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The Bachelorette: Where Are They Now?

Catching up with your favorite Bachelorettes and contestants from seasons past

JoJo Fletcher, The Bachelorette
1 of 24 Craig Sjodin, ABC

JoJo Fletcher, The Bachelorette

The 12th season of The Bachelorette is underway, and at the end of it, JoJo Fletcher will probably -- but not necessarily -- be engaged to one lucky man, just like the Bachelorettes before her. The Bachelorette has a better track record for marriage than The Bachelor, with three couples still married and one engaged. It's too early to say what's in store for JoJo, but we can certainly take a look and see where the former participants are now, both romantically and professionally. Take a stroll down Bachelorette memory lane, and see if you're surprised by what any of them are up to now.

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Trista Rehn & Ryan Sutter

The ultimate Bachelor Nation success story, Trista and Ryan are still married more than a decade after she chose him on the first season of The Bachelorette and 26 million people watched their wedding. They will celebrate their 13th anniversary in 2016 and have two children, Max and Blakesley.

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Meredith Phillips

The second Bachelorette was engaged to winner Ian McKee for about a year, but their relationship ended in 2005. Phillips published a cookbook in 2008 called The Date Night Cookbook. In 2013, she opened up about her struggle with alcoholism, and has kept a low public profile since then.

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Ian McKee

McKee doesn't spend much time in Bachelor Nation these days. Instead he's focused on making Brazil's sports arenas better through the green building design and consulting firm he founded, EcoArenas. He advised the architects of the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha soccer stadium on improving sustainability when they were rebuilding the stadium for the 2014 World Cup.

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Jen Schefft

Jen Schefft won Andrew Firestone's season of The Bachelor, but they broke up and she returned for The Bachelorette, where she made the stunning baller move of choosing neither of the finalists. She now lives outside of Chicago with her husband Joe Waterman and their two daughters, Mae and Charlotte. And for the record, she thinks Caila Quinn should have been the Bachelorette this season.

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Jerry Ferris

Ferris was technically the winner of Jen Schefft's season, but she rejected his proposal during the live finale, which made him look like very much not a winner. He married actress Natasha Goss in 2011, and currently works as a commercial real estate broker in Los Angeles.

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John Paul Merritt

The other guy Schefft rejected fell on some hard times after The Bachelorette, going deep into debt after some business ventures didn't pan out. Things seemed to have turned around for him, though; he's now working as an oil company executive in Dallas.

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DeAnna Pappas

This real estate agent was the fourth Bachelorette and first upon the show's return from its three-year hiatus. She got engaged to Jesse Csincsak in the finale, but they split a few months later. She's now married to a man named Stephen Stagliano -- whose brother Michael competed on Season 5 of The Bachelorette -- and has two children, Addison and Austin.

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Jesse Csinscak

The professional snowboarder married Ann Lueders, who competed on Season 11 of The Bachelor. They met during a reunion show, and are a perfect example of how people can actually find love from the shows, just not according to plan. They have two children, Noah and Charlotte. Csincsak has been unusually candid for a winner about the un-reality of the show.

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Jason Mesnick

The runner-up to Csincsak became the Season 13 Bachelor. He perpetrated one of the craziest twists in Bachelor history when he broke up with original winner Melissa Rycroft and got back together with runner-up Molly Malaney during the After the Final Rose special. He and Molly are still married, and they have a daughter together. Mesnick also has a son from a previous marriage. The couple appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap last year, trading places with fellow Bachelor-and-wife pair Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici. Mesnick works as a real estate consultant in Kirkland, Wash.

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Jillian Harris

Harris has had a successful post-Bachelorette TV career. The interior decorator worked as a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and has hosted Love It Or List It Vancouver (which airs on HGTV in America as Love It Or List It Too) since 2013. She is expecting her first child with boyfriend Justin Pasutto.

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Ed Swiderski

Swiderski and Jillian Harris were engaged for about a year and a half before they split in July 2010. In 2015, he married Chicago local news anchor Natalie Bomke. He continues to work as a marketing technology executive.

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Ali Fedotowsky

Fedotowsky worked at Facebook when she went on The Bachelor, and she famously quit the show to keep her job as an account manager, only to leave the job again to become the Bachelorette. She never went back, and stayed on TV for years after her stint, working for Fox News, NBC and E! She's currently expecting her first child with fiancé Kevin Manno.

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Robert Martinez

After he and Ali Fedotowsky called off their year-and-a-half-long engagement, Martinez dated 2007 Playmate of the Year Sara Underwood. He now runs a State Farm branch in Colorado and posts great nature photos on Twitter.

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Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum

The seventh Bachelorette and her construction manager beau got a televised wedding special in 2012, and are still married today. They have one son, Fordham, who was born in 2014, and have another baby on the way. They live in Miami.

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Emily Maynard

Maynard went through a lot to find love -- her first fiancé died when she was just 18, leaving her a single mother. Then, she won Brad Womack's second season of The Bachelor, only to split with him three months after the finale. She then went on to The Bachelorette, only to split with Jef Holm three months after the finale. She finally found stability with her husband Tyler Johnson, with whom she has a son, Jennings. Her oldest child, Ricki, is now 10, and she's pregnant with a third.

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Jef Holm

This water entrepreneur is still the only Bachelor/Bachelorette winnerwho could ever be classified as a "hipster." He was recently linked to Bachelor alum Amanda Stanton, who shares many striking similarities with Holm's ex-fianceé, Emily Maynard.

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Arie Luyendyk Jr.

The race car driver who was Jef Holm's runner-up is still driving, but he's moved from formula racing into the more rugged world of off-road truck racing. He also apparently has an ongoing casual relationship with the dark princess of Bachelor Nation, Courtney Robertson.

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Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried

The ninth Bachelorette and the man she chose were married in 2015, and recently joined the legion of former Bachelorettes with a baby on the way. She also just published a how-to book on wedding planning called My Fairytale Wedding. They live in Seattle.

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Andi Dorfman

The former ADA is now an author. She recently published a memoir, It's Not Okay, about her experiences on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, dishing on infamously bad Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis as well as her former fiancé Josh Murray, from whom she split less than a year after the finale.

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Josh Murray

The former baseball player is probably pretty unhappy right about now, since Andi Dorfman describes him as an "emotional abuser" in her new book. He's kept quiet, though, with his only public response so far coming in the form of a Bible verse-quoting tweet about restraining one's tongue. He'll get a chance to tell his side of the story on the upcoming E! series Famously Single, where celebrities move in together and try to solve their relationship problems.

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Kaitlyn Bristowe and Shawn Booth

Season 11's winning Bachelorette and her suitor Shawn are still engaged and living together in Nashville. Kaitlyn is beginning a music career in Music City, while Shawn has gotten entrepreneurial with a health and fitness website that helps people get in Bachelor or Bachelorette shape.

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Nick Viall

Two-time Bachelorette runner-up Nick Viall remains single and also was a target of embarrassing accusations in Andi Dorfman's book (apparently he's not so good at pillow talk). When he first went on The Bachelorette, he was a software sales executive, but now he mostly posts workout photos on Instagram. He lives in Chicago.

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Britt Nilsson

The other Bachelorette from Season 11, who was rejected by the guys in favor of Kaitlyn Bristowe, has recovered from that brutal moment and found love. She dated Brady Toops, who left The Bachelorette when Nilsson was eliminated in order to pursue her, for a couple of months, but it didn't work out. However, shortly after that, she got back together with her pre-Bachelorette boyfriend, Jeremy Byrne, and has been with him ever since.