'She sits and tells them a magical story': MAFS bride and former model Debbie spent 17 YEARS as a bohemian face painter at a local market who went by the name 'The Indian Fairy'

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She's the whimsical Married At First Sight bride who has baffled viewers with her bizarre outbursts and particular tastes in men. 

And on Tuesday night, Debbie was slammed after lashing out at her TV husband John over a number of minor issues - from snoring to leaving the toilet seat up.

Debbie, who had hoped to be matched with a Polynesian man on the reality show, was a jet-setting model in the Eighties and said she has been in 64 TV commercials, three movies and been photographed 'thousands of times.' 

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She's the whimsical Married At First Sight bride who has baffled viewers with her bizarre outbursts and particular tastes in men 

And on Tuesday night, Debbie was slammed after lashing out at her TV husband John over a number of minor issues - from snoring to leaving the toilet seat up

But it seems the 53-year-old Queensland-based yogi has also made a name for herself a little closer to home.

For 17 years, Debbie became a household name at the famed Eumundi Markets on the Sunshine Coast as 'The Indian Fairy' - a face painting, story-telling character. 

According to a number of event posts from 2013 and earlier, Debbie was a regular at the markets where she would do special effects make up on children in her makeshift bohemian tent. 

For 17 years, Debbie became a household name at the famed Eumundi Markets on the Sunshine Coast as 'The Indian Fairy' - a face painting, story-telling character

A review left for the self-confessed 'creative' in 2009 raved about her imaginative space and 'magical' setup. 

'On any given Wednesday or Saturday at Eumundi markets the Indian Fairy sets up her magical world for your children in a forest scene (boys are catered for too),' the review reads. 

'She sits and paints their faces and tells them a magical story my girls loved it.'

Debbie was a regular at the markets where she would do special effects make up on children in her makeshift bohemian tent

Not only that, but Debbie was so popular as 'The Indian Fairy' that she went to Singapore to represent the Eumundi Markets at the 'Best of Queensland' VivoCity event in 2010

Not only that, but Debbie was so popular as 'The Indian Fairy' that she went to Singapore to represent the Eumundi Markets at the 'Best of Queensland' VivoCity event in 2010.

'Meet some of the favourite artisan stallholders from the Sunshine Coast's famous Eumundi Markets, including fairy gifts from The Indian Fairy,' the event description read at the time. 

Countless snaps show Debbie in her glittering face paint and enormous flower crowns as she poses with her happy clients - many of them taking to social media to praise her skills. 

Debbie then hung up her wings in 2013. 

Deborah and John wed in a beautiful beach ceremony, with the bride making a dramatic entrance atop a throne carried by a number of Polynesian men. 

Speaking about her wedding ceremony, she said: 'Why did we have to do that Polynesian theme if there was no Polynesian?'

But Debbie hasn't made quite the same impact on Married At First Sight viewers after voicing a number of concerns about her carefree and easygoing 'husband', John.    

After Debbie's latest disagreement with her new beau, who is a father-of-two from Melbourne, it all became too much for her. 

The unhappy bride stormed off in tears and said the reality show had given her nothing she had hoped for - including a Polynesian groom and a gluten-free cake at the wedding.

Speaking about her wedding ceremony, she said: 'Why did we have to do that Polynesian theme if there was no Polynesian?'

'All they had to do was put an ad out and they would have got them - interviewed about 100 of them and they would have found one,' she said

Fans on social media widely criticised Deborah and jumped to John's defence

'All they had to do was put an ad out and they would have got them - interviewed about 100 of them and they would have found one.

'I got nothing I wanted. I got orange cake. It wasn't even gluten free. Everyone knows what I wanted.'

Fans on social media widely criticised Deborah and jumped to John's defence. 

'I'm starting to realise now why Deb has been single all this time... Not by choice,' one Twitter user wrote.

'Deb lived alone with a dog and was a spinster for a reason. We are now finding out why,' another commented. 

'I'm starting to realise now why Deb has been single all this time... Not by choice,' one Twitter user wrote

The unhappy bride stormed off in tears and said the reality show had given her nothing she had hoped for - including a Polynesian groom and a gluten-free cake at the wedding

Deborah and John wed in a beautiful beach ceremony, with the bride making a dramatic entrance atop a throne carried by a number of Polynesian men.

But when she laid eyes on her husband for the first time, he was not what she had in mind. 

Deborah had asked the show’s matchmakers for a ‘Polynesian man from the islands’, and was initially confused when she saw John. 

'I didn’t know whether he was my husband or not,' she said.

I was expecting a Polynesian person from the islands and so I was sort of a bit taken back that it wasn’t that.'