Jason Mesnick isn’t holding much back or leaving a lot to surprise for his The Bachelor season. We already know that he’s engaged, and now he’s telling even more:

When I say a parent, I mean of course I want to have more kids.� With that being said, I’m going to have more kids with the person that I’ve chosen — we’ll have a family, we’ll have more kids — and obviously my expectations with that are that we’re going to be parents together.”

Despite the large part that Ty plays in his life, Mesnick said his son actually has only a small on-screen role in The Bachelor.

“He plays a very small part in the show,” he told reporters.� “I think you’ll see that early on, if you see him, it’s him and I — just him and I.”

Still, Mesnick hinted that when Ty does make an appearance it will be significant.

“I’ve said this once before, I just knew there was no way I could truly fall in love with somebody unless they saw my son,” he said.

The Bachelor’s thirteenth season, which premieres January 5, will begin with Mesnick moving into a Los Angeles bachelor pad and meeting his 25 suitors, which included four single mothers.

“Honestly it doesn’t make a difference either way,” Mesnick told reporters about the casting decision.� “I think that I would hope people would view me as a person and not just as a single dad.� So to me — going into it — I had no expectations really as to who was going to be there.� But it didn’t surprise me that there were single mothers.� But it didn’t make me think one way or the other, whether they were a mom or not.”

Mesnick said he also had sympathy for the 24 women who ended up getting eliminated from the reality dating show.

“It has nothing to do with my experience on The Bachelorette necessarily, but I think I’m one of those people that no matter what I do in life I don’t want to hurt anybody,” he explained.� “I think before I say anything and definitely the hardest thing I ever had to do was reject women.� It didn’t happen a lot in my regular life because I’ve had long-term relationships, but going through that [on The Bachelor] it was absolutely horrible having to do that.”

Mesnick added that starring in The Bachelor was also more difficult than competing on The Bachelorette.

“It’s way tougher being the bachelor — way, way tougher,” he said.� “I wouldn’t change that experience for the world and I’m actually glad that I was able to go through both of them because going through The Bachelorette, I learned a lot about myself.� Going through The Bachelor, I was really able to reinforce myself and be proud for who I was.”

Another thing Mesnick learned going through The Bachelor was that Pappas and The BacheloretteJesse Csincsak decided to call it quits on their engagement.

“When that all happened I was busy filming The Bachelor, so I don’t know other than the fact that I thought they were going to make it,” said Mesnick about the split.

“I saw them afterwards — after [filming The Bachelorette] was done — and it made me feel really good to see how in love they were.� So when I heard that they were done, I was just completely shocked and sad for both of them because I know they both really, truly wanted it to work because they were in love.”

While Mesnick had no problem trying to find love twice on television, he said that showing him walking down the aisle with his�The Bachelor pick�would be a�different story entirely.

“I have not even thought about anything like that,” answered Mesnick when asked about a TV wedding.

“My life is off of TV.� I could not even imagine that happening.” fourth-season winner

I can’t wait til the new season starts in a couple weeks! So exciting!

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