‘The Bachelor’ Alum Bekah Martinez Slams Critic Of Her Hairy Legs

“The Bachelor” alum Bekah Martinez is completed staying silent in relation to on-line critics focusing on her look, particularly in relation to her physique hair.

The 30-year-old actuality star and influencer, who rose to fame on Season 22 of the ABC courting collection, clapped again at a commenter who recommended her fiancé of three years, Grayston Leonard, have to be “grossed out” by her pure physique hair.

Bekah Martinez, who shares her life with over 1 million social media followers, used the second to get candid about her physique hair journey, which started in 2018 whereas pregnant together with her first little one.

“I ended shaving seven years in the past and I nonetheless get messages like this on a regular basis,” Bekah wrote Tuesday in a strong Instagram submit. “And for the file, Grey went to a liberal arts faculty in Oregon, so he’s had his justifiable share of gross razor-less girls.”

“I needed my daughter (and my future sons) to see that hair on a girl’s physique is regular. Not shameful. Not gross,” the “Bekah & Pals” podcast host continued. “I needed to show that physique hair shouldn’t be ‘masculine,’ as a result of I’m a girl. And so, my physique hair is female.”

The previous “Bachelor” contestant went on to explain the societal stress she confronted rising up, recalling how academics and coaches would tease her about her jet-black leg stubble, one thing that bolstered the idea her physique was “mistaken.” Although she admits she nonetheless doesn’t “love” her physique hair and typically feels self-conscious in public, she says the discomfort now not controls her.

“When [my daughter] Ruth factors and says, ‘Mother, my legs seem like yours’ with none ounce of disgrace, it’s all price it.”

Martinez shares three kids, Ruth, 6, Franklin, 5, and Ernest, 21 months, with Leonard, 35, the founding father of Lengthy Seaside Rising Climbing Fitness center. The couple started courting in January 2018 and now dwell a self-sustaining way of life in Los Angeles, the place they elevate rabbits for meat and chickens for eggs.

Bekah, who made historical past as the primary pixie-cut contestant on “The Bachelor,” was eradicated seventh by Arie Luyendyk Jr. throughout his 2018 season. Arie finally selected runner-up Lauren Burnham, whom he married in 2019.

Since her actuality TV days, Martinez has constructed a profitable influencer profession with partnerships together with Araza Magnificence, Brooklinen, Membership Med Cancun, and Osea Malibu.

She additionally made headlines in 2023 for revealing that she started potty coaching child Ernest at simply 9 weeks outdated.

In a collection of candid Instagram Tales posts, the “Bachelor” alum opened up about working towards elimination communication — a technique of early potty coaching that includes responding to an toddler’s cues, and the way unexpectedly efficient it’s been together with her son.

“Additionally, with reference to diapers… elimination communication is wild,” Martinez wrote, sharing a photograph of child Ernest sitting on a tiny potty whereas nursing. “By no means actually tried it with the opposite two children, however I’ve sat Ernest on a bit potty a couple of dozen occasions after he wakes up and each single time, he is peed instantly and often poops too.”

She admitted she as soon as believed the tactic was a fluke, till she tried it herself.

“I all the time thought it was simply coincidence once I heard different folks speaking about getting their toddler to go on a potty,” she continued. “However no, I don’t know the best way to clarify it, nevertheless it’s like he is aware of, instantly once I undress him and put the little potty beneath, he begins going.”

Some followers chimed in with theories, suggesting the temperature change would possibly set off the potty response, however Bekah additionally acknowledged that diaper use would possibly truly delay potty coaching in the long term.