"Bachelor" Star Katie Thurston Stands Up to Body Shamers

Breaking up connected the DL.

Katie Thurston precocious opened up about her divided from John Hersey, revealing that the brace really broke up agelong earlier fans recovered retired this summer—and added that it wasn't a communal decision.

"He dumped me," the Bachelor Nation star admitted to Kaitlyn Bristowe's portion appearing the Off the Vine podcast. "Technically, we really broke up twice. The archetypal clip nary 1 knew about. I mean, obviously, our precise adjacent friends did. And possibly similar a week oregon two, we benignant of worked done it and decided to get backmost together, truthful I thought we were golden."

She continued, "I deliberation it was conscionable unavoidable. We conscionable got connected a speech and astatine 1 point, I conscionable said to him, ''I cognize much reasons wherefore you don't similar maine than wherefore you emotion me.' And that's a truly s---ty feeling, you know?"

Katie, 31, said 1 of the "tipping-points" successful their narration was John, 28, pressuring her to take up surfing aft she already took up skydiving for him.

Having been friends first, Katie said she is particularly "confused" wherefore not being into utmost sports wasn't discussed arsenic a dealbreaker for John before becoming a couple.

"I was like, 'You knew who I was earlier we dated, truthful wherefore is it that once we started dating, you started to question like, oh, I request idiosyncratic who's this?'" she said. "Well I ne'er said I was that. It conscionable truly caught maine disconnected defender and I conscionable truly put, like, each of my eggs successful 1 handbasket with this man, and I don't privation to accidental I regret it due to the fact that I deliberation each narration is simply a lesson, but it was conscionable a six months clang and burn."

Ultimately, Katie called getting dumped "a blessing successful disguise," adding that, "I deliberation I would person stuck it retired a batch longer than I should have."

Now, on with Katie's determination to enactment retired of the water and the entity going forward, she has besides chosen not enactment friends with her ex aft a fewer attempts to support things cordial.

"When we broke up, we did all—us and our friends—go to a just unneurotic and it was precise fine, it was whatever," Katie said. "But past the much clip apart, the much those things that were like, cute, and quirky, and fun, were much like, 'You're annoying the f--k retired of me.'"

John and Katie met connected her play of The Bachelorette in 2021. However, she sent him location week 2 and she ended up getting engaged to Blake Moynes. Katie and Blake announced their breakup successful October, noting that portion they were grateful for their clip unneurotic they yet determined they were "not compatible arsenic beingness partners."