The Bachelorette star Jenn Tran has revealed if she has any regrets from her experience filming the show's 21st season.
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"I honestly don't have any regrets," Jenn told BachelorNation.com.
"I really feel like I tried to be myself the most that I could be, and I learned the most [I could] because of everything. So no, I don't really have any regrets because I think everything played out the way it's supposed to play out."
Jenn said she feels like "a completely different person" post-filming but, overall, she is "very happy with it all."
Jenn, however, admitted that "of course" she feels pressure being The Bachelor franchise's first-ever Asian lead.
"A lot of it actually comes from me wanting to be a good role model and do it 'right,' whatever that means," Jenn shared.
"At the end of the day, I tell myself that it's just about being myself and telling my story the best that I can."
Jenn ultimately came to the conclusion that her goal for starring on The Bachelorette had to be something bigger than just pleasing people.
"It's not necessarily about pleasing other people, which I do have a problem with, because I want everyone to be able to relate and learn from me," Jenn said.
"At the end of the day, I'm just so grateful and honored to be the first Asian American lead and to be able to tell my story and have people learn from it. I'm excited for [that]."
Jenn had 25 bachelors to choose from on Night 1 at Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, CA -- not at the usual Bachelor mansion in Malibu -- when the show began filming in late March, and production wrapped in May.
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"I'm honestly really excited for everyone to just see it," Jenn recently gushed on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
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Jenn acknowledged how people already have "a lot of opinions" about her season -- many of which are negative -- but she knows "how amazing it's going to be."
Jenn 2shared, "I know what a dream it was for me, and I'm so excited!"
When asked to share the "opinions" she's heard about her The Bachelorette season, Jenn admitted, "A lot of people wanted somebody else [to be the star], or they're wishing that I was American... There's just a lot of people who want to have input on it."
Jenn added, "You just can't win. There are people who are like, 'She's too crazy,' or, 'She's too boring,' or, 'She wants to take shots.' God forbid I want to take a shot!"
The Bachelorette star potentially hinted at her ending when she continued to vent, "I didn't know that once you get engaged you can't take a shot -- or when you find love you can't take a shot! So it's crazy how many people have an opinion about it."
Jenn also teased that her The Bachelorette ending is going to be quite the shocker.
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Jenn recently teased of The Bachelorette's 21st season in an interview with Kaitlyn Bristowe at CMA Fest, "The ending of my season is also something that has never happened before."
Jenn, however, declined to share details about her supposed never-before-seen outcome of The Bachelorette at the time.
The Bachelorette host Jesse Palmer even wrote on one of Jenn's Instagram comments that calling her season "crazy" is "an understatement."
In a promo of Jenn's upcoming The Bachelorette season, Jenn boasts about how she's "going to fall in love" and is "going to do it my way."
She adds, "I feel more confident than ever. I feel like the main character in my own love story."
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Joey Graziadei eliminated Jenn before his Final 4 women's hometown dates on The Bachelor's 28th season, which wrapped earlier this year on ABC.
Click here to read spoilers about how Jenn's The Bachelorette season ends, including her winner and runner-up.
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