She announced her pregnancy via social media. The baby is due in June 2018 and she herself discovered that she was pregnant just a week before assuming office. While she would take about six weeks off after the baby is born, after that, it will be her husband who will be the stay at home dad. As for the fish hook image, that has a symbolic meaning in Maori culture.
She is just 41 and she is the second woman to head a government in Iceland (the first was Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who headed the government between 2009 and 2012; the world's first openly lesbian head of state).
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