While many Bachelor Nation couples struggled after the show and eventually broke up, the original Bachelorette and her husband are still going strong. Trista Sutter (nee Rehn) and Ryan Sutter met on night one of season 1 of The bachelorette – and we clicked immediately.
“I decided I had to give myself wholeheartedly to the experience to make it work,” she recalled. We weekly exclusively in 2020. “I still believe that for anyone in charge, if someone is not willing to be vulnerable and willing to express themselves and really be themselves without fear of criticism or skepticism or whatever, I don’t think that this will work. to work out. That’s just my experience.”
The then physiotherapist and the firefighter were always true to themselves. They got engaged during the show’s finale and were married a year later in a TV special. They now share two children and live in Colorado.
“It’s just like your job. You have to put the time, effort and energy you put into everything else in your life, and I’m looking forward to it [Ryan and I] do that,” she said on the radio Today show of their successful marriage in 2015. “We’ve had our bumps in the road just like everyone else, but it’s really about staying focused on each other and spending time with each other.”
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