A place to call home
Sitting back at The Footy Show desk six weeks after the birth of her daughter Eliza, Erin Molan was feeling overwhelmed.
Still recovering from an emergency C-section and suffering from the anxiety of being separated from her newborn, she was also counting down the minutes to the commercial break.
“I have memories of going out during those breaks to breast pump because I was actually leaking through my clothes,” she chuckles in remembrance of those early days of motherhood. “It was bloody hard. But the reality of our situation is that we need to pay our mortgage. It wasn’t an, ‘I am woman, hear me roar, I must go back to work’ thing. It really was just for our family and our situation.”
The word “family” will come up multiple times today as Eliza, now 15 months old and the apple of her mother’s eye, and Erin, 36, celebrate their special bond with . Family means everything to Erin. The Nine Network sports presenter calls her mum, Anne, and dad, former major-general and former Liberal senator, Jim Molan, “three or four times a day” she bashfully admits. Her older sibling Sarah, who went through the unimaginable pain of giving
