Lindzi Cox Talks The Bachelor

If you loved her on The Bachelor you would love her even more in real life. Lindzi Cox competed on season 16 of The Bachelor, Ben Flajnik the wine maker's season. She made it to the very end and sadly didn't get proposed to. (Props to her for not winning because I was not Ben's biggest fan.) My new friend was also on season 3 of Bachelor Pad (a show they should totally bring back). She now works, lives, and plays in Seattle and is an IT recruiter for Harvey Nash. She has a horse named Token, a rabbit named bunny Benassi, and a Volkswagen Beetle named Bubbles. This interview took place in random locations.
1. Michelle Money's salon
2. My car
3. Roaming the streets of the Sundance Film Festival.

It was so fun and I absolutely adore Lindzi; she's a beautiful person inside and out.

Madi: So the first question is easy. What was your favorite part of being on the Bachelor?

Lindzi: All of the people I got to meet and am still meeting from it. You meet random people. Just this morning in the airport line we met this lady and she recognized me, which is so weird that people recognize me from that, it's kind of surreal. We chatted the whole airport line and people are so nice and it's just a good way to make friends. And all the places I got to go and experience were so special, but it's such a tease because you can't go off and do your own thing. I'm so excited to go back to Park City so I can explore.

M: Oh yeah cause you went there right?

L: Yeah! The only day I got to leave I went fly fishing and rode horses and that was so amazing. But ya know when you are somewhere and you can see the little village and you want to go explore it but you can't...

M: Cause you're confined!

L: You can't leave. I don't do well with confinement.

M: Do you get a lot of people that recognize you?

L: It comes in waves. And it's weird. One day everyone I run into recognizes me or I get a lot of the, "You look really familiar where do I know you from?"

M: Do you think it's really like that and they honestly don't know how they know you or they're just trying to play it cool, like, "I don't watch The Bachelor, no no"

L: I don't know. I have a candid answer that I'm not going to say in front of her (Bella) that I always throw back at them and their reactions are pretty good.

M: Ok well you're going to text that to me later.

L: Yeah.

The answer is: "Do you watch a lot of porn?" HA!

M: Ok so what was the worst part about being on The Bachelor?

L: I don't think there was a worst part. But it was really hard to be secluded for so long with a bunch of  the same people.

M: Yeah especially girls that you don't know.

L: Oh, you get to know them real fast. And a lot of them were people I'm like ehh I don't know if I want to be secluded with you. That part was hard for me. Just like what we were just talking about, I am so into "roaming the village" and I like to go do what I want when I want and I don't do well being told no so that was just hard for me.

M: Yeah that would be hard. That was another question I was asked to ask you. What do you do all day? Cause you don't have a phone right?

L: Ya

M: You don't have the internet.

L: Noo.

M: You don't have anything.

L: You don't have anything.

M: So you literally just do nothing.

L: When I did Bachelor Pad, I learned to get smart and use work as an excuse cause everyone else was doing it so I would call in to work to see what was going on. And it was kind of my sanity. I'm not normally that connected to work.

M: But you still didn't have a cell phone on Bachelor Pad right?

L: Yeah.

Me: You just had to associate with the people there.

L: Yeah. It was...BP was OK cause it was only a couple weeks. So it was doable. But the other one (The Bachelor) was like 9 weeks so that's a long time.

M: Well yeah you were there for a long time.

L: I was there the whole time!

M: You made it to the end, I forgot!

L: The places we got to go were so cool though.

M: Favorite place?

L: Switzerland

M: Switzerland?! Ah.

L: It was so beautiful. SO beautiful. But I want to go back when I can explore.

Meanwhile Bella decides her hair tastes really good so we are totally sidetracked with that.

M: So, if Ben were to call you and say, "Lindzi I made a mistake let's go out and try this again."

L: Laughs. Well, isn't Ben kind of busy like...

M: I don't really follow Ben.

L: I think Ben is preoccupied dating the Kardashian mom.

M: I actually did hear that! Ok, ok.

L: So I don't think Ben will be calling me. And Ben is a really nice guy but I don't think we'd be good together.

M: If there was a Bachelor from another season that you could've chosen to be The Bachelor for your season who would it have been?

L: Oh, Andrew Firestone! But he was like 10 years ago. He was so dreamy! I was 17 and I was watching it then.

M: What about Juan Pablo? I think he's so cute.

L: I don't...

M: You don't know? You've seen him right?

L: Yeah. You want to know why I don't like Juan Pablo?

M: Yes I do.

L: This is weird. He was in Seattle and I was following him on twitter, a long time ago before he was announced as The Bachelor, and I tweeted him and was like, "Hey! Welcome to my town." And he never wrote me back! And it made me really not happy. He big leagued me!

M: That kind of stuff bugs me too though, so bad.

M: After watching yourself on TV did you say or do anything that you regret? Did you watch your season?

L: Yeah I did watch it with with a lot of alcohol!

M: Good I feel like that's the only way to go!

L: I didn't really do or say anything I regretted but it was weird because I think I was myself during it but the parts they showed, I looked so boring.

M: Really?! I don't think you seemed boring.

L: Yeah! Everyone that knows me well was like uh, where were you?!

Michelle Money: Yeah a I think that they totally made you look boring.

L: YES!

MM: When I first met you for the first time I was like? Where the hell was this chick?!

L: And I was there I just got really uncomfortable when they made me talk about the relationship aspect of Ben. Which I have to talk about, it's a dating show where you are supposed to marry the guy, ya know? But for some reason I felt really uncomfortable and they showed all of those parts and I just, I don't know. But even on Bachelor Pad I was spunky and I guess on The Bachelor they just showed the non spunky parts. At the end of the day my parents and my boss were probably quite pleased with it. Except for the one part...where they showed my bare butt uh yeah, real good side shot.

M: So you're like flower child!

L: I am like flower child. It's just uncomfortable cause I go to work the next day and I'm like, "Oh hey co-workers!"

M: Did people treat you differently when you came back?

L: Um not my friends, no.

M: People you worked with?

L: Not really. Everyone was really normal. I mean, everyone got really into it and excited about it but people were really real. It was really cool. They didn't get wrapped up in anything so it was nice.

M: So all 25 women can't all really be in love with The Bachelor. Did you really like Ben or were you just there for the fun and all of the cool places you got to go?

L: I went along with it. I liked Ben. I thought he was really nice and we had fun. But literally the next thing I knew it was the very end. And I didn't have an agenda ya know? I was just there for the adventure. And I think that's why he kept me cuz I was pretty easy to have around. I wasn't like his fiancé who caused a little bit of drama.

M: And it's no different from normal dating in the aspect that you don't know super fast if you're in love with a guy or not so you just stick around as long as you can and see what happens.

L: Ya exactly.

M: So you like Lucy aka Flower Child aka Free Spirit?

L: I like Lucy! I like that she's just like a free little flowing spirit. And how cool is it that her title is free spirit?!

M: Right? But would you ever be brave enough to do that? I feel like if I went on The Bachelor I would never even think to put "Free Spirit". I don't have that mind set.

L: I'm not creative enough to think of that. I'd like to be friends with her. I mean, I don't know if we'd be like BFF's cause I couldn't keep up with her travel schedule.

M: What if to initiate you to be her friend she wanted you to walk around naked with her?

L: Um, hahaha, I wouldn't walk around naked with her! "Hey, do you want to be friends and walk around naked together?" That'd be kind of weird.

M: Like, "You can only be my friend if you get naked."

L: I don't think I would go on TV naked.

M: NEVER! She doesn't care.

L: I'd totally refrain from that.

M: Speaking of nakedness, how do you know how much clothing to pack?

L: I literally packed everything I owned. I bought a bunch of dresses and gowns from Nordstrom and then after I got off the show sold them on Ebay. You kind of don't know what to pack because you don't know how long you will be there.

M: Can we talk about Kalon? (Lindzi and Kalon were contestants on Bachelor Pad and dated during the show and after for a bit.)

L: Basically Kalon thought it was okay to have more than one girlfriend. And I wasn't cool with that.

M: Amen. Is there anything else you want to say?

L: I'd just like to thank Bella for being my friend today.

To keep up with Lindzi follow her on Instagram @lindzicox.