Jen Schefft
Jennifer Schefft was originally introduced to television audiences in April 2003, during the third installment of “The Bachelor,” where she won the heart of Andrew Firestone.
Jennifer Schefft was originally introduced to television audiences in April 2003, during the third installment of “The Bachelor,” where she won the heart of Andrew Firestone.
Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft is engaged to her boyfriend, Joe Waterman, she tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Jen Schefft got a welcome surprise at the Thursday casting call in Chicago for ABC’s The Bachelorette: Plenty of interested suitors came flocking.
Jen Schefft was thrust into the national spotlight during the third season of ABC’s hit reality show “The Bachelor” when, after a whirlwind courtship, she accepted the final rose and an engagement ring from Andrew Firestone.
After college, Jen, 28, began her career as an account executive at Getty Images, a photography company in Chicago, where she worked for five years.
My life is filled with plenty of things that keep me happy and busy—yes, even without a man.
In other words, she didn’t want to be on a reality show in the first place, but she’s going on a second time and looking for someone who also doesn’t want to be there.
Although she accepted his proposal, the relationship with Firestone ultimately ended in heartbreak.
Schefft and Waterman, who both hail from Ohio, plan to marry in Chicago in 2009.
“I’ve been to dinner with Jen a couple times,” Rancic told us at a party at New York hotspot Marquee this week.
Jen Schefft is putting her heart on the line a second time as ABC’s newest Bachelorette, a year after her engagement to TV Bachelor Andrew Firestone ended.
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After leaving her friends and family in Chicago behind, she moved to San Francisco to be with the wealthy Firestone, but the high-profile couple called off the engagement after a few months.
Forget the student bars around New York University: Freshmen Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen seem to prefer to do their reveling a little farther uptown, at Chelsea hotspot Bungalow 8.
At Mentor High School, her outgoing personality led her to be a cheerleader for both football and basketball.
Jen Schefft’s TV romance with The Bachelor’s Andrew Firestone may have fizzled, but now she’s getting another shot at love – in New York – as the next star of ABC’s The Bachelorette this fall, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Though he’s having “the time of my life,” he expects his newfound fame to add to the challenge of overseeing the new Trump building in Chicago.
My husband needs to be someone who is down-to-earth yet ambitious.
Following her graduation in 1994, Jen enrolled at Ohio University in Athens, where she majored in marketing with a concentration in journalism, advertising and public relations.
The couple, who live in Chicago, met on a blind date in February.
Take a peek at the men who have made the cut so far in Jen Schefft’s quest for love, and place your bets with the odds that PEOPLE’s reality TV experts give each of the guys vying for her affections.
As for her broken engagement to Andrew Firestone following her first go on The Bachelor, Schefft says she’s moved on: “There’s a time period that you’re sad and don’t want to deal with relationships.
Jen, who resides in Chicago, remains a hopeless romantic and is optimistic about finding her husband on “The Bachelorette.”
Their matchmaker: One of Schefft’s previous blind dates, with whom she didn’t click.
“It’s just a fun movie about sisters who have a ton of money,” Haylie told us recently.
Say hello to the latest made-from-TV romance: “The Bachelor”’s Jen Schefft and “The Apprentice”’s Bill Rancic, PEOPLE reports in its latest issue.
To this day, Jen especially values her relationship with her parents, who provide her unconditional support.
I have no issues with going to the movies alone or eating dinner by myself.
Jen is from Mentor, Ohio, where she and younger brother Jason, who is a teacher, were raised by her parents, Diane, a health teacher/aerobics instructor, and Dave, a human resources manager.
