Susie Bradley and Todd Carney got engaged for a second time over the weekend, and this time the Married At First Sight star insists the couple will make it down the aisle.
The pair called off their first engagement in 2022 as the rugby star, 37, battled alcohol addiction. They reconciled in May last year and Todd is now 14 months sober.
The former reality TV star, 31, told Daily Mail Australia they are planning to tie the knot as soon as six months away.
‘We always loved each other. We didn’t not love each other. It was just circumstances in life,’ Susie said of their first engagement and subsequent split.
‘I knew we both wanted to be married at some point.
Susie Bradley and Todd Carney got engaged for a second time over the weekend, and this time the Married At First Sight star insists the couple will make it down the aisle
‘I figured it was only a matter of time, but because we’ve obviously been through it all before, I didn’t feel we were in a rush. It just felt right. That’s what Todd said. He said he felt like the time was right.’
She went on to say she discussed her second engagement with her mother-in-law Leanne Carney and told her: ‘This is how it’s supposed to feel. It feels right.’
‘We’re going to have a short engagement and probably get married fairly soon… A six to twelve month sort of time frame probably. It will be amazing.’
The former reality TV star, 31, told Daily Mail Australia they are planning to tie the knot as soon as six months away
The couple, who share son Lion, three, are also making plans to welcome even more children into their happy family unit.
‘We want two more babies. So hopefully that all works out. We’re busy people. We like keeping ourselves entertained,’ Susie said.
Susie began dating Todd back in 2019, a year after she appeared on Married At First Australia, with Todd happily stepping into the role of stepfather to Susie’s daughter Baby.
Susie began dating Todd back in 2019, a year after she appeared on Married At First Australia, with Todd happily stepping into the role of stepfather to Susie’s daughter Baby, far right. They also share son Lion, three
They announced their engagement in December 2020, shortly before confirming Susie was also pregnant with their first child together.
They welcomed son Lion in April 2021, but later called off their engagement in 2022 after Todd struggled to combat his alcohol addiction.
After Susie and Todd split in 2022, the beauty therapist made a resolution to never date again.
The lovebirds reconciled in May last year.
Meanwhile, it seems that the cosmetic injector is already preparing herself to give birth again, as she has recently been spruiking a new pelvic floor training device VTone.
She explained she’s been battling pregnancy-related incontinence since giving birth to Baby at the age of 21.
The beautician said she was jumping on a trampoline three months after welcoming Baby when she lost complete control of her bladder.
‘It honestly felt like I lost the whole contents of my stomach. I just immediately felt the wet. I couldn’t tell anyone,’ she said.
‘I was there with my partner and best friend. Didn’t even tell my best friend because I just could not believe it. I went straight to the bathroom.
‘I think I ended up with toilet paper undies or something. I didn’t want to tell anyone. I was so embarrassed. I was in shock horror.’
‘We always loved each other. We didn’t not love each other. It was just circumstances in life,’ Susie said of their first engagement and subsequent split, but added she has hope for her relationship after reconciling with Todd
Since then, Susie said she’s suffered with a chronic and frequent urges to urinate as her pelvic floor was severely weakened by giving birth.
She says pelvic floor trainer VTone and FormaV have helped ease her incontinence issues by ‘using electrical muscle stimulation and deep tissue heating to rehabilitate weak pelvic floor muscles’.
Since Susie has reconciled with Todd, he has stayed clean and sober following years of booze-fuelled scandals which prematurely ended his NRL career.
Susie also revealed she and Todd plan to welcome even more children into their happy family unit. ‘We want two more babies. So hopefully that all works out. We’re busy people. We like keeping ourselves entertained,’ she said
His footy career was chequered with controversy, including being charged with drink driving and reckless driving, allegedly urinating on a man at a nightclub, vandalism, being sacked by the Raiders and banned from his home town of Goulburn, NSW.
That led to him being deregistered by the NRL and forced to play bush footy with far north Queensland side Atherton Roosters, before he was kicked out of the NRL for good after a string of alcohol-related indiscretions including the infamous bubbler that saw him pretend to urinate into his own mouth.
His new life with Susie was just what Todd needed, until he realised he was still on a very dark path.
‘My life was going fine, at least I thought it was, until our relationship got really serious,’ he told Triple M’s Rush Hour with Gus, Jude & Dell last week.
‘My wife fell pregnant with our son Lion and obviously her love for me, obviously was always going to stay the same. But she said, “Before bringing a boy into this life, into this world, I can’t see you keep harming yourself.”
‘And she was honest with me. She said, “You think you’re a rock star and you’re not. Yes, I didn’t know you when you played rugby league and I don’t really care.” Then we split for a little bit, and that was a hard time, because [of] my values growing up.
‘When people said, “Oh, when you want kids, what will you want to be like?”, I said, “I want to be like my dad.” So I lost that value because I wasn’t with my son 100 per cent of the time.
‘And in those times, week on, I was really good with him. When my week was off, I was living like a rock star and just not giving any care for myself or who I was.’
Todd had been to rehab and alcohol counselling many times before, but this time he went of his own volition and was determined to make it work for the sake of his young family.
