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The very foundations of Love Is Blind, the experimental dating show which has now been running for six seasons on Netflix, is that you find your life partner \u2018sight unseen\u2019. Hosts Nick Lachey and his wife Vanessa hammer this point home through various, faintly awkward, segments within the show, where 30 contestants are let loose to enter the now infamous so called \u2018pods\u2019 where they spend days dating a series of members of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n
They are on the hunt for what is solemnly referred to as \u2018their person\u2019 (which is 2024 talk for husband or wife), and the dates get ever cut-throat as each contestant strikes potentials off their list until they propose to The One.<\/p>\n
Now in its sixth season, Love Is Blind viewers know this format all too well. The idea is that when they accept a proposal they finally get to see what their fianc\u00e9 or fianc\u00e9e looks like as the partition doors are pulled back. Until this point they are not strictly meant to have discussed looks: hair colour, race or body type, if they want to play the game properly (although a few contestants have tried their luck, like Shake in season two, who asked Deepti if he might be able to \u2018carry her on his shoulders\u2019 at a music festival in attempt to figure out her weight).<\/p>\n
This season, a conversation between contestants Chelsea Blackwell and Jimmy Presnell, who both hail from Charlotte, North Carolina, has caused a wave of controversy thanks to an exchange about which celebrity flight attendant Chelsea resembled. Although Chelsea herself said she \u2018didn\u2019t see it\u2019 and told Jimmy not to \u2018get excited\u2019 she revealed that she had been compared to Megan Fox over the years. She told him she\u2019d get told \u2018all the time\u2019 that she looked like a certain celebrity during flights. \u2018It\u2019s just because I have dark hair and blue eyes,\u2019 she added. Jimmy was like a cat who got the cream, asking if he could marry Chelsea \u2018right now\u2019.<\/p>\n
Immediately after their first post-engagement meeting, though, Jimmy said in a confessional interview that, even though he was still attracted to his fianc\u00e9e, she had \u2018lied\u2019 to him about her appearance. In fact, Jimmy struggled to compliment much more about Chelsea than her teeth. Viewers weighed in on the subject online, with one commenter on Chelsea\u2019s TikTok writing, \u2018MEGAN FOX? NO NATALIE NUNN\u2019, referring to another reality star, who\u2019s known for her appearance on Bad Girls Club. \u2018You could be Megan Fox\u2019s sister in like a Khloe Kardashian way,\u2019 another quipped. YouTuber Trisha Paytas also added: \u2018I see it girl. Ppl be wildin.\u2019 Chelsea was eventually forced to speak out, joking in a video that has now been viewed 13.4 million times, \u2018This would be a great time for the people who have ever told me that I resembled her to come forward\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n
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Jimmy does almost nothing to reassure Chelsea\u2019s obvious insecurity. He upsets her by telling AD how great she looks, even apparently spinning her around to get a better look at her body. It\u2019s painful to see Chelsea\u2019s diffidence play out so publicly in the group and behind closed doors with Jimmy as she almost begs him to validate her and show her he\u2019s committed. Even prior to meeting Jimmy for the first time she tells the confessional camera that she is \u2018thicker\u2019 than the other girls, something which certainly isn\u2019t apparent to me as a viewer, and even if she were, it shouldn\u2019t be an issue with someone she felt truly confident with.<\/p>\n
In the next batch of episodes, spoiler alert, it becomes more and more clear that Jimmy has realised that Jessica was, indeed, right and he\u2019s beginning to make noises as though the grass might be a bit greener on the other side. In a preview for a later episode we see Jimmy take the mum-of-one aside and tell her that he may be having second thoughts, although he has now already slept with Chelsea, met her friends, and told her he thinks she is \u2018perfect\u2019.<\/p>\n
And therein lies the major issue for these two. Jimmy appears to be something of a shallow guy, who was lured in by Chelsea\u2019s eagerness to please him (much has been made of the kind of girl Jimmy \u2018thought\u2019 he wanted: Jessica is direct to the point of intimidating, whereas Chelsea duly laughed at all of Jimmy\u2019s jokes and told him what he wanted to hear – which is almost certainly how the Megan Fox \u2018lie\u2019 came about.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no doubt Chelsea was feeling insecure, being pitted against Jessica who is so self assured. Did that play into her decision to use the \u2018Megan Fox\u2019 card? Possibly. And whether you think she looks like her or not, do you think she deserves to be torn apart by hundreds and thousands of trolls laughing at her for even daring to compare herself to a good-looking celebrity?<\/p>\n
The bigger point at play here is how we see ourselves – and how we want others to see us, which is a huge element of the dating show. Even though they claim to take looks out of the equation while these contestants fall in love, arguably there is a great deal more pressure on their looks once they have committed to getting engaged and those screen doors pull back. It\u2019s not shallow if you don\u2019t have a physical connection – if these couples do have one that\u2019s a bonus, but it still doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re going to have a happy relationship (in fact only eight couples who have married over the previous seasons are still together, including Cameron and Lauren from season one).<\/p>\n
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