50 secrets only true Bachelor fanatics know
By Sundi Rose
43. Contestants Have To Do Their Own Cooking And It’s Not Always Healthy
If The Bachelor show won’t spring for professional hair and makeup or provide the clothes, they definitely aren’t providing personal chefs, either. This means the everyone living in the mansion has to do their own cooking, or depend on the kindness of someone else to do theirs.
If they’re lucky, they would wind up on the same season as personal chef, but mostly, they settled for grab and go things that were accessible. Sometimes eggs and yogurt for breakfast, and salads and sandwiches for lunch. Ashley Spivey, a contestant on Brad Womack’s season of The Bachelor had it pretty easy. Another contestant on the same season, Brit, was a classically trained chef, “so she would make things like bacon jam or roasted tomato soup. I usually made dessert, like banana pudding.”
Although this sounds yummy, it’s not always the most healthy. Grabbing things super quick and eating a gourmet meal every night isn’t the best way to keep fitting in those tiny little dresses. Couple this with all the sitting around and intense boredom, and weight gain is bound to happen.
Lauren remembers noticing it on her season with Ben. “It happens to most people, and it happened to me. You start at the beginning and you’re in the best shape of your life because you found out you’re gonna be on The Bachelor/Bachelorette,” she says. “And then towards the end you can look at the contestants and you’re like, ‘You’ve changed a bit.’