Well, over here at The Breeze, we’re kind of feeling like we’ve made it - having received a shout-out from one of the most famous women in the world.
A couple of weeks ago, Auckland Breakfast’s Jeanette Thomas came across a poem online that resonated so strongly with her that she had to read it out on air.
It’s about an 80-year-old woman who has woken up in her 32-year-old body and gets to relive her life at that time, for just one day.
She’s able to go back and enjoy the time when her children were small, loud and chaotic and when her mum was alive and only a phone call away.
We posted her on-air chat as a video, and fast forward to now, it has absolutely skyrocketed.
It’s currently sitting at over 14 million views, 400,000 likes, and 7000 comments, and has reached the phone of someone we could never have imagined. Khloé Kardashian has not only seen and liked the video, but she’s reposted it onto her grid for her 301 million followers to see.
When Jeanette first noticed the notification come through, she wondered “what on Earth was going on”.
“How on Earth had the little old Breeze breakfast show ended up on a Kardashian’s Instagram page?” she said.
“I guess 'cos she is a mum and she has a mum, and it doesn’t matter how famous or not famous you are, we all feel and connect in similar ways.”
Too true, Jeanette. Khloé is a mother of two and has felt the loss of a parent after her father, Robert Kardashian, passed away in 2003.
Jeanette says it’s the comments from everyday people that have really struck her.
“Whether it’s young parents who are currently living this life or older people reflecting on it, the sentiment is either ‘thank you for the reminder to be present’ or ‘what I wouldn’t do for just one more day’.”
“I love that so many people have related and connected with these words in one way or another," Jeanette added.
"I wouldn’t have guessed it would have blown up like this in a thousand years.”
