Kaitlyn Bristowe Reveals Why She Felt ‘Triggered’ by ‘The Bachelorette’ Having 2 Leads for Season 19
30.03.2022 - 02:19
/ usmagazine.com
Not over it. Kaitlyn Bristowe isn’t a fan of The Bachelorette having two leads for season 19 after her own dramatic experience.
“I was triggered,” the 36-year-old former reality star told her fiancé, Jason Tartick, in an E! News interview published on Tuesday, March 29.
Tartick, 33, called ABC’s decision to announce Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia as the coleads for the upcoming season of the series “crazy,” before asking the “Off the Vine” podcast her true feelings about the new arrangement.
“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, can’t a woman have her own season?’” Bristowe said. “It feels like it was Clare [Crawley] and then she was gone. And then it had to be Tayshia [Adams]. And then it was Katie [Thurston] and then, back-to-back, Michelle [Young]. And now it’s the two Bachelorettes again.”
Bristowe famously started her journey as the Bachelorette in season 11 alongside former Bachelor contestant Brit Nilsson in 2015. Their suitors then had to vote on which woman they wanted to stay, which Bristowe ultimately won. Now, it appears that history is somewhat repeating itself, which the Canada native isn’t on board with.
“I just want somebody to have their own season and I just don’t want it to be them pitted against each other,” the Dancing With the Stars champion explained on Tuesday. “I don’t know how the format is going to work. I don’t know what their little system is going to be, but I know how two Bachelorettes felt and it felt like we were being pitted against each other for the men to decide.”
Bristowe added: “And we could all get weird on what’s acceptable and what’s not in the Bachelor world because, really, that is always a gray area. I just wish I was there for it because I know how it feels!”
Despite the rocky start to her