoot with Pip Edwards in the latest issue of Stellar, out on Sunday via The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA).

For more from Stellar and the podcast, Something To Talk About, click here. Pip Edwards’ episode of Something To Talk About is out now.