She Says She Was Rejected From The Bachelor Due To Her Size, And She’s Starting A Conversation On TikTok About The Lack Of Size Diversity On The Show
A young woman received a D.M. on Instagram from casting producers for the hit reality series The Bachelor on Instagram.
After her Zoom interview, she never heard back from them again. Could it have been because of her size?
Caroline Cronin (@carolcro0) took to TikTok to tell her story of getting “ghosted” by producers of the hit series after her interview with them.
Cronin recalls feeling like getting asked for an interview was not only very exciting for her but also encouraging.
“I’m not the typical beauty standard for what the show normally presents,” says Cronin. “They’ve done a really great job, or however you feel about it, with diversifying the cast of contestants that they bring on every year, but they never really diversify the body type of the people that are on the show.”
Cronin goes on to explain that she’s typically a size 6-8, which she assumed would not matter to the producers, considering they had scouted her on Instagram and had seen her pictures of her.
“I don’t like on my Instagram. I don’t use body filters or whatever,” explains Cronin.
She ended up responding to the message, expressing that she would love the opportunity to participate in the series, which eventually led to a casting interview over Zoom.
TikTok; pictured above is Caroline Cronin in her video
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It started off what seemed like a normal interview for a reality series on love. Cronin was asked about all her dating history, the kind of person she is, and where she’s at in her life. But then, they did something unexpected.
“They did have me stand up over Zoom, take a step back from my computer, and the guy looked at my body,” says Cronin. Then the producer gave her the “we’ll get back you” response.
“And they ghosted me like all the other men in my life,” says Cronin.
Cronin goes on to explain that she is fine with it, that although it was an exciting thing to happen to her, she’s not “heartbroken.” She didn’t receive a message saying that she wasn’t cast because she was the wrong body type, but she has the feeling that it may have been the reason.
Cronin definitely thinks there is a takeaway from this experience that fans of the reality show should draw attention to. “I just feel like we need to get a gang of people together to promote or work towards better body representation in an industry like reality T.V.”
Cronin expresses disappointment in the notion that there haven’t really been enough contestants that look like her on the series, despite her being what is simply an average size.
Cronin’s video on TikTok has generated over 1,600 comments, many of them being women expressing similar opinions. Nikki Delventhal, a former Bachelor contestant from Season 19, even commented that she actually was a size 6 on the show and that it ended up being “terrible” for her mental health.
Cronin is opening up her TikTok account as a space for those to have conversations on this matter and is encouraging people to accept the idea of a more body-inclusive Bachelor/Bachelorette.
You can learn more about Caroline’s story here.
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