Rebecca Jill Kufrin-Jacobs (born April 3, 1990)[1][2] is an American television personality, best known for her role as the winner on the 22nd season of ABC's The Bachelor and the lead of the 14th season of The Bachelorette.[3]
Kufrin was born in Benson, Minnesota,[4] and raised in Prior Lake, Minnesota,[5] the daughter of Jill and Steve Kufrin.[6][7] She has an older sister named Emily.[6] Kufrin graduated from Prior Lake High School in 2008, and obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2012.[8] Her father died of brain cancer when Kufrin was 19 years old[5] and her mother is a breast cancer survivor.[6]
Before appearing on The Bachelor, she was working at Skyya Communications, a technology public relations agency based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[8][9]
Kufrin was a contestant on Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s season of The Bachelor. After making it to the final 3, her ex-boyfriend Ross Jirgl showed up in Peru and proposed; Kufrin declined.[10] She was initially chosen by Luyendyk as the winner and accepted his proposal at the end of the season.[11] However, Luyendyk dumped Kufrin for the runner-up Lauren Burnham before the season finished airing.[3] The break-up was filmed and the raw, unedited footage was shown on the first night of the two-night finale,[12] a first for The Bachelor.[13]
After Luyendyk ended his engagement with Kufrin on air, Minnesota State Representative Drew Christensen fans raised over $6,000 for Kufrin through the Venmo app, which Kufrin in turn donated to Stand Up to Cancer. Her donation was matched by ABC[14] and later matched again by Katie Couric.[15] The Bachelor season 20 lead, Ben Higgins, also pledged to donate the profits from each bag of coffee sold from his company for a 24-hour period.[16] The day after the breakup aired, 12 billboards went up in Kufrin's hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as 4 in Los Angeles and 1 in Times Square, all showing their support for Kufrin and disgust at Luyendyk's actions.[17] During the March 10, 2018 episode of Saturday Night Live, Cecily Strong portrayed Kufrin in the cold-open, parodying the break-up.[18]
Kufrin was announced as the Bachelorette on March 6, 2018, on ABC's After the Final Rose special.[3] The season premiered on May 28, 2018.[19] In the end, Kufrin chose Garrett Yrigoyen over runner-up Blake Horstmann.[20] During the finale, she and Yrigoyen were given a minivan from ABC as a gift.[21] The couple were engaged and moved to Carlsbad, California, where they lived with their adopted corgi, Minno.[22] On September 1, 2020, Kufrin and Yrigoyen announced the end of their engagement.[23]
Kufrin made a brief appearance during season five of Bachelor in Paradise to give advice to the girls and give closure to Colton Underwood.[24] On August 9, 2021, Becca was confirmed to be a contestant on season seven.[25] She split from her partner Thomas Jacobs in week 6. They have gotten back together after filming wrapped.[26] They got engaged in May 2022 and are now married with a child.[27]
Kufrin was engaged to Arie Luyendyk Jr. from November 2017 to January 2018.[28] She was later engaged to Garrett Yrigoyen from May 2018 to August 2020.[29]
Kufrin began dating Thomas Jacobs in June 2021.[30] On May 29, 2022, they announced their engagement, and on April 26, 2023, they announced that their first child was due in September 2023.[27][31] On September 21, 2023, their son, Benson Lee Jacobs-Kufrin was born.[32][33] Kufrin and Jacobs married on October 13, 2023. [34]
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