Ben Higgins could have given his ultimate rose to Lauren Bushnell, however he discovered lasting love with Jessica Clarke.
Bachelor Nation first met Higgins when he competed for Kaitlyn Bristowe’s coronary heart on season 11 of The Bachelorette. After ending in third place, ABC named the Colorado native the season 20 Bachelor.
Higgins subsequently obtained down on one knee and proposed to Bushnell in the course of the March 2016 finale. The duo, who landed their very own spinoff, Ben and Lauren: Fortunately Ever After?, known as it quits in Might 2017.
“I might say the enjoyment that we felt towards our relationship in the beginning was — for some cause — slipping away,” Higgins revealed on his “Nearly Well-known” podcast on the time. “And we had been each working very laborious to convey that pleasure again. And it simply by no means appeared to get there. So it was a very long time coming however it wasn’t essentially like we dragged it out. … It’s laborious to say goodbye to any person that you simply spent a lot time with and it’s laborious to say goodbye to any person that you simply actually did consider was The One.”
Whereas Higgins returned to actuality TV to compete on The Bachelor: Winter Video games in 2018, he stop the spinoff with out a love connection. By the top of that yr, nonetheless, Higgins met Clarke by means of Instagram.
“She’s a really type, pure, emphatic and supportive particular person normally. And he or she’s not solely like that to me. I’m a part of that, however she’s like that to all people round her,” Higgins gushed to Us in April 2019. “She challenges me to be extra empathetic, extra loving, extra caring, extra type as effectively. So I’m very glad.”
The pair’s relationship obtained critical fast.
“We’re nice. It’s enjoyable. It’s simply wholesome … I believe she would say the identical. Our relationship is wholesome,” Higgins advised Us in January 2020. “I’m a greater model of myself, a extra free model of myself than I’ve been shortly.”
Higgins proposed to Clarke in March 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
“From my first date in life to the moments in between all of them led me to getting down on one knee in entrance of you @jessclarke_,” he wrote on the time through Instagram. “This weekend I requested Jessica to offer me the glory of being her companion for all times. She mentioned YES! I now formally have essentially the most lovely, kind-hearted, supportive, well-intentioned particular person to spend life with! Our adventurous journey by means of life collectively is simply beginning.”
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