Love Is Blind’s Zanab Jaffrey: I Was ‘Trying to Make Myself Desirable’ to Cole Barnett
usmagazine.comAs Love Is Blind fans are still reeling from the finale and reunion special, Zanab Jaffrey got candid about her complicated relationship with Cole Barnett — and how he affected how she felt about herself.“I did love him.
The things he was saying to me did hurt. I was somehow trying to make myself desirable to him, whether it be skinnier, or…” the 32-year-old flight attendant told Variety on Wednesday, November 9, taking a breath and pausing before she continued speaking. “I’ve never had someone speak to me that way about my body or eating.
That was very real for me. I did change what I was eating. I was just eating a banana. I did lose weight by the wedding day.
It had nothing to do with fitting into my wedding dress.”During Wednesday’s reunion, Zanab called it Cole’s “saving grace” that the Netflix series didn’t include all of their tense moments.
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