She’s the proud mother to two children – Oliver, nine, and Evie, three – and is in a long-term relationship with boyfriend Chris Walker.
But Carrie Bickmore has revealed that her life wasn’t always so stable, as she opened up about her parents’ divorce when she was aged just three.
The Project panellist, 37, explained that her ‘childhood wasn’t perfect’ but admitted she felt grateful that her mother and father could get on so amicably 35 years later.
‘My childhood wasn’t perfect’: The Project’s Carrie Bickmore has opened up on the ‘pain’ of her parents’ divorce when she was aged just three
‘A lot of water has to go under a bridge before the pain of a divorce can be washed away, if at all,’ she wrote in her column for Stellar magazine.
‘There would have been times when they disliked each other, were angry at each other, and wanted to whinge about the other, but I can honestly say I never heard my parents b***h about each other.’
She added that she spent her early years with her mother, stepdad and two stepsisters in Perth.
However, she would often travel back and forth to her home town of Adelaide to visit her father, who was ‘also a huge part’ of her life.
Family ties: ‘A lot of water has to go under a bridge before the pain of a divorce can be washed away, if at all,’ she wrote (pictured with her two children – Oliver, nine, and Evie, three)
Back and forth: She spent her early years with her mother, stepdad and two stepsisters in Perth and would often travel back and forth to her home town of Adelaide to visit her father, who was ‘a huge part’ of her life (pictured with her boyfriend Chris Walker in 2017)
‘My childhood wasn’t perfect but I’ve realised the older I get, and now with a family of my own, that no childhood is perfect. A nuclear family doesn’t guarantee happiness,’ Carrie remarked.
She explained that thanks to her step-parents she now has ‘extra-grandparents to hug’, 24 nieces and nephews and ‘stepcousins coming out of my eyeballs’.
Carrie welcomed her first child with late ex-husband Greg Lange, son Oliver Lange, in September 2007.
Colourful past: ‘My childhood wasn’t perfect but I’ve realised the older I get, and now with a family of my own, that no childhood is perfect. A nuclear family doesn’t guarantee happiness,’ Carrie remarked
Greg tragically passed away in December 2010 after losing his battle with brain cancer.
Carrie later met Chris, who was working as a producer at the time on Channel Ten’s The Project.
She revealed that she bonded with Chris because he had also suffered a tragedy in his life, telling Woman’s Day: ‘He lost his brother in a car accident.
‘I think that’s why I connected with him – he had an understanding of what I’d experienced through his own experience.’
The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Evie Walker in March 2015.
Tragedy: Carrie welcomed her first child with late ex-husband Greg Lange (pictured), son Oliver Lange, in September 2007. Greg tragically passed away in December 2010 after losing his battle with brain cancer