Caelynn and Dean Bell’s 2025 vision board includes expanding their family.
“We are trying to start a family,” Caelynn, 29, said in a YouTube vlog posted on Thursday, January 2. “It’s on the vision board, which might be weird. I don’t know if that’s considered a goal because we are actively trying. It’s just harder to make a baby than I thought it would be.”
She added, “I know everyone says that, ‘No, I’m gonna get pregnant so easily.’ My mom got pregnant so fast with all of her kids. I was like, ‘That’s gonna be me too.’”
According to Caelynn, she has learned that “ovulation is tricky.”
“I’m still figuring all that out,” the Bachelor in Paradise alum added. “I did get Mira. I also finally got in with the OB in January, but I got this Mira [Fertility Tracker] device. So, you plug in the tester, pee on a stick and it tells you your [luteinizing hormone] LH levels. I was peeing on the other sticks that show lines and I was having such a hard time. I was like, ‘When am I ovulating?’ This, I’m still figuring it 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 quipped. “Should I be sharing this?”
Caelynn, who was one of Colton Underwood’s final four contestants on season 23 of The 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.
By that point, they were both already wearing commitment rings.
“I’m committed to Caelynn and only Caelynn. And that’s why I’ve been wearing it for the past six or so months,” Dean said on a 2020 episode of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! “It’s our way of telling the world or the people that we’re around that we’re 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 be like, ‘OK, yes, they know that I’m committed to them and vice versa.’”
Caelynn, for her part, added that they were in a “strong, committed relationship.”
“He started wearing a hair tie around his ring finger, just to fight women off,” she gushed to then-host Chris Harrison. “And I liked the idea. And then we just talked about getting rings. It’s just nice to know that we’re in a strong, committed relationship without necessarily having to get the government involved, as Dean likes to say.”
Dean and Caelynn tied the knot in September 2023, opting to change their last names to Bell in honor of Dean’s late mother. (Bell was her maiden name.)
