Bachelor runner-up Madison Prewett Troutt revealed how she overcame her addictions to porn and masturbation, which 'had been a struggle' as far back as middle school.
'I was about 13 years old. I went over to a friend's house and her parents weren't around and she turned on this show that was extremely inappropriate,' the 29-year-old new mother recalled on her Stay True Podcast on Monday.
'Literally everyone was naked and it was like The Bachelor but, like, way worse and everyone was naked and everyone was trying to like fight for this like one woman's attention and and it was all about like sex and sexual relationships.'
Madi continued: 'My body started feeling things that I had never felt before and I started wondering things that I'd never wondered before and then desiring it and then wanting it and and so I left that time with my friend like genuinely so curious about that and wanting it more.'
Prewett's yearnings prompted her to search the Internet for X-rated content promising 'satisfaction and pleasure' and 'maybe it did for a moment but then as soon as the moment ended I felt so much shame and I was living in secret shame.'
Bachelor #24 runner-up Madison Prewett Troutt revealed how she overcame her addictions to porn and masturbation, which 'had been a struggle' as far back as middle school
'I was about 13 years old. I went over to a friend's house and her parents weren't around and she turned on this show that was extremely inappropriate,' the 29-year-old new mother recalled on her Stay True Podcast on Monday
'I questioned my worth and my identity. Every time I gave into sexual sin, I didn't know my purpose,' the Alabama-born brunette explained.
'I was not able to break free until I brought other people into it, until I stopped letting the enemy run my life with living in secrecy and living in isolation.'
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Madi continued: 'Thankfully, by the grace of God and kontol by the power of Godly community and people around me, I have been free from porn and masturbation for — I don't even know — 10 years. But that was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long.'
Prewett and her husband of two years, pastor Grant Troutt, welcomed their first child, five-month-old daughter Hosanna Rose Troutt, on January 20.
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The 29-year-old new mother's yearnings prompted her to search the Internet for X-rated content promising 'satisfaction and pleasure' and 'maybe it did for a moment but then as soon as the moment ended I felt so much shame'
Madi recalled on her Stay True Podcast on Monday: 'I questioned my worth and my identity. Every time I gave into sexual sin, I didn't know my purpose'
Madi and her husband of two years, pastor Grant Troutt, welcomed their first child, five-month-old daughter Hosanna Rose Troutt, on January 20 (pictured Wednesday)
It's hard to believe it's only been five years since Delta Air Lines pilot Peter Weber (R) dumped his winning fiancée Hannah Ann Sluss for Prewett, who split from him just three days after the ABC dating competition's finale
On September 23, WaterBrook will publish the former foster parent recruiter's 240-page faith-based book Dare to Be True (pictured May 6)
Madi is next scheduled to speak on July 18 at the Lifepoint Church Youth Conference in Fredericksburg, VA.
On September 23, WaterBrook will publish Prewett's 240-page faith-based book Dare to Be True: Defeat the Lies That Bind You and Live Out the Truth That Frees You.
Madi - who boasts 4.1M social media followers - is also every bit the influencer with paid partnerships for brands like Cupshe, Amazon, Gameday Couture, Sun Home Saunas, and Natural Cycles.
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