A tough situation. Love is Blind star Colleen Reed opened up about watching the way costar Zanab Jaffrey‘s relationship with Cole Barnett took a toll on her self-esteem.“It’s so hard, but I saw the transition that happened from the Zanab that we met in the pods to the Zanab that we saw toward the end of the experience,” the PR strategist, 26, exclusively told Us Weekly during a joint interview with husband Matt Bolton on Wednesday, November 16. “She definitely became a shell of a human being.”Colleen added that she first noticed tension between the pair during the group’s post-engagement trip to Malibu, after Cole, 27, confessed that he was more attracted to her than to his then-fiancée. “Whether she asked about it or not, he still said that she was a nine out of a 10 and two other women were 10 out of tens,” the ballerina explained. “Those comments do get to you.
And if that was said to me constantly, I would definitely get in my head and I would pick apart situations that might not have been a big deal [to other people], but a big deal to [me].”She continued: “[Cole] is not a bad human being by any means.
I don’t think he’s evil or anything like that. I just think that he can sometimes … he’s not careful with his words and his behaviors.
And I think it really got to her.”The most controversial example of Cole’s comments hurting Zanab came to light during the season 3 reunion when the London native claimed that her former fiancé frequently body-shamed her. “I stopped eating.
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