Jason Mesnick’s Season 13 of ‘The Bachelor’: Where Are They Now?
Season 13 of The Bachelor may not have had a traditional ending, but Jason Mesnick managed to find happiness while making reality TV history.
Viewers first met the Seattle resident on season 4 of The Bachelorette. After DeAnna Pappas turned down his proposal, Jason, a single father at the time, was named the 13th Bachelor. While Jason found love and proposed to Melissa Rycroft during the 2009 finale, he later changed his mind and revealed he wanted to pursue a relationship with runner-up Molly Malaney.
Jason broke the news to Melissa during the After the Final Rose special, which was taped with no audience six weeks after their proposal.
“I didn’t watch it the first time around. And now it’s been what, 11 years? I don’t really need to go back because it’s so far away,” Melissa told Us Weekly in January 2020 after season 13 started streaming on Netflix. “However, of course, I’m getting sent screenshots, and memes, and stuff that people are now watching and finding. I had, like, the poof in my hair. I was wearing tank tops and scarves, it was a mess. There was no YouTube to show us how to contour or makeup. … I mean, it’s just an embarrassing time that was documented that people are getting to relive it again.”
Molly, meanwhile, agreed to give Jason another chance after he officially broke things off with Melissa. After 10 months of dating, he proposed in October 2009.
“I tell this to everyone who asks, ‘What have you learned? What’s the biggest piece of advice you would give people?’ It’s to not care what other people think. If I would’ve listened to what everyone around me was saying after the show, I wouldn’t have stayed with Jason, and we’ve been married for 10 years,” Molly explained Rachel Lindsay and Becca Kufrin on their “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast in July 2020. “It’s no fun to live life the way other people want you to live your life. You can’t be authentic to yourself then. You’ve got to not care what other people think and just block out the noise.”
ABC revisited season 13 in August 2020 as part of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons Ever. Melissa took to Instagram the night before the special aired to reflect on the show.
“Considering what is about to air tomorrow, let me just say: I am SOOO glad that it happened – all of it!” she wrote alongside a photo with husband Tye. “I wouldn’t be with this guy, I wouldn’t have my babies, I wouldn’t have my career, and I wouldn’t be who I am today if it hadn’t happened – even the way it happened. It was totally embarrassing but totally worth it 
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Scroll through for an update on the biggest names from Jason’s season:
Fans watched Jason and Molly exchange vows in February 2010. The twosome live in Seattle with Jason’s son, Ty, and their daughter Riley (born 2013). While Molly works as a radio morning show host for 106.1 KISS FM, Jason is a real estate broker.
Courtesy Molly Mesnick/Instagram; ABC
Melissa reconnected with ex Tye Strickland shortly after her split from Jason. The pair, who wed in December 2009, share three kids: Ava (2011), Beckett (2014) and Cayson (2016). In addition to filming eight-episodes of their own CMT show, Melissa & Tye, in 2012, Melissa has made several appearances on the network’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team and hosted season 5 of Redneck Island. She also competed on season eight of Dancing With the Stars and later won the All-Stars season of the competition in 2012.
Melissa and Tye, who live in Dallas, host a podcast called “Logically Irrational.”
Courtesy Melissa Rycroft/Instagram; ABC
ABC named Jillian the fifth Bachelorette in 2009. While she accepted a proposal from Ed Swiderski, they split several months after the finale aired. She subsequently started seeing Justin Pasutto. The duo, who have been engaged since 2016, share son Leo (2016) and daughter Annie (2018).
Jillian, an interior designer, has made appearances on several reality shows in Canada and hosted Love It or List It Vancouver from 2013 to 2019.
ABC; Courtesy Jillian Harris/Instagram
It’s hard for Bachelor Nation to forget Naomi’s hometown date with Jason as her mother, Joanne, insisted the Bachelor do the eulogy for a dove she hit with her car. Naomi, however, said in post-show interviews at the time that she didn't blame her mom for Jason sending her home. According to her blog, which hasn’t been updated since 2014, Naomi married her childhood friend David in 2011.
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Stephanie raises her now-teenage daughter, Sophia, in Alabama.
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Lauren and husband Brian live in Florida with son Aaron and daughter Adriana.
ABC; Courtesy Lauren Wanger/Instagram
Megan, who sells organic CBD and resides in New York City, is the mother of son Deacon.
Courtesy Megan Parris/Instagram; ABC
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