Georgia Love's first public appearance following the death of her mother two weeks ago to pancreatic cancer was a poignant one.
The Bachelorette star, 28, from Melbourne, attended the Cosmopolitan Women of the Year Awards in Sydney to honour the memory of the "most important and influential woman in [her] life".
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Hillary Clinton: 'Sorry we did not win'
Clinton delivers what is expected to be her final remarks of the US presidential election after a devastating loss to Donald Trump.
"I am feeling pretty awful right now, to be totally honest," she told Fairfax Media, but added: "I thought it was really important for me to come out today being at an event about women supporting other women. I would not have had the balls to go on a show like The Bachelorette if it wasn't for a woman like my mother."
Belinda Love, 60, passed away a day after Love chose Lee Elliott on The Bachelorette finale, and she couldn't help but gush about the Melbourne plumber, who has been by her side through the difficult past fortnight.
"He has been incredibly supportive. Neither of us wanted to be thrown into something like this – it was just 24 hours after our relationship was made public – and we have already had the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows," she said.
"I can't imagine anyone else who would have been as supportive as he has. I feel very lucky to have him."
For the event – also attended by singer Delta Goodrem, Wentworth's Danielle Cormack and organised by Sydney PR Queen Roxy Jacenko – Love sported a purple ribbon on her cream, semi-sheer Con Ilio dress to promote her new ambassador role with Pancare – an organisation fighting pancreatic cancer in Australia.
"I want to raise awareness for it and try to stop other families going through what my family had to go through," she said.
The news reader will be back on television screens "soon," filling in "some spots" on Channel Ten's Studio 10, and her resolute views on Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election makes her the perfect candidate to take to the couch alongside the likes of regular hosts Ita Buttrose and Sarah Harris.
"I think it is a terrible thing in 2016 that a sexist has been elected as the leader of the free world," Love said. "We were so close to having the first female president, and it doesn't matter what people think about Hillary Clinton, the fact that America has elected someone who believes men are better than women and being so racist and bigoted, it's an extremely sad day for the world."
Her disappointment was a sentiment also shared by Australia's first female prime minister Julia Gillard, who attended the event in celebration of women as an "antidote to the downer of [the US result]".
"It is good to be here with all of you after what was I think a fairly gut-wrenching day and night for many of us as we watched the results come in from the US election... It is something that I think is playing very heavily on us," Gillard said.
"I think all of us did want to see that big glass ceiling shattered. We did want to see President Clinton and we did want to have that moment of celebration today.
"I am disappointed. I am disappointed personally for my friend Hillary. I am disappointed that women and girls around the world have yet to see that example, but I am also determined that we will see that example."
There's a Kardashian heir
If you thought Kim Kardashian and Kanye West taking inspiration from the points of a compass in naming their firstborn "North West" was an eyebrow-raiser, then sit back and meet the newest addition to America's unofficial first family, Dream Kardashian.
The baby girl was born on Thursday to Kim's younger brother and the only male Kardashian, Rob and his fiancee Blac Chyna (real name Angela White) who caused a rift in the family when they first got together because Chyna is the mother of Rob's half-sister Kylie Jenner's boyfriend's son.
It didn't take long for the Kardashian heir to become a social media star like her famous aunts. Just five hours after she was delivered by C-section she made her Instagram debut.
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