Former Bachelorette Gabby Windey Reveals She’s Dating a Woman: ‘Told You I’m a Girls Girl!’

Former Bachelorette star Gabby Windey found love again.

Windey, who co-headlined the ABC dating series alongside Rachel Recchia last year, stopped by The View on Tuesday and gave an update on her personal life.

“I always just want to live my truth, and my story,” Windey, 32, said. “And so I have been seeing someone for a couple months, and I’ve been keeping it a little more private because it is like a bigger story and a bigger conversation, because I’m dating a girl!”

Co-host Sunny Hostin said she “didn’t see that twist coming.”

“I don’t think anyone did,” Windey said. “No, not even me.”

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Windey also posted a carousel of photos with her girlfriend, comedian and TV writer Robby Hoffman, on Instagram Tuesday. “Told you I’m a girls girl!!” she captioned the post.

On her Instagram Story, Windey posted a shot of her kissing Hoffman, which Hoffman later reposted, writing, “Guys some news… I am gay.”

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Gabby Windey (left) and her girlfriend Robby Hoffman.

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The nurse ended her season of The Bachelorette engaged to Erich Schwer, but they’d called it quits by November.

“I think life is just really busy for the both of us right now,” Windey, who’d been competing on Dancing with the Stars at the time, told Fox News. “So, I understand their concern but we’re just kinda, you know, going forward with each of our individual interests and supporting each other from afar.”

On The View Tuesday, Windey said Schwer, 30, “doesn’t know” about her new relationship.

After coming in second place on DWTS, Windey had been spotted on a date with pro Alan Bersten.

“They’re both single. He wants to find love and so does she,” a source told PEOPLE at the time. “He asked her out. This is their first date. They haven’t been out at all. He was so excited to take Gabby out. They grew really close while Gabby was on DWTS and they remained close. The hope for both of them is that something blossoms from this.”

Robby Hoffman (left) and Gabby Windey.

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Windey had also struck up a flirtation with fellow DWTS contestant Vinny Guadagnino.

“It was like kind of a thing and then, now I … I don’t know,” Windey, 32, said on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s Off the Vine podcast in March. “We’re still talking. We came on tour for like, a week and we had a ton of fun together. And he is just a good friend. He gets it, you know? Like, he spent his life on reality TV. He’s really smart. He’s really funny. He’s hot.”

Windey said she and the Jersey Shore star, 35, “were gossiping and sending voice memos” at the time, but that him living in New York and her being in California kept them apart.

“I’m always trying to get him out,” Windey said. “I’m like, never say never.”

Prior to looking for love on her own season of The Bachelorette, Windey competed for Clayton Echard’s heart on The Bachelor.

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Following her announcement on Wednesday, GLAAD’s Vice President of Communications & Talent, Anthony Allen Ramos, addressed the news in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.

“As one of today’s most visible reality stars from ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette,’ Gabby Windey’s decision to continue to share her private life with the public as a queer woman is a key reminder to people, including the many millions who watch the franchise, that there are no rules for coming out and that everyone’s journey is different. This should also be an important reminder to the industry that LGBTQ people have a place in mainstream dating and relationship shows and that we must be included,” Ramos said.

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