Bec Zacharia says her Instagram account was taken down after she was mass-reported over a dispute tied to a dress-hire row that flared during Australian Fashion Week. The Married At First Sight 2026 bride says the fallout has hit her income, her deals and the main platform she uses to work.
Zacharia said the trouble started after she told an interviewer that she spent almost $20,000 on her MAFS wardrobe. She said she was speaking about the full four months of filming, not just dresses, and that the figure also covered her looks for dinner parties, commitment ceremonies and accessories.
Speaking on The Gloss Podcast during Australian Fashion Week, Zacharia said producers gave her no fashion budget and that she was the only bride who bought clothes rather than hired them. She later said the line was not meant as a claim that she spent $20,000 on dresses, and that her Final Vows wedding dress was not included in that figure. “When I said I dressed myself, I curated my looks for commitment ceremonies, dinner parties, and accessories,” she said. “It was never intended, not to mention my Final Vows wedding dress.”
The dispute sharpened after Savannah, the owner of bridal dress hire company RESRVD, called her out when the clip circulated. Savannah said RESRVD dressed Zacharia for Final Vows in exchange for exposure and claimed Zacharia tagged the company from a burner account rather than her main profile. Zacharia said she believed she had met her obligations because RESRVD liked and commented on the post, and because she thought Savannah was happy with the arrangement. “I thought Savannah was happy because she had commented saying I look beautiful,” she said. “Having seen that Savannah was commenting on all of the press and media saying they dressed me for Final Vows, I was under the impression she was happy with what I did.”
Zacharia said the backlash has gone well beyond a social media argument. She said her main account had more than 76.3K followers and that her burner account had more than 10.1K, but that the loss of her Instagram has left her without the income she relies on. “This is my only form of income, and that has now been taken away from me,” she said. “I am a small business now. All of the deals that I’ve got going on rely on me having my Instagram, and the hate that I’m getting every five minutes, I’m getting abuse.”
She also said she never meant any malice in the interview and wished the matter had been handled directly. “I wish there had been communication where she could have told me her grievances… I would have done everything to fix that for her,” she said. “I’m not an influencer. I’m just a normal girl. I thought what I had done was satisfactory.” The clash now turns on whether Zacharia’s explanation of her $20,000 figure is enough to settle the complaint that triggered the online pile-on, or whether the damage to her account and her deals is already done.
