Before gaining fame on The Bachelor, Emily Maynard was happily engaged to Joseph Riddick “Ricky” Hendrick IV. However, tragedy struck in October 2004 when he died alongside nine others in a fatal plane crash.

Hendrick was 24 years old at the time of his death and didn’t know that his fiancée Maynard, then 19 years old, was pregnant with their baby. Amid her grief, Maynard found a bright spot when she gave birth to their daughter, Ricki Hendrick, who is now expecting her own baby.

“20 years. How did this even happen? It’s so strange to have a specific marker in time that completely changed my life and soul forever,” Maynard wrote via Instagram in October 2024, reflecting on two decades without Ricky. “I look at pictures and don’t even recognize that girl anymore, no matter how much I wish

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