MAFS star Stella Mickunaite on the moment Filip surprised her with a real proposal
episodePreviously titled “MAFS's Stella Mickunaite on the moment Filip surprised her with a real proposal” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, Stella. Welcome to Inherited. How are you? Hello.
I'm really good. It's a very exciting opportunity to have a chat with you ladies.
Yeah, we have all adored watching the love story between you and Philip play out on this year's season of Maths. Congratulations on all of the success. We'll get into it today. But before we get there, I want to rewind back to the start to when you first moved to Australia from Lithuania. You told our producers that your relic is your Australian citizenship certificate. So you booked a one-way ticket and moved to Australia. Was it nine years ago? September is going to be 10 year anniversary. Wow. How do you feel? I mean, yeah, on your 10 year anniversary.
Ideally in the ideal world, I would have loved to have a little family by now. Um, unfortunately, you know, life took a longer time to, to get there, but I think getting to be partnered with Philip and obviously having the ending of what had happened, I think it really kind of sealed the 10 year thing for me. And, um, Good things take time, you know?
They do. Before you moved over to Australia, can you take me back to your earliest memories of growing up in Lithuania with your loved ones? What was it like?
Look, I, yeah, Lithuania was, I do have very beautiful memories there and I do have not so beautiful memories there. So it's kind of like...
How did Stella Mickunaite's journey to Australia begin?
you hold two truths at the same time. You hold two emotions at the same time. Um, so my early childhood would be, would be going to the grannies and, you know, she would be growing her old veggies and, and animals. And I grew up on such organic foods and just organic life. You know, it's like what you, what you plant is what you reap at the end of the season, you know? And obviously that taught me beautiful, beautiful values about heart work and, um, just you know being good good human um and they're also parts of you know having a broken family and you know having to experience mom and dad splitting up at the early age mom unfortunately did choose the path of a little bit of um addiction and and that was obviously very hard to watch and yeah
Because you have two sisters as well, is that right? You grew up with two sisters, yeah. Yeah, I do have two half sisters.
So do I. Yeah, so one sister came out into my life when I was 12 and the other sister came into my life when I think I was 21 or 22. So it's like you are sisters, you do have that like care but there's a little bit of lack of connection unfortunately because you didn't grow up at the same time. And I only wish, you know, that things would have been different at the end of the day. But, you know, not having that sibling relationship, but still needing to care for someone actually, you know, made me to grow up quite early.
So what did your life look like right before you moved? And what was the catalyst to moving to Australia? You were in your early 20s. What were you doing then in Lithuania? And yeah, do you remember the day that you decided, I'm going to do this, I'm going to book the ticket?
Okay, so the day I was, yeah, in my early 20s, I had a beautiful long-term relationship for five years and my relationship broke down at the age of 21. And again, right, it's a fertile soil. As I say, always a breakup. Don't fear of a breakup. If it's not meant to be, not meant to be, release, let go, cut out and use that energy to do something good with it. So I was in my single era. I was actually the third year of university. I was studying Bachelor of Biology at the time. And I went to a festival. And at the festival, I met this guy. And he's like, oh, I live in Sydney. And I'm like, in my mind, I was so narrow-minded that for me, Sydney sounded like alien planet. I swear to God. I was like, I can't, like, I don't believe you.
He's like, yeah, you have a look. You know, he showed me photos. And my mind was like, what? It's like, oh, that's possible. Yeah. And so he planted that seed, right? And then I had a full year to finish the university and I started talking to all of my friends and she was kind of floating between jobs, working in hospitality, but like going to Switzerland for the contract or Italy for the contract, like very beautiful traveling life.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–1:29
2
How did Stella Mickunaite's journey to Australia begin?
1:29–24:40
3
What challenges did Stella face when settling in Australia?
24:40–36:45
4
What was Stella's experience like on Married at First Sight?
36:45–41:11
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How has Stella's upbringing influenced her view on love?
41:11–42:23
Speakers
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