Guess who! She’s one of Australia’s most popular TV stars… but would you recognise this smiling teen from her high school photo?
She’s a veteran journalist and TV presenter.
After beginning her career as a receptionist at Channel Nine, she moved on to present a nightly news program on Channel 10 and even had a stint on breakfast.
She left her television career behind after two decades in 2018 to explore other opportunities – but would you recognise her from her school days?
Guess who! She’s one of Australia’s most popular TV stars… but would you recognise this smiling teen from her high school photo?
The well-known personality shared a throwback photo to Instagram on Wednesday, and she looked hardly recognisable in her youth.
The girl in the photo is none other than Jessica Rowe.
The broadcaster and Crap Housewife author still has her trademark short hair these days, but otherwise looks quite different.
It’s Jess! The girl in the photo is none other than Jessica Rowe
Jessica shared the image from her teenage years to show her support for a sexual consent awareness campaign.
‘Here I am – aged around fourteen. I hated my brown school uniform! And now I won’t wear brown!’ she wrote in the caption.
‘Being a teenager is hard and I believe it’s even harder being young in 2021. I’m passionate about helping our young women and young men navigate these tricky years. Part of that includes holistic consent education in schools,’ she added.
Worthwhile cause: Jessica shared the image from her teenage years to show her support for a sexual consent awareness campaign
In 2018, she left her presenting role on Studio 10 to spend more time with her daughters, Allegra, 13, and Giselle, 11, and husband, Nine newsreader Peter Overton.
‘There wasn’t a light-bulb moment in terms of making this decision, but we went on a family holiday last year [and] I started to think long and hard about how being present with them made them feel and made me feel,’ she said at the time.
‘I’d feel that behind my eyes and was just about keeping it together. And I thought, ‘Why am I doing this to myself?’
Family time: Jess has been married to Nine News Sydney presenter Peter Overton for 17 years, and they share two daughters, Allegra, 13, and Giselle, 11 (all pictured)
‘I knew that I was heading down, I knew that my anxiety was there, that I was getting depressed and that if I didn’t make a change I’d start to falter.’
Jessica told The Australian Women’s Weekly in March 2019 she’d been close to breaking point when she decided to quit her morning TV role.
‘I could feel at the end of each show, not every day, but most days I would be close to tears,’ she said at the time.
Moving on: In 2018, she left her hosting role on Studio 10 to spend more time with her family