Jessica Rowe given a surprisingly candid update on the status of her career, three years after quitting her dream job at Studio 10 to spend more time with her family
Speaking to News Corp’s How To Be Happy podcast this week, the 50-year-old presenter admitted she’s struggled to find work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Well, I gotta be honest in my professional life it’s been pretty crap,’ she lamented.
‘A lot of my work has gone’: Jessica Rowe, 50, has admitted that her professional life has been ‘pretty crap’ since quitting her dream job at Studio 10 three years ago
‘A lot of my work has gone, it’s disappeared because a lot of my work has been talking to people, hosting events, advocating for mental health but doing that with people, with an audience,’ she explained.
Jessica, who is known for her popular lifestyle blog Crap Housewife, also admitted that she’s struggled to cope with the feeling of isolation during coronavirus, as she ‘thrives on connecting with people’.
‘I think sometimes in life things happen that are beyond our control but what we can control is how we decide to deal with it,’ she conceded.
Struggles: Speaking to News Corp’s How To Be Happy podcast this week, Jessica admitted she’s struggled to find work during the COVID-19 pandemic
It comes after the TV personality spoke out about her struggle with depression after leaving Studio 10 back in 2018.
Speaking to The Australian Women’s Weekly in March 2019, Jessica she was near breaking point when she decided to quit her plum TV hosting gig.
‘I could feel at the end of each show, not every day, but most days I would be close to tears,’ she said at the time.
Breaking point: It comes after the TV personality spoke out about her struggle with depression after leaving Studio 10 back in 2018
Candid: ‘I felt like a failure because of my mental illness, but now I know that it’s an illness like any other and nothing to be ashamed of,’ she told The Australian Women’s Weekly in March 2019
‘I’d feel that behind my eyes and was just about keeping it together. And I thought, ‘Why am I doing this to myself?’
‘I knew that I was heading down, I knew that my anxiety was there, that I was getting depressed and that if I didn’t make a change I’d start to falter.’
Jess announced she was leaving Studio 10 during an episode live on-air back in March 2018, and has since appeared on the show as a guest.
‘I asked for help, went to a psychiatrist and started taking medication, and I’m far healthier in my head as a result,’ she said
‘There wasn’t a lightbulb moment in terms of making this decision. But we went on a family holiday last year, I started to think long and hard about how being present with them made them feel and made me feel,’ she said at the time.
In a December 2019 interview with news.com.au’s body+soul, Jess confessed that she used to feel like a ‘failure’ because of her battle with mental illness.
‘I felt like a failure because of my mental illness, but now I know that it’s an illness like any other and nothing to be ashamed of,’ she said.
‘I asked for help, went to a psychiatrist and started taking medication, and I’m far healthier in my head as a result.’
Jess has been married to news presenter Peter Overton for 17 years, and they share two daughters, Allegra, 13, and Giselle, 11.
Family time: Jess has been married to news presenter Peter Overton for 17 years, and they share two daughters, Allegra, 13, and Giselle, 11