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Love is Blind star Taylor says she's keeping her mother's name secret

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Love is Blind star Taylor says she's keeping her mother's name secret

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Spoiler alert: Below you will find details about the first six episodes of the seventh season of Netflix's “Love is Blind” (now streaming).

Love is Blind is about falling in love without knowing what someone looks like, and season seven star Taylor Krause took the concept very seriously.

In the first episode (now streaming on Netflix), the 30-year-old clean energy consultant gave her romantic interest pause when she withheld her mother's name as they spoke across a blue wall. “I think my mother's first name reveals part of my appearance. For example, my ethnicity,” she told 33-year-old quantum physicist Garrett Josemans.

Although Garrett – who said he only “dated white girls” – replied that he wasn't concerned about her ethnicity at all, he noted: “You're very calculated in what you say, and even though I think of that Dear you, it's also like this: 'What is she hiding?'”

“The reason I didn't reveal my ethnicity was because it was an opportunity to meet someone who has absolutely no idea what I look like,” Taylor replied. “I'm just really interested in whether my emotional and intellectual thought processes are sufficient. And everything else is extra.”

It was one of the few conversations about racial identity that made its way into the season, which features 29 single 20- and 30-somethings from the Washington, D.C., area.

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Despite the reality show's admittedly imperfect premise, it's common for couples to reveal at least some details about their appearance when they fall in love “sight unseen.”

While his castmate Tyler Francis told USA TODAY that he only revealed to his future fiancée Ashley Adionser that he has freckles, other couples, like Nick Dorka and Hannah Jiles, are more willing to describe themselves. (Nick referred to himself as “a less athletic version” of Henry Cavill, aka Superman, in the premiere episode.)

Meanwhile, due to “uncomfortable comments” Taylor had received in the past “about the way men view my ethnicity,” she wanted to stay true to the Love Is Blind ethos.

“My thought was that I'm a really proud Asian woman and that affects how I look. “So when I embarked on an experiment that was supposed to be about love and not looks, I thought about honoring the experiment,” Taylor said in an interview before the season seven premiere. “I just wanted to take it out of the equation.”

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Taylor's mother, Fong, has been married to her father, Tom, for 35 years and is “an angel and a gangster at the same time,” she told Garrett. “Everyone calls her by her first name in a non-disrespectful way because it’s just so great.”

“I knew if it went well, (Garrett) would score Fong. He would meet my mother. I could take him to dim sum and hang out and practice our Chinese traditions,” she says. “But just for the experiment in the capsules, I wanted to leave it where it was.”

This season also features explicit conversations about interracial dating, politics and body image issues. (One man in the pods even admitted he regretted voting for former President Donald Trump.)

As a result, Love is Blind cast members often naturally reveal aspects of their identities as they speak to their favorite love interests in the pods over ten days.

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Danielle J. Lindemann, a sociology professor at Lehigh University, wrote about the series for CNN in 2020: “There are non-visual clues to a person's race” that contestants navigate on the hit reality show.

Despite their brief tension in the pods, Taylor and Garrett's meeting in Episode 3 went smoothly. When the doors opened and the two walked towards each other on a red carpet, they immediately hugged and gave each other a kiss.

“Fong is going to have the best FaceTime of her life,” Taylor told Garrett.

“Love is Blind” episodes 7-9 will stream on Netflix on October 9th.

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