Page Six, the new "Extra" correspondent said, "All the time, I look back and say, 'What if?' It's like 'what if,' because I laughed when my co-workers came into my office and said you should do 'The Bachelor.' And then when they offered me 'The Bachelorette,' I told them no."What changed her mind?"It was a mother coming up to me saying, 'I heard you're going to be on 'The Bachelorette.' My daughter stopped watching the show, but she's gonna start watching it again because there's [minority] representation," Rachel recalled.
She immediately knew she had to take the gig."I said, OK, then I have to do 'The Bachelorette.' I wasn't even thinking about the bigger picture," she said. "But now I don't even recognize myself, like, 'Who am I?' One.
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