“I could not comprehend the level of nastiness directed my way,” she recalls candidly. “All because I smiled, I had short hair, I was too thin, I didn’t have a child – people didn’t know I was going through IVF at the time – and I snort when I laugh. “It was so public and cruel – definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever been through, career-wise,” the podcaster reveals. “I was picked on mercilessly and couldn’t understand what I had done wrong.
Now I know I did nothing wrong, I was simply being myself.” The pressure was unrelenting for almost a year, while Jess battled on beside co-host, Karl Stefanovic.
Rumours swirled she was about to be “boned” by Eddie, who called her journalist husband, Peter Overton – not Jess – to deny the story.
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