While the pair met in 2018, they didn’t go public with their relationship for four more years. While they never meant to keep their love a secret, it took a while for Becca to feel ready to both come out and go fully public with their relationship.
“Hayley and I had a lot of conversations about being public and being private,” Becca said in a May 2024 episode of the Made It Out podcast. “She was like, ‘I am so proud, and I have worked so hard to be proud of who I am that I don’t want to feel like I’m back in the closet.’ And I’m like, ‘I also don’t want you to feel like that. But if you can kind of see my perspective, I’m navigating being a public person, and having a public platform, being from The Bachelor, it is really hard.'”
However, the time gave Becca and Hayley the ability to feel fully confident in their partnership by the time they a formally announced their relationship in May 2022. A month later, Becca told E! News, “We’ve been together for four years, so the good thing is when we went public, we felt very solid in our relationship.”
And despite initial worries, as Becca put it, “I never could’ve predicted the support and love that we’ve gotten.”
