‘Bachelor’ Alum Sarah Herron Shoots Down Mom-Shamers Who Claim Her Disability Hinders Her Parenting

The Bachelor alum Sarah Herron is proving critics wrong when it comes to caring for her twin daughters.

Herron, 38, shared a video via Instagram on Wednesday, May 28, with the title, “You shouldn’t be left alone with those babies” — referring to a comment left by a troll. Herron was born without her left arm due to amniotic band syndrome, and the comment appeared to question her ability to parent with a disability.

In the reel, Herron took care of her 11-month-old baby girls, Everette Rae and Colette Rose — feeding, changing, lifting, hiking and playing with them on her own.

On Wednesday, she shared the caption “Part 2” alongside the video, including the hashtags: “#adaptivemom #adaptive #twins #twinmom #twinmomlife #SAHM #sahmomlife #11monthsold #11montholdtwins #ivftwins #fraternaltwins #disabilityawareness #disabilityinclusion #disabledparenting.”

Herron received plenty of support from her followers, including fellow Bachelor alums and moms Lesley Murphy and Lace Morris. “You’re such a badass mama!!!!!” Murphy, who has two daughters of her own, shared, with single mom Morris adding, “Proud of you.”

The post appeared to be a follow-up to a November 2024 video in which she, once again, showed how she took care of her daughters, then 4 months old, despite her disability.

In her initial November 2024 video, Herron shared how the aforementioned troll’s comment affected her.

“A person left this comment on one of my posts about 2 weeks ago and it’s been seared into my brain ever since. Even though I’ve been living and adapting to life with one hand since I was born, her comment got to me. What if she’s right? What if something bad happens when the girls are alone with me and I’m not capable of taking care of them? What if I am not enough? And then I realized ‘this could be the case for ANY mama, regardless of ability.’ When you’re a parent with a disability, things just take a little more forethought, tools and grit. And ultimately, we can’t control what’s out of our control,” she wrote.

She continued at the time: “I’m not much of a religious person, but two people have left me with mantras that have helped me remain steadfast in my journey as a parent with a disability; ‘Your babies didn’t choose you despite your differences, they chose you BECAUSE of them’ and ‘God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.’I have no doubt I was chosen specifically for these babies, and I couldn’t be more proud of that. So back to our regularly scheduled programming.”

After many rounds of IVF, Herron welcomed her twins with husband Dylan Brown in July 2024, a little more than one year after the death of their son, Oliver, who was born prematurely at 24 weeks old.

“On January 28th, at 24 weeks old, our beautiful son Oliver Brown was born. He passed away in his dad’s arms shortly after,” she shared at the time. “There are no words for the magnitude of loss and pain we’re experiencing. It’s beautiful and simultaneously tragic. He had my nose and his dad’s mouth and long fingers.”

Bachelor Nation was first introduced to Herron during Sean Lowe’s season 17 in 2013 and she later returned for seasons 1 and 3 of Bachelor in Paradise, which aired in 2014 and 2016. She met Brown in 2017 after hiring him as a videographer for a charity event. The couple got engaged in May 2021 and eloped at the Grand Canyon in August 2023.

“Happy 8 years with you, my love,” Herron shared via Instagram alongside photos of her family on April 1. “What a life we’ve crammed in over the years. I love you forever, daddy to my favorite little human beings, fur baby and angel above. #dreamteam.”