Consider this your PSA that Bachelor Mondays are nearly back, people! In less than a month, our newest Bachelorette Jenn Tran is set to (1) start her ~journey~ to find love, and (2) make the entire world obsess over her, because duh.
Yep, the new season of the iconic franchise arrives on July 8, and Cosmopolitan has an exclusive first look ^ above ^ at its brand-spankin' new promo. The video has everything from car racing and skydiving, to horseback riding and *checks notes* stripping?!?! TL;DR: To say the vibe of Jenn's season is iconic is a serious understatement.
“This is the moment. I'm gonna fall in love. And I'm gonna do it my way,” the physician assistant student begins in the vid. “I feel more confident than ever—I feel like the main character in my own love story. This is the beginning of a new era.”
Honestly? Let's hope the contestants really come through for Jenn, who is looking for someone with a “really big personality” who can “take it as much as they can dish it.” As she put it during the finale of Joey Graziadei's Bachelor season, “If we just spend the whole night literally making fun of each other, that would be the most ideal night ever.”
“I hope I find my person, someone that I truly feel like is 100 percent my perfect match and someone who I’m compatible with, someone who he and I can have fun and also just feel like we’re each other’s person,” she added. Obsessed. 🥺❤️
FYI, despite the word “unprecedented” being used a lot in seasons past—seriously, if we took a shot every single time we heard it, we'd be...physically unable to come into work on Tuesdays, lol—this season really *does* fit the bill. Jenn is the series' first Asian-American Bachelorette, a distinction that isn't lost on her in the slightest.
“It’s honestly incredible. I feel so so grateful and so honored to be the first Asian Bachelorette in this franchise,” she told Jesse Palmer during last season's After the Final Rose special. She added that she “always wanted to see Asian representation on TV,” but it was unfortunately “sparse.”
“Now to be here today sitting in this position being like, ‘I am going to lead my own love story. I am going to be the main character in my story,’ I just can’t help but think of how many people I’m inspiring and how many lives I am changing.” We're not crying, you are!!!
You can watch season 21 of The Bachelorette and follow Jenn's journey every Monday at 8 p.m. EST on ABC beginning July 8. And dw—in case you miss it on TV, all the episodes will be available to stream on Hulu the next day!
