Andi Dorfman on When She Knew Blaine Hart Was The One — and Whether They Are Competitive on Race Day

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Running to the altar! Andi Dorfman is opening up to Us Weekly about her relationship with Blaine Hart as they prepare to wed — and run a second race together.“I didn’t ever think he wasn’t The One,” the 35-year-old former Bachelorette exclusively told Us on Tuesday, March 7, while discussing the couple’s upcoming participation in the 2023 United Airlines NYC Half. “I don’t remember having that moment where I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, this is the man I’m gonna marry.’ We weren’t ever not together, and we never had a bad time and it just built up into what we have now.”Dorfman and Hart reconnected in Italy during summer 2021 after briefly meeting in college.“He’s not watching The Bachelor [or] The Bachelorette, but of course, he knew about it,” she told Us about reconnecting with her now-fiancé after she starred on season 10 of The Bachelorette. “Especially back when I did it, it was a huge deal.

It still is huge, but you couldn’t avoid The Bachelor [or] Bachelorette when I did it. He definitely knew about it. He has no plans of watching it, which I’m totally fine with.

I don’t want him to watch when I was, like, 28 years old — I’m good! We can leave that in the past.”Following her stint on season 18 of The Bachelor, she got engaged to Josh Murray during the 2014 finale of her season.

The twosome later split and Dorfman released two books about dating, becoming a source of support for her single followers. She recently reminded her fans that she still has their back even though she’s now happily taken.“I had done a Story of something cute.