Love Is Blind’s Chelsea tells fans ‘cool it’ after Megan Fox backlash

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Love Is Blind Season 6 star Chelsea Blackwell has responded to a flurry of “mean” responses to her claims that people tell her she looks like Megan Fox.

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On the reality dating show that streams on Netflix, Chelsea told Jimmy Presnell she has been told that she looks like Fox. “It’s just because I have dark hair and blue eyes,” she said. “But I don’t see it so don’t get excited. That’s the only reason, there’s nothing else.”

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“Megan Fox? You’re saying you look like Megan Fox?” Presnell asked.

“It’s just because I have light eyes and dark hair. That’s the only reason. There’s nothing else … at least, I’m assuming so,” Chelsea replied.

When they eventually come face-to-face, Jimmy tells viewers “she definitely lied to me on how she looked.”

“Chelsea told me she looked like Megan Fox. But it doesn’t really matter, at the end of the day I’m attracted to her and I can work with that,” he said.

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Several viewers took issue with Chelsea’s assessment of her looks, with one X user sharing a meme of Kim Kardashian saying, “This is so cringe.”

“Chelsea looks more like Molly Ringwald than Megan Fox,” another wrote.

“More like Megan Faux,” another swiped with a third writing, “Love Is Blind and apparently so is she.”

But Season 4 alum Micah Lussier shared her thoughts on the comparisons on TikTok, telling fans: “I 100% bet that she’s gotten multiple times that she looks like Megan Fox. Because in certain angles, her eyes and certain features that she has, (she) literally looks like Megan Fox.”

As the debate raged online, Chelsea reshared an Instagram Story first posted by her friend Presley Carter that addresses the blowback she’s been getting. “Thank you all who are from our hometown and know Chels for all of your love and support for her through this! It’s been so exciting to watch her and see everything!” Carter’s note said. “Also very hard because people are so mean here on the internet and take reality TV way too seriously. Like it’s a show y’all, we need to cool it 😉”

Chelsea herself also posted a video on TikTok where she tried to shrug off the drama. “This would be a great time for the people who have ever told me that I resembled her to come forward,” she said in the video. “Please, I’m begging you.”

She also addressed the brouhaha in an Instagram video in which she shared a video of herself dancing to Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, with the caption: “Go on a show for love > get your butt dragged through the trenches.”

The flight attendant spoke about the her Fox comparison in an interview with Access Hollywood earlier this week.

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“I am getting dragged through the trenches right now for that comment, because of Jimmy. Little s***,” she said, laughing.

“What they didn’t show is, right before that, he was like, ‘Yeah, I look like (NFL star) Christian McCaffrey.’ And I have no idea who that is,” she added. “So they only showed me telling him, ‘Yeah, I get this on the plane often. I get Katy Perry, Adele and Megan Fox.’ I’m just like, ‘I don’t see it, but it’s something I get.’ I did not expect him to react like that.”

Love Is Blind, a show in which singles look for love and get engaged before meeting in person, streams on Netflix with new episodes dropping Wednesdays.

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