“Everyone always asks me, ‘What made you go to the casting call in the first place?’
And I say two words: free drinks,” she quipped in a 2016BUILDinterview.
“I ended up doing the first casting call, not knowing what to expect.”
And the rest is history.
So what has happened to Dorfman since we last saw her on our screens?
And what did she get up to before she became a public figure?
She has an older sister called Rachel Dorfman, and the two have a strong bond.
As Andi wrote in aPeople.comblog post, Rachel is “the person I trust most in this world.”
Andi was passionate about sports from an early age, and she even joined a local Little League team.
She then made her way to middle school, but her experience wasn’t entirely positive.
After graduating in 2009, she enrolled in law school, achieving her J.D.
at Wake Forest University School of Law.
She was an assistant district attorney and she focused on gang prosecution.
“I love fighting crime.
It’s empowering.”
Her skills definitely came in handy on “The Bachelor.”
As Galavis stated in one particularly dramatic episode (viaEntertainment Weekly), “She’s a lawyer.
I’m not going to argue with a lawyer.”
“I saw a side to him that I didn’t really like.
The whole night was a disaster.”
And yes, in the book, she got into what really happened.
She also claimed he bragged abouthis relationship with Clare Crawley, another contestant.
“[It] blew my mind that he thought that was OK to talk about it.”
Ultimately it was Murray who got the final rose, leaving Viall heartbroken.
“I really thought she loved me.”
Murray got down on one knee in the Dominican Republic.
All my worries, they just seem to vanish when I’m with you," he said.
Dorfman went on to call his remarks “below the belt.”
“At that time, I sincerely hope you will strongly consider me for rehire,” she added.
Dorfman never did return to law and hit back at the backlash she received for her resignation.
“I’m still a career woman.
Just because I’m not in a courtroom doesn’t make me less of a career woman.
I’m still driven,” she wrote in “It’s Not Okay.”
Dorfman also noted that there’s no denying that reality TV stardom was more lucrative.
“Although I loved my job, I didn’t love making $57,000 a year working 60-hour weeks.
And, as luck would have it, I didn’thaveto do that,” she wrote.
I don’t care how much you love your job."
The demise of the relationship took a tremendous toll on Dorfman.
““I literally slept until noon every day at which point I would watch TV.
I’d loaf around in yoga pants and a smelly t-shirt.
I’d drink wine.
I was just a loser, in a sense.”
It would be an excuse to call me a wh**e,” she wrote.
In a statement to ABC News, Murray addressed Dorfman’s claims about their relationship.
I pray she finds peace," he stated.
“But instead, he asked, ‘Would you rather?’…
‘Ummm…would I rather what?’
‘Would you rather make love…or f**k?’
he asked, without hesitation or the slightest sense of how bizarre this conversation was.”
If I defied him, I was a ‘b**ch,'" she shared.
Dorfman said the unexpected success of her first book gave her the confidence to release her second.
I did the exact same thing with [my new book] ‘Single State of Mind.'"
“It felt like a great way to take off the pressure.”
In a 2023 interview withE!
News, Dorfman said the process empowered her to not rush into having kids with the wrong person.
Freezing her eggs stopped her from focusing on her ticking biological clock.
“I do want kids, and I’m not in denial about age,” she told E!
And just to have that in the back of my mind, I think kept my standards high."
But Dorfman wasn’t always this passionate about it.
“I started out as someone who could not run a mile straight.
I called myself a ‘run/walker,'” she admitted to People.
It all started in 2019 when she began training for the New York City marathon.
Dorfman decided to turn the online community of runners into a mobile app.
“Running the marathon was intimidating as heck.
Andorfins has transformed from a hashtag to an app into a full-blown brand, complete with its own merch.
On March 30, 2022, Andi Dorfman took toInstagramto announce her engagement to her boyfriend Blaine Heart.
“WORTH THE WAIT!!!! "
According to Dorfman, the proposal was a total surprise.
Hart told her they’d be heading to the beach to enjoy the sunset.
She didn’t think anything of it.
“I don’t even remember what he said, I just remember hugging him and crying.
I didn’t even remember seeing the ring at first.”
But Hart had one more surprise in store.
That’s when I really started bawling.”
The decor was simple but elegant think white flowers, lots of greenery, and fairy lights.
“It was all so beautiful,” Dorfman told People.
