“Sparkle Megan” Walerius introduced her new boyfriend, Paul Wegman, during the Love Is Blind season 9 reunion — but he didn’t stay for the entire taping.
“He’s been awesome, so he thought it was fun,” Megan, 35, recalled on the Thursday, October 30, episode of the “What’s the Reality” podcast of Paul, 46, attending the tell-all special. “He did end up leaving early to go back on baby duty and relieve the babysitter. But, it was fun for him to be there and see everything.”
Megan revealed during the Wednesday, October 29, reunion, that she started dating Paul, a CEO from St. Louis, shortly after she and Jordan Keltner called off their pod engagement. After three months of dating, Megan found out that she and Paul were expecting their first baby together. Son Brooks arrived two months before the Love Is Blind reunion was filmed.
“Paul and I got introduced through a mutual friend,” Megan told podcast host and fellow Love Is Blind alum AD Smith about meeting Paul’s pal at a wellness retreat. “It was probably five months after Jordan and I ended things. His friend introduced us, and we just immediately hit it off.”
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According to Megan, her early romance with Paul quickly “got hot and heavy,” leading to her unexpected pregnancy.
“We’ve had our ups and downs, for sure. I’m not going to say it’s all been rainbows and butterflies, but we have a beautiful little boy now,” Megan said, revealing that she and Paul moved in together after Brooks’ arrival. “He’s definitely very emotionally available and vulnerable and wears his heart on his sleeve. When we first got pregnant, I think I freaked out a little bit with how real it got.”
She jokingly added, “Poor guy stuck with me through thick and thin ‘cause I definitely put us both through it. I wasn’t sure how he was going to react to [the show] but he’s been nothing but supportive.”
While Megan “can’t speak highly enough” about her new man, he did struggle with watching back certain moments from her Love Is Blind journey.
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“I woke up at, like, 1 a.m. and watched all of [the episodes] by myself, and he’s taking it all in stride,” Megan said. “I think the only hard part for him to watch [was] when I was talking about my sex life with Jordan. Yeah, he’s been great and we’re able to laugh about it.”
Megan had previously given Paul a heads-up about her Love Is Blind participation right after they started dating.
“I didn’t want to lead with that when we first met, but then as soon as I saw it was getting serious and was really going somewhere, I was like, ‘Alright, now’s the time to tell him,’” the wellness entrepreneur recalled. “I think at the time he didn’t realize the extent of what this show even meant or what it was. I think he was a little concerned, like, ‘Is this more of a Love Island type [with] the tacky make-out situation?’ I think he’s relieved, now having seen it, and how I carried myself.”
Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix.
