By Charlene Gatt
COULD this be the cutest baby in Australia?
Five-month-old West Footscray bub Amelia Jackson has caught the judges’ eye for Practical Parenting magazine’s Cover Cutie baby model search competition.
Tina Mackerness said she had no intention of entering Amelia in any baby shows or modelling when she was born, but couldn’t resist when she came across an ad for the competition.
“I’d just taken some cute shots and I’d been looking through the Practical Parenting magazine and I thought why not?
“Every mother thinks their baby is cute, but it’s nice to know other people think so too.”
The winning baby will receive $10,000 in prize money, a 12-month modelling contract and a coveted spot on the cover of Practical Parenting magazine.
Amelia is Ms Mackerness’s first child.
She was born two weeks premature on 7 April after a 12-hour labour, weighing in at only 2.5 kilograms. She has just started teething.
Ms Mackerness said she had found motherhood a blessing.
“It’s actually been really good,” she said.
“You spend you days doing nothing much… but you’re always really busy.
“It’s the little things, like watching her grow.
“She’s changed so much already and is developing her personality, it’s really exciting.”
Ms Mackerness and her partner David plan to marry next year in Fiji.
