Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2026 bride Bec Zacharia has admitted she’s in “financial ruin” following her appearance on the reality show and was relying on her now-banned Instagram account to make money.
ICYMI, the outspoken bride was called out on social media after she claimed in an interview with The Gloss Podcast during Australian Fashion Week that she spent “nearly $20,000” buying all of her own dresses for MAFS instead of hiring clothes.
It wasn’t long before Savannah Lee, the owner of bridal dress hire company RESRVD, posted a video calling out Bec for using their services in exchange for “exposure”, but only tagging the business on her burner Instagram account with 10.1K followers instead of her main account, which had 76.3K followers before being taken down.
“There’s small businesses behind these television shows and the brides that are wearing them, and it is incredibly disappointing when a small business is not given the recognition that they are promised,” Savannah said.
MAFS’ Bec reveals the impact of her Instagram account being deleted
Since then, Bec has been criticised on social media by fellow reality stars Gia Fleur, Jamie Marinos and Abbie Chatfield, and her Instagram account was taken down over the weekend after being mass-reported by users.
Bec told PEDESTRIAN.TV that while some people might see the deletion of her account as trivial, she’s incredibly concerned for her livelihood, as social media was her main source of income.
“Everyone knows that I got fired from my job because of MAFS, and so this little community that I was building was literally my income source,” she said.
“Now, my Instagram being deleted because of so many people reporting me for things I don’t even know what for has literally completely stopped any form of income I had coming up, and it’s detrimental to my whole life now.”
The 35-year-old admitted that it’s been “very difficult” trying to get a regular job because she’s in the public eye, so she has been relying on her social media platform “to survive and pay bills”.
“I am a small business now, too, and I have no business now because of that being gone,” she continued. “I am at risk of losing everything I’ve been working towards because of my Instagram being taken away. That’s literally what I feed my dog with, what I pay my phone bill with, what I survive on. I’ve got none of it now. It’s all gone.”
She added that, despite boasting on MAFS about owning a $3 million property in Adelaide with a $97,000 mortgage and spending almost $20,000 on clothes for the show, she is “by no means wealthy”.
“I’m barely surviving, and I’m completely cash poor,” she confessed. “It may seem like everything’s hunky dory, but I’m not in a position where I’ve got a trust fund, and people just throw money at me. I’m out here on my own, with absolutely no income apart from what I earn, and right now that’s dwindled down to almost nothing.”
Bec apologises for the dress scandal
Speaking directly about the incident that caused this whole mess, Bec insisted that she “never meant to maliciously hurt Savannah” by not tagging her business correctly on her Instagram account.
“It was an honest and genuine mistake. It wasn’t like I was refusing to post her on [my main account], it just didn’t cross my mind,” she explained.
“I’ve just been so focused on trying to move on with my life that I didn’t realise, and if I had known, instantly, I would have posted Stories and a post for her, like I did. As soon as I realised her grievances, I posted it and tagged her and thanked her and apologised.”
She went on to say that her mental health “is at the lowest it’s ever been”, and she will definitely learn from the experience.
“I’m not an evil person who thinks I’m above anyone; I’m just a girl. I’m learning the world of social media, I’ve never done this before, and it was never my intention to hurt her or make her feel used by any means at all,” she shared.
The dress hire business owner speaks out
Bec said that she’s since reached out to Savannah, but has yet to receive a response. “I said, ‘Savannah, my Instagram is gone. Is this the outcome that everyone wanted? Because surely we can stop now’, but she never replied,” she detailed.
Meanwhile, Savannah posted a video to TikTok and Instagram on Sunday thanking everyone for supporting her business and increasing her social media followers. She also shouted out fellow dress hire company, Sustainably Dress Hire, which also rented out pieces to Bec and other brides during MAFS 2026.
When contacted for comment by P.TV, Savannah said that she is “genuinely sorry to hear Bec has lost her Instagram account”.
“Regardless of everything that’s happened, I would never wish that on anyone,” she shared. “My intention was simply to share my experience as a small business owner and speak honestly about what occurred from my perspective after seeing her Fashion Week interview — not to contribute to someone losing their platform.”
She also asserted that it’s “absolutely not true” that she encouraged people to report Bec’s Instagram account, despite what the MAFS bride has alleged on social media.
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