Bekah M. Is The Worst Kind of ‘Bachelor’ Contestant: She Hid Her Crazy From The Cameras

“I don’t like when I’m not seen for who I really am. It hurts me,” Bekah M. sobbed on last night’s (February 12) episode of The Bachelor. And girl, we feel exactly the same way. Because what you gave us on the show is not who you really are, and in the wake of her elimination, we’ve discovered that Bekah M. is actually one of the worst kinds of Bachelor contestants. She’s the kind that hid her crazy until she was off the show, when it’s so much less fun to watch.

The biggest drama (onscreen) about Bekah M. this season as she vied for current Bachelor Arie’s heart was not that she is allergic to wearing bras, but that she was a whole 22 years of age. This earned her side eyes from the other, much older women who had officially reached the ripe old age of mid to late 20’s. While it briefly gave Arie pause, it took him until last night’s episode to realize it wasn’t going to work out with her.

On the series, Bekah started to voice her doubts (duh, girl) about her relationship with Arie — which gave contestant Tia the chance to (rightfully) pounce and once again bring to Arie’s attention her very, very young age. The fact that she’s so young was clearly the reason she was on the show in the first place: it ostensibly added a bit of intrigue and drama to the mix. But was it as much as producers were expecting? Because someone like Bekah and Tia’s fellow contestant Krystal proudly owned her crazy from that very first moment we saw her doing stretches on the beach. It only intensified as the show went on, to unbearable levels; but she remained committed to this obnoxious personality throughout the entirety of her time on screen. I can’t believe I’m actually commending her for this, but here we are: Krystal was true to herself, or at least true to her goal of getting, and staying, on television. That has to be acknowledged and appreciated on some level.

Meanwhile, Bekah was too busy playing up her “maturity” for her age, trying to come across as a totally deep and enlightened lady, when in fact she had the same damn goal as Krystal! Last night she explained to Jimmy Kimmel that she’s been telling family and friends for years her goal was to get on The Bachelor. And admitting that she was hoping it was popular former contestant Peter Kraus who was The Bachelor this season? That’s as good as saying “Haha fooled you all I just wanted to be famous, suck it!” To a degree, yes this should be understood by all viewers, but we don’t want that thrown in our face.

Which is why it’s even more annoying that Bekah has such a ludicrous event occurring in her life, months after taping the show. About two weeks ago, “Bekah Martinez” found herself on the Humboldt County missing persons list, until #BachelorNation had to be all “Um, that chick is on the show right now.” Hilarious, right, that a contestant on one of the most popular shows on TV would be on a missing persons list? Well, actually, it’s incredibly fucking weird.

First reports noted that Bekah’s mom reported her missing after her daughter went to work on a marijuana farm in Northern California in November 2017, just after Bekah finished her time on The Bachelor. Last night Bekah told Kimmel she simply went to the “mountains” with her friends for 6 or 7 days and had no cell service at all so that’s when her mom got worried and reported her missing (She never went into town to stop by a grocery store and could’ve dropped a quick text? I admittedly don’t know the cell phone reception situation in these “mountains” but it’s 2018 and none of this adds up to anything except a super shady story). Around the week mark, Bekah went home and all was back to normal…except she never popped by the police station or city hall or any place she could let the town know she was not in fact missing after all? Not a detail she considered important enough to follow up on? This is incredibly strange behavior. Sure, we can all have some fun with this account online because it’s simply so wacky, but it’s not really a cool story or a fun fact about Bekah. That she decided to joke about it on Twitter only adds to what an odd bird this gal is proving to be.

All of this is to say that she wasted her opportunity on the show. She wasn’t honest with Arie or the viewers, or entertaining or endearing enough while on the show. That we still have to hear and remotely care about her, after the two hours we’re already putting into Bachelor time each week, makes her a more obnoxious contestant than Krystal, whose departure from the show at least gave us a moment of catharsis and closure. Bekah owes us the same, but won’t deliver. The missing persons story is too bizarre and messy to ultimately provide a satisfying ending, and she’ll be too busy clawing her way onto Bachelor in Paradise.

And this next time, Bekah honey, keep the crazy on screen. Or at least, in an area with cell service.

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