Bachelor Nation alum Carly Waddell is switching up her ‘do after ending her engagement to Todd Allen Tressler — however don't name it a post-breakup transformation.
“In the event you get an entire new hair colour within the fall, it's really not breakup hair,” Waddell, 39, mentioned in a Friday, October 3, Instagram video. “It's fall hair.”
Waddell, who darkened her often blonde locks, additional defended the price of her hair makeover in her submit caption.
“Lady math,” she joked, referring to the net development of girls's monetary prowess. “It's OK to spend an excessive amount of cash in your hair should you additionally store at Goodwill.”
Waddell turned to Nashville-based stylist Gina Micheletti from the Slay Bae salon to spruce up her tresses.
“@Gina.doesmyhair crushed it ❤️ ❤️ ❤️,” Waddell later wrote through her Instagram Tales on Saturday, October 4.
In Waddell's selfie, she complemented her new ‘do — styled in free waves — with rosy-pink eyeshadow and lipstick. The previous Bachelor in Paradise star additionally sported an off-the-cuff stylish knit crop prime tucked right into a pair of khaki trousers.
No matter what Waddell chooses to name her new look, she not too long ago ended her engagement to Tressler.
“I'm at all times actual with you guys, so I'm going to be actual with you now. I'm not sporting a hoop,” she mentioned in a Wednesday, October 1, social media video. “I did break off my engagement a couple of month in the past. We live in a brand new metropolis. It's not a choice that I personally made in a single day. It was actually unhealthy timing as a result of the children had simply began college and sports activities and all of the issues. You recognize what? It's what it's.”
Waddell shares daughter Bella, 7, and son Charlie, 5, with ex-husband Evan Bass, to whom she was married from 2017 to 2020. Waddell later began courting Tressler in 2023, and so they obtained engaged that very same 12 months.
Being clear. Evan Bass and Carly Waddell break up in December 2020 and have been candid about their relationship ever since. The pair first fashioned a connection throughout season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2016. Following an on-and-off relationship, Bass and Waddell obtained engaged throughout the finale. They obtained married in 2017 after they returned […]
“I really feel very at peace with this determination,” Waddell defined on Wednesday. “My children are loving life within the new place. Truthfully, courting after divorce and courting with children is tremendous troublesome. You need to make robust choices for your self and for your loved ones. So, that's the place I'm at.”
Waddell beforehand gave Us Weekly perception into courting as a single mum or dad — simply months earlier than sliding into Tressler's DMs.
“I've this fantasy that sooner or later I'm simply gonna be out strolling round and I'm gonna meet this, like, fantastic man and he's simply going to wow me,” Waddell solely instructed Us in Could 2023. “I'm manifesting that for myself. … I'm good alone. I'm, like, really doing fairly good. We've got such an excellent factor occurring now that somebody stepping in and, like, altering the way in which that we do life makes me actually a bit bit nervous now.”
Waddell reached out to Tressler through Instagram in July 2023 earlier than proposing the next October. The lawyer later popped the query to Waddell in October 2024.
“Right here's to a brand new chapter with my dream man, after which dream ring he placed on my left hand,” she wrote through Instagram final 12 months, referencing her two-stone James Allen diamond ring.
