October 25, 2016
'The Bachelor' Contestants Find Love - With Each Other
Winnie McCroy READ TIME: 1 MIN.
Two contestants from the 2016 Australian version of "The Bachelor" have found love - with each other! The show's premise has a bunch of desperate women competing for the affections of one man, with whom they eventually marry and live happily ever after.
But Mashable reports that two contestants - Megan Marx and Tiffany James - have 'looked beyond the rose' and found a deep love with each other.
For several months, the former contestants have been posting adorable Instagram photos, with captions like "my favourite person" and "there are many things that I love but this is one."
Marx captioned the post saying of James "I have to admit that I felt so so proud to be with her, my favourite person, celebrating such a momentous occasion on the water -- a mutual love of ours. She is so confident in the ocean and in every adventure, as if every new experience is a winning of the lottery somehow; a chance to grow and learn and develop."
She continues: "From that first cocktail party, it was like this instant calibration between souls, as if we had known each other once before. Friendship ripened into something bolder, trust in a very strange situation was formed, and now every adventure we have rivals the other -- and continues to make plans for itself."
"She's helped me to disintegrate many of the ideals I've had that were harmful (about relationships, about career and 'stability') and for that I feel set free," she said.
Finally, an outcome of "The Bachelor" that really does end in true love!
Winnie McCroy is the Women on the EDGE Editor, HIV/Health Editor, and Assistant Entertainment Editor for EDGE Media Network, handling all women's news, HIV health stories and theater reviews throughout the U.S. She has contributed to other publications, including The Village Voice, Gay City News, Chelsea Now and The Advocate, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.