As one of the longest-running reality television shows ever, you've had the opportunity to
meet hundreds of contestants on The Bachelor.
Some of the women who've competed for love haven't changed much at all, but you might
not even be able to recognize others.
Here are some examples of contestants who've changed in multiple ways.
Just as Colton Underwood revealed his virginity status on national television, so did Ashley
Iaconetti in Season 19.
She first told some of her fellow contestants on the show and then revealed the news to
the Bachelor himself.
"I said it to Chris Soules on that season, and I have to be honest, I didn't think that
he thought it was very attractive."
She went on to say that she felt their relationship change after that moment.
"I think he stopped looking at me as a sexual object at that point."
Still, she thinks it really shouldn't be, quote, "such a big deal" and wasn't a reason
to end a relationship.
In the end, Iaconetti did end up finding love on reality television, just not on The Bachelor.
The former contestant met Jared Haibon on Bachelor in Paradise instead and the two plan
to get married in August 2019.
During Corinne Olympios' time on The Bachelor Season 21, she was labeled a villain.
"I'm starting to get the vibe that girls are having an issue with me."
After revealing on the show that she had a nanny who takes care of her, at 24 years of
age, her fellow contestants were shocked, to say the least.
While it's hard to know if the star has changed internally, fans have noticed some changes
to her physical appearance in the years following her TV debut.
When Olympios shared a selfie on Instagram in December 2018, comments rolled in asking
if she'd had plastic surgery and suggested that she had "botched" lips.
One fan wrote,
Ouch.
When she shared another picture of herself in February 2019, the comments that came in
were much the same.
The following month, Olympios addressed some of her fans' comments and shared a picture
confirming that she had a non-surgical procedure to change the appearance of her chin and jawline.
However, she didn't address her fans' speculations about other procedures.
Christen Whitney, a former contestant on The Bachelor Season 21, wrote to her followers
on Instagram in January 2019,
Since vying for Nick Viall's heart on the show, Whitney says she's stopped being preoccupied
with perfection and has upped her exercise regimen.
And she doesn't care if you don't like it.
She captioned another Instagram selfie,
That's right, girl.
You do you.
After becoming yet another contestant dubbed a villain, Krystal Nielson from The Bachelor
Season 22 told Entertainment Tonight that she had dealt with serious growing pains and
made some big changes since her time on the show.
"Yeah, I've burned a lot of sage, girl."
"Did you?"
"I have burned a lot of sage."
"You've saged, what, your house?"
"My soul.
I've saged everything."
When asked if she'd grown since competing for Arie's heart, Nielson admitted that she
had.
"Feedback is the way that I grow and I've received a lot of it, you know, since the
show."
All that energy-cleansing must've worked.
Nielson and former Bachelorette contestant Chris Randone met on Bachelor in Paradise
and fell in love.
Despite only dating for a number of weeks, the couple got engaged during the season finale.
In October 2018, the pair moved in together and, as of May 2019, their relationship is
still going strong.
Although it hasn't been all that long since the couple's season of Bachelor in Paradise
ended, Nielson has already changed up her look in favor of a bare-faced or minimal makeup
look.
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