As we reported Wednesday, Emily Maynard, the North Carolina single mother who Brad Womack proposed to last year on The Bachelor, will be the next Bachelorette . People , which first confirmed the news, says production will reportedly move to Charlotte, N.C., so Maynard doesn’t have to be away from six-year-old daughter Ricki. The back story is familiar by now: Ricki’s father, NASCAR star Ricky Hendrick, was killed in a plane crash in 2004, right before fiancee Emily learned she was pregnant. We have mixed feelings about Emily Maynard’s casting . Watching Ashley Hebert as The Bachelorette proved, sadly in Ashley’s case, that plenty of men would gladly bend over backwards to compete for … Emily. For good reason. She’s sweet, fun, polite, gorgeous, prioritizes being a mom. Other girls on The Bachelor even said her only fault was that she had none. Emily Maynard was even concerned about the example she’d set on
