Terri Irwin talks about her new book and daughter Bindi
Terri Irwin, 43, the wife of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is writing about her life with Steve. The book is titled Steve and Me: Life With the Crocodile Hunter or My Steve in Australia. She explains:
I felt compelled to do something so that people could sit down and understand Steve better and where he came from and what we stood for and what we tried to achieve. I’d been so kind of self-absorbed with my own sadness that I hadn’t really thought about everyone else…so I thought a book would help people to come to know the human side of Steve.
Terri admits that she still gets very emotional when talking about Steve and the tears started flowing when the conversation turned to how the children (Bindi, 9 and Robert, 4 in December) were coping with their father’s death. She says:
Robert talks about it. Bindi gets emotional regularly, but not frequently ,and I’m really proud that they’re coping. I think that’s a point of pride that Steve was so good about – exposing them to the cycle of life in the zoo.
Bindi has been working hard since her father’s death. She has finished a television documentary series, Bindi the Jungle Girl. She also has her own clothing label called "Bindi Wear," a fitness DVD called Bindi Kidfitness and travels for the Australian tourism industry.
When Terri is asked about Bindi’s popularity and questions of exploitation she answers:
But I find that with Bindi’s lack of fear of wildlife and lack of fear of public speaking, I have made an empowered woman who whatever choice she decides to make in life after she’s 18 she’s got the tools to do it.
Steve died at age 44 on September 4, 2006, from a freak flick of a stingray’s barbed tail during an underwater documentary shoot on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Source: AOL News
Thanks to CBB reader Mary Beth.
