Love is Blind babies - Which season 1 stars are parents?

The next-generation pod squad has been growing. We are four years and seven seasons into Love is Blind. Vanessa Lachey may have been pressuring the cast hard for babies, and it turns out she didn't have to wait too long. Here's a look at which Love is Blind couples are growing their families, including one that recently announced their pregnancy!

I feel like a proud aunt seeing my little Love is Blind ducklings becoming parents. This far into the series, it's hard not to feel personally invested in what the cast has been up to since leaving the show. So let's take a look at the Love is Blind babies.

Love is Blind Season 1 Babies

Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann

Blake Horstmann isn't Love is Blind alum, but he is a reality star as well. Blake originally starred on Becca Kufrin's season of The Bachelorette and also spent time on the beach on Bachelor in Paradise. While I was heartbroken that Blake and I weren't meant to be, Giannina and Blake make an adorable couple.

Giannina and Blake met on the set of short lived Paramount+ reality show All Star Shore. Reality all stars from shows including Vinny Guadagnino from Jersey Shore, and well known reality stars from Perfect Match, RuPaul's Drag Race, Love Island and Ex on the Beach to name a few. The couple started dating since 2022, and recently welcomed a son, Heath Orion Horstmann in March 2024.

Considering Giannina and Blake met on a reality show, and they've each gone on to launch successful careers post-reality show, Heath has decent odds in following in their footsteps. Maybe we'll see him in the pods in 2050.

Mark Cuevas and Aubrey Rainey

While Mark didn't find lasting love on TV, he did find his wife! Mark and Aubrey married in September 2022. Mark is known for getting engaged to Jessica Batten in the pods, who is also a mom now. There was a ten-year age gap between the two. In case you forgot, Jessica was 34, and Mark was 24. Making them now 39 and 29.

I think my favorite moment between Mark and Jessica was when she was so not into life outside the pods with him, they had to go back behind an apartment wall to have a normal conversation. But in the long run, both seem to be pretty happy in healthier relationships.

Mark and Aubrey met in a restaurant in 2020. In case you're keeping track, even though Love is Blind premiered in February 2020, it was filmed the year prior. Mark and Aubrey Cuevas have two sons, Ace and Axon. They were ringbearers in their 2022 wedding. How cute it that? Matt Barnett, also from season 1 of Love is Blind, was a groomsman.

Jessica Batten and Benjamin McGrath

You may have forgot, but Jessica is 34 and Mark is 24. Or they were when they filmed their season of Love is Blind and got engaged. Jessica also dated Matt Barnett in the pods, and while it seems like she was hoping he'd choose her, it didn't shake out that way.

Mark and Jess seemed doomed from day 1. The memory of her so casually strolling up the aisle solo like she was heading to a picnic instead of her wedding lives rent free in my head. She also found the love of her life post pods. She married Ben McGrath, who is a foot surgeon, in 2022. They met when he slid into her DMs right before COVID. So it *does* work sometimes. I still am not going on a reality show, though. I don't care how cute these couples are.

They welcomed their son, Dax McGrath in 2023. Jessica Batten is also a stepmom to Ben's two kids from a previous relationship. Hopefully, he won't be enjoying sips of Jess's wine any time soon like her dog Payton did on the show. Just kidding, Jessica! She looks like such a loving mom and we love to see that.

Amber Pike and Matt Barnett

Save the best for last. I love the whole cast of Love is Blind, but Amber and Barnett just recently announced they're expecting a baby! They're one of the only OG Love is Blind couples, and the first to be expecting.

They very rarely do media appearances, but they were on the first episode ever of Love Seat, Lauren Speed-Hamilton and Cameron Hamilton's new podcast! If you guys need a babysitter, call me. Barnett even did his own joking pregnancy announcement to share the news. Well played.

Congrats to all the happy new Love is Blind parents!