They do! Still love each other, that is …
Last December, Trista Sutter, the very first star of "The
Bachelorette," renewed her wedding vows with her firefighter husband,
Ryan, on a primetime special on ABC. The too-cute couple famously tied the knot
the first time 10 years ago in a multi-million-dollar ABC extravaganza. One
decade later, the "Bachelorette" star is still madly in love and
spewing gratitude.
In an interview with "Good Morning America," Sutter gave an update on
what she and her hunky hubby have been up to lately: "Ryan's still a
firefighter at the Vail Fire Department and I've been busy with this little
project for the past couple of years," she said. "But really, I'm a
stay-at-home and work mom. Really, life just revolves around the kids right
now."
Sutter's "little project" is her new book, titled
"Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart."
While she confirms it's not an autobiography, the reality star says the book is
full of anecdotes and stories from her family and friends. (Name-dropper alert:
Sutter's pal Jenny McCarthy shares a story in the book.)
The mom of two (Sutter and her husband are parents to Max, 7, and
Blakesley, 5) explained the inspiration for her book: "I think that
gratitude is so important," she said. "I feel like when you're in the
rough patches in your life, it has helped to lift me up, and when you're in the
high times, it helps to keep you grounded."
She's incorporated tips she calls "happily ever actions"
into each chapter of her book (Have some extra time? Why not make an
appreciation jar for your kids' teacher?), and added, "You need to
actively choose gratitude and choose optimism in order to live a happy life."
Sutter's Twitter followers know she tweets what she preaches.
"I tweet my #faith every day," she said. "It's just
a way for me to reflect on the positive, the little things that have happened
throughout the day, to end the day on a positive note and to know that the next
day, I need to consciously be aware of the little things that happened."
Sutter calls her gratitude tweets #favepartofday (here's an example: "Reading
to Max's class, watching the kids smiling ear 2 ear sledding, laughing til my
abs hurt & hearing great news!"), and she recently told Parade that it was actually those daily tweets that inspired the book.
"I didn't really want to do an autobiography. I didn't want
my face on the cover of a book," she said. "I post my favorite part
of the day every day on social media as a way to just reflect on the positive
and just be grateful for the little things. [My agent] loved that, and we
talked more about how much gratitude means to me in keeping me grounded and
lifting me up in the hard times, and we went with it."
Sutter also defended the
reality romance series' relationship track record.
"I think if you compare 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette'
to real world, it's probably not that different in that how many relationships
do you go through before you find the one that you want to spend the rest of
your life with," she said. "But we just luckily had all the
components -- trust, honesty, respect, love, commitment, friendship, humor --
you know, all of those things wrapped into one."
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