After a bad break-up with Brad Womack, it seems that everything is finally coming up roses for Bachelor winner Emily Maynard. The North Carolina single mom is reportedly the newest Bachelorette (via People). Emily, 25, was previously engaged to Womack, 38, but their rocky relationship ended last summer.
"I wanted to be married and have more children, but I doubted he was going to still want to be with me," the southern charmer told Bachelor host Chris Harrison in a tear-filled July 2011 interview. "As a single mom, I don't have the luxury of saying 'we'll figure it out when we get there.' I need that reassurance that he'd want to be with me six weeks down the road much less six years."
Maynard had reportedly been courted by ABC to appear on The Bachelorette many times, but she was reluctant to be away from her 6-year-old daughter Ricki (named for her father, NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, who was killed in a plane crash in 2004). ABC was apparently so eager to have her that they have decided to relocate the eighth season of The Bachelorette to North Carolina so that she can still be near her young daughter.