Bachelor Nation alum Madison "Madi" Prewett has been candid about her sexuality and marriage since tying the knot with Grant Troutt in 2022. Madi, who finished as runner-up on Peter Weber's season of The Bachelor in 2020, married Grant Troutt, a pastor, in July 2022. The couple welcomed their first baby, daughter Hosanna Rose, in January 2025. Prior to her Bachelor season and subsequent marriage, Madi made the decision to pursue a "life of purity" after struggling to "break free from porn and masturbation" as a teenager. "Anytime you live in secret, it's only going to create more sin and it's only going to create more shame because that's where the enemy thrives," she told listeners of her "Stay True" podcast in June 2025. Spilling the Tea! Bachelor Nation Sex Confessions Keep scrolling for some of Madi's honest thoughts about sexuality and marriage: 'A Life of Bondage' On an episode of her "Stay True" podcast in June 2025, Madi divulged how she grappled with the morality of porn and masturbation during middle and high school. "Thankfully, by the grace of God and by the power of godly community and people around me, I have been free from porn and masturbation for - I don't even know - 10 years," she said. "But that was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long. ... No matter how much I loved Jesus, I could not shake that sin. I could not break free from porn and masturbation." Madi looked back on being influenced by music and TV shows about "having sex and hooking up" for the first time as a 13-year-old. Where Do Grant and Juliana Fall in the Shortest 'Bachelor' Relationships? "I had already had moments of being curious about things and having certain feelings or wondering certain things or fantasizing about certain things. I had not told that to anyone," she said. "I had not pursued to do anything about that, but I was curious, and I was about 13 years old. I went over to a friend's house and her parents weren't around and she turned on this show that was extremely inappropriate." Madi remembered "feeling things that I had never felt before," especially the feeling of "desire." From there, Madi said she started seeking out porn, yet she rationalized it to herself because she wasn't actually "having sex with [her] boyfriend." "That was where I fell. I struggled and I believed that lie. That lie led to a life of bondage," Madi stressed. 'Gray Areas' Madison Prewett in January 13, 2022. Amy Sussman/Getty Images Madi told podcast listeners that her parents' primary rule was "do not have sex," though she knew very little else about sexuality at the time. "The question marks [were] around everything else," she explained. "What about all the other stuff? What about porn and what about just crossing a little bit of lines with your boyfriend? That's where I didn't have clarity. Those were the gray areas of this whole purity thing that I was not clear on, that I was not certain about. Because of that I found myself continuing to push boundaries and continuing to go further than I knew deep down in my heart that I wanted to go or that I knew I should go." 'Living in Isolation' During her podcast about sexuality, Madi reflected on living in total isolation because she never told anyone about her interest in porn and masturbation. "Anytime you live in secret, it's only going to create more sin and it's only going to create more shame because that's where the enemy thrives," she argued. "I was not able to break free until I brought other people into it, until I stopped letting the enemy run my life with living in secrecy and living in isolation." Madi confessed that her solitary lifestyle as a teenager was "so hard for [her] for so long" since she felt as if she'd been "robbed of confidence." "I would beat myself up and I would be bound by shame because I knew I loved Jesus and I wanted to live a life for Jesus, but I didn't know how to get unstuck. I didn't know how to break free from that sin," she noted. "I questioned my worth and my identity. Every time I gave into sexual sin, I didn't know my purpose." 'A Life of Purity' Madi used her confessional podcast to disclose that her husband, Grant, came to their relationship with a completely different attitude towards sex. (Grant is the son of telecommunications executive Kenny Troutt, who has ranked on Forbes' list of the world's richest people in the past.) "Grant fell into the other category [than me] that kinda felt like, 'Well, I already had sex, what's the big deal? It's already a part of my story. It's already a part of my life,'" Madi explained to listeners. "So that continued to be something he struggled with. He continued to have sex with people." The Bachelor Nation alum insisted that it was only after Grant agreed to live "a life of purity" that their belief systems started to align. 'A Radical Transformation' Madi described how Grant underwent a "radical transformation" in his belief system once he let go of his past. "He started bringing accountabi
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Bachelor' Alum Madi Prewett's Honest Quotes About Sexuality and Marriage
December 4, 2025
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