Well, this is pretty gross. Not since Billy Ray Cyrus has a cutesy story about meeting and falling in love felt so inadvertently sketchy… In case you didn’t hear, Bachelor vet Nick Viall got engaged in January to girlfriend Natalie Joy after nearly three years together.
On the one hand we can see it being viewed as a beautiful story of soul mates finding one another. On the other, well… there’s the age gap that makes it feel a lot ickier.
There’s a full 18 years between Nick and Natalie, meaning he’s old enough to be her dad. In fact the 42-year-old admitted this week that his future wife was so young when they met that he “carded” her before they could get romantic! Related: Marques Houston Defends Marrying Teenager — By Blasting Women His Own Age The couple appeared on Wednesday’s episode of The Squeeze podcast to talk about their relationship — and the minor controversy surrounding it.
Nick admitted that when he first met Natalie in 2019 — when she would have been just 21 years old — she looked so young to him he made sure to see some legal identification!
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