Robert Irwin’s girlfriend Rorie Buckey has his older sister’s seal of approval!.
In a sweet Instagram post shared on Monday, Bindi Irwin expressed her love for her little brother’s “wonderful girlfriend” as she shared her gratitude for the people in her life.
Robert Irwin makes his red carpet debut with Rorie Buckey at the ‘Mission: Impossible’ premiere in Sydney
Bindi, 25, first called her 19-year-old brother the “extrovert” of the Irwin family as she described him as “funny and definitely on a huge non-stop adventure in life”, before praising her adventure partner.
“Sweetest soul, beautiful friend, love her so much,” Bindi wrote of Buckey, 19, who is the niece of the late Oscar winner Heath Ledger. In the selfie Bindi posted, Buckey posed with her arms around Robert and Bindi’s mother, Terri Irwin.
She added that Buckey is also a favorite of her 2-year-old daughter. “You’ll usually see Grace just following her because she adores her,” Bindi wrote in the post.
Robert Irwin and his girlfriend Rorie Buckey at the Australian premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’.
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Speculations about Robert and Buckey’s relationship have been swirling since last November when they were photographed together in Australia.
In December, they were seen together at the Australian Zoo on Robert’s birthday, and in April at the airport in Perth.
They made their red carpet debut as a couple in July, posing together at the film’s Australian premiere Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One.
The following month, the pair made their relationship official on Instagram, with Robert posting a selfie of them on August 24 and Buckey posting it the next day, calling him her “adventurer friend”.
However, Binda’s Instagram love spree didn’t end with her brother and his girlfriend. She also celebrated Terri, 59, who she called the “matriarch of the family” and “the most thoughtful and loyal.”
“Her endless knowledge, determination and unconditional love inspire me every day,” Bindi wrote.
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About her husband, Chandler Powell, Bindi wrote: “The strongest and kindest man I have ever met, always there for our family, the best Dada to Grace, accepting every challenge and ready for every adventure life throws at us.”
The conservationist added that Grace is “a little vortex of beautiful energy”.
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Terri Irwin with her children, Roberta and Bindi in New York.
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Bindi told PEOPLE for their August cover story that she and husband Powell, 26, consider their daughter a “little miracle” because of her battle with endometriosis.
“There was every chance that we wouldn’t be able to have a little one, so we’re happy to have our beautiful little girl,” she said as she reflected on her journey with endometriosis.
After spending years dealing with pain, fatigue and nausea and several unsuccessful attempts to get a diagnosis, she learned via laparoscopy that she had a reproductive condition in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus, causing cramping and chronic pain.
“I was so scared they wouldn’t find anything because we ran out of everything else to test,” she recalled. “After years of being told by doctors and other people that there is nothing, you really start to believe it. You end up in this weird space of self-doubt, fear, and insecurity. That’s hard to overcome.”
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Now she is grateful for the time she can spend with her young child.
“I wake up in the morning and I don’t have to take anti-nausea medicine or wear a heat pack. Being able to go for a walk with my daughter and not feel like I have to throw up in the bushes is just wild for me,” she shared.
“I feel like I have a second chance at life,” she added. “I feel brand new.”
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