The Sisterhood Foundation is for for all women affected by serious illness. and supports five charities; PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety, and Depression Australia), Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation, Children First, Alzheimer’s Australia and also Look Good Feel Better. Ada balances her role of mother to three-year-old Johnas with grace and poise thanks to her balanced lifestyle and health care regime. Here, she talks to The Carousel publisher Robyn Foyster. Watch our video interview - the transcript is below: <em><span style="color: #808080;">Robyn: “Hi Ada, tell us what’s your health and beauty regime?”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;">Ada: “It’s all about balance. It’s always an 80/20 rule, with anything. Health-wise, I like to exercise. I like to eat really well and try and get sleep, but with a three-year-old, you know, sometimes I don’t. Beauty-wise, I always cleanse my face, twice. I use a lot of active ingredients now and as I’m getting older I use eye cream as well and water! I have laser facials every eight weeks.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;">Robyn: “Yes water is really important, everyone forgets that you really need to rehydrate all the time.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;">Ada: “Yeah! And also eat really well. You know when you’re eating a lot of veggies and fruit your eyes are clearer, your skin looks better…</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> But you know it is all about balance, you can’t eat quinoa and tofu all the time. Everything needs to be balanced. I’m doing dry-Feb at the moment which is great but I wouldn’t do it for the whole year, you know there needs to be a balance.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;">Robyn: “Oh yeah so what is that?”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Ada: “Just not drinking for the month of February, but it’s the shortest month so I figured I could do it!”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;">Robyn: “Absolutely! So tell us your tips for ageing gracefully for women. There are a lot of women who would love to know your thoughts on that.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Ada: “Look, I say, whatever works for you. If you want to go and do Botox, if you want to go and do fillers, you know, get a lift, that’s fine! But, I guess it’s what’s inside first. So if you’re happy and you lead a balanced life, you’re probably going to look better on the outside, because you can go and get all that stuff done but sometimes you go a little bit too far and you’re still not happy inside and you never look that good, so I think whatever makes you happy. No one should judge whatever you get done.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Robyn: “So the Sisterhood... you must be very proud to be a part of that. Tell us the main thing about the Sisterhood that makes it so good.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Ada: “So there’s five charities and they’re all women-based or family-based charities, and unfortunately during our lives we’re all touched by horrible things and we’d like to think we’d never need those charities, like PANDA is a really important one to women, and I know with me, after I had Johnas, I didn’t go to PANDA, but I was really unhappy for a while. I didn’t know what was going on. You can go online, you can learn about it, and you can realise that…you’re normal! So yeah it’s really good to be a part of this. We raised $2 million on Sisterhood last year. We raised all this money, and we’re going to do it again this year, and it’s great that Priceline get behind such amazing charities.” </span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Robyn: “How can we get involved?” </span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;">Ada: “You can actually go online and donate. There’s a lot of events throughout the year, just go into your Priceline store, or onto the website. If you join the Sisterhood Foundation, that’s a really good thing to do.”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Robyn: “And just finally, how is Johnas and the family?”</span></em> <em><span style="color: #808080;"> Ada: “He’s really good, I was up with him at 2am this morning, so yeah I am a little bit tired, but he’s awesome. He’s a beautiful affectionate kid. Everyday just gets better and better. He’s just a happy child, so I know I’ve done a good job.”</span></em>
