Ex-'Bachelor' Winner Makes Shocking Claim - Desperate Contestants Use Steroids Before Going On Show!
June 10 2013, Published 6:18 a.m. ET
Watching this season of The Bachelorette starring Desiree Hartsock, you may have noticed that some of the men are sporting some pretty awesome physiques. During the premiere episode, Zak Waddell got out of the limo shirtless and Desiree couldn’t help but stare at his nicely defined six-pack and big, muscular arms. And while there hasn’t been that much shirtlessness yet, looking at the other guys’ arms and legs, it’s clear that these men enjoy the gym.
You have to wonder, though: Are these bodies natural – or do the guys use a little something to help boost their muscle growth?
While the contestants have to undergo a rigorous screening process, which includes drug testing and STD testing, the casting directors may not be testing the guys to see if they are using steroids.
“I know that a lot of guys do steroids before they’ll go on the show,” Jesse Csincsak, who won DeAnna Pappas’ season of The Bachelorette, tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively. “They don’t tell you to. They just don’t test for it.” (Breaking Celebrity News is not suggesting Waddell uses anything beyond hard work in the gym to get that physique!)
But the contestants are tested for other types of drugs.
“They’ll drug test you, but they’re drug testing you for illegal drugs like cocaine and stuff like that,” Jesse says. “They take a urine sample. They take a blood sample. They even told me to stop smoking weed, and I don’t smoke weed.”
And according to medical reasoning, it’s possible that the contestants aren’t being tested for steroids.
“Most commonly, for anabolic steroids, there are only a handful that people check,” Dr. Sean Nordt, MD, Pharm.D and Director of Toxicology in the Emergency Medicine Department at the University of Southern California, tells Breaking Celebrity News. “And you can’t find it if you don’t look for it.”
Dr. Nordt explains that a simple urine screening is used for steroid testing, but “if you test for the wrong ones, you won’t find it.”
He adds that if the test is “not done in an appropriate time frame, you also won’t find it.”
Plus, people have ways of hiding the steroids.
“The way that a lot of people use steroids, they’ll use injectables or long lasting, so they will stop and use short acting ones prior to a test being done,” Dr. Nordt says. “Or they’ll try to mask it by drinking lots of fluids.”