Lexi Young continues to impress and woo Joey Graziadei on The Bachelor's 28th season.

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Lexi, whose formal name is Alexandria, is a 30-year-old brunette beauty.

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Lexi memorably won the "Mrs. Right" pageant after making out with Joey onstage in front of an audience, and then Joey took Lexi on a one-on-one date in Malta.

Lexi opened up to Joey about adversity she has faced during their date, and Joey was taken aback by her strength, resilience, positive attitude and poise.

"I feel a happiness in my heart that I've never felt," Lexi said in a The Bachelor confessional.

"If Joey was my person and Joey and I fell in love, my heart is fluttering even thinking about that. When I'm with him, I feel something I've never felt before, and I'm very excited."

Joey gave Lexi a rose in Malta, saying that he could definitely see a future with her. And then during the cast's time in Spain, Lexi received a rose at the fifth Rose Ceremony of the season.

Lexi appears to be a frontrunner on The Bachelor this season, but until viewers find out what happens next between Joey and the beautiful bachelorette, let's learn some information about her right now.

Below is a list of six facts Reality TV World has compiled about The Bachelor bachelorette Lexi Young.

Lexi moved 15 times in her childhood

Lexi is originally from Toronto in Canada, but she also lived in many different cities across the United States -- including New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta, where she currently resides.

Because of the instability she experienced in her childhood, Lexi wants to find a "ride or die" partner who will stick by her through thick and thin.

ABC says Lexi is "a sweet soul" who is ready to find The One.

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Lexi has an impressive educational background

Lexi works as a digital strategist, and she once worked at GAP headquarters in New York City.

Lexi certainly boasts intelligence, as she graduated in the top one percent of her MBA summer program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

ABC also says Lexi is loyal, kind and smart. Lexi also has a comedian and jokester side of her, and she says that when she loves, she loves hard.

Lexi began "silently" suffering from an undiagnosed condition in middle school

Lexi has been suffering with pain for over a decade.

Lexi shared via Instagram, "I always had incredibly painful periods. Once I got into high school and college, I had horrible pelvic pain, really bad lower back pain, and it just continued to get worse and worse."

Lexi said doctors would prescribe her medications to help with the pain -- including birth control pills at a very young age -- but "nothing helped" her feel better.

After college, Lexi moved to San Francisco, where her symptoms unfortunately worsened even more.

"It got to the point where my symptoms were so bad that I would pass out at work from pain. I couldn't sit at a desk all day and do my job. I started going to multiple doctor's appointments a week to try to gain an understanding of what was going on with my body," Lexi shared.

"I was diagnosed with conditions that I never had. I was told that the pain I was experiencing was in my head and it was rooted in anxiety and depression and that I needed to see a psychiatrist. All of this going on truly made me shut down and almost believe that my pain wasn't real."

Lexi, however, insisted that she was suffering every single day and was often "doubled over in pain" during her twenties.

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A New York City doctor diagnosed Lexi with endometriosis in early 2019

When Lexi was suffering, she decided to move to New York City to be closer to her family. Once she relocated, her health crisis became unbearable.

"I was rushed to the emergency room multiple times... I was losing a lot of blood. I had really, really bad abdominal distention," Lexi recalled via Instagram.

"My lower abdomen would be so swollen from the internal bleeding that I would look four-to-five months pregnant. It was the most uncomfortable feeling. It feels as though there is barbed wire surrounding my pelvis."

Lexi couldn't find answers until she met with one doctor at New York University, who finally validated Lexi's pain and had a strong hunch she's suffering from endometriosis, which can only be discovered through an expensive and explorative diagnostic surgery.

Lexi decided to go through with the laparoscopic robotic surgery, and the surgeon found that Lexi had Stage IV deep infiltrating endometriosis all over her pelvic cavity and it was even spreading to other organs.

Lexi noted, "I finally had the answer as to what was going on with my body... I just remember bursting into tears. They were happy tears and they were sad tears. It's a day I'll never forget, but it's a day that changed my life."

After the procedure, Lexi jumped into physical therapy for the next year.

Lexi can't wait to be a mother and start a family, but it won't be easy for her

"I've always wanted to be a mother, and a big part of endometriosis is potential infertility," Lexi explained on Instagram.

Lexi revealed in February that her symptoms have returned full force and she's going to need a second surgery for endometriosis in the near future.

"The situation I'm currently dealing with is when I want to have children. My doctor wants me to have my second surgery as close as possible to the time I want to try to start conceiving," Lexi explained.

"Having a third or fourth surgery later on could cause a lot of scar tissue. I am kind of in a place right now of a waiting game. I'm in a lot of pain. I'm not in a place to have children right now. I am hopefully going to be there soon, but I just can't have the surgery at this moment."

Lexi had her eggs frozen less than two weeks before going on The Bachelor

Lexi shared in a recent Instagram video post, "Less than two weeks before I walked out of the limo and met Joey, I was in the OR having my egg retrieval surgery."

Although Joey's The Bachelor season didn't premiere until January, it filmed late last year.

"I needed at least a solid month after that to kind of recalibrate back to my normal body," Lexi shared.

"It was hard! I had a lot of heavy bleeding while I was on the show. I had some issues with ovarian cysts while I was on the show. I was like, 'Are people going to see me and my body and judge me for the way that I look?' Because I put on weight."

Lexi admitted that it's even "hard to" watch herself on The Bachelor as it airs on ABC because she thinks she looks "swollen and puffy."

"But you know what? I said, 'I just turned 30. I froze my eggs. That is so empowering and I'm so proud of myself. If this guy doesn't want me when I'm a little puffy and a little emotionally coming down from hormones, then that's not someone I want to marry,'" Lexi explained.

"I just decided to take a leap of faith and go on the show! To that, I just want to say one more thing. When you're watching these shows and critiquing people's appearances and critiquing people's bodies, just remember that you never know what this person is currently going through or has gone through."

Lexi insisted that freezing her eggs was "the right time" for her, even though doing the shots herself was hard and she also struggled with some side effects during her The Bachelor experience.

"When I look back, I would not change one thing. I now have the added security and confidence that I have eggs frozen at this very moment that, I hope and pray, will turn into embryos when I'm ready," she said.

Lexi concluded, "Knowing that not only did I do it alone but I did it successfully and then I went on The Bachelor less than two weeks after, I can do anything!"

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