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Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos<\/strong><\/a> has been receiving some unwanted NSFW photos and requests in her DMs ever since appearing on Gerry Turner<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s season of The Golden Bachelor<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI got d\u2013k pics,\u201d Joan 61, told Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday, August 14. \u201cAnd I got people with foot fetishes. They wanted me to send them pictures of my feet and would pay me for it. One person offered to buy all the shoes that I wore on Golden Bachelor. It was scary. My kids were like, \u2018Give me your phone, mom. We\u2019re blocking all this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had a hard time navigating that process because they\u2019re total strangers,\u201d the reality star said of her sudden fame. \u201cI didn\u2019t really respond to those much. Or I would have cute little conversations and say, \u2018Thank you, you\u2019re so flattering,\u2019 or whatever. But none of them seemed to be anything that would really work out or that I felt particularly comfortable with.\u201d<\/p>\n Joan chose to leave Gerry\u2019s inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor<\/em> in week 3, despite a romantic one-on-one date with the leading man. She told fans in an October 2023 Instagram post<\/a>, \u201cMy journey to find love took a detour this week as I traded the mansion for motherhood and headed home to be with my family. Family comes first, period. Once a mother, always a mother, I\u2019ll always choose my kids first.\u201d<\/p>\n The mom of four later revealed during the November 2023 Women Tell All<\/em> episode that her daughter was suffering from postpartum depression after having a baby.<\/p>\n The Rockville, Maryland, resident still made quite an impression on producers, as she was announced as the first Golden Bachelorette<\/a> on May 14.<\/p>\n