Vikki Campion wears the pants in her relationship with Barnaby Joyce and there is a lack of affection between the couple, a body language expert claims.
The former Deputy Prime Minister and his new partner accepted $150,000 from the Seven Network to tell their side of the political scandal in an interview on Sunday.
In the interview, which aired less than two months after baby Sebastian was born, the couple aired their dirty laundry to 614,000 Australian viewers.
Mr Joyce, 51, and his former media adviser spoke out about their affair on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night program with reporter Alex Cullen
Weighing in on the controversial interview, body language and voice expert Dr Louise Mahler said Ms Campion’s body language suggested a lack of love for the politician.
‘There were no signs of affection between them,’ she told The Daily Telegraph.
‘They are two people, not a couple, doing the best in a bad situation.’
Dr Mahler also noted Ms Campion walked in and sat down before Mr Joyce.
She said this suggested the former media adviser took the lead in the relationship.

Ms Campion said she considered getting an abortion and even bought the medicine

Ms Campion said she had been threatened by ‘conservatives’ within the National party to terminate her pregnancy

Vikki Campion said she was pressured to get an abortion by conservative politicians after becoming pregnant with Barnaby Joyce’s baby (Pictured: baby Sebastian)
Dr Mahler also noticed Ms Campion often interrupted Mr Joyce, even turning her body away from him throughout.
She said this was a sign the couple argued often.
Despite putting on a brave face, Ms Campion appeared to be struggling with the pressure of the situation, Dr Mahler said.
In the interview on Network Seven’s Sunday Night program, Ms Campion revealed she was told to have an abortion by ‘God fearing conservatives’ within the National party.
‘They came to me and they said ‘You’re pregnant and you have to get an abortion’. And they said ‘If you don’t, they’re going to come after you’,’ she said.

Mr Joyce admitted to ‘living a lie’ by continuing his public relationship with his wife while secretly being involved with Ms Campion (Barnaby Joyce is pictured with his estranged wife Natalie, and their four daughters in 2015)

Mr Joyce is pictured with former staffer turned partner, and their newborn son Sebastian
‘And I said ‘It’s too late, it has a heartbeat’. And they said ‘if you don’t, they’re going to come after you’.’
Mr Joyce said those that had threatened Ms Campion were the ‘absolute scum of the earth’.
‘Their contribution to it is they’re going to try and make an incredibly difficult situation almost unbearable by saying to you that, ‘Woman, you will do this if you want a career in this place’. And that’s your Australian parliament,’ he said.
Ms Campion said she took a pregnancy test in winter 2017 which confirmed she was carrying Mr Joyce’s child.
‘I felt overwhelmed by the complexity of the situation we had caused ourselves,’ she said.
Mr Joyce said as he doesn’t believe in abortion, he knew at that moment he would lose his job as Deputy Prime Minister.

The body language expert said Ms Campion showed a lack of affection towards the politician

Vikki Campion is pictured with baby Sebastian after she gave birth to him in April

In the interview Mr Joyce admitted to ‘living a lie’ by continuing his public relationship with his wife while secretly being involved with Ms Campion (together)
Ms Campion said she considered getting an abortion and bought the medicine to go through with it.
‘I tried, and I couldn’t go there,’ she said.
After driving interstate from the Australian Capital Territory she ‘walked in and then walked out’ of an abortion clinic, ultimately deciding to keep the child.
Ms Campion said she was told by doctors shortly before she fell pregnant that she would not be able to have children.

The couple controversially accepted a $150,000 sum from the Seven Network to tell their side of the political scandal
Mr Joyce admitted to ‘living a lie’ by continuing his public relationship with his wife while secretly being involved with Ms Campion.
He refused to comment on his estranged wife Natalie and his four daughters, saying that was ‘completely private’.
Ms Campion said she was hurt that Mr Joyce had said Sebastian’s paternity was a ‘grey area’.
‘It was a decision we made together,’ Mr Joyce said of his comments, before she rebutted: ‘I didn’t tell you to say it was a ”grey area”.’
Mr Joyce is estranged from his wife of 24 years Natalie and their four adult daughters as a result of the extramarital affair that forced him to quit as Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister.
The backbench MP for the New South Wales seat of New England told the Seven Network he had let his family down.
‘I failed, I failed, I failed, I failed, I failed,’ he said.
The former accountant’s salary has also halved from $416,000 to $203,000 after the affair raised character questions about the Catholic, family values politician who had last year campaigned against gay marriage.
Despite the personal and political pain the relationship caused her boyfriend, Vikki Campion said that was the price of love.
‘I couldn’t help it. You can’t help who you fall in love with,’ she said.