Ali Fedatovskaya revealed that her vegetarian diet inspired the late Bachelor star

Ali Fedatovsky
Paul Archuleta/Getty Images\Ali Fedatovsky chooses to honor late A bachelor contestant Gia Allemand through her dietary habits.
Fedatowski, 40, explained the episode on Monday, December 23 Caitlin Bristowe‘s “from the vine” podcast that she was “so sick” when she hosted a travel show called First Look and ate different foods. While at an event for A bachelor in New York, Fedatowski began discussing her fight with Allemand.
“I tell her how I feel, she says, ‘You should try being a pescetarian.’ I have been a pescetarian for many years. I feel so good.” This means eating only fish and other things. I said, ‘OK,'” Fedatovsky said. “And so we’re having lunch, and then, like, 10 days later, she dies.”
After appearing on Yakub Pavelka‘s 14th season A bachelor in 2010, along with Fedotovsky, Allemand committed suicide at the age of 29 in 2013.
“After that, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to be a pescetarian for two weeks,’ like during that dinner we had,” Fedatowski said. “And when that happened, every time I went to eat meat, or think about it, I couldn’t because I was thinking about Gio.”
Fedotovsky continued, “I haven’t eaten a single piece of meat since that dinner I had with her, like, 14 years, 13 years ago, and I’ve been a vegetarian ever since.”

The a former bachelorette explained that until now, she “hasn’t really told the whole story.” “I kind of like say it, like, briefly in an Instagram story here or there, but that’s the reason to this day,” she said.
Fedatovsky, who got married Kevin Manno in 2017 explained that her husband also eliminated meat from his diet. (Fedatovsky and Manno, 41, daughter’s share Molly, 8, and son Riley, 6.)
“My husband, he was a total meat eater when I met him, and then we watched a few documentaries and at that point he went straight to vegan,” she said. “It’s gone now because we live in the south and it’s harder to find things there.”
Recalling her friendship with Allemand, Fedatovskaya explained that after the show they reconnected.
“We’re actually scratching our heads a bit A bachelorbut then they came back after everything, which says more about the kind of person she is,” said Fedatovsky, calling Allemand “so wonderful.”
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