'90 Day Fiancé': Kobe Defends Telling Emily She Gained Weight and Reacts to Her Having a Type (Exclusive)

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season 9 standout couple Emily and Kobe are opening about their unique love story and a few on-camera moments between them that are already getting fans talking.

The couple spoke with ET's Melicia Johnson about how they met as well as Kobe's blunt comment in the trailer that Emily had gained weight after they reunited in an airport, which appeared to have completely shocked her.Emily, a 29-year-old Kansas native, met 34-year-old Kobe (who's from Cameroon) when she was in China teaching English and he was working as an underwear model.

During the season 9 premiere, Emily said she noticed Kobe while at a club and knew that she had to get to know him. Emily also told cameras that she «loves Black guys.» Kobe shares with ET that he's all for Emily's assertive nature, and that she actually followed him to the bathroom at the club to go talk to him after she noticed him. «I mean, she was hot,» he recalls. «And I'm like, wow.

I asked her where's she's from and she said the U.S., and I'm like, OK, easy. It's not easy for a girl to approach you in my culture, where I come from, if a girl's gonna approach you, it means a lot.