Love Is Blind’s Sparkle Megan reveals she’s having a baby at the reunion

Love is blind season 9 stars ‘Sparkle Megan’ Walerius had big news to share during the cast’s tell-all reunion.

“I actually have a little surprise: I’m a mother now,” said 35-year-old Megan during the reunion on Wednesday, October 29. “Two and a half months ago I had a little boy. The girls said, ‘You’ve gotten a bit fat.’ I say, ‘Thank you.’”

According to Megan, she named her son Brooks and said he is her “whole world.”

“I know it now more than ever [that] I was meant to be a mother on this earth,” she said. ‘He’s great. Our family is very happy.”

Megan welcomed Brooks with her new partner, Paul, who even attended the reunion taping.

“We finished shooting in April and Paul and I were introduced through a mutual friend in July,” she explained. “We got pregnant after three months of dating. We definitely had our ups and downs. I’m not going to say it was perfect, but Paul was great.”

As for Megan’s ex-fiancée from prison, Jordan Keltnerthe father of one confirmed that Megan was “transparent” about her pregnancy before the reunion, after someone reached out to him to “stir the pot.”

Nearly a week before the reunion aired on Netflix, Megan was spotted in now-viral photos with a then-unknown man and newborn baby outside her home in Denver, Colorado. She did not immediately comment on the photos, her companions or their relationship status.

Megan had filmed Love is blind season 9 two years ago, in which she became unseen engaged to fellow contestant Keltner. Megan eventually broke up with Jordan, 30, due to major lifestyle differences.

“I’ve never dated anyone with a child,” she said in the finale, referring to Jordan’s 5-year-old son, Luca, from a previous relationship. “All the guys I’ve dated so far have had a pretty flexible schedule, and so are all my friends.”

While meeting Jordan’s son off camera, Megan wondered if she was ready to step into parenthood herself.

“In the pods, I really leaned into him being a single dad [and] the excitement of it. I don’t think I’ve thought about how challenging it is and how I would have to make a lot of concessions in the way I live right now,” she said tearfully during a confessional. “To be honest, I wonder if I’m fit to be a mother. I don’t know, maybe I’m too preoccupied with my own life. All I wanted going into this experiment was to find love and find my partner.

Jordan understood Megan’s perspective and shared it later Variety that he wasn’t blindsided by the wellness entrepreneur’s decision to call off their engagement.

“We spent hundreds of hours together. We had every conversation possible. We understood each other’s intentions,” Jordan told the newspaper earlier this month. “We live two different lives. I’m a single father. I never wanted her to have immediate responsibility for my son. That was never a conversation. It was like, ‘Okay, I get this. All I want you to do is love that man. That’s it.'”

He continued, “I have a very healthy relationship with his mother and stepfather. We operate as a unit. The expectations of her involvement were to hang out with us and love him. That was all I wanted. Everything else was just icing on the cake.”

According to Jordan, he sensed that Megan already had some hesitations about getting married before they formally called it quits.

“I want to marry someone who wants to marry me. I don’t want anyone to hesitate. That’s not fair to her,” Jordan said. Variety. “We had discussions about the fact that we didn’t want to dissolve our marriage. We didn’t want a divorce. We wanted this to be a forever thing. Ultimately, 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 who got engaged during the wedding Love is blind season 9. All the engaged couples broke up during the finale, marking the first of a franchise.

“Although we always strive for our participants to find a lifelong commitment, because that is what they all say they are after Love is blind because the most important thing is that we make sure they make the decisions they think are right for them,” said the show’s creator Chris Coelen Tudum said earlier in October. “I think that’s what happened here.”

Love is blind is currently streaming on Netflix.