The 2012 finalist hid an incredible secret from everyone during last year’s series.
Last season’s “queen of seafood” is newly married and expecting her first child with husband Andy. So it’s hard to believe that just a few short years ago, Megan Appleby was in a gay relationship. “I cringe when I think about my old life now,” Megan, 32, says of the near seven-year romance.
“I’m a changed person, a lot happier and comfy in my own skin.” “Even now, it’s really hard to believe she was once gay,” adds Andy, 43, teasing that it was Megan who pursued him. After a series of relationships with boys through her teenage years in Western Australia, Megan became intrigued by a girl at work who was openly gay.
“One day we found ourselves in a social situation and I basically saw her in a different light,” she reveals. “I had difficulty accepting that in being with this girl I would be labelled. It was the person, not the lifestyle, that I fell for.” The couple quickly became de facto, but their loving relationship turned into a “bad friendship”, with Megan feeling trapped by the assets and joint property the two had accumulated.
“By 2009, I was fed up and called it off. I shifted towns, changed jobs and basically got rid of my old life.” In the months that followed, Megan occasionally socialised with Andy, whom she had met through work.
Read more about Megan’s past in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday April 8, 2013.
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