{"id":215637,"date":"2025-12-29T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215637\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:36:10","slug":"jessica-omahony-takes-a-trip-back-to-her-roots-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215637\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica O&#8217;Mahony takes a trip back to her roots in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most of us have lost track of what day of the week it is in the days between Christmas and New Years, Jessica O&#8217;Mahony has been busy travelling to visit family who live abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The wife of former Irish rugby player Peter O&#8217;Mahony has taken a nostalgic trip back to visit her roots in Belgium to visit her grandmother over the festive season &#8211; but not without a fancy stop in the capital first!<\/p>\n<p>Jessica, 38, who is half-Belgian on her mother&#8217;s side, documented her time in Brussels as she soaked up the Christmas lights, ate oysters, and drank Champagne.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_65k8m2h786wrzmnul7w8kr.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Jessica O'Mahony\/Intagram\" class=\"wp-image-2089823\"  \/>Pic: Jessica O&#8217;Mahony\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The mum-of-three, who brought her nine-year-old daughter Indie on the trip, later travelled out to visit her Belgian grandmother, who she calls her bonne maman, in the home where her mother grew up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_mjsp67su2pb7e8rqlblx0f.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Jessica O'Mahony\/Intagram\" class=\"wp-image-2089822\"  \/>Pic: Jessica O&#8217;Mahony\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Jessica and her family were in a nostalgic mood, and her grandmother took out the family photo albums as they reminisced about old times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_ebt68vr0jv7k3xdaw6frp.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Jessica O'Mahony\/Intagram\" class=\"wp-image-2089818\"  \/>Pic: Jessica O&#8217;Mahony\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Her 92-year-old grandmother took out her wedding album, showing her granddaughter and great-granddaughter pictures of her as a bride, with Jess writing: &#8216;Looking [at] her old wedding pics.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_inpfwyfab372peqkufloc.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Jessica O'Mahony\/Intagram\" class=\"wp-image-2089820\"  \/>Pic: Jessica O&#8217;Mahony\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>She then shared a sweet throwback snap to her as a young girl on the beach, writing: &#8216;&amp; there&#8217;s me,&#8217; with the crying-laughing emoji.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_ieu2d8ljzweehblwyc24cd.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Jessica O'Mahony\/Intagram\" class=\"wp-image-2089819\"  \/>Pic: Jessica O&#8217;Mahony\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>In a 2024 interview, the fashionable influencer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/ireland-world\/article\/inside-the-life-of-jessica-omahony-the-irish-captains-stylish-wife-n6l36r8wb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Times<\/a> that her Belgian grandmother has always been her style icon since she was a little girl.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_daeym0rryd99nlhw2zt2l6.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Jessica O'Mahony\/Intagram\" class=\"wp-image-2089821\"  \/>Pic: Jessica O&#8217;Mahony\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Jessica said: &#8216;She\u2019s 91, she still has her pink lipstick, pink nails and high heels. She doesn\u2019t even own a pair of flats, would you believe? She makes such an effort all the time. I always admired that from such a young age.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And with her grandmother kitted out in a pink woolen jumper and pink silk scarf for their visit, it&#8217;s easy to see where <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/06\/28\/style\/jessica-omahony-birthday-fit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica gets her effortless style<\/a> from! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While most of us have lost track of what day of the week it is in the days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-215637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}