Former “Bachelor” contestant Jenn Tran is able to lead her personal love story, and to make TV historical past whereas doing so. Tran, a 26-year-old aspiring doctor assistant from Miami, will star within the subsequent season of ABC’s “The Bachelorette.” She is the primary Asian lady to guide the collection in its 21-year historical past. “I really feel so, so grateful and honored,” Tran mentioned reflecting on the milestone throughout Monday’s “Bachelor” finale. “Rising up I’ve all the time needed to see Asian illustration on TV, and I really feel prefer it was actually sparse,” she continued. “Any time Asians had been within the media it was to fill supporting-character roles, to fill some kind of stereotype, and I all the time felt boxed in by that … I don’t see myself on display. I don’t see myself as a fundamental character.”Over the past decade, the “Bachelor” franchise has diversified its lead solid, which has been overwhelmingly white. Tran, who’s Vietnamese American and bilingual, started her journey on the “Bachelor” franchise as one of many dozens of ladies vying for 28-year-old tennis professional Joey Graziadei’s love in Season 28. Tran and Graziadei’s on-screen romance fizzled out within the seventh week of the competitors, and she or he was eradicated. “I do know we’d’ve been superb collectively. I do know we’d’ve been so blissful,” Tran mentioned upon her exit. The finale not solely teased the College of Wisconsin-Madison alum’s upcoming “Bachlerotte” journey, but in addition revealed that Graziadei is engaged to Kelsey Anderson, a undertaking assistant for a consulting agency. Main as much as the the pair’s Tulum engagement, finalist and accounting govt Daisy Kent admitted to the bachelor, “You’re not my individual,” then left on her personal phrases. After Kent’s exit, Graziadei obtained down on one knee for Anderson, who accepted his proposal and his ultimate rose. Together with her “Bachelor” days now behind her, Tran mentioned on Monday’s episode, “I’m going to be the primary character of my story.”She added: “I simply can’t assist however take into consideration how many individuals I’m inspiring and what number of lives I’m altering.”Tran is “prepared to search out love with a person who’s as dependable and considerate as she is,” based on ABC’s announcement. Who solutions that decision could also be amongst the contestants in “The Bachelorette” Season 21, which is able to air in the summertime.