01of 07Colton UnderwoodABC/Craig SjodinEx-NFL player Underwood, 26, appeared on Becca Kufrin’s season ofThe Bacheloretteand season 5 ofBachelor in Paradise— and now, he’s becoming The Bachelor.“I was so happy that I was able to talk about something I never wanted to share with anybody,” Underwood told PEOPLE ofbeing a virgin. “The show allowed me to be true to who I am, and it allowed me to grow as a person. I couldn’t be more appreciative of that.”
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Colton Underwood
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Ex-NFL player Underwood, 26, appeared on Becca Kufrin’s season ofThe Bacheloretteand season 5 ofBachelor in Paradise— and now, he’s becoming The Bachelor.
“I was so happy that I was able to talk about something I never wanted to share with anybody,” Underwood told PEOPLE ofbeing a virgin. “The show allowed me to be true to who I am, and it allowed me to grow as a person. I couldn’t be more appreciative of that.”
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Ashley Iaconetti
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“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 said. “I think he stopped looking at me as a sexual object at that point — I felt a change in our relationship. … What I am really tired of is the show making it seem like such a big deal, such a big reveal."
03of 07Becca TilleyGabriel Olsen/WireImageTilley, 29, dated Chris Soules and Ben Higgins on back-to-back seasons ofThe Bachelor. She admitted to being a virgin when faced with a Fantasy Suite date with Soules.‘It’s a big part of who I am," she told him on the show. “After having such an amazing time with you, I have been a little bit nervous to bring it up, because it is a big deal.”
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Becca Tilley
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Tilley, 29, dated Chris Soules and Ben Higgins on back-to-back seasons ofThe Bachelor. She admitted to being a virgin when faced with a Fantasy Suite date with Soules.
‘It’s a big part of who I am," she told him on the show. “After having such an amazing time with you, I have been a little bit nervous to bring it up, because it is a big deal.”
04of 07Christen WhitneyMitch Haaseth/ABC via GettyWhitney, 27, appeared on Nick Viall’s season ofThe Bachelorand two seasons ofBiP, where she earned the unfortunate nickname “Scallop Fingers.“But she’s been confident in her decision to wait for marriage due because of her religious beliefs.“IsParadiseevenParadisewithout a virgin?” she once joked in aBiPtrailer.
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Christen Whitney
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Whitney, 27, appeared on Nick Viall’s season ofThe Bachelorand two seasons ofBiP, where she earned the unfortunate nickname “Scallop Fingers.”
But she’s been confident in her decision to wait for marriage due because of her religious beliefs.
“IsParadiseevenParadisewithout a virgin?” she once joked in aBiPtrailer.
05of 07Sadie MurrayBob D’Amico/ABC/Getty ImagesMurray was the runner-up on Prince Lorenzo Borghese’s season ofThe Bachelor— and the first contestant to go public with her virginity.“It was annoying, because there’s just so much more to me than that, and I don’t think that that was shown,” she toldReality Steveof the focus on that one aspect of her life. “But then again, that’s the nature of the game, and I get it.””
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Sadie Murray
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Murray was the runner-up on Prince Lorenzo Borghese’s season ofThe Bachelor— and the first contestant to go public with her virginity.
“It was annoying, because there’s just so much more to me than that, and I don’t think that that was shown,” she toldReality Steveof the focus on that one aspect of her life. “But then again, that’s the nature of the game, and I get it.”
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06of 07Corrie AdamsonCraig Sjodin/ABC/Getty ImagesAdamson appeared on Jake Pavelka’s season ofThe Bachelor— and she was upset about the way helearned of her choicenot to have sex.“The question came out of nowhere and caught me off guard,” she told PEOPLE. “He’d asked if I’d ever had a one-night stand. I said no and he said, ‘Are you saving yourself for marriage?’ It’s very personal and isn’t something I go announcing on first dates. I’m proud of it, but I didn’t feel it was the right time to have that conversation.”
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Corrie Adamson
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Adamson appeared on Jake Pavelka’s season ofThe Bachelor— and she was upset about the way helearned of her choicenot to have sex.
“The question came out of nowhere and caught me off guard,” she told PEOPLE. “He’d asked if I’d ever had a one-night stand. I said no and he said, ‘Are you saving yourself for marriage?’ It’s very personal and isn’t something I go announcing on first dates. I’m proud of it, but I didn’t feel it was the right time to have that conversation.”
07of 07Sean LoweRick Rowell/ABC via Getty ImagesOkay, Lowe wasn’t technically a virgin when he starred on Emily Maynard’s season ofThe Bacheloretteand his own season ofThe Bachelor. But the 34-year-old devout Christian had been celibate since the age of 24 until he married his final rose recipient Catherine Giudici. (They now share two sons: Samuel, 2, and Isaiah, 3 months.)“The mainstream media see it as this really weird thing,” he toldFox News. “They look at me and go, ‘Well he looks normal, he looks like he’s got everything together. He’s a good looking guy. He’s got 25 women vying for him, why in the world would he be making that decision?’ So I totally get it but now hopefully people will understand why I took that stance. I took it because I felt I was morally obligated to because that’s what my faith was telling me to do. It gets kind of annoying because people don’t want to see your perspective they just want to label you as the virgin bachelor.”
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Sean Lowe
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Okay, Lowe wasn’t technically a virgin when he starred on Emily Maynard’s season ofThe Bacheloretteand his own season ofThe Bachelor. But the 34-year-old devout Christian had been celibate since the age of 24 until he married his final rose recipient Catherine Giudici. (They now share two sons: Samuel, 2, and Isaiah, 3 months.)
“The mainstream media see it as this really weird thing,” he toldFox News. “They look at me and go, ‘Well he looks normal, he looks like he’s got everything together. He’s a good looking guy. He’s got 25 women vying for him, why in the world would he be making that decision?’ So I totally get it but now hopefully people will understand why I took that stance. I took it because I felt I was morally obligated to because that’s what my faith was telling me to do. It gets kind of annoying because people don’t want to see your perspective they just want to label you as the virgin bachelor.”
source: people.com
