The Bachelorette star Katie Thurston is owning who she is in the first promo ABC has released for her upcoming season.
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Katie, 30, picks petals off a red rose and smiles with confidence in a promo posted on The Bachelorette's official Instagram account on Sunday.
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"Katie is unapologetically herself and is ready to find the one," The Bachelorette captioned the video clip.
Katie looks beautiful in a lilac, strapless gown featuring a sexy corset while Selena Gomez's song "Ring" plays in the background.
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"I never want to stop pursuing love," Katie says in the promo. "I am who I am, and I want someone who knows who they are. My person is still out there."
Katie also throws a white T-shirt reading "BE A KATIE" over her dress and, at one point, rocks a white dress with gold, glitter heels.
The promo features throwback footage from when Katie competed on Matt James' season of The Bachelor, which filmed in late 2020 and aired earlier this year.
"I don't regret being myself. I know what I deserve," Katie said in her final words after being eliminated from Matt's lineup of women.
Fans were also reminded of how Katie stood up to bullies in the house and said, "I'm not going to let mean girls be mean girls."
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The Bachelorette promo also aired during the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday night.
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The Bachelorette's seventeenth season premieres with a two-hour episode Monday, June 7 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.
ABC had announced Katie's cast of 34 potential bachelors last month, just a few days before filming began on March 22.
According to Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone, The Bachelorette's upcoming season is in production at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, where the show's cast and crew will remain all season long amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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After longtime The Bachelor host Chris Harrison temporarily "stepped aside" from his hosting duties to educate himself "on a profound level" after defending Rachael Kirkconnell's racially-ignorant and racially-insensitive actions in the last few years, ABC asked former The Bachelorette stars Kaitlyn Bristowe and Tayshia Adams to serve as co-hosts of Season 17.
"I support Chris and everything that he's doing, and I think that this is the best decision," Katie previously said on Good Morning America, according to People.
"I really feel like this is the big reset. There have been a ton of uncomfortable conversations, but important conversations."
Katie, a 30-year-old bank marketing manager from Lynnwood, WA, was announced as The Bachelorette's next star on The Bachelor: After the Final Rose special for Matt's season in March.
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"I'm ready to find love, and not just, like, the temporary kind. I'm talking forever, my husband, and I'm in a place in my life where I feel like I'm the best version of me," Katie said during the special.
"Honestly, I've seen this work before; why can't it work for me?"
Katie was eliminated from Matt's season before hometown dates but made a lasting impression on Matt and viewers with her raunchy humor.
Matt's The Bachelor runner-up Michelle Young will be starring on The Bachelorette's eighteenth season, which will air in Fall 2021 after Katie's season wraps on television.
ABC also confirmed Bachelor in Paradise will be returning this summer with a brand new season.
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