Jill Chin Opens Up About Self-Eliminating from ‘BIP’ and Who She Had Hoped to See on the Beach

Keeping it real.

Bachelor Nation fans saw Jill Chin look for love on Season 26 of “The Bachelor” and Season 8 of “Bachelor in Paradise.”

Jill has been giving love another shot on the beaches of “Bachelor in Paradise” Season 10, but this week decided to self-eliminate after not finding a connection on the beach.

Now, she’s joined the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast to share more about her experience and the reason why she decided to leave “Paradise.” 

While reflecting back, she admitted, “I was gonna self-eliminate during the Rose Ceremony, that was my plan. I was just gonna go home, I was gonna self-eliminate. I was gonna interrupt and be like, ‘Hey, guys, I’m just gonna go.’ But then Jonathon said that thing to me before the Rose Ceremony, which gave me a little bit of hope. So, I was like, you know, let’s just roll the dice and see what happens. But apparently, that’s not what he meant, I guess.” 

Jill continued, saying, “He said, ‘You’re making my decision harder,’ and that whole thing, and so I was going off the information that I was given, [which was] there was something about our conversation and about our connection that was making his decision harder. How else was I supposed to interpret that? And I do see his perspective… I can understand where a miscommunication can happen. But just after that conversation on the daybed, that was it for me. I was like okay, cleared up. Understood.”

Jill then explained the main reason she eventually decided to leave the beach was because she knew her person wasn’t there. 

“No offense, all of those guys are great, but they’re not my guy,” she said, “There was truly no one I could see anything with, and I was wasting my time and I was wasting their time. And I was, from trying to get their validation which is so, ‘Ew, why am I doing that?’ I was feeling worse.”

The Bachelor Nation star then named a couple people who she was hoping to meet in Costa Rica. 

“I’m not gonna seek validation from men who see me only as a friend when I know I deserve more. I know that my guy’s not coming. Alex Bordyukov’s at home in Detroit. Bryan Witzmann, or whatever his last name is, is in Chicago — he’s not in Costa Rica,” she joked. 

Hear the rest of Jill’s conversation in the full episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” below!