New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has decided to get married by the end of this year, three years after the birth of her daughter.
Jacinda Ardern became the youngest Prime Minister of New Zealand for the first time in 2017 at the age of 37 and gave birth to a daughter on June 21, 2018.
Jacinda Ardern has been in a relationship with Clark Gafford, a 43-year-old TV host, for the past several years, and both live in the Prime Minister's House without marriage.
The couple got engaged in May 2019 after the birth of their daughter, but did not express their intention to get married soon.
Now, three years after the birth of their daughter, the couple decided to get married later this year and in the summer in New Zealand.
Reuters news agency quoted New Zealand media reports as saying that Jacinda Ardern herself confirmed her marriage this year.
The New Zealand prime minister told the radio that he and her fiancé had decided to get married this summer, but could not announce a date.
Jacinda Ardern said she was not in favor of holding the wedding because she did not see herself as a young bride for the wedding and realized she was too old.
The two were engaged a year after the birth of their daughter; file photo: AFP
Although Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that she will be getting married this summer, she did not say on what date she will get married, but the prime minister is likely to get married sometime between December and February.
Summer in New Zealand usually lasts from December to February, and weddings increase in the same season.
Jacinda Ardern became the second Prime Minister of the world after Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, to give birth to a baby girl while she was still the Prime Minister.
Like Benazir Bhutto, Jacinda Ardern took leave for the birth of her daughter, and after the birth of her daughter, she appeared in the country's National Assembly, including at UN meetings with the young girl.
It is thought that Jacinda Ardern will take at least three days off for her wedding this year, but it is too early to say.
Jacinda Ardern was elected Prime Minister for a second term in October 2020.
