Bachelorette Train Wrecks

I have a confession to make. I have watched every season of "The Bachelor" except the first one. I don't know quite why I do...it's the same formula every time. Conceited Boy Wonder tries his best to look straight into the camera and confess his true desire to find the right woman, settle down, and marry when we know good and well all he wants is to have 16 straight weeks of being surrounded by silicone-enhanced women who are trying to break into the movie business.

It's like a train wreck that I just can't avert my eyes from...the characters are all in place. There is:

Vicious backstabber woman who pretends to be everyone's friends and than shreds the other contestants' characters when she gets a chance to speak alone into the camera.

Drunk girl who is just there to party and usually has downed several glasses of champagne and stumbled around raising her glass and saying, "Hhhhheeeey-ay."

Sweet, country girl who doesn't have a snowball's chance in, er, a microwave, to get past the first couple of rounds because she really is nice, marriageable material.

Material girl who is just there to see if she can secure some diamonds or a new dress. She usually comes complete with multiple sets of luggage and shoes to match every outfit.

Aggressive girl who is determined to throw herself at the Bachelor and then completely kiss and tell after every encounter.

This season, however, there is a woman I think is pretty cool...she comes across as a sweet, Southern lady and has apparantly lost her previous husband in a freak, private plane accident. She has a four year old daughter names Sophie that she very evidently loves with all her heart. Despite the fact that she needs to skip her next installment of Botox injections or her eyebrows may remain permanently in the shocked position, she seems to have depth and perspective unlike most of the bimbos that make the show. Unfortunately, she is also older than most of the candidates and not nearly as brazen so I'm sure, as history would show, she will not last long.

The Bachelor this season is a single dad with a three year old son. Most of the women on the show are adamantly telling the Bachelor that they really want to be a mom but what they don't know is that motherhood - particularly step-motherhood - is not something you step into after 16 weeks of suspended reality on a TV show. It's for real, it's for life, and it's the hardest job a woman does.

So for now, I raise my glass of 2% milk to all my mom friends out there who have foregone tanning beds, fake nails, silicone implants, a personal trainer, and shoes for every outfit and say, "ROCK ON, SISTER!" I share this thing called motherhood with you and have an open door for anyone who thinks they are going this road alone.