On TikTok, Thurston said she made the decision to join after she broke up with “The Bachelorette” contestant John Hersey in June 2022.
She said she joined a month following their breakup announcement because she thought the approval process would take awhile and she’d be ready to date months later.
“My friends told me it takes a long time to get approved, so I was like, ‘I’ll apply now, and then six months from now I’ll start dating.’ Well, they approved me right away,” Thurston said in her TikTok video.
Since she wasn’t ready to date yet, she swiped with the intention of finding friends, Thurston said.
