Vanessa Lachey blasted for pregnancy questions at ‘Love is Blind’ reunion
Vanessa Lachey had a lot to say — and a lot of it rubbed the infertility c☂ommunity the wrong way.
Forof ’s “Love is Blind” with questions about which of the newlyweds would be the first to welcome a child during the show’s long-anticipated, yet ill-fated livestream reuꦅnion Sunday, Lachey, 42, who co-hosted the special alongside husband Nick, 49, is being blasted by some women w🐠ho’ve struggled to conceive.
“Were any of my fellow infertility warriors by Vanessa Lachey’s annoying baby talk on the Season 4?” Jen Walski, a married stay-at-home mother, ranted in her TikTok rebuke of the embattled TV personality, who’s a mom of three.
She went on to note that Lachey’s intrusive probe of the cast’s pregnancy plans made herꦅ “uncomfortable.”
“They need to fire Vanessa an🎶d Nick,” Walski insisted, in part, “and hire somebody who can understand where these people are coming from.”
And, ౠunfortunately, there are millions of couples nationwide who have firsthand experience with conception issues.
In the US, 19% of married women between the ages of 15 to 49, with no prior births, are unable to get pregnant after one year of trying, . The agency also finds that 26% of women in the group have dif🧜ficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term — an issue known as impaired fecundity.
Representatives for Lachey did not rꦜespond to The Post’s request for a comment.
While hosting the streaming event over the weekend, Lachey repeatedly asked the season’s three surviving couples, “Who is going to give me our first ‘Love is Blind’ baby?” before making reference to whether each pair was actually “trying” to get pregnant.
Before closing the🍸 show, she introduced a recorded cameo appearance from “Love is Blind” veteran contestant , who, while cradling his newborn son Hayden, too, asked, “Who is going to be the first to become p💎arents?”
However, before married partners Brett Brown and Tiffany Pennywell, Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi Goytowski or Kwame Appiah and Chelsea Griffin were able to respond to the video inquiry, Lachey chimed in saying, “OK, seriously, if that doesn’t make your ovaries burn, I don’t know.”
But, alas, her “insensitive” commentary left women on reproductive journeys burning mad.
“You don’t ask a couple about when they’re having babies,” in a video ꦺreprimand, addin🐠g that Lachey’s incessant inquiries “didn’t sit well” with her.
“You have no idea if one of those couples is struggling with infertility…You don’t know i🎀f maybe they’ve been trying and have been unsuccessful,” 🔴she said.
“There are so many layers to unpack when it comesꦇ to fertility, it is such a sensitive topic,” she continued. “I can speak from experience and say that if I was on that show, and if I was getting grilled with those questions, I would have burst into te🙈ars.”
Egg donor Megan Carney, from Santa Monica, California🍬, agreed, on her own TikTok profile with a professional slant on Lachey’s imprudent prodding.
“It is so unbelievably hurtful 🃏and inappropriate to ask women, co♓uples, single people when they’re having babies,” said Carney.
“Especially if they’ve been having trouble. It’s like k𝄹icking you when you’re down,” she continued. “Please do not ask anybody when the babies areไ coming.
“They’𓃲ll come when they come, if they want them to come.”
Lachey h𓆏as yet to to the social media ba🐠cklash.
However, on Sunday, following the reunion’s airing, she took 𒅌to Instagram with a photo of herself anཧd the cast,in the caption.
“Please keep in mind online (and in life) that ‘words have weight,’ ” she💯 wrote, in part.
“Wh🦂at you say to someone you don’t know (and don’t know the whole story to) can have a lasting affect on them,” Lachey said in closing, “in many different ways.”
