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The Love Is Blind season 3 reunion particular aired on Nov. 9 and it has everybody speaking! During the Netflix particular, many stars of the courting collection revealed stunning accusations, together with Zanab Jaffrey. The 32-year-old magnificence accused her 27-year-old ex-fiance Cole Barnett, whom she rejected on the altar throughout their marriage ceremony, of “physique shaming” her and attempting to “change” her “consuming habits” throughout their romance. “I finished consuming. I used to be consuming, like, a banana and a scoop of peanut butter so I wouldn’t cross out on the lengthy days we have been filming,” she stated on the reunion, in accordance with Variety.
Cole didn’t maintain again and responded to her claims immediately. “That’s hilarious, I by no means as soon as cared about what you ate,” he stated.
Zanab and Cole’s marriage ceremony was proven on episode 11 of the third season of Love Is Blind, and though Zanab stated that she did love Cole, she didn’t hesitate to elucidate why she determined to not marry him. “You have disrespected me. You have insulted me. You have critiqued me. And, for what it’s value, you’ve single-handedly shattered my self esteem,” she stated.
The former couple appeared to hit it off at first once they bonded over their religion, however issues began to get rocky after Cole advised Zanab she was a “9 out of 10” whereas calling contestants Raven Ross and Colleen Reed good “10s.” Tension elevated additional when Cole made it identified that he wasn’t usually drawn to ladies that appeared like Zanab. “I proposed to a woman named Zanab,” he advised her. “You assume I assumed Zanab appeared extra like the ladies I dated previously that have been named like, Lily?”
In her first interview, Zanab just lately advised Variety that she interpreted Cole’s feedback to imply he solely dated white ladies. “Everyone heard it. Even watching it again, I used to be like, wow, I actually didn’t hear that like everybody else heard it,” she defined to the outlet. “I’ve gotten a whole bunch of messages like what you simply stated: ‘He’s saying this.’ In the warmth of that second, I didn’t essentially hear it. But we’d had conversations about ladies he beforehand dated. There have been many conversations about I didn’t appear to be it or reside as much as it.”
She additionally elaborated additional on how her consuming habits modified when she was concerned with Cole. “The issues he was saying to me did harm. I used to be someway attempting to make myself fascinating to him, whether or not or not it’s skinnier, or… [pauses and takes a deep breath] I’ve by no means had somebody converse to me that approach about my physique or consuming,” she stated. “That was very actual for me. I did change what I used to be consuming. I used to be simply consuming a banana. I did drop extra pounds by the marriage day. It had nothing to do with becoming into my marriage ceremony gown.”
Despite the drama and hard instances, Zanab insisted she has no regrets about assembly Cole and getting concerned with him when she did on the present. “Cole was the one one for me in that experiment. Our reveal, I cherished. It was so real. I used to be so joyful, and I assumed I had met my particular person,” she shared. “The context of what I used to be attempting to say was that I’d do it once more and select him once more figuring out the result. It did ship me on a journey. It compelled me to dig deeper inside myself. I realized a lot about myself.”
“Would I repetitively do it once more? No,” she continued. “But I don’t remorse Cole coming into my life. I don’t ever remorse being that joyful and in love with him at one level. To do it once more could be so I may expertise that top with him once more, even figuring out the place it got here to. I simply assume the course it put me in my life, it taught me one thing. I’m selecting to take a lesson from our relationship as an alternative of being offended at him.”
