Rehn appeared as a contestant on season 1 of ABC's The Bachelor. She finished runner-up after bachelor Alex Michel selected Amanda Marsh as the winner ahead of Rehn in the show's finale.[6]
The Bachelorette
After her appearance on The Bachelor, Rehn was selected to be featured in the gender-reversed spin-off, The Bachelorette. She chose Ryan Sutter as the winner, and the couple were married on December 6, 2003. They were paid US$1 million by ABC[7] for affording the network the right to televise their wedding ceremony, which was broadcast as the finale of a three-episode special called Trista & Ryan's Wedding. The miniseries, filmed at "The Lodge" luxury resort in Rancho Mirage, California,[8] drew over 26 million viewers.
Trista attended Indiana University where she belonged to the Alpha Mu chapter of Alpha Chi Omega.[12]
In February 2007, the Sutters told People magazine that they were expecting their first child in summer of 2007. During her seventh month of pregnancy, Trista was diagnosed with gestational diabetes that escalated into HELLP syndrome. In July 2007, Maxwell Alston was born four weeks early[13] stemming from pregnancy complications via c-section after a failed induction/stalled labor. Maxwell was first revealed to the public on the cover of Us Weekly magazine[14] and made his first on-camera appearance in a video diary series Trista recorded for Momlogic.com.[15]
Trista was ranked #7 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2003.[16]
On October 14, 2008, Trista and Ryan announced to Life and Style magazine that she was pregnant with their second child. Trista said that if the baby was another boy, they might adopt a girl. On April 3, 2009, Trista delivered daughter Blakesley Grace via C-section after battling through a brutal snowstorm in Denver that weekend.[17] In April 2009, she also confirmed that she plans to undergo the Essure permanent birth control procedure.[18]
References
^Sutter, Trista. "[home page]". Trista Sutter official website. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2020. Trista Nicole Sutter was the runner-up on Season One of the ABC reality television show The Bachelor, before becoming the star of the first season of its companion show The Bachelorette.
^"Trista N. Rehn". U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1. Retrieved December 1, 2020 – via Ancestry.com.(subscription required)
^"Trista N. Sutter". U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2. Retrieved December 1, 2020 – via Ancestry.com.(subscription required)