Keeping It Together: 'Love is Blind' and the pressure to have babies

Ever get annoyed about the pressure to have children?

I know I do. My name is David Oliver, one of the wellness reporters here at Paste BN.

Vanessa Lachey angered viewers during the (very delayed and not live) "Love is Blind" Season 4 reunion special. But the anger had nothing to do with the episode's tardiness, and everything to do with the host's asks for a "Love is Blind" baby.

None of the lasting, successful couples on the show have procreated, a fact that seems to have perturbed Lachey.

"Auntie Vanessa is still hoping for that 'Love is Blind' baby," Lachey said during the special, among a series of other head-scratching comments that ignited social media.

Experts say statements like Lachey's are harmful and inappropriate, especially for those people who are struggling to get pregnant or simply don't want children.

"Asking when are you going to have kids or when are you going to have more kids is never OK," counseling psychologist T.M. Robinson-Mosley told me. That goes for strangers, friends and family, and TV show hosts.

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