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USA Today
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
This 'Love Is Blind' star says she doubted marriage amid fertility struggle
"Love is Blind" star Alexa Lemieux is opening up about her emotional struggle with fertility. Lemieux, who met and married co-star Brennon Lemieux during Season 3 of the Netflix reality show, revealed in a new interview the toll fertility issues took on their relationship. In a new episode of the "What's the Reality?" podcast from fellow "LIB" contestant AD Smith, Lemiuex got emotional recounting her struggle to get pregnant. "It was hard. It was really hard," she told Smith. "I just remember one time breaking down. Like, 'Do you regret marrying me?' Because we really bonded over having kids together." The couple, who emerged as one of the few successful pairs from the "LIB" season shot in Dallas, welcomed a daughter, Vienna, in July 2024. Her birth came after a difficult year, with Lemieux previously saying that the couple had undergone various fertility treatments and not found success. "I don't know why I'm crying, because I have a baby," she told Smith, tearing up. "But it was hard, and I just remember thinking that it's never going to happen." In the lead-up to the pregnancy, Lemiuex had begun injecting hormones, a common practice in fertility treatment. But, when they resulted in weight gain and mood swings, and still no pregnancy, the reality star revealed she needed to take a step back. "We decided to put a pause because it was a lot of hormones that I was injecting, and so mentally I was not doing great at all," she said. "I was obviously very, very emotional, and from it, was gaining weight, so my body was off. "Then I had people online pointing it out all the time, so that was really hard," Lemieux continued. "And then we just kind of decided to pause it. Let's regroup. And then I got pregnant. And it was a very healthy pregnancy and we're very blessed for that. "It's not always the case, and so we were very, very lucky," she added.
Buzz Feed
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
After Criticism Of 'Love Is Blind's' Casting Arguably Reached An All-Time High, Season 8 Contestant Virginia Said The Black Men Admitted They 'Usually Date White Women'
Love Is Blind spoilers ahead. If you keep up with Love Is Blind, you might be aware that the show has long come under fire for its questionable casting — particularly when it comes to diversity and representation. And one major issue that has been highlighted by viewers and cast members alike is the racial makeup of the show. Back in 2022, Season 1 contestant Lauren Speed-Hamilton accused the Netflix dating show of cutting Black women out of the final edit despite featuring them in the trailers. She tweeted, "I don't like how LIB be cutting all the black women. How come they are always in the trailer but not the show…" I don't like how LIB be cutting all the black women. How come they are always in the trailer but not the show… 👀 — Lauren Speed (@Need4LSpeed) October 24, 2022 Twitter: @Need4LSpeed Host Nick Lachey addressed Lauren's comment at the time, saying, 'It's a fair observation, but the counterargument to that is that it's not manipulated in the sense that the people gravitate to who they gravitate to.' Regardless, the show has continually been criticized for its lack of diversity across most of the seasons since — and this discourse arguably reached an all-time high when Season 8 aired most recently. After the pods, the season featured just one non-white couple. Netflix LIB creator Chris Coelen addressed all the criticism last month, claiming that the lack of diversity was 'not intentional.' He said, 'The show casts itself. We put people in the pods, and you try to have a very diverse group of people in lots of different ways [at the start]. And then the people who get engaged are the people who get engaged. The people who fall in love are the people who fall in love.' With all this in mind, LIB contestant Virginia Miller — who was one half of Season 8's only non-white couple — has called out the show's lack of diverse casting. Appearing on a recent episode of the What's the Reality podcast, which is hosted by Season 6 LIB star Amber 'AD' Smith, Virginia was asked how she felt about her season being 'so white.' 'It was really unfortunate,' she said, adding that the show did not provide a realistic representation of Minnesota, where Season 8 was based. 'We have the highest Somali demographic and the highest Hmong demographic…It's pretty diverse.' Notably, Virginia went on to claim that the Black men of this season said they 'usually date white women.' She said, 'I think that there were four men who may have identified as Black men. So, two African men, and then two biracial men. There were more Black women — there were five Black women. But the Black men on the cast have said that they usually date white women.'
