Narelda Jacobs and her wife, Karina Natt, welcomed a new bundle of joy in March 2025, and in October, she shared that she and Karina are taking a break from their bustling media careers to put their family first.
Taking to Instagram on March 12, 2025, Narelda announced the birth of her and Karina’s first child together: Sanna Swan Jacobs Natt.
“Mums and dad are in awe and totally in love,” she wrote alongside a sweet snap of the little one.
In October 2025, Narelda was a panellist at The Australian Women’s Weekly Health Summit in Perth and shared that she and Karina were taking 12 months of parental leave to enjoy this time with their new family member.
“It’s the best decision that we’ve made,” she shared. “We’re just enjoying life.” She also confessed that her eldest daughter, Jade, now 30, has only ever “known her mum hustling and running to events”. So now she’s setting an example to finally put herself first and her career second. But even so, as one door closes, another opens, like with her and Karina’s upcoming picture book, If Queers Weren’t Meant to Have Kids, on sale from 4 November 2025.
Narelda first shared that she and Karina were dating in March 2023.
Posting to Instagram, the proudly queer Studio 10 host shared a photo of herself kissing Karina, the chief of staff for South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
Just over a year later, Narelda and Karina tied the knot at MEZZANINE House in Sydney in August 2024.
Kylie Kwong, Melissa Leong, and Luke McGregor were among the guests at the intimate wedding.
Whilst Narelda is confident in her sexuality now, she did previously struggle to accept she was gay, due to being raised in a strict Christian family.
Speaking to The Weekly in July 2022, the journalist explained the growth she’s had, saying, “The younger Narelda was really lacking in confidence. I could get up in front of a group of people because my parents were pastors in a church – I always saw them standing up in front of people and speaking, so it wasn’t a fear of that.
“It was a fear of being able to communicate my own ideas and opinions. At first, I didn’t think I had opinions. Now I know that I do have opinions that I want to share, and I realise that people are interested in them.”
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