From final rose to mom of five, it’s clear family is a priority for Emily Maynard Johnson.Bachelor Nation was introduced to the North Carolina native when she was a single mother to daughter Ricki.
Maynard Johnson was engaged to Ricky Hendrick when he died in an airplane accident in October 2004 at 24 years old.Viewers then watched Maynard Johnson – and her daughter — when she got engaged to Brad Womack on season 15 of The Bachelor.“I wish that I would’ve kept [my time on The Bachelor and Bachelorette] totally separate [from Ricki],” she admitted in a 2017 podcast interview. “At the time, I thought, ‘This is it,’ and I never would’ve brought her into it had I not thought that.
So I wish that I maybe would’ve taken a step back. Maybe sheltered her from that a little bit more.”After her relationship with Womack was short-lived, Maynard Johnson was named the season 8 Bachelorette.
She accepted a proposal from Jef Holm during the 2012 finale, but quickly “wondered [if] a relationship with Jef was going to work, how he would fit into Ricki’s life, if he was, in fact, ready to be a stepparent,” she recalled in her 2016 memoir.The twosome split after less than one year together and Maynard Johnson married Tyler Johnson in 2014.
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