Love Is Blind alums Amber Pike and Matt Barnett are officially parents following the arrival of their first baby, a daughter.
“Baby Barnett has arrived and is more perfect than anything I could’ve dreamed,” Pike, 33, gushed via Instagram on Sunday, April 6. “If you hadn’t guessed yet Baby B is a She, and I literally still can’t believe the hospital let us take her home and that she is actually ours.”
She added, “It may be the hormones but @barnettisblind and our baby girl have my heart so full I can hardly function, I hope this feeling never goes away.”
The pair announced they were expecting during a joint appearance on fellow Love Is Blind couple Lauren and Cameron Hamilton’s “The Love Seat” podcast in October 2024.
“I sent myself back to school because I felt like we were in a place where I could do that, like, I had the support and I was mentally there,” Pike said at the time.
“Then, over summer break, he just went and knocked me up,” she quipped, pointing to Barnett.
Pike and Barnett also shared the happy news in an Instagram post at the time. “Where it started. Where we’ve been. Where we’re at…,” she captioned the video, which included photos from throughout their relationship and a glimpse of Pike’s growing baby bump.
The pair hit it off during season 1 of Love Is Blind, which was filmed in 2018. Barnett proposed to Pike sight unseen on the Netflix reality show, and they tied the knot during the finale, which aired in 2020.
Pike was vocal about her desire to start a family with Barnett as the two settled into married life, but her epilepsy battle presented complications.
“Obviously, I wanted to have kids sooner. But also with everything that’s been going on with me health-wise, it’s scary,” she said during the first season of Love Is Blind: After the Altar. “I feel like the longer we wait, the harder things are going to be on me physically to have kids. I just feel like shoes just keep dropping on us and he’s more concerned about his own fears that he doesn’t acknowledge mine at all, especially when it comes to how scared I am with having high-risk pregnancies and in his mind, I feel like he thinks he can put it off forever.”
Despite some hardships, Pike and Barnett’s relationship only grew stronger over time.
“I know a lot of people have their opinions about Matt and I and how we live our life… but looking back at this past year only solidifies that… IDGAF,” she wrote via Instagram in January 2022. “Every human being, no matter how caught up they get with society’s expectations, has their own unique desire for what they want their life to be and the life I dreamed about was based off of my own expectations and nobody else’s.”
She continued: “I have been nothing less than blessed to find a partner that looks at life the same way that I do, as an adventure meant to be lived out instead of just dreamt about. We have a full life that we get to share with each other and our family and friends, and if we had nothing else at the end of the day besides that, I would still say we have a life that’s good.”
Pike reiterated her point in October 2024 when she shared a selfie with Barnett and a quote that read, “I’m more interested in how my life feels to me than how it looks to others.” She captioned the Instagram post, “Mom & Dad(dy).”
