Sources: Emily Maynard is the new 'Bachelorette'

Emily Maynard's life just got a whole lot rosier!

The North Carolina single mom — who was famously proposed to by Brad Womack on ABC's "The Bachelor" in March 2011 — is ready to move on after their nasty split, and will search for love again as the network's newest "Bachelorette," multiple sources confirm in the new Us Weekly.

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Maynard, 25, has signed on for the show's eighth season, and will start filming in March. It was a "change of heart" for Maynard after months of playing hard-to-get with ABC, a Maynard pal tells Us. "She's looking for a man — not a little boy."

Though "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" fans are used to seeing the show's exploits carried out in a posh Los Angeles mansion where the contestants bunk together, a second insider says production for the series will relocate to Charlotte, N.C., where Maynard raises her young daughter, Ricki.

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"The guys will be flying to her. We're switching things up a bit," hints an insider.

Maynard's upcoming search for love begins nearly one year after she and Womack, 38, called off their engagement. Shortly after their split, Maynard endured a barrage angry calls from her ex, but insisted there was no chance of a reconciliation.

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"I wanted to be married and have more children, but I doubted he was going to still want to be with me," she told "Bachelor" host Chris Harrison in an emotional July 2011 interview. "As a single mom, I don't have the luxury of saying "we'll figure it out when we get there." I need that reassurance that he'd want to be with me six weeks down the road much less six years."

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