Kaitlyn Bristowe is going through a tough time after her split from fiancé Jason Tartick. Earlier this week the Bachelor Nation alum announced she and Tartick called it quits after four years of being together. On the August 8 episode of Bristowe’s Off the Vine podcast, she talked with Jenny Wise Black about her difficult time. Moreover, she revealed why she is now questioning her choice of having kids.
Kaitlyn Bristowe the break-up is affecting her mental health so much
The 38-year-old told her therapist, “I’m going through a breakup with someone I was engaged to. Now we both are public figures, we both came from the same show. We have all these followers who we’ve let in and we’ve invited them into our lives and our relationship and our home, what we’re doing morning, afternoon, and night. It’s become part of business, but also I feel I’m supposed to entertain.”
Moreover, she said of the split, “It’s a loss, it’s grief. You’re going through the thought of losing somebody, all of these big emotions and now these people are on the other end of this phone, expecting you to share it with them while you’re going through it.”
Later on, she accepted to be “holding so much responsibility” to her online followers and fans and it’s been “affecting my mental health so much.
“I have a huge fear of having kids because of all of this, because of what life could look like in 10 years with all the things we’re talking about,” she said as a reason for the negative impacts of social media to her break-up. “And I always thought having a family, I can’t wait. I want to be a mom, all these things. Each year that goes on, I get more and more terrified to have kids. And then there’s shame around that too. How could you not want to? That’s what you were born to do is procreate and do this.”
Later on, she added, “I can’t answer to it. I can’t take that on as a responsibility for their feelings. I’m a mega empath and I do take that on. When I saw that, I was like, ‘Yeah, I can’t go on social media.'”
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