Big Brother in 2003, Bird and her husband Adrian managed a fish and chip shop in Cambridge, Tasmania. Their marriage ended shortly after the season finale. She spent some time residing in Sydney and later Melbourne. She now lives in Queensland. In 2007, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter with her second husband, Dale Sorensen. In 2009, she gave birth to a son, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at four weeks old. In 2005, Bird lost $40,000 to a conman who claimed to be a television producer where she paid him the money to fund the pilot of a travel show she would appear in. She also been a victim of stalking. Health In 2008 she underwent emergency surgery arising from an ectopic pregnancy and was also declared legally blind after having been diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition, retinitis pigmentosa, a rare hereditary eye disease that may lead to blindness. She had lost 90% of her central vision. About her condition, she states "I've now lost all of my peripheral vision, I have no night vision. I could wake up tomorrow and it's going to be gone". In 2017, Sorensen suffered from a stroke caused by a heart condition. She was interviewed by 60 Minutes'' in July 2009, during which she discussed her ongoing degenerative eye condition and her second child due in August 2009. She has also appeared on The Daily Edition in 2016 to discuss her illness. References External links Big Brother (Australian TV series) contestants Big Brother (franchise) winners Living people People from Hobart Australian blind people 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women 1974 births