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Elissa Lacoste is a French designer born in who graduated in from Design Academy Eindhoven, MA Contextual Design..
In Conversation – Paula Kontelj
Words: Elissa Friday
Wife, mother, radio host and exercise freak.
Paula Kontelj tells ELISSA FRIDAY why she just can’t keep still.
Tell us about your childhood.
I grew up in Geelong. My mother was a school teacher and my father was a butcher. It was very humble working-class beginnings and a tight family unit.
I was very close to my grandparents.
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I have fond memories of family times with them. My grandfather headed up the Chilwell police station, which was on the corner of Pakington Street.
Great stories from my grandfather including when he picked up a kangaroo, nursed it back to health and released it back to the wild right there at the police station.
He had a love of animals and so do I.
How did you and husband Stretch meet?
My best friend at the time said, ‘I know someone that would be perfect for you’. It was about 1989 that my friend finally got us together.
When Stretch and I met we hit it off straight away, so our friends we