Married At First Sight bride Bec Zacharia has revealed the surprising reason she is currently jobless. The former sales manager, 35, recently appeared on the MAFS Funny podcast and told host Joshua Fox that she was currently unemployed despite receiving several lucrative sponsorship offers, because she morally objected to them.
Moral Stand Against Gambling
'Someone just DM'ed me and said, "We'll give you $6,000 to promote a gambling brand",' Bec began. However, she revealed she could not morally accept the offer given her former MAFS co-star Chris Nield had previously opened up about struggling with a gambling addiction.
'I could really use that $6,000 right now. Like, it would be really, really life-changing for me,' Bec admitted. 'But out of principle, why would I go and promote a gambling brand when one of my best friends has just spent 150 days not gambling after 15 years, just for a few grand to tide me over?'
Values-Driven Employment
She finished by saying she would only accept job offers that aligned with her values. 'I think it's really important to look and work out what does align with you... don't just take everything,' she said.
Bec previously made the confronting admission to Daily Mail that she was struggling to find work due to how she was portrayed on the Channel Nine dating experiment. 'I've lost my job and I feel like I'm pretty much unemployable now,' she said. 'My life was amazing before MAFS... and now it's hard.'
Public Perception and TV Portrayal
Bec admitted she knows exactly how she is perceived and how her life and reputation have been forever changed. 'The public hate me,' she added, bluntly. And while Bec doesn't shy away from accountability, she says the version of her playing out on TV is incomplete.
'The only version of me you got to see was a crying, insecure villain,' she said. 'That's not who I am.'
Relationship Dynamics
Of course, no MAFS story exists without a relationship at its centre. And Bec's account of her marriage to Melbourne real estate agent Danny Hewitt is confronting. 'I was constantly made to feel like everything was my fault,' she said. 'If I had an opinion, it turned into an argument. I was always the one apologising.'
She describes a dynamic that flipped depending on whether the cameras were rolling. 'We barely argued when the cameras were off, but when they were on, everything changed,' she said.
Bec and her TV husband Danny called time on their relationship during Final Vows, in shock scenes in which she was left blindsided. She later claimed that her worst moments on camera were the result of being egged on by producers behind the scenes.
