Alex Nation

Some Lesser Known Facts About Alex Nation

• Alex Nation spent her early childhood on a farm in rural Victoria, Australia.

• She won a baby pageant.

  

• Alex’s mother and stepfather Dino wanted to pursue a career in food & hospitality. Therefore, they moved from their farm in Victoria when Alex was 10 and established Benito’s Restaurant in Mount Eliza, Australia. Dino passed away after battling with cancer in 2013.

• Alex was estranged from her father for 10 years. Later, she contacted him through Facebook.

• On 6 December 2010, Alex gave birth to her son Elijah with her boyfriend Joel Porter. At that time, she was 19 and Joel was 23.

• In 2011, she got married to Joel Porter.

  

• Alex and Joel separated when Elijah was 18 months old.

• She has worked as a model.

• Once she revealed that she had done nude photoshoots at the beginning of her career and was proud of it.

• She was the Miss Tourism Australia Victoria Finalist in 2013.

  

• In 2014, she enrolled in a course at Film and Television Studio International.

• In the same year, she got a pet dog, Gunna.

  

• Shortly after her divorce from Joel Porter, she started dating Tom Barbour, a university student who was left disabled after an accident at a construction site accident. He uses a wheelchair to move. In an interview, Alex revealed that she had known Tom for 10 years before they started dating on and off for 15 months. Alex even renovated her house so Tom could move in with her. However, the two broke up in 2015.

  

• Alex and Tom were friends for over 10 years before they started dating. However, Tom decided to split up after the accident. Since then, they have been good friends.

• In 2016, Alex Nation rose to popularity after winning Season 4 of The Bachelor Australia, featuring the bachelor Richie Strahan.

  

• In 2017, she played for the women’s AFL team the Frankston Bombers.

  

• While playing for the Frankston Bombers, Alex met Meagan Luxa and started dating her. Alex was briefly engaged to Meagan in 2017, but soon, they parted ways.

• In an Instagram post, Alex revealed that she had abortions at the ages of 16 and 25.

• In 2016, she appeared as a contestant on the Australian game show All Star Family Feud on Network Ten.

  

• In 2018, she discovered that Elijah suffers from ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

• In 2019, Alex appeared as a contestant in the second season of Bachelor in Paradise Australia. Her ex-boyfriend Richie Strahan also appeared on the show. Alex paired with Bill Goldsmith in the show. In the Finale, Alex and Bill choose to stay together. However, the couple split just three weeks following the filming of the finale. Bill confessed that he did not love Alex. Later, Bill did not even appear in the reunion episode of Bachelor in Paradise.

  

• In 2020, she appeared on Drunk History Australia on Network Ten’s streaming service, 10 Play, in which she played the role of Beryl Mills, the first woman to win the Miss Australia quest in 1926.

  

• Around the same time, she started dating Carson Dudes Jory. Alex and Carson had a son, Maxwell, on 20 August 2021 and a daughter, Pearl, on 20 April 2023.

• Alex and Carson have a property listed on Airbnb, Maple Retreat in Beechworth.

• She is also the director of Your Stay Nation.

• She also had radio shows on Southern FM and Casey Radio.

• Later, she launched the podcast ‘MA15+’ with Maggie Chretien.

• In an interview, she revealed that she always takes her mother’s advice before doing anything important and is very close to her.

• She enjoys consuming alcohol occasionally.