From Reality TV to Real Life: Katie Thurston’s Journey

Barely Famous

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Talk Radio, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Today Kail sits down with former Bachelorette Katie Thurston to talk sex positivity, life after The Bachelor, and her stand-up comedy journey. Katie opens up about her stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis, navigating IVF and surrogacy, and how her husband has supported her through it all. This candid conversation covers reality TV, women’s health, consent, and finding strength through humor and vulnerability.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show.
0:02.9	Things are going to get weird.
0:04.0	Get weird.
0:04.5	It's your fave villain, Kail Wally.
0:06.3	And you're listening to Barely Famous.
0:08.4	All right, y'all.
0:17.4	If you are a Bachelor Nation fan, you do not need an introduction for my next guest.
0:22.6	In case you are not a Bachelor fan, Katie Thurston is here on Barely Famous Podcast.
0:27.8	So she's made a lasting impression by showing herself as herself, being honest, open, sex positive, and bringing a vibrator to night one on The Bachelor.
0:37.7	Since then, she's continued to connect with people through humor and honesty and her ability
0:42.0	to say things that most of us are thinking.
0:44.1	She's a girl's girl, a stand-up comic, and recently she's been navigating a cancer diagnosis
0:48.7	with the same openness and strength that has always set her apart from everybody else.
0:53.3	I'm really looking forward to this conversation with Katie. Katie, thank you so much for coming on Barely Famous Podcasts. Thanks for having me. Of course. We were just joking about recording over Zoom. I'm not a huge fan of recording over Zoom. I think the chemistry is different and I'm able to just have a better conversation in person. Yeah, no, I agree totally.
1:11.2	Okay. Where are you from? Well, I'm from Washington, but I just recently moved from L.A. to New York.
1:17.0	So I'm fresh here in New York City. Do you like it? It's been an adjustment. Obviously, I came here
1:22.4	under some crazy circumstances. Yeah. But New York was always a plan with my now husband.
1:27.4	So just trying to like, you know, make friends as an adult and figure out like my new hair salon, my new neighborhood and restaurants. Yeah, which it's always harder as adults, I feel like. Oh, yeah. I don't know. When I moved, I moved to Delaware as an adult and I was just like, where do I even go? Like, what do I don't, I didn't know. Truly, there's this app, and I won't name it out, but that you can like sign up and then
1:48.4	it assigns you to meet with four other strangers for a restaurant dinner, like a dinner
1:53.2	restaurant at a restaurant. Sorry, I will mention my medicine gives me a little bit of a brain fog.
1:59.0	So if you hear me like stutter or whatever, that's what that is.
2:02.1	Okay.
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