Zara Cooper (left) was married to Joel (right) for 17 years before she realised she was gay
Zara Cooper was always ‘grossed out by the process of kissing boys’ as a teenager.
So when she met her husband, she was surprised that she didn’t feel revulsion when they locked lips.
The Melbourne mum said she ‘knew at that moment’ he would be the father of her children, yet was still acutely aware she didn’t ‘feel like all her friends did’ when they walked around the schoolyard talking about the boys they fancied.
Then 17 years later, the 39-year-old’s life turned upside down when she met Janine, another mum with a partner, at a child’s birthday party.
She immediately knew why she had never felt sparks fly with men – she was gay.
‘The whole world dissolved around us when we started talking. We were in some kind of vortex,’ Zara told FEMAIL.
‘Neither of us was the type of person to speak to a stranger but we had this magnetic, beyond-everything connection.’
The spell was broken when…
