I don't have all the answers. I'm learning just like everybody else.Collection: Learning
I love Valentine's Day because it's a fun day to show not only your significant other some love, but also your girlfriends and close family that you're caring for and thinking of them.Collection: Valentines
I don't know if I'll go back into medicine. As much as I love it and went to school for it, my passion has always been in real estate, development, interior design and architecture.Collection: Architecture
I'm an Orange County girl!
I raced all four years of high school, and after graduating, I went off to college at Concordia University and planned to be part of the team there. Except life got in the way.
Love wins.
Love comes in all different shapes, sizes and shades.
Bachelor' viewers are clever.
Nobody should have to hide who they really are.
I feel like we have to allow people to prove us wrong, and prove themselves.
We're always looking for something to kind of fill us up and speak to our higher purpose and make us feel good.
Paradise' is a crazy world. I will say that much.
I will not date a cheater.
It's hard to be in a new relationship and then kind of go away for a couple of weeks, you know what I mean?
Being in Orange County surrounded by a lot of people that don't look like me, being the only person that looks like me, I'm realizing that I've been trying so hard my whole life to blend in because I knew I was different.
Hearing people yelling 'Black Lives Matter,' it hit me more than I realized, just because those are people in my backyard that I've been trying to prove for so long that I'm the same as them.
As for me, I think everything happens for a reason.
To be honest, you can't really make someone look worse than they are or better than they are.
In my mind, divorce isn't a thing. Marriage is forever.
I had a walker in college. I didn't have a boyfriend my first year, I'll tell you that much.
I had been in talks prior to be the Bachelorette and I remember how sad I was after I wasn't chosen.
All I know is I love Palm Springs. I love La Quinta. I vacation there.
I would love to have five children.
Whatever God gives me, I'll be happy with.
I have to say I am very happy with Zachary Clark. And also, I am so happy that I trust my gut instincts.
I actually married my first boyfriend and I was with him for about six years or so.
I was married and I got a divorce.
People expect you to have all the answers by the time you're 30 years old because you're a grown woman.
I had to relearn how to walk in the hospital and missed about two and a half, three months of school. After about two years, I finally got to the point where I could walk 'normally' and not have chronic pain when I sat down.
It was on the highway - I was completely stopped and the girl behind me was texting and not paying attention and ran into me going 60 miles an hour. From that point on, I had chronic back pain every single day for about five years. It was worse than I could have imagined.
You can't make someone want to be married.
I'm a bold girl.
I'm the last one to throw around engagement or marriage.
Honestly kids make me laugh the most.
I'm living my best life.
We have a little 'Bachelorette' group chat, which is quite nice.
Being the first biracial Bachelorette, it was big for me in order to represent people that look like me.
I have never fallen for one of those Instagram ads - ever!
I will buy literally anything, even if I have 10 black turtlenecks - one more never hurts.
Being in a relationship is difficult, in general, and there are ups and downs.
You need to know that the person who you're hoping to get engaged to, you can actually relate to.
I've been a nanny, I've helped raise kids.
It's not normal to date 30 guys on camera and have the world share that experience with you. When the cameras go away, it's something you still have to deal with. It's difficult.
My 'Bachelorette' experience was 10 times better than Rachel's because she was the first Black Bachelorette.
I think we need to continue to hold people accountable for their actions. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that.
I don't think tearing somebody down is a good idea, but I think you can say 'Hey, what you're doing here is wrong.'
I'm just grateful for my mom's grace. No matter what, she's always tried to do her absolute best and if she couldn't provide what she wanted to provide, she made the best out of every situation. She's always made us feel confident in our own decisions and trust our own instincts and rely on our faith at all times. I'm just grateful for her heart.
There were so many times she took us to sports or tried to be there for every event at school. How she had a job and took care of all four of us, I literally do not know, but my mom has always been there for us and a very present, hands-on mom. My mom did it all.
My mom has always been very supportive of every decision I've made. She's always been very excited for me.
My faith is something I can always rely on through good and bad times.