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Ukraine’s ‘Bachelor’ starred an amputee. He’s one of many injured veterans navigating a new sex life

posted a month ago by AmericaILoveU (1030)
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/12/europe/sexual-rehabilitation-demand-ukraine-intl/index.html

Kyiv, Ukraine
CNN
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When 35-year-old combat medic Tetyana Tsymbaliuk regained consciousness in the hospital room, she found her boyfriend waiting with a bunch of flowers. He proposed, but she declined. After a serious injury, her leg had been amputated; she worried about being a burden as a wife.

“I realized that before amputation, I was more attractive. I was not sure that I could find a way to fulfil my family role as a woman,” said Tsymbaliuk. It took her a long time to regain her confidence.

Tsymbaliuk says she was one of the first Ukrainian military amputees following the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. Almost three years on, nearly 370,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded. Thousands have lost one or more limbs.

[–] Bubbathegut (18241) a month ago

81 million votes.

[–] MarkPh (1026) a month ago

I'm all in for helping war victims, but I'm not sure whether a Bachelor show can be the right thing to do that.
I mean these shows are known to rarely produce a real couple, there have been seasons where afterwards both sides of the supposed couple said they never liked the other, they just did what they had to do to win the show and get the most viewers for the producers.
Surely an amputee will give the show a lot of attention in the media and subsequent a lot of viewers, but I highly doubt it will be any good for the woman in her private life afterwards.