“Bachelor” Star Megan Marx Reflects on 'One of the Best Years of My Life' amid Degenerative Brain Disease

The reality alum, who lives with spinocerebellar ataxia, looked back proudly on the goals she accomplished in 2024

Two years into her spinocerebellar ataxia diagnosis, Bachelor star Megan Marx shared that 2024 was “one of the best years of my life”— and she’s got a robust list of goals for 2025.

“After being diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease, I was determined to stick to my resolutions for peace in 2024. I did,” Marx, 35, shared in a Jan. 6 Instagram montage of her year’s highlights.

As for last year’s resolutions, she “only had three: One. Find work in a job I find meaning in. Two. Spend more time in the ocean/nature. Three. Spend more quality time with my family (and friends that are family).” 

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Marx, who had shared that she was diagnosed with the rare neurological disorder spinocerebellar ataxia — a degenerative disease that impacts movement — said at the time that she had “lots of living to do.” 

And she did; Marx wrote, “It’s been one of the best years of my life.”

As the Cleveland Clinic explains, spinocerebellar ataxia causes issues with muscle coordination — specifically with your eyes, hands, legs and speech. Its progression varies from person to person, but many with ataxia end up needing a wheelchair within 10 to 15 years, the clinic notes.

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Marx's resolutions for 2025 are even more robust than her 2024 goals, she shared in an earlier Instagram post. She wants to travel — specifically to Mexico to scuba dive in the sinkole cenotes, and visit Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. She also wants to learn to do a backflip, and spend less time on dating, TV, and doom scrolling and more time lap swimming, weight training, and doing yoga.

She’s also planning to get her Master's degree, she said, as well as “eat more cheese,” “pat more dogs,” and spend more “one on one time” with her nieces and nephews.

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She also plans to finish her book, Our.Eulogies, which she's been sharing in posts on the like-titled Instagram page. In a recent post, she spoke about her ataxia symptoms, calling them "undignified."

"I don't yet know how to navigate the piracy of my own body," she added. "My awareness is flexed like wings, changes that seem to punch overnight, bending and filling with ataxia while I sleep. It distresses me...."

But she ends on a positive note, writing, "I have a chair. It doesn't matter if I can grip the back of the f—ing thing because I can still climb it."