‘Bachelorette’ Star Calls Out Former Suitor for Hateful Comment on Her Wedding Photos originally appeared on Parade.
Former Bachelorette star Katie Thurston is calling out a contestant from her season after he left a hateful comment under her wedding photos.
On her Instagram Story Wednesday, August 6, Thurston posted a screenshot of a comment left by Cody Menk. Menk was a contestant on Thurston’s season of The Bachelorette in 2021 and was eliminated in week 2 after a confrontation with fellow contestant Aaron Clancy and subsequent doubts raised by Katie about his sincerity in wanting a relationship.
Underneath a picture of Thurston and her husband, comedian Jeff Arcuri, on their wedding day, Menk commented, “Good couple! Both solid 5s” with a laughing emoji.
Thurston uploaded the screenshot to her stories, censoring Menk’s name, and clapped back with, “Remember this guy from my season? Me either. But he’s still here lurking on my page. Thanks for being a fan.”
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Thurston moved up her wedding to Arcuri after being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. The 34-year-old is undergoing hormone-blocking therapy, among other medications and recently shared her plans to get a breast augmentation after finishing treatment.
“We waited to see that the medicine is working. And it is,” Thurston shared during an episode of Kaitlyn Bristowe‘s Off The Vine podcast. “So we’re gonna basically give it three more months, and then I can do a double mastectomy, get a boob job if I want, which is, I think, the route I’m gonna go.”
She added that she’ll eventually have questions about breast implants for Bristowe, who shared that she recently got a breast augmentation herself. However, Thurston expressed her frustration with having to go through a mastectomy in the first place.
“It’s been a challenge of like, I’ve worked my whole life to finally be confident in my breast era and then you’re telling me I gotta chop them off and get new ones?” she said.
Despite the upcoming surgery, Thurston has remained optimistic about her breast cancer journey as a whole.
“My hope for the future is that, whether it’s this year or next year, I’ll be like, ‘Hey guys, there’s no evidence of disease,'” she added. “Even though technically, stage four is not curable. Technically, medically, I will have breast cancer forever. But with so much advancement happening and the way that I caught it when I did, I’m very optimistic.”
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‘Bachelorette’ Star Calls Out Former Suitor for Hateful Comment on Her Wedding Photos first appeared on Parade on Aug 6, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 6, 2025, where it first appeared.
