August 11, 2023 • bachelor insider
Trista Sutter Reveals If She Would Support Her Kids Going on a Bachelor Nation Show
Future Bachelor or Bachelorette?!
Trista Sutter met her husband Ryan Sutter on Season 1 of “The Bachelorette,” and now she’s stopping by for a chat on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast and revealing whether she’d support their kids going on the shows.
Trista and Ryan share two children — Max, 16, and Blakesley, 14 — and the mom of two told co-hosts Serena Pitt and Joe Amabile that she would support them if they wanted to go on a Bachelor Nation show.
Trista said, “I would be so hypocritical if I told either one of them not to do it. So number one, I couldn’t tell them no. It’s how I met their father and how they actually exist. I will say, if they wanted to, I can guarantee you that Max will never go on a show like this. He is so similar to his father. He’s not drawn to that kind of stuff. But my daughter, on the other hand, I could totally see her wanting to do something like that.”
The former Bachelorette said her daughter has actually already considered going on a different reality TV show.
Trista said, “We’ve actually talked about ‘Dancing with the Stars Juniors’ and she is a dancer and I literally wrote the casting team about it. I know that she would do something like that or I could see her doing it, but Max definitely wouldn’t. He’s not really part of this conversation.”
She went on, “For her, I’d just give her a whole lot of advice and we’d have a lot of conversations about what happens on the show. She’s been back for the ‘Bachelorette’ reunion. She came with me. She loves all of those ladies. It was the cutest thing seeing her with JoJo, Rachel, Kaitlyn, and all of them. It was really sweet.”
And Trista revealed how she would feel if either of her kids did decide to go on “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette.”
She said, “I could see her wanting to do it. Would we be happy about it? It would a little scary for me, but I’d be a total hypocrite if I said no, so I’d have to say yes. The fact of the matter is, I still believe in the premise of the show, and I know I’m old school — I’m the OG — but I believe that people can fall in love through the show. Is it totally untraditional and crazy? Yes, it is, but I still believe that it can happen. So because of that, if either of my kids wanted to do it, then of course I would support it.”
Maybe we’ll see the first Bachelor Nation kid taking on the show for themselves sooner than we think!
Check out more of Trista’s conversation on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast below.