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.
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