Brodie Kane

Yeah, a man of the people.

And they grew up in Sydenham, in Christchurch, and...

you know working a good working class family so coupled with having these amazing parents I also now like so again being self-employed I have the freedom to speak like we are in a point in history where I don't think it's good enough if you have a platform to not speak out

I don't necessarily want to be angry and ragey and known as the angry, ragey, lefty girl that yells.

I don't necessarily want to be that all the time.

But I want to stand for things.

And I think that if I think in relatively recent times, you have to pick hills to die on.

if your grandkids ask you about things that have happened in my time and what did I do, I don't want to just say, look, it was too hard to talk about or I didn't want to ruin a brand deal that I was on, you know.

And so the first time probably in a really public setting that I was like, that is the hill I'm dying on, was speaking out about abortion rights here in Aotearoa.

And, you know, that's such a heavy and personal topic for so many.

And women are, you know, the stigma and the shame that society put upon them, not themselves for various reasons, is something that I went...

you know what, no, I can't allow that.

I have to do something with a platform that I have.

And so that was sort of, I guess, the first time I sort of really did that in the public eye.

And it's also no one's business.

You know what I mean?

Like how dare we have ever thought that that was anyone else's business other than the woman that is going through that, you know.

Thank goodness we changed the laws.

Thank goodness we did that.

But, yeah, so and now where we happen to be,