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‘Bachelorette’ Emily Maynard: ‘I’ve never been called boring’

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Almost immediately after the premiere of ‘The Bachelorette’ on Monday, fans of the show -- including yours truly -- began expressing concern about our new leading lady.

Not only does the blonde Southern Belle look like a Barbie doll, but she often seems to act like one as well. That is: She comes across as stiff, and sometimes inauthentic.

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In a conference call with journalists Wednesday, Maynard responded to the criticism, saying she’s ‘never been called ‘boring’ in [her] everyday life.’

Maynard, 26, is the first single mother to ever be cast as ‘The Bachelorette’; the father of her 6-year-old daughter, Ricki, was killed in tragic plane crash just days before Maynard found out she was pregnant. Subsequently, Maynard’s role as a mother is being played up heavily this season. In the opening montages of the premiere episode, we saw her spending nearly all of her free time with Ricki.

While Maynard says ‘there’s a lot more to [her] than just being a mom,’ she admitted that the majority of her days are spent ‘just running errands and doing mom stuff.’ Asked what she does for fun, she said she takes a jewelry class through her church and mentors a girl at a school in a low-income neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Maynard has also taken heat for featuring her daughter on the show -- a critique that former ‘Bachelor’ and single father Jason Mesnick largely was not subject to.

‘I definitely felt like there was a little bit of a double standard with Jason,’ she acknowledged. ‘People will see that Ricki’s life was not really affected at all. I got to spend a lot of time with her and take her to school and do all my mom stuff. Plus, she got to travel the world. ... She was very protected throughout the entire process.’

Even though her season has now completed production, Maynard would reveal little about her romantic status.

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‘I am really happy,’ she said cheerily. ‘I was happy before I went on the show, but I’m really happy now, just having gone through it and just learning so much about myself.’

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--Amy Kaufman

twitter.com/AmyKinLA

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