She turned a crappy situation into something positive.
“Bachelor in Paradise” star Samantha Jeffries is using the unwanted fame she received from her televised experience of being backed up for 12 days to release a children’s book, “Sam Can’t Poop.”
The red-haired beauty gets stopped by fans of the ABC dating series — where alums from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” mingle on the beach in Mexico — who remember her inability to make No. 2, which prompted medical intervention and a tearful early exit.
“I was at a pool in Scottsdale, and this mom and daughter come up to me and they go, ‘Are you the poop girl from ‘The Bachelor?’ And I was like, ‘I can’t believe that’s how people know me, but yes,’” Jeffries, 29, told The Post.
“And the mom was like, ‘Every time I poop, I think of you.’”
Jeffries, an occupational therapist based in Cincinnati, OH, works with many children who struggle in the bathroom, and she and her former co-worker-turned-co-author, Carly Nguyen, had the idea for a kids’ book to help “normalize pooping” before she even went on the show. It’s out Aug. 27.
“Several of our kids have issues going to the bathroom. A lot of kids are just scared of it. They feel like they’re losing a body part. It’s a sensory thing,” she explained.
“So after ‘Paradise’ happened, I called her immediately and I was like, ‘This is it. This is our sign.’”
The reality star recalled her harrowing constipation crisis during 2023’s Season 9, where she was bloated and in pain in 100-degree heat in Puerto Vallarta.
“It got to the point about a week in, I couldn’t even fit in my clothes,” she said. “I looked pregnant.”
The show’s on-set physician, Dr. Kelly Tenbrink, recommended laxatives, but nothing worked.
“The doctor was like, ‘I’ve never seen someone so distended like this on the beach,’” she recalled.
Jeffries, who specializes in nutrition coaching, said even her healthy diet and exercise regime weren’t helping.
“I was having a green juice every morning, coffee every day,” she said. “I was doing laps. I worked out every morning. I literally tried everything.”
After nine days, Dr. Tenbrink explained the severity of her situation, saying, “I’ve seen patients have to go to the operating room … and literally have to bring almost like a poo baby out.”
On Day 10 Jeffries flew back home and was admitted to the hospital, where she was finally able to go two days later.
During her short stint in “Paradise,” Jeffries made a connection with San Diego firefighter Aaron Schwartzman. She even made him a character in the book, who saves the day by bringing her vegetables, a nod to his attempt at helping to get things going on the show.
“He literally brought me a whole platter of veggies, olive oil. Apparently, if you take a shot of that, it should help you go. Mexican food, we were eating burritos,” she said.
The pair met up after the show ended, but realized they were better off as friends.
“We didn’t kiss on the beach or anything, but whenever I went home, we ended up making out,” she said. “Because of what we went through, it just made us so close as friends. It kind of took the romance, I think, out of it.”
Jeffries, who’s now dating a man she met on Hinge, made her TV debut on Clayton Echard’s season of “The Bachelor” in 2022, after her friends sent in an application.
“I got a phone call from a producer and she was like, ‘You’ve had the most nominations we’ve ever received in ‘Bachelor’ history,’” she remembered.
She made an unforgettable entrance on the show via a bubble bath donning a barely-there black bikini — which wasn’t her idea.
“They told me to come with 10 ideas,” she recalled.
“And they were like, ‘Not sexy enough, not hot enough … We think you’re really bubbly, like a bubble bath. That’s how you’re meeting Clayton.’”
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