The Truth About Litia’s Family From The Bachelor & Where She Stands With Grant
Jason Pham
Grant is down to his final three on The Bachelor Season 29, but after his Hometown Date with Litia, fans were left with more questions than answers for who he could choose as his winner.
Litia Garr, a 28-year-old Client Service Associate from Newton, Massachusetts, is one of 25 contestants on The Bachelor Season 29 led by Grant Ellis. She was a frontrunner from the start, however, in Week 5, fans started to question Litia and Grant’s compatibility after Litia, who is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, revealed that she’s a devout Mormon. “I’m nervous what you will think of it. It’s very, very conservative,” she said ahead of Hometown Dates. “My family is very religious.”
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Litia also disclosed to Grant that she’s typically only dated members of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints like she is, but “it didn’t work out,” which is why she went on The Bachelor. Grant, for his part, called the revalation a “surprise” to him. “I’m not Mormon. I have tattoos. I have earrings. I do drink sometimes. Will they accept me?” Grant said of Litia’s family during Hometown Dates. Given that a majority of Litia’s family members featured in the episode were white, fans had questions about her background.
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Is Litia adopted from The Bachelor Season 29?
No, Litia is not adopted. On a date with Grant in Week 3 of The Bachelor Season 29, Litia revealed that her mother is white while her father is from Fiji, making her biracial. “My mom is from Idaho. She’s white and my dad is from Fiji. They fell in love and they got married and they had me,” she said.
Litia also revealed that her father died when she was young, which led to her and her mom relying on her mother’s family for support. “When I was 3 months old, my dad passed away in a car accident. My mom is my greatest example of strength and resilience because I can’t imagine losing my husband and having a little baby at the time. And she was like 23,” she said during her date with Grant in Week 3. “And my grandparents and my mom’s siblings, like my aunts and uncles, made me so loved and so special, and I just feel really lucky to have my support system and why I’m so reliant on them, and it’s tough to be away from them.”
Given how close Litia is to her mother’s side of her family, that may explain why viewers mistook her as adopted during her Hometown Date with Grant in Week 6 in Star Valley, Wyoming, where a majority of the family members she introduced to Grant were white. “Grant going to Litia’s hometown and seeing an army of white Mormons walk out #TheBachelor,” a user wrote on X. Another user wrote on X, “I think the reason why Litia hasn’t had luck with Mormon guys — could it be, that maybe Mormon guys are very “specific” in their preferences .. and want a specific blond or white looking girl … she doesn’t fit in #TheBachelor.”
While Litia isn’t adopted, one of Grant’s other finalists, Zoe McGrady, is. Zoe—a 27-year-old Tech Engineer and Model from Chester, Virginia—revealed she was adopted during a date with Grant early into The Bachelor Season 29, however, it wasn’t until her Hometown Date in Week 6, that Zoe confessed she had “cut ties” with her adoptive parents a year before filming, which is whyshe introduced Grant to her “chosen daily instead.
Zoe didn’t go into detail as to why she no longer has a relationship with her parents, however, she told Grant that there were “many vices” involved and that she gave her mother and father” a lot, a lot of chances” to change without seeing any improvement. And while Zoe is “open” to repairing her relationship with her adoptive parents, she’s content with where they are in their relationship.
During a 2024 interview on the “Miss Represented” podcast, Zoe, who is biracial, opened up about what it was like to grow up in a predominantly white town in the south with two white parents.
“It was just kind of weird. We were always the people [that other] people were staring at,” Zoe said of her and her sister. “They didn’t know what was going on as far as our family dynamics, and just being one of the few people of color down there just made things a bit difficult at times. And for me, especially, being Black [and] being interested in STEM—science and math—I was just always kind of the black sheep of my hometown.”
She continued, “I was definitely an outcast. I wasn’t the one they were inviting to parties. There were so many times [when] friends ditched me … I just never had my circle of people, so that was where I was like, ‘OK, I’m just kind of this loner.'”
Both Litia and Zoe received roses from Grant after Hometown Dates and made it to his final three. The third contestant to receive a rose was Juliana Pasquarosa, a 28-year-old Client Service Associate from Newton, Massachusetts, who also made it to Fantasy Suites. The eliminated contestant was Dina Lupancu, a 32-year-old Attorney from Willowbrook, Illinois, who was the only suitor not to introduce Grant to her family after her parents refused to film.
“My dad was actually for it. He thought that it was an interesting experiment; it intrigued him,” she told Parade after the episode. “But he [later] claimed that he didn’t know that there was an engagement at the end. He was like, ‘How could a guy go from dating 25 girls in such a short period of time, and make that type of commitment at the end of this?’ It just didn’t sit well with him, and also he wasn’t actually familiar with the dynamics of the show. He didn’t realize that there’s a camera the whole time.”
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