‘Bachelor in Paradise’ star evacuated to hospital for bathroom problems turns crappy situation into positive lesson

nypost.com:

Samantha Jeffries is using the unwanted fame she received from her televised experience of being backed up for 12 days to release a children’s book, “Sam Can’t Poop.”The red-haired beauty gets stopped by fans of the ABC dating series — where alums from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” mingle on the beach in Mexico — who remember her inability to make No.

2, which prompted medical intervention and a tearful early exit.“I was at a pool in Scottsdale, and this mom and daughter come up to me and they go, ‘Are you the poop girl from ‘The Bachelor?’ And I was like, ‘I can’t believe that’s how people know me, but yes,'” Jeffries, 29, told The Post. “And the mom was like, ‘Every time I poop, I think of you.'” Jeffries, an occupational therapist based in Cincinnati, OH, works with many children who struggle in the bathroom, and she and her former co-worker-turned-co-author, Carly Nguyen, had the idea for a kids’ book to help “normalize pooping” before she even went on the show.

It’s out Aug. 27.“Several of our kids have issues going to the bathroom. A lot of kids are just scared of it. They feel like they’re losing a body part.

It’s a sensory thing,” she explained. “So after ‘Paradise’ happened, I called her immediately and I was like, ‘This is it. This is our sign.'”The reality star recalled her harrowing constipation crisis during 2023’s Season 9, where she was bloated and in pain in 100-degree heat in Puerto Vallarta.“It got to the point about a week in, I couldn’t even fit in my clothes,” she said. “I looked pregnant.” The show’s on-set physician, Dr.