Natalie Bassingthwaighte on discovering her sexuality and why she is honest with her kids

Natalie Bassingthwaighte has given a candid look at her life during an appearance on the latest episode of Osher Gunsberg‘s podcast Better than yesterday.

The Australian artist opened up about everything from rejection in the industry to the breakdown of her marriage, discovering her sexuality and dealing with co-parenting.

The singer, who was married to her Rogue Traders bandmate Cameron McGlinchey For twelve years, she believes that if it had been socially acceptable to experiment with her sexuality in her twenties, her life might have been very different.

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“When we were growing up it was ‘you get married and you have a husband and you have kids and you have a house and you have a business’ and it wasn’t that my parents were that way against me, but the world was that way,” the 50-year-old said.

“I feel like — whether it’s true or not, I’ll never know — that if I had been with a woman in my 20s, I probably wouldn’t have been with a man, that’s what I feel.”

Bassingthwaighte has been in a relationship with Pip Loth since 2023, after she split from McGlinchey, and the couple got engaged last October.

She said being co-parents and being honest with their two children — daughter Harper, 15, and son Hendrix, 12 — has been a cornerstone for their family.

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“You want to protect your children at all costs… so that’s true, but if you lie to your children, it’s forever,” the mother of two said.

“Don’t lie to your kids, they’re too smart for that stuff. I’m a firm believer in telling them the truth.”

The former Neighbors actress added that she is “so obsessed with my kids” that she knows her life turned out the way it was meant to.

“I was supposed to meet Cam,” she said of her ex-husband.

“We were meant to have these kids, so just because I say, ‘Oh, if I was with a woman in her 20s,’ I know it is [life] It was supposed to roll out in a certain way.”

The wide-ranging conversation between the Australian celebrities came after the publication of Bassingthwaighte’s memoir, Love like this.

The singer said writing the eye-opening read made her more open and honest about her life.

She spoke openly about therapy, mental health and even work on her face.

“So much has been done to my face, I will do what is available,” she said, adding that it makes her angry when people pretend to be perfect and natural when they are not.

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