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See all 14 stories . Meeting her future husband on an Australian TV dating show was not something Snezana Wood (nee Markoski) had seriously considered. As a single mother from Perth, and the oldest female contestant at 34 when she took part in the third season of The Bachelor in 2015, she felt the odds were not in her favour.
From concealing filming schedules from her boss and taking extended leave from her full-time job in retail to not being able to see her nine-year-old daughter Eve while making the show, Wood wondered what she had set herself up for. But it was a risk worth taking: she walked away from the show hand in hand with bachelor Sam Wood, a love story that is still going strong. Wood is the first to admit she had no idea how appearing on the show would take her from anonymity in the Perth suburbs to an access-all-areas reality-TV life – The Bachelor brought instant fame and, eventually, 330,000 Instagram followers.
Now, almost a decade since she found her happily-ever-after, Wood reveals all in her memoir, Untold: A Story of Love, Motherhood, Heartbreak and Change . In the book, the 42-year-old opens up about her Macedonian upbringing, the impulsive decisions that shaped her formative years, ra.
