Dating after “The Bachelor” isn’t any bed of roses.
Chelsea Vaughn, who competed on the truth show in 2021, lifted the veil on finding love after being jilted by the leading man of the series, which is airing its Season 27 finale on March 27.
“Dating in Recent York was already hard enough before I went on the show,” Vaughn, 30, told The Post.
Now it’s even harder.
“Being within the “Bachelor” world, you get all the negatives of being famous and none of the nice parts … we’re not actually famous, but I can’t go anywhere without people recognizing me, coming as much as me, and taking my picture.”
The runway model applied for the show in June 2020 because she was drawn to its leading man, Matt James, the primary black “Bachelor,” who happened to survive the Lower East Side.
She was eliminated on week six and returned home to Bushwick in November 2020 — but contractually wasn’t allowed to be on dating apps or publicly dating for 4 months, until the episode through which she was kicked off aired.
“It form of puts your personal life on hold because you have got the months that you simply’re filming after which there’s months in between after which it airs and you have got those months,” she explained.
When she was allowed to resume courting, she was hesitant to get back on dating apps.
After a stint on “Bachelor in Paradise,” the franchise’s summer dating series where castoffs gather on the beach, she joined the elite dating app Raya for a yr.
“It wasn’t the most effective for me. I didn’t go on any dates from there,” she said. “I feel like a few of the people on Raya are only there to see and be seen.”
She did just like the privacy Raya affords because users can’t screenshot others’ information and share it on social media — which Vaughn experienced firsthand when she returned to civilian life and forgot to delete her old dating profiles.
“I saw it underneath my name on Reddit. Someone had screenshot my dating profile and within the comments section, all of them just dissected it,” she recalled.
Vaughn, who launched a podcast, “Vaughnerable,” last yr, said gaining exposure from the ABC series does assist in her skilled life — but not relating to finding a mate.
The Georgia native assumed men could be clueless about her reality star status for the reason that show’s audience skews 77 percent toward women.
“But I’ve been on dates where I believed they didn’t know, after which like two hours into the date, they told me that they did,” she said. “One said his roommates told him, ‘It’s best to bring her home so we will meet her.’”
She quickly got here to understand potential suitors already had a leg up.
“Whenever you go on a primary date with someone, you ought to go on it with a blank slate,” she said. “It’s an unfair advantage for those who Googled me … I realize it was a national television show, but I did share personal things.”
It’s also hard to fulfill people offline. Men do approach her, but it surely’s mostly to ask for a photograph to bring home to their significant others.
“Often it’s ‘Oh my God, I watch the show with my girlfriend, can I get an image?’” she explained.
“But sometimes they do hit on you, like right after they are saying that and I’m like, ‘Do you have got a girlfriend or not?’”
