Bindi Irwin ready to take on the world
22.05.12
" 'Self, self', I said," she jokes, her finger posed cartoonishly on her chin, her tone suggesting she, too, recognises the ridiculousness of a journalist expecting deep self-analysis from someone whose peers are more concerned with downloading... "My Dad was such an incredible person," she says, "and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of
standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. It would be tempting to believe that Bindi, the Jungle Girl, star performer at her family's Australia Zoo Crocoseum, actor and winner of a Daytime Emmy Award, had been coached to deliver this kind of polished and assured answer. But having spent the best part of a day with Bindi and her mother Terri, I can safely say I don't believe it for a minute. "When someone like that comes along and leaves such a huge footprint and imprint, you can't just let that die. " She says this soft-voiced but dry-eyed. But...
Source: Herald Sun