Taylor Frankie Paul desires any of her potential The Bachelorette suitors to know that she’s a proud single mom.
“Me when the lads step out of the limo,” Taylor, 31, wrote on a Thursday, September 18, Instagram video of herself dancing in a sports activities bra and leggings.
Within the clip, Taylor lip-synched to Huda Mustafa’s now-viral Love Island USA monologue about parenthood. (Throughout season 7, which aired this summer season, the 24-year-old informed fellow Islander Nic Vansteenberghe that she was “a mommy” earlier than he requested if Huda was a pet mum or dad as an alternative of the mum or dad of a human little one.)
“‘A mother of what?’” Taylor captioned her publish. “BYE 🌹.”
Taylor shares daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband Tate Paul, in addition to son Ever, 17 months, with ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen.
After Taylor and Dakota, 32, cut up for good earlier this yr, ABC named the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star as the brand new Bachelorette.
“I’m most trying ahead to assembly a handful of individuals which might be outdoors my bubble — and even when there’s a pair in there, that’s OK — however I’m simply excited to get to know completely different views and new components about myself too,” Taylor solely informed Us Weekly after the announcement. “It’s out of my consolation zone, so, clearly, it’s scary. You’re coping with emotions — and also you’re coping with different folks’s emotions — and I don’t actually like to harm different folks’s emotions, particularly whenever you’re being susceptible and open.”
Whereas Taylor admitted that it is going to be “actually exhausting” to ship contestants house, she’s nonetheless open to the chance that she meets The One and will get engaged.
“That’s the objective right here, and as my mother likes to say, I do fall in love rapidly, and that’s additionally the explanation I did it,” Taylor informed Us. “I all the time name myself a lover lady as a result of I fall for folks and I’ve accomplished that previously. Clearly, I received married younger, and the primary man I dated was my second child daddy — so it was simply very fast.”
She continued, “This time, it’s going to be actually cool as a result of … I’m about up to now, you understand, 20 [or] 30 guys, and I’ve by no means accomplished that earlier than. I’m going to take my time, I’m going to sort of, like, get to know folks. Perhaps I realized issues I didn’t like or do like that I didn’t even know. So I feel that is gonna be actually good for the long-term impact.”
Taylor is hardly the primary single mum or dad to hitch Bachelor Nation. Former leads Jason Mesnick and Emily Maynard every had children from earlier relationships once they appeared because the present lead, as had a lot of different contestants.
Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette is about to premiere in 2026.
