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Ali Fedotowsky
Paul Archuleta/Getty Images\Ali Fedotowsky chooses to honor late The Bachelor competitor Gia Allemand through her eating habits.
Fedotowsky, 40, explained on the episode Monday, December 23, of Kaitlyn Bristowe‘s “Off the vine” podcast that she was “so sick” while hosting a travel show called First Look and eating different foods. While at an event for The Bachelor in New York, Fedotowsky began discussing her struggles with Allemand.
“I tell her how I feel, she’s like, ‘You should try being a pescetarian. I have been a pescetarian for years. I feel so good.’ Which means, like, just eating fish and stuff. I was like, ‘Okay,’” Fedotowsky said. “And so we have this dinner, and then, like, 10 days later, she dies.”
After appearing on Jake Pavelka‘s season 14 of The Bachelor in 2010 alongside Fedotowsky, Allemand died by suicide aged 29 in 2013.
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“After that, I thought, like, ‘Oh, I’m going to be a pescetarian for two weeks,’ like at that dinner we had,” Fedotowsky said. “And when that happened, every time I went to get a bite of meat, or think about it, I couldn’t, because I was thinking about Gia.”
Fedotowsky continued, “I haven’t had one bite of meat since that dinner I had with her, like, 14 years, 13 years ago, and I’ve been a vegetarian ever since.”
The before Bachelorette she explained that she “hadn’t really told that story fully” until now. “I’ve kind of, like said, like, briefly in an Instagram story here or there, but that’s the reason to this day,” he said.
Fedotowsky, who went on to marry Kevin Manno in 2017, she explained that her husband had gone on to omit meat from his diet as well. (Fedotowsky and Manno, 41, share a daughter Molly, 8, and her son Riley, 6.)
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“My husband, he was a full-on meat eater when I met him, and then we watched some documentaries, and he immediately became vegan at that point,” she said. “Now, it’s not, because we live in the south and it’s harder to find stuff.”
Recalling her friendship with Allemand, Fedotowsky explained that the two reconnected after the show.
“We’re actually putting our heads down a bit The Bachelorbut then she came back together after anything which even says more about the kind of person she is,” Fedotowsky said, calling Allemand “so lovely.”
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