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When news broke this week that Nadia Bartel has listed her Windsor home for sale, the story went nuts. Everyone raced to check out Bartel\u2019s bed linen, critique her living room art and generally have a good old sticky beak at how an influencer lives in 2026.<\/p>\n
For those yet to see the listing, Nadia\u2019s four-bedroom Edwardian home<\/a>, bought in 2020, is open-plan with a parquet-floor living area. It could be yours for between $3 and $3.2 million.<\/p>\n One male friend asked me about the fuss over a suburban house with basic kitchen cabinetry. Or rather, over its owner.<\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t get the Nadia thing. Sure, she used to be married to the bloke every woman thought was their dream husband, but what has she ever done that\u2019s interesting?\u201d he said. \u201cI know women love her, but men don\u2019t get it. What am I missing?\u201d<\/p>\n Related Article Well, gents, this is your lucky day. After a week awash with friends\u2019 texts variously hating on the state and US governments and debating whether this year\u2019s MAFS brides are the worst yet, I\u2019m in the mood for something lighter.<\/p>\n Happy to help out the fellas in translating the Nadia appeal, although I couldn\u2019t care less if you don\u2019t get her. And as it turns out, I have some inside running.<\/p>\n Years ago, Nards and I were colleagues at a magazine. She sold ads. We\u2019d say hi opening tins of tuna in the work kitchen. Still in her 20s, a baby, not long out of uni.<\/p>\n We held hands at one Myer event when she was nervous. She drove me home that night and came in for a hot chocolate. My middle son greeted her in a dressing gown: \u201cNot being rude but why are you hanging out with Mum?\u201d<\/p>\n Related Article The first time she showed me her engagement ring from Geelong star Jimmy Bartel she was unsure if the rock was big enough, but she had no such hesitation when Jimmy \u2013 the aforementioned dream husband \u2013 turned out to be an alleged love rat.<\/p>\n Nards absorbed the humiliation without ever making it ugly. Soldiered on as a single mum, co-launched fashion business Henne, found love again. Found controversy during lockdown when a video<\/a> showing her snorting white powder off a Kmart plate was mistakenly posted online.<\/p>\n If we bumped into each other in the street, I have no doubt we\u2019d hug and probably shriek briefly, but realistically I hardly know Nadia. We\u2019re not friends as such and we\u2019ve never had a deep conversation, other than the time I told her I dreamed she\u2019d had a third baby.<\/p>\n But I know enough to admire her for her resilience and her entrepreneurship. Her dedication to her boys and family. The fact that she\u2019s a self-made woman, albeit one like the Duchess of Sussex \u2013 someone I both abhor and admire<\/a> \u2013 who\u2019s used a famous man\u2019s name to build a brand.<\/p>\n Related Article Is Nadia particularly interesting? Probably not in the way I usually admire. I gravitate towards women who plant a flag and say what\u2019s on their minds. Nadia doesn\u2019t do that. She rarely weighs in on anything beyond business. That could be old insecurities or simply not wanting to explain herself every five minutes.<\/p>\n And that, I suspect, is the bit men miss.<\/p>\n The mystery doesn\u2019t endear her to some women either. They don\u2019t like that she doesn\u2019t need weight loss jabs or that she \u201clooks mean\u201d, as one friend said this week during our regular discussion of our lists of people we don\u2019t like (Nards isn\u2019t on mine.)<\/p>\n \u201cThe weird frozen pose face. Looks like she\u2019s holding in a fart.\u201d<\/p>\n Fair. But given the amount of people peering through her windows, it also looks like that frozen mystique is about to sell a house.<\/p>\n Kate Halfpenny is the founder of Bad Mother Media.<\/p>\n The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"Nadia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9231588c6666a228ec7eeae51764a3cacc28b295.jpeg\")
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