"The Bachelor," where he met Lauren Bushnell. The two got engaged, but split 14 months later. In reflecting on his TV life, he said, "All of a sudden I go from feeling like I'm an outsider to, over a period of time, having enough people tell me that I'm awesome to start feeling pretty good about [myself.] I start building an identity around that.
I started to really feel like, 'Oh, my gosh, this is the thing that I was needing to fill me. … I'll be in the in-group forever.'"Ben admits to initially loving his fame, but that started to fade.
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