Opening up.

Bachelor Nation fans first met Abigail Heringer on Season 25 of “The Bachelor,” and she went on to find love with Noah Erb on Season 7 of “Bachelor in Paradise.”

During her time on the Bachelor Nation shows, Abigail opened up about her hearing loss and how she wears a cochlear implant.

Since her time on the shows, Abigail has been sharing her life with Bachelor Nation on social media, including many posts about being deaf, where she educates her hundreds of thousands of followers.

This week as a part of her “Hear Me Out” series, Abi opened up about what caused her hearing loss and the likelihood it could be passed on to her and Noah’s future children.

Abi started off her video by saying, “I’ve never actually shared what caused my hearing loss, so let’s dive into it and I’ll also share the likelihood of Noah and I having deaf children.”

She shared the reason for her hearing loss, saying, “Both my sister and I have hearing loss due to what’s called connexin 26. While my mom and biological dad were hearing, they both carried this recessive gene. With this recessive gene, there was a one in four chance of Rachel and I being born deaf. And the odds just happened to work that way twice in a row.”

Abigail also shared a little more about the specific genetic mutation she has, explaining, “Connexin 26 is the most common cause for a profound hearing loss. It’s non-syndromic, meaning that there’s usually no other medical issues with this mutation except hearing loss. My mom didn’t do any genetic testing before I was born.”

In kindergarten, she eventually underwent genetic testing to figure out what was causing the hearing loss and that’s when she learned that it was the connexin 26.

Abigail got candid about whether she is likely to pass this genetic mutation on to her future children.

She said, “When it comes time that Noah and I are ready to start a family, not anytime soon, he would also need to have the connexin 26 recessive gene in order for our child to have the one in four probability of being born deaf.”

Abigail went on, saying, “Some of you guys asked if we would do the genetic testing beforehand and we just decided that it wasn’t necessary for us. A lot of parents opt to do it to help relieve any surprises or to even help them better prepare, but it was a personal choice to not do it. No matter how our child is born, deaf or not, we’ll handle it as a family and go from there.”