--- title: Watch This Woman Make Herself A Contestant On The Bachelor description: Yes, she'll accept that rose canonical: https://time.com/4188826/the-bachelor-ben-molly-hawkey/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-21T17:46:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:02.605Z og:title: Watch This Woman Make Herself A Contestant On The Bachelor og:description: Yes, she'll accept that rose og:url: https://time.com/4188826/the-bachelor-ben-molly-hawkey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Woman Make Herself A Contestant On The Bachelor twitter:description: Yes, she'll accept that rose twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Woman Make Herself A Contestant On _The Bachelor_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 21, 2016 5:46 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 21, 2016 5:46 PM UTC Most fans of [_The Bachelor_](http://time.com/4167207/the-bachelor-recap-season-20/) fare content watching the show from the safety of the sidelines as hungry, spray tanned young women jostle each other for roses and true love. But superfan Molly Hawkey wanted more. With a little technological boost, she managed to put herself right into the center of all of the action on _The_ _Bachelor_. Hawkey took matters into her own hands with some expert editing and Photoshop skills to put herself in the running for Ben Higgins’ heart. The actress and improv star has been documenting her journey via a series of[ web videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/mollyhawkey/featured) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mollyhawkey/) photos, which make it pretty clear that she fits right in to the show. While Hawkey is happy to pretend she’s in the show, she isn’t really interested in signing up for _The Bachelor_ experience. “I honestly couldn’t believe that my family and close friends actually thought I would go on that show OR that anybody would think that _The Bachelor_ would EVER put someone like me on it. I mean, I’m 37 and my hair extensions aren’t nearly long enough,” she told [Buzzfeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/the-most-hilarious-rose-ceremony-ever#.kuRlXGklvW). It’s clear she’s having fun, though, even if Ben Higgins hasn’t taken her for a helicopter ride (yet). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4188826/the-bachelor-ben-molly-hawkey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4188826/the-bachelor-ben-molly-hawkey/"},"headline":"Watch This Woman Make Herself A Contestant On The Bachelor","datePublished":"2016-01-21T17:46:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:02.605Z","description":"Yes, she'll accept that rose","url":"https://time.com/4188826/the-bachelor-ben-molly-hawkey/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Bachelor"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4188826/the-bachelor-ben-molly-hawkey/","name":"Watch This Woman Make Herself A Contestant On The Bachelor"}}]}] ```