Tucked away in the depths of Lucinda Light’s email account is a folder cheekily titled “Potential Suitors”.
It is filled with scores of messages from not just men, but women too, who flooded into her DMs as it became clear her stint on Married at First Sight was not going to end in happily ever after for her.
“It was overwhelming how many messages I got,” she exclaims to WHO during our exclusive shoot. “I haven’t really had time to pursue any of them because I’ve been so busy,” she adds. “And I also feel like I’m going to meet my person in the real.”
So, for now at least, she remains single, but she hopes it’s something that the universe she communes with will put right soon.
“I’m a forever optimist and I do believe that good things come to those who wait and I do believe in my heart of hearts that I don’t think he’s too far away because I’m really ready to share that part of my life,” she says.
Light by name and light by nature, the stand-out favourite from 2024’s season of MAFS is a ray of sunshine personified.
The vivacious celebrant with a penchant for spectacularly large earrings won the hearts of viewers with her heavenly homegrown spirituality and her down-to-earth attitude.
For once, it wasn’t just the experts who brought emotional intelligence to the couch.
Fans so desperately wanted her to crack the tough exterior of her “husband” Timothy Smith, and while she certainly chipped away at it, in the end the pair decided to keep their relationship a friendship.
MAFS Lucinda on new journey
Since exiting the show, life has been a whirlwind for Light, something she has found “humbling”. She left Byron Bay where she had been living for the past few years to return to her family home in a small town on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, outside of Melbourne. It was the reset and the sanctuary she needed.
“It’s a comfortable, beautiful, wholesome, homecoming,” she says. “It’s a lovely sanctuary of quiet and it’s amazing among the busyness and storm that has been post-MAFS. I’ve just been so grateful for it. It’s a space that really provides me [the chance] to focus and be creative and get my head down and my bum up.”
Light admits that although her life has become so busy that her “forever person” will have to be a very unique character to fit into it, she believes he’s closer than ever.
But in recent times, she has also reconciled that her dream of becoming a mother is now unlikely to ever happen.
She may have accepted it but that doesn’t mean there’s not “still a little bit of pain there”.
“I’m 44 in July, so I think the stage and age that I’m at, and how the world is calling me … I feel like I’m being called to be in service in a different way,” she thoughtfully explains. “I’ve done a lot of grieving around letting go of being a mumma.
“It was actually one of the biggest desires and at the top of my wishlist but I do feel at the heart of it, that there are so many women forging a new way forward that doesn’t necessarily include birthing babies and having children. And I think maybe I’m part of that fleet.
“I know what I’m like, I’m a Cancerian, I love kids and all my eggs would go into that basket and then I wouldn’t be of and for the world. It’s a bit heartbreaking to say out loud. I’m not chasing it, it’s not on my vision board, I’ve made peace with it. I’m going to have an extraordinary life anyway and also I’m a real village aunty … godkids, a beautiful nephew, I’m involved with lots of children.”
Light’s next chapter begins with a sell-out speaking tour of the UK in August. In An Evening with Lucinda Light she’ll talk wellness and emotional intelligence, as well as take part in Q+A sessions and meet and greets.
To prepare, she’s immersing herself in honing her skills as a professional public speaker, something she’s been interested in doing for a long time.
She says the tour came about in response to people wanting to learn how to build and strengthen their emotional intelligence and find ways that they could bring more peace and harmony not only to their own lives, but into their interpersonal relationships as well.
“I’m so inspired at the moment,” she enthuses. “This tour has just completely blown my mind. This is not what I thought I would go into post-MAFS but it’s been the resounding … request of what people want to learn from me or get the transmission of.”
Light exudes such deep empathy, love and authenticity, it’s easy to assume she was born that way, some sort of natural earth child. But she insists it’s taken a lot of work to get to this place.
“I’ve invested the last 15 years deeply in my self-development,” Light shares.
“I’ve read so many non-fiction books, I’ve done all the courses under the sun. The other element of where I’ve developed my emotional intelligence is from my dark nights of the soul, where I’ve fallen apart and pulled myself inside out, upside down and back to front really. It’s been a long and gut-wrenching soul reaping journey to get here. I’m still very much a work in progress.”
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