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What Happened to ‘The Bachelor’ Season 14 Winner Vienna Girardi? Her Life Now
It’s been 15 years since Vienna Girardi made her reality television debut on Season 14 of The Bachelor. She got engaged to Jake Pavelka on the show, which aired at the beginning of 2010.
The pair’s relationship didn’t last long, and they had a contentious breakup that they ended up publicly discussing in a shocking post-show special. Following the split, both stars appeared on Season 2 of Bachelor Pad in 2011, where Girardi started dating Kasey Kahl.
Since then, Girardi has mostly retreated from the public eye. Scroll down for an update on what she’s up to today.
What is Vienna Girardi doing now?
According to Girardi’s Instagram bio, she is a “chef, yogo, and SYFY nerd.” She has worked as the director of recruitment and talent at Vantem, a company that helps “developers deliver highly energy-efficient, factory-built modular real estate projects at scale,” since July 2024, per her LinkedIn.
Prior to that, she worked at the employment agency AE Concepts. Girardi still lives in Florida, which is where she was residing when she was on the show.
How long did Vienna Girardi and Jake Pavelka stay together?
The couple split in June 2010. Since The Bachelor generally ends filming in November of the year before it airs, they were together for roughly seven months before their split. The breakup came just three months after the two went public with their romance following The Bachelor Season 14 finale.
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Shortly after the split, Girardi and Pavelka reunited for the first time in front of cameras to film a special interview that eventually aired during The Bachelorette a few weeks later. The sit down was quite explosive and ended with Girardi storming off the stage and calling Pavelka a liar.
Pavelka accused Girardi of cheating, which she denied.
Are Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl still together?
No, Girardi and Kahl’s relationship did not last long after Bachelor Pad. Although they moved in together after filming, they split by fall 2011.
“Yes vienna and I have split. It’s been 5 weeks now,” Kahl shared that November. “I can’t fake it anymore. I will always love, be there for her, and wish her the best.” In her own post, Girardi wrote, “@KaseyRKahl will always be my best friend, but yes we have split. No idea what the future holds for us but we will always remain friends.”
Is Vienna Girardi married?
No, Girardi is not married. She was engaged to race car driver in 2016, but they split that same year.
Does Vienna Girardi have kids?
Girardi welcomed a son named Enzo in 2021. The identity of his father is not publicly known.
Enzo was a rainbow baby after Girardi had a miscarriage while pregnant with twin girls in 2017. She was 18 weeks pregnant when she received the devastating news.
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“On Aug 3rd, I went in for an ultra sound bc the Perinatologist notice one of my twins had more fluids than the other which was the first sign of TTTS(Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome) this is when one twin takes more nutrients than the other,” Girardi shared at the time. “They said that it did look like it had improved over the last week though.”
However, that ended up not being the case. “That evening my water broke due to the amniotic sacs rupturing,” she continued. “I spent the next 2 days in the hospital trying everything to save them. The doctors had warned me that if I did not go into labor and deliver the babies, I was taking the chance of risking my own life and causing an infection in my uterus but they could not survive at only 18 weeks. They also said that there was a very slim chance under 5% that the babies could survive and the fluids in their amniotic sacs replenish themselves so as any mother would do I did everything to save them but their hearts stopped beating on day two which is also when I went into a septic shock with 104 fever.”
After her “little angels went to heaven,” Girardi was rushed to the operating room for emergency surgery and had to stay in the ICU for four days.
When she became pregnant with her miracle baby, Enzo, she gushed, “I have waited my whole life for you!”
