‘Bachelor in Paradise’ star evacuated to hospital for bathroom problems turns crappy situation into positive lesson
Samantha Jeffries is using the unwanted fame she received from her televised experience of being backed up for 12 days to release a children’s book, “Sam Can’t Poop.”The red-haired beauty gets stopped by fans of the ABC dating series — where alums from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” mingle on the beach in Mexico — who remember her inability to make No.
2, which prompted medical intervention and a tearful early exit.“I was at a pool in Scottsdale, and this mom and daughter come up to me and they go, ‘Are you the poop girl from ‘The Bachelor?’ And I was like, ‘I can’t believe that’s how people know me, but yes,'” Jeffries, 29, told The Post. “And the mom was like, ‘Every time I poop, I think of you.'” Jeffries, an occupational therapist based in Cincinnati, OH, works with many children who struggle in the bathroom, and she and her former co-worker-turned-co-author, Carly Nguyen, had the idea for a kids’ book to help “normalize pooping” before she even went on the show.
It’s out Aug. 27.“Several of our kids have issues going to the bathroom. A lot of kids are just scared of it. They feel like they’re losing a body part.
It’s a sensory thing,” she explained. “So after ‘Paradise’ happened, I called her immediately and I was like, ‘This is it. This is our sign.'”The reality star recalled her harrowing constipation crisis during 2023’s Season 9, where she was bloated and in pain in 100-degree heat in Puerto Vallarta.“It got to the point about a week in, I couldn’t even fit in my clothes,” she said. “I looked pregnant.” The show’s on-set physician, Dr.
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