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The Bachelorette: Emily Maynard Meets Her 25 Suitors

By:Radar Staff

May 14 2012, Published 1:00 p.m. ET

By RadarOnline.com Staff

Emily Maynard, the one-time fiancée of former Bachelor Brad Womack, made her debut as The Bachelorette Monday, taking a gander at the 25 hunky bachelors trying to win her love.

The 26-year-old beauty becomes the first single mom in the show's eight-season history, as she has a 6-year-old daughter named Ricki. (The show was taped in Charlotte, North Carolina to accommodate her child.)

Emily made her goals clear from the get-go Monday, telling the men she's looking for a long-term love.

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I want “a minivan full of babies," Emily said. "I want it so bad. I want to be in love. I want babies. I'm tired of being engaged. I want to get married.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Emily's former fiancée NASCAR, driver Ricky Hendrick, was involved in an auto accident that ended his career, and later died in a 2004 plane crash while she was pregnant with Ricki. She said on Monday she wasn't comfortable dwelling on yesteryear's tragedies.

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“To be honest, I really don’t want to talk about that anymore,” Emily said. I’ve really moved on from that … I’ve been in love twice, and I lost it twice."

On Monday, Emily got to business quick, eliminating six of the 25 men vying for her affection.

Some of the men who did get roses included: Doug, a single dad from Seattle who gave Emily a letter his son Austin wrote for her; Kalon, a 27-year-old Houston, Texas native who admitted to past tendencies of being “extremely loud and obnoxious and a womanizer;" and Travis, a 30-year-old Wisconsin ad man who brought Emily an ostrich egg as a symbol of his intentions.