Trista Nicole Sutter (née Rehn) (born October 28, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana)[citation needed] is a former participant in the ABC reality television show, The Bachelorette.
She has also appeared on ABC's The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars and NBC's Fear Factor.
The Bachelor
Rehn appeared as a contestant on the first season of ABC's The Bachelor, where she was runner-up to winner Amanda Marsh.
The Bachelorette
After her appearance on The Bachelor, Rehn was selected to be featured in the gender-reversed spin-off. As part of her participation in The Bachelorette, Rehn was paid $1 million by ABC for affording the network the right to televise her December 6, 2003 marriage to Ryan Sutter, the bachelor she selected to marry on the show. The televised wedding, broadcast as the finale of a three-episode special Trista & Ryan's Wedding drew over 26 million viewers, making it one of the most-widely viewed episodes in the history of reality television.
Television appearances
Sutter appeared opposite actor Jason Alexander in a KFC commercial. She also has appeared in country music singer Brad Paisley's music video "Celebrity" in 2003 with Alexander, Little Jimmy Dickens, and William Shatner.
She was the first celebrity contestant to be voted off Season 1 of US Dancing with the Stars.
Personal life
The Sutters now live in Eagle County, Colorado, where Sutter is a Vail, Colorado firefighter. Rumors of their divorce surfaced in 2008 but were denied by Trista.
In February 2007, the Sutters told People magazine that they were expecting their first child in summer of 2007, but they wanted the sex of the baby to be a surprise. In an interview, Ryan stated that if they had a girl, then they would like to have a boy next, but if they had a boy first, then they wanted a girl second. In July 2007, Maxwell Alston was born 4 weeks early stemming from pregnancy complications via c-section after a failed induction/stalled labor. During her seventh month of pregnancy, Rehn was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Maxwell was first revealed to the public on the cover of Us Weekly magazine and made his first on-camera appearance in a video diary series Trista recorded for Momlogic.com.
Sutter was ranked #7 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2003.
On October 14, 2008, Trista and Ryan Sutter announced to Life and Style Magazine that she is pregnant with their second child. The baby is due in April. Trista said that she is considering having her tubes tied after this delivery, and if this baby is another boy, they might adopt a little girl. On April 2009, Trista delivered daughter Blakesley Grace via C-section.
