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Sunday Life’s most popular cover stories of 2023

From “The Fishers” who quickly became Australia’s favourite couple this year to Moana Hope on her marriage split and navigating single parenthood – all of Sunday Life’s best profiles in one place.

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Sunday Life’s most popular cover stories of 2023
Each successful in their own right, Paul and Chloe Fisher are even stronger together.

From a Bali bar to sellout shows: How love paved the way for Chloe and Paul Fisher

The “Fishers” have quickly become one of Australia’s most loved couples. They are proof that sometimes shared struggles can make a relationship even stronger.

  • by Gyan Yankovich
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Steph wears Bassike jeans and shirt. Laura wears Bassike shirt, Maje jeans.

There’s something about Steph Claire Smith and Laura Henshaw

They’re influencers, business titans and best friends. Now as they enter their 30s, the Keep It Cleaner co-founders show everyone how it’s done, in more than one way.

  • by Gyan Yankovich
Lacoste trench from Depop, POA. Dion Lee skivvy, $590. Bed Threads linen sheets in “Pink Clay” and “Rust”, $180 each. Casey’s own earrings.

The dating app switch that helped Casey Donovan finally find love

After years of heartbreak, the former Australian Idol winner set her search to “women only” and met her new partner.

  • by Michael Koziol
Linda Burney wears Lee Mathews
“Clyde” dress. Dinosaur Designs
earrings.

How Linda Burney found strength after overcoming unimaginable tragedy

Having lost both her husband and son, the Minister for Indigenous Australians has dealt with grief through the fortifying power of her female friendships.

  • by Susan Horsburgh
Brooke Shields is that rarest of beasts: a former child star who grew up to be a healthy and successful adult.

‘I posed naked at 10, now I’m telling my story’: Brooke Shields

At 57, the actor and mother of two tells how she broke free of the alcoholic mother who turned her into a child star.

  • by Hadley Freeman
Stefanovic wears a Giorgio Armani jacket and shirt, and Okanui shorts. Abo wears a Giorgio Armani dress and Jimmy Choo shoes.

Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo: ‘Chemistry is either there or it’s not’

Breakfast television is a juggernaut into which one does not step lightly. For Syrian-born Abo, an unwavering focus on the audience – and its ability to spot insincerity – is serving her well.

  • by Michael Koziol
Luisa Dunn

‘I was confronted with 1000 messages from people telling me how old I looked’

When Luisa Dunn began to document her hair’s transition to grey, she had no idea the profound impact it would have on herself and half a million others.

  • by Lorna Gray
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jeans, $169. Senso “Jorja” boots, $330.

‘We’d been unhappy for a while’: Moana Hope on her marriage split, single parenting and her football future

Being one of the country’s most loved-up, high-profile, same-sex couples, Hope’s break-up with model Isabella Carlstrom took fans by surprise. Now, she’s ready to talk.

  • by Melissa Singer
Halliwell-Horner’s transformation from the cheeky redhead who pinched Prince Charles’s bum to refined country wife fascinates people.

Geri Halliwell-Horner at 51 by Spice Girls super fan Dolly Alderton

From working-class pop star to country novelist, the former “Ginger Spice” is the queen of reinvention. She talks about girl power and why she’ll never complain about the ’90s.

  • by Dolly Alderton
Zara McDonald (left) and Michelle Andrews (right) have not only built an impressive media business, but also a solid friendship. Both wear Luuda shirts, $460, and pants, $460.

‘Is this worth it?’: The difficult questions the Shameless founders have had to ask each other

For Zara McDonald and Michelle Andrews, both in their 20s, the building of their Shameless Media business came with challenges that men their age rarely face.

  • by Gyan Yankovich
Dolly Alderton’s therapist told her to stop the oversharing that made her name. So she’s channelled her latest heartbreak into her second novel — written from a man’s point of view.

Dolly Alderton: ‘I couldn’t write another book about yet another heartbroken woman’

“I’m sitting here in a flat I bought with heartbreak,” Alderton explains. Her new novel, Good Material, is different.

  • by Annie Lord

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