Michelle Bridges: 'My whole life has changed"

It's a sunny Wednesday afternoon in Sydney's Woollahra and Michelle Bridges is resting in a cane chair, staring at her then 9-week old son Axel, who is asleep in his grandmother's arms.

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Bridges, 45, has just wrapped WHO's photoshoot and is no rush to leave.

Michelle Bridges and Axel. Photo: WHO

"The old me would have left this shoot straight away to get to my next work appointment," a slightly-sleep deprived Bridges says. "But the truth of the matter is I just want to hang out with Axel. I don't want to do emails or work or meetings. Even my training, it's a bit hit and miss at the moment, which is fine."

Michelle Bridges. Photo: Michelle Bridges Instagram

It's a remarkable about-face but the successful businesswoman and author of Make It Happen: Live Your Best Life, who concedes she was "never fixated" on becoming a mother. But since her son to partner Steve "The Commando" Willis came along in December, he's changed everything.

Michelle Bridges and Steve "The Commando" Willis. Photo: Michelle Bridges Instagram

"Work isn't the most important thing in my life," she says.

Baby Axel's feet on his first flight. Photo: Michelle Bridges Instagram

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