7 Years Later and She’s STILL Suffering?! Jules Robinson Finally Reveals the MAFS Topic She Prays Will Just Go Away!

We often associate Married At First Sight with explosive dinner parties and cheating scandals.

But ask any OG MAFS viewer to name one genuine success story, and chances are Jules Robinson and Cameron Merchant will be the first couple to come to mind.

Seven years after Australia watched the pair fall in love on our screens (how time flies!), they’ve built a life together, welcomed two children and become one of the franchise’s biggest success stories.

Jules has also gone on to found the inclusive shapewear brand FIGUR and fashion label Moira Muse, building a career well beyond reality TV.

Yet despite everything she’s achieved as a mum, entrepreneur, wife and an overall incredible human being, there’s one conversation she still can’t seem to escape: her body.

Speaking on a recent episode of the Nothing To Wear podcast, Jules reflected on life after MAFS, revealing she’s still regularly asked about her weight.

The comments started before Australia even knew her.

Long before viewers got to know her personality, Jules says strangers had already made up their minds about her appearance.

While MAFS was still filming, a friend sent her a link to a story about the cast.

“Of course, I went straight to the comments as you do when you’re a rookie,” she laughed.

“It was all about — not even before anyone had spoken to me or heard me talk or anything — it was just judgement for the way that I looked.”

Overnight, Robinson went from living a relatively private life to having strangers dissect her body online.

Fortunately, she’d already spent years working on her confidence.

“I’d done enough work on myself that I was actually OK with that,” she said. “I was like, ‘That’s OK. That’s about you, not about me.'”

But what stayed with her wasn’t just the trolling; it was the messages from women who saw themselves in her.

“They’d say things like, ‘Where do you get your confidence from?’ or, ‘I look like you, but I don’t dress like you,'” she recalled.

“It was very clear that women didn’t feel like they were enough because of their body.”

‘A woman’s body should never be a trend.’

Back in 2019, the conversation centred around Robinson’s curves. Now, she says it’s about the return of ultra-thin beauty standards (ahem, #SkinnyTok and Ozempic).

But to her, it all feels like the same conversation in a different outfit.

“Firstly, I think most importantly, a woman’s body should never be a trend to begin with.”

“One minute we’re celebrating the curve… now we’re celebrating the super thin. I think it’s so damaging.”

She believes women have spent decades being told there’s one “ideal” body, only for that ideal to constantly change.

“It’s about being comfortable as you are and not placing so much value on your body or the size that you are,” Jules stressed. “It literally is celebrating the body that you’ve got.”

The six-figure deal she walked away from.

And she stays true to her word because if you thought Robinson would eventually cash in on the #SkinnyTok trend, think again.

During the NTW interview, she revealed she’d been offered “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to partner with a major weight-loss pen brand, but decided to turn it down. That’s not to say she’s against setting personal health goals. Jules explained she’s recently been focusing on feeling stronger because she’d like to have another baby.

“I’ve worked really hard, and I’ve got to my goal because I want to have another baby and I want to feel strong and healthy to do that.”

For her, the issue isn’t weight itself. It’s the idea that women owe the world a certain body. Amen!

‘Confidence isn’t something you arrive at.’

Robinson is often asked where her confidence comes from, and her answer surprises people.

“It’s not something that you just arrive at. It’s a practice that you consistently do.”

That practice, she says, starts with something as simple as changing the way you speak to yourself.

“As wanky as it sounds, I’ll get ready, and I’ll be like, ‘You look great today.'”

Over time, “once you start thinking like that, it becomes your program of how you talk to yourself.”

She believes confidence has far less to do with what you’re wearing than how you feel wearing it.

“I think if you feel confident in what you’re wearing, even if it’s not for everyone, you look good,” she said, adding that “nothing shines brighter than someone who’s confident with a good heart.”

The one thing she wishes women would stop doing.

If Robinson could leave women with one piece of advice, it’s this: stop waiting.

“I’ve done it in the past. You’re like, ‘I’ll wait till I’ve lost weight.’ ‘I’ll wait till my skin clears up.’ ‘I’ll wait till I fit into that dress.’ No. Celebrate yourself right now.”

She admits she still has moments where she notices her cellulite or wishes parts of her body looked different.

“If someone gave me a magic pill and it would all be gone, I would take it,” she joked. “But I don’t dwell on it. It doesn’t stop me putting on a bikini. It doesn’t stop me living.”

Instead, she’s learnt to remind herself of one simple thing.

“It’s just a leg. And that’s where our mindset has to reframe, to be like, ‘Oh my God, it’s just a leg.’ It’s OK.”