- - 'Bachelor' star Krystal Nielson reveals uterus ruptured during birth

Anna Kaufman, USA TODAYFebruary 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM

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Krystal Nielson attends ABC's TCA Summer Press Tour Carpet Event on Aug. 5, 2019, in West Hollywood, California.

Krystal Nielson, a onetime contestant on "The Bachelor," is opening up about a terrifying health episode.

Nielson, who competed for Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s heart on Season 22 of the ABC reality show, said in a recent interview that her uterus ruptured while she was giving birth to her second child.

"I was dilating at 36 weeks," Nielson said during a Tuesday, Feb. 10 episode of the "Almost Famous" podcast. "We thought he was going to come soon. He was going to come early and he was going to come really quickly because the second time, they tend to drop really fast. Your body knows what to do."

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Nielson and her husband, Miles Bowles, share two children: Andara, 4, and Rowan, born in November. During Rowan's birth, after several complications, the reality star revealed that she had to undergo an emergency C-section after her uterus ruptured.

"When I was going under, this whole time, I was just praying," she recalled. "I was like, 'Please, God, save my uterus. Please, God, save my uterus.' And my baby, of course. But once he was out, it was just like, 'Please save this.'"

"The surgeon told me my uterus, how it had ruptured — it's not just like a clean cut, like when they do an incision — she said it was roadkill, it had completely just exploded," she continued. "They weren't able to put it together and it wasn't holding stitches."

After a specialist came, Nielson revealed doctored were able to save the organ.

"Just like a miracle, they were able to save my uterus, which I'm so extremely grateful for," she said, adding later: "That was really hard hearing that we won't be able to get pregnant again because the plan was to get pregnant within a year of giving birth to Rowan … I just don't know what God's plan will be for us, if there will be a third — yes, no, I don't know."

Nielson also appeared on ABC's "Bachelor" spinoff, "Bachelor in Paradise." During Season 5 of the series, she got engaged to fellow contestant Chris Randone. They wed in 2019 and divorced in 2020.

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