Vanessa Lachey on Standing up to Shake During Reunion

• Vanessa Lachey said her “mama bear instinct” came out when confronting Shake on “Love Is Blind.” 
• “I really try to do it with grace and not be disrespectful,” she told Insider, noting she’s “human.”
• Lachey is currently blazing a trail on TV as the first female lead on the “NCIS” franchise.

“Love Is Blind” cohost Vanessa Lachey told Insider in a recent interview that her “mama bear instinct” came out when she confronted Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee on the season two reunion show. 

During the moment in question, Lachey was talking to Shake about blatantly asking women questions regarding their weight and physical appearance while getting to know them in the “pods” stage of the experiment. On “Love Is Blind,” male and female contestants are separated from each other and have conversations to get to know each other while separated by a wall, the point being to see if you can fall in love with someone without knowing what they look like. 

While talking to women, Shake blatantly asked them their clothes size and if he’d have a difficult time lifting them up on his shoulders.

Lachey got frustrated with the emphasis Shake was putting on looks.

“You need to open your heart to a bigger picture. Because at the end of the day, what if she’s dismangled in an accident, what if she gains weight, what if she loses her hair, her legs, and her arms? Are you not going to love her anymore?” the mother of three asked Sake on the reunion show about a hypothetical partner.

“I hope to god if I’m dismangled, knock on fuckin’ wood, this man stands by my side and I know he will because he loves me for me,” she continued, pointing to her husband and cohost Nick Lachey.

The “NCIS: Hawaii” star told Shake that her issue with him was that he “sat there and berated every single one of these women” based on their physical traits. She told the reality star that his ex Deepti Vempati was a “beautiful soul” who Shake had no intention of falling in love with and just “wanted to fuck.” 

“I think that something just came over me as, again, a woman in this industry, as a minority in this industry, I’ve fought through a lot,” Lachey told Insider about the strong words she had for Shake during our interview to promote Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day coming up on July 28. 

She said that whenever she sees anyone getting “disrespected” like she saw Shake doing to multiple people on “Love Is Blind” and the reunion show, “I just have this mama bear instinct where I want to stand up and I want to say something.” 

“And I really try to do it with grace and not be disrespectful, but it got to a point that you’re human and your emotions come out. And what you saw was my emotion coming out,” Lachey continued. 

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