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Stephanie Rice shares tearful career update after being rejected from over 130 jobs
Stephanie Rice, 38, has shared a tearful update days after launching a new business, and revealing she was rejected from more than 130 jobs.
The Australian Olympic swimmer, who changed her surname to Lassey after marrying pastor Mark Lassey in 2025, revealed to Instagram on Thursday that her circumstances have changed massively in the last week.
Stephanie Rice shared a tearful career update on Instagram. Instagram/@stephanie.lassey
“I spent eight months applying for jobs with no progress,” she wrote over a clip of her smiling through tears.
“Yet ONE week dedicated to the business idea God gave me, and we’ve experienced more open doors and provision than the last four months combined.
Steph Rice in tears over sad career update after finding God
Three-time Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has broken down over a “frustrating” eight-month pursuit to land a new job, revealing she’d been rejected from 130 applications.
The Aussie swimmer, 38, has found God since retiring from elite sport, and relocated her life to Dubai where she lives alongside formerly Perth-based pastor and husband, Mark Lassey.
Following two commercial, director-level roles in the past 18 months, Rice said she had been in a “waiting season” as she manifested the beginning of new work opportunities.
However, in a series of emotional social posts, the former champion said her eight-month search had proven unsuccessful, forcing her to re-evaluate her skills and CV numerous times.
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Over 130 Applications, No job offers: Stephanie Rice’s next move has everyone talking
Three-time Olympic gold medalist, now 38 and living in Dubai as a pastor’s wife, shared an emotional update on Instagram.After hunting for a job for well over eight months, with over 130 applications and 5 final-round interviews with no offers, Stephanie Rice is now treating the latest rejection as a sign to go all in on a new business idea she says god gave her six months earlier.
Rice became a national star at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winning gold in the 200m and 400m individual medleys (both in world-record times) and anchoring the Australian 4x200m freestyle relay to another world-record gold.She later received the Medal of the Order of Australia.
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