Love Is Blind season 9 star “Sparkle Megan” Walerius had big news to share during the cast’s tell-all reunion.
“I actually have a little bit of a surprise: I am a mom now,” Megan, 35, said during the Wednesday, October 29, reunion. “I had a baby boy two and a half months ago. The girls were like, ‘You got a little thick.’ I’m like, ‘Thank you.'”
Megan revealed she named her son Brooks and gushed that he is her “whole world.”
“I now know more than ever [that] I was meant on this earth to be a mom,” she said. “He’s amazing. Our family’s very happy.”
Megan welcomed Brooks with her new partner, Paul, who attended the reunion taping.
“We wrapped filming in April, and Paul and I got introduced through a mutual friend in July,” she explained. “We got pregnant three months into dating. We definitely had our ups and downs. I’m not gonna say it was perfect, but Paul’s been amazing.”
As for Megan’s ex-fiancé from the pods, Jordan Keltner, the dad of one confirmed Megan was “transparent” about her pregnancy to him before the reunion after someone contacted him to “stir the pot.”
Nearly one week before the reunion aired on Netflix, Megan was spotted in now-viral photos with a then-unidentified man and newborn baby outside her house in Denver, Colorado. She did not immediately address the photos, her companions or their relationship status.
Megan had filmed Love Is Blind season 9 two years ago, during which she got engaged sight unseen to fellow contestant Keltner. Megan ultimately broke up with Jordan, 30, over major lifestyle differences.
“I’ve never dated somebody with a kid,” she said in the finale, referring to Jordan’s 5-year-old son, Luca, from a previous relationship. “All the men that I have dated up to this have had a fairly flexible schedule, and that’s how all my friends are.”
While Megan met Jordan’s son off camera, she questioned whether she was ready to step into parenthood herself.
“In the pods, I was really leaning into him being a single father [and] the excitement of it. I don’t think I thought through how challenging it is and how I would need to make a lot of concessions to how I currently live,” she said tearfully during a confessional interview. “Honestly, this has me questioning if I’m even cut out to be a mom. I don’t know, maybe I am too caught up in my own life. All I wanted coming into this experiment was to find love and to find my partner.”
Jordan understood Megan’s perspective, later telling Variety that he wasn’t blindsided by the wellness entrepreneur’s decision to call off their engagement.
“We spent hundreds of hours with each other. We had every conversation there was to have. We understood each other’s intentions,” Jordan told the outlet earlier this month. “We live two different lives. I’m a single dad. I never wanted her to have immediate responsibility with my son. That was never a conversation. It was like, ‘OK, I got this. All I need you to do is love that guy. That’s it.’”
He continued, “I have a very healthy relationship with his mom and stepdad. We operate as a unit. The expectations with her being involved were hanging out with us and loving him. That was all I wanted. Everything else was just icing on the cake.”
According to Jordan, he could sense that Megan had a few hesitations about getting married even before they formally called it quits.
“I want to get married to someone who wants to get married to me. I don’t want someone to have hesitations. That’s not fair to her,” Jordan told Variety. “We had discussions about not wanting to annul our marriage. We didn’t want to get a divorce. We wanted this to be a forever thing. At the end of the day, she decided it wasn’t going to be a forever thing for her. She made the right choice.”
Megan and Jordan were one of six couples to get engaged during Love Is Blind season 9. All of the engaged pairs broke up by the finale, marking a franchise first.
“While we’re always rooting for our participants to find a lifelong commitment because that’s what they all say they come to Love Is Blind for, most importantly, we root for them to make the decisions they feel are right for themselves,” show creator Chris Coelen told Tudum earlier in October. “I think that’s what happened here.”
Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix.
