Taylor Nolan, a former contestant on The Bachelor, made some edgy revelations in a recent interview, many of them centered around her romantic and sexual life. She says she's not necessarily interested in a relationship with one person at a time, for one thing, and she's also not just interested in cis-gendered men. Read on for details.
Bachelor Nation alum Taylor Nolan is opening up about her love life after the show.
Nolan, 27, first appeared on Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor before appearing on Bachelor in Paradise, where she and Derek Peth got engaged.
Nolan, a therapist, joined Chris Harrison on Monday night as part of the franchise's The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!, and shared with the host that she's explored "poly-type relationships" since she and Peth broke up in 2018.
"Pretty single and safely mingling," she told Harrison of her current relationship status. "It's been a really interesting last kind of two and a half-ish years of experimenting, of exploring kind of what kind of a relationship I want to be in."
"I've definitely kind of experimented more with poly-type relationships," she said. Polyamory is a relationship that involves more than one partner.
"And love doesn't have to present itself in this fairy tale, heterosexual, non-monogamous dynamic. Like, it can look many different ways... If you're hot, you're hot."
"Trans people are hot, non-binary people are hot, men are hot, women are hot. Like, it's a full spectrum of attractiveness," she said.
Nolan shared with Harrison that it was tough to look back on Viall's season — but she was ultimately proud of the way she handled herself.
"I watched it back for the first time since it aired, and that was, I thought, going to be really, really hard," she said. "But it was kind of a bit of a mindf—, because I was being attacked that I was a bully while I was actually being bullied."
"Looking back, I think I was a pretty easy target. I was pretty easy to manipulate and finally at the two-on-one, I think I cracked, and I finally snapped back and stood up for myself and was like... 'I'm not going to take this anymore.' So watching that back, I was like, 'You go, girl!'"
After recording her interview with Harrison, Nolan shared a selfie on Instagram, saying in the caption that she "stood my ground and showed up authentically in a space where I was small, shrunk myself, filtered myself, was triggered and didn’t feel safe."
