'Bachelor' star, 36, gets candid about ‘grieving an unlived life’ after rare brain disorder diagnosis

Megan Marx reflected on the challenges of grief three years after receiving a rare brain disorder diagnosis.

The "Bachelor Australia" star was diagnosed in 2022 with spinocerebellar ataxia, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that affects coordination and mobility.

"There is a kind of grief that rarely earns a name," she wrote in an essay for Mamamia. "It is not the grief of death, nor even the grief that follows a diagnosis. It is the grief of the life we imagined we might live...