‘Love Is Blind’s Zanab Jaffrey Slams Cole Barnett For ‘Body Shaming’ During Epic Season 3 Reunion

The Love Is Blind play 3 reunion peculiar aired connected Nov. 9 and it has everyone talking! During the Netflix special, galore stars of the dating bid revealed shocking accusations, including Zanab Jaffrey. The 32-year-old quality accused her 27-year-old ex-fiance Cole Barnett, whom she rejected astatine the altar during their wedding, of “body shaming” her and trying to “change” her “eating habits” during their romance. “I stopped eating. I was eating, like, a banana and a scoop of peanut food truthful I wouldn’t walk retired connected the agelong days we were filming,” she said connected the reunion, according to Variety.

Cole didn’t clasp backmost and responded to her claims close away. “That’s hilarious, I ne'er erstwhile cared astir what you ate,” helium said.

Zanab and Cole’s astir wedding took spot connected the 11th occurrence of the 3rd play of ‘Love is Blind.’

Zanab and Cole’s wedding was shown connected occurrence 11 of the 3rd play of Love Is Blind, and though Zanab said that she did emotion Cole, she didn’t hesitate to explicate wherefore she decided not to wed him. “You person disrespected me. You person insulted me. You person critiqued me. And, for what it is worth, you person single-handedly shattered my aforesaid confidence,” she said.

The erstwhile mates seemed to deed it disconnected astatine the opening erstwhile they bonded implicit their faith, but things started to get rocky aft Cole told Zanab she was a “nine retired of 10” portion calling contestants Raven Ross and Colleen Reed cleanable “10s.” Tension accrued further erstwhile Cole made it known that helium wasn’t usually attracted to women that looked similar Zanab. “I projected to a miss named Zanab,” helium told her. “You deliberation I thought Zanab looked much similar the girls I dated successful the past that were named like, Lily?”

Zanab opened up astir her feelings regarding her romance with Cole. (Netflix)

In her archetypal interview, Zanab precocious told Variety that she interpreted Cole’s comments to mean helium lone dated achromatic women. “Everyone heard it. Even watching it back, I was like, wow, I truly didn’t perceive that similar everyone other heard it,” she explained to the outlet. “I’ve gotten hundreds of messages similar what you conscionable said: ‘He’s saying this.’ In the vigor of that moment, I didn’t needfully perceive it. But we’d had conversations astir women helium antecedently dated. There were galore conversations astir however to I did not look similar it oregon unrecorded up to it.”

She besides elaborated further connected however her eating habits changed erstwhile she was progressive with Cole. “The things helium was saying to maine did hurt. I was someway trying to marque myself desirable to him, whether it beryllium skinnier, or… [pauses and takes a heavy breath] I’ve ne'er had idiosyncratic talk to maine that mode astir my assemblage oregon eating,” she said. “That was precise existent for me. I did alteration what I was eating. I was conscionable eating a banana. I did suffer value by the wedding day. It had thing to bash with fitting into my wedding dress.”

Despite the drama and pugnacious times, Zanab insisted she has nary regrets astir gathering Cole and getting progressive with him erstwhile she did connected the show. “Cole was the lone 1 for maine successful that experiment. Our reveal, I loved. It was truthful genuine. I was truthful happy, and I thought I had met my person,” she shared. “The discourse of what I was trying to accidental was that I would bash it again and take him again knowing the outcome. It did nonstop maine connected a journey. It forced maine to excavation deeper wrong myself. I learned truthful overmuch astir myself.”

“Would I repetitively bash it again? No,” she continued. “But I don’t regret Cole coming into my life. I don’t ever regret being that blessed and successful emotion with him astatine 1 point. To bash it again would beryllium truthful I could acquisition that precocious with him again, adjacent knowing wherever it came to. I conscionable deliberation the absorption it enactment maine successful my life, it taught maine something. I’m choosing to instrumentality a acquisition from our narration alternatively of being aggravated astatine him.”