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The Bachelorette is a spin-off from the American competitive reality dating game show The Bachelor. In its January 2003 debut on ABC, the first season featured Trista Rehn, the runner-up date from the first season of The Bachelor, offering the opportunity for Rehn to choose a husband among 25 bachelors.

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Tonight, Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock, 27, will conclude her season of the romance reality show, book-ending a drama-filled journey. How will she proceed now that her former frontrunner, Brooks Forester, has left the show? Will she find love with one of the two remaining men?

It's been 14 years since The Bachelor debuted on ABC in 2002. Since that first season, the show has grown by monstrous proportions. On Monday night, Ben Higgins, Season 11 Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristow's rejected bachelor, met the 28 women he will casually date for the next few months.

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One of the only marriages that have actually materialized from The Bachelor franchise happened the very first time ABC gambled by switching it up with The Bachelorette. Memorable first Bachelorette Trista Rehn married Ryan Sutter in 2003 after he proved to be the only man for her. They are still going strong nearly a decade later with two children, Maxwell and Blakesley. At least one couple got a happy ending!

Bride-to-be Kaitlyn Bristowe isn't the only star of The Bachelorette with big life changes on the horizon! More than one former bachelorette recently announced their pregnancies.

Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff from 2015 (Status: SO OVER): These two seemed so right when Whitney admitted she'd move to Arlington, Iowa for Chris. But a little bit after his stint on Dancing with the Stars, the two announced in May 2015 that they were calling off their engagement!

Bride-to-be Kaitlyn Bristowe isn't the only star of The Bachelorette with big life changes on the horizon! More than one former bachelorette recently announced their pregnancies. The track record for successful couples on the spinoff is quite high