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Interview - Jillian Harris is 'The Bachelorette'
Recently The Bachelorette began its fifth season and Jillian Harris, this year's lucky lady, sat down with journalists to discuss her thoughts, feelings, and predictions for this season of The The Bachelorette.
ABC has yet to halt production on the reality dating series, causing Harris to keep her lips sealed on all the juicy questions, but she did tell reporters enough to keep us wanting more, especially when it comes to marriage.
"I can't tell you whether it would end in marriage. But all of the people that I have left are remarkable people, and I have not met anybody like these guys," said Harris.
"It's so difficult to know how to choose the right person in the end. And as you know I have not chosen that person yet, so I'm still struggling with that decision."
Even though Harris doesn't know how her fairy tale will end, she was able to shed some light on the suitors clamoring for her affection.
"They're all very different," she said. "And they all make me feel differently, but I can tell you that they are wonderful guys, and I think I've made some really, really great choices."
Harris also said that she hopes to find a guy who can handle her quirky qualities.
"I need somebody who embraces it and who finds humor in it. And who also has a little, yes, some humor and some of their own quirky characteristics for sure. I definitely don't want perfection. I'm not looking for perfection," she told reporters.
"It's really scary, but like I said before, the possibility of me finding somebody and this whole experience. Just all the guys that I've met and the places I've traveled and the feelings that I've had, make it worth it."
Luckily for Harris' suitors, Jillian doesn't care if her future husband is American or Canadian.
"I didn't know there was not going to be any. But when they all came out the first night, it was one of the first things that I thought. And then I sort of thought to myself, 'Okay what if there were three or four Canadian guys. What are the chances that one of those guys would be the one that I choose?'" she explained to reporters.
"When I put it into perspective and I sort of thought, 'I am a Canadian. I am a very proud Canadian.' But I've learned a lot that there's not a huge difference between American guys and Canadian guys, so I'm okay with that."
Harris finished third on The Bachelor's thirteenth season last fall when she was rejected by Jason Mesnick during the second-to-last Rose Ceremony. Mesnick soon after selected Melissa Rycroft over Molly Malaney during the show's finale, only to later decide to dump Rycroft on-air for a second chance with Malaney.
When being asked how she felt about being chosen third behind Rycroft and Malaney to be this season's Bachelorette, Harris took it with great humility.
"I was a third choice on last season. I know what that feels like. I'm comfortable with that," she told reporters. "Obviously there's going to be other people that are considered for this role."
Harris said she doesn't feel like your typical Bachelorette, and that she doesn't "fit the mold of The Bachelorette very well" and was "very surprised" to be asked.
"So no, it doesn't come as a surprise to me that they would have asked Melissa and Molly. They're both very beautiful, talented, outgoing, personable girls," she said.
"And just also me being placed third on The Bachelor sort of naturally places either one of them as the natural choice. So I mean, no, it doesn't make me feel like I'm third. It makes me feel really happy that they declined."
Harris almost didn't take the job when approached by ABC, but after thinking about it, she decided to sign-on out of curiosity.
"It's just curiosity... I just had no idea that I would even have the opportunity," she told reporters.
"But once you get that little ticket and somebody says, 'Do you want to give this a try?' I always thought, well, I'm still single, and last season was definitely hard. But I learned a lot about myself, and what's the harm in giving it a shot?"
In addition, Harris guaranteed viewers that she's "not here to date and mess around with 30 guys."
"I'm here to hopefully find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. And that is a very, very serious thing for me," she explained.
Since Harris is still filming The Bachelorette, and the show doesn't have an ending yet, Harris said she's even considered following in the footsteps of former The Bachelor star Brad Womack and not selecting a final suitor.
"Yes, that's something I've been thinking about a lot," she said. "There's nobody saying that I have to get engaged."
Harris said being on The Bachelor taught her a lot, including to "be open and vulnerable and to be myself" — which has been quite useful while being The Bachelorette.
"I think I was so afraid to show emotion, and I was so afraid to be vulnerable that I may have sold myself short, and in this season, I'm definitely not doing that," she told reporters.
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