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It's been we're counting down the top five most shocking moments that happened in Bachelor

Nation this year, 2025.

Now we've made it to the number one most shocking moment.

This moment was shocking for multiple reasons.

One of the reasons is it deals with a person's health and well-being, and two, this person is so young.

So I think this moment was a wake-up call. It really was for a lot of us

to take our health seriously. And with that, the most shocking Bachelor Nation moment of

2025 was Katie Thurston's breast cancer diagnosis.

Back in March, we talked with Katie a month after her diagnosis at only 34 years old.

Actually, last summer was the first time I felt a lump in my breast, but I'd had a benign

cyst before that was removed and not cancerous.

And I'm only, yeah, and I'm only 34.

So I'm not thinking breast cancer at all.

It doesn't run in my family.

I am overall pretty healthy.

There was never an urgency to get it checked out.

And I kind of put it off thinking maybe it's PMS, maybe it's from working out. You know, it's the summertime. And then finally in January, you know, I was getting ready to move to New York to be with my fiance, Jeff. And it was like, well, I should do some kind of like medical checks before we leave and we're going to be traveling for six weeks. And so I kind of went into the office almost thinking it was going to be like a checkup,

like a, yep, it's just another benign sis, and you can just move on with your life.

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