Caelynn AND Dean BellThe 2025 vision board includes expanding their family.
“We’re trying to start a family,” Caelynn, 29, said in a YouTube vlog posted Thursday, Jan. 2. “It’s on the vision board, which can be weird. I don’t know if that’s considered a goal because we’re actively trying. It’s just harder to have a baby than I thought it would be.”
She added, “I know everyone says, ‘No, I’m going to get pregnant so easily.’ My mom got pregnant so quickly with all her kids. I was like, ‘I’m going to be too.'”
According to Caelynn, she has learned that “ovulation is complicated.”
“I’m still figuring this all out,” he said Bachelor in Paradise alum added. “I took Mira. I finally went on OB in January too but got this Mira device (Fertility Tracker). So you plug the tester in, pee on a stick, and it tells you your LH (luteinizing hormone) level. I was peeing on other sticks that showed streaks and it was so hard. I said, “When am I ovulating?” That, I’m still figuring out.”
One of Caelynn’s friends had used the same Mira device and got pregnant within a month.
“But that’s not the case for me,” she said. “Should I share this?”
Caelynn, who was one of the Colton UnderwoodThe last four contestants of season 23 of Bachelor in 2019, met 33-year-old Dean on Bachelor in Paradise season 6. They left the show early to travel the world together in his camper van. After three years together, Dean and Caelynn proposed to each other.
At that moment, they were both already wearing engagement rings.
“I am devoted to Caelynn and only Caelynn. And that’s why I’ve been wearing it for the last six or so months,” Dean said in a 2020 episode. The Bachelor: The Best Seasons — Ever! “It’s our way of telling the world or the people around us that we are committed to each other. I think it’s one of those comforting things where you can wake up in the morning and see your partner wearing that ring and say, “OK, yeah, they know I’m committed to them and vice versa.”
Caelynn, for her part, added that they were in a “strong and committed relationship.”
“He started wearing a hair tie around his ring finger, just to fight women,” she told the then-host. Chris Harrison. “And I liked the idea. And then we just talked about getting the rings. It’s just nice to know we’re in a strong, committed relationship without having to get the government involved, as Dean likes to say.
Dean and Caelynn married in September 2023, choosing to change their surnames to Bell in honor of Dean’s late mother. (Bell was her maiden name.)