The Netflix star, who left the show heartbroken after falling in love with Jimmy Presnell, told Nick Viall she had built “another strong connection” after her time on the series
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Jess Vestal from “Love Is Blind”, season 6
Warning: This story contains spoilers from Love is blind, season 6.
Things didn’t work out between Jessica Vestal and Jimmy Presnell Love is blind, but she might have found another relationship after leaving the capsules.
Jessica, 29, teased in Thursday’s episode of The Viall files In the podcast, she said she had “another strong connection” on the show with whom she is “still trying to work out certain things.”
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Although Jessica did not want to name the man she is courting, she said his physical appearance is more in line with what she typically finds attractive in a partner.
“I have a very specific type,” Jessica told host Nick Viall. “Like, extremely tall, like 6’6″ or more.” At least. Well, I say that because most of my ex-boyfriends are like 6’4, 6’5. Beard. Beard. Always a beard. I prefer tattoos, but like, like, a sleeve. But if they don’t have that, maybe that’s OK with me. Just like that, tall, dark and handsome.”
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Jessica Vestal on “Love is blind”.
The first single mother on the show said that listeners could find out which Love makes you blind Season 6 cast member she reconnected with based on this description.
“You could probably use context clues when you look at the cast,” Jessica said. “But I can’t name names because I’m still trying to figure some things out. I’ve learned not to show my cards so openly on this kind of stuff.”
The Netflix star confirmed that Jimmy, 28, was not the physical type she usually looks for, but she expected Love makes you blind.
“Most of us there see the person we fell in love with, and nine times out of 10, that person is not our physical type,” Jessica said.
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Jessica Vestal and Jimmy Presnell
Jessica and Jimmy met for the first time in the latest episode of Love makes you blind. The management assistant said on The Viall files She felt “the strangest mix of emotions” when she finally saw Jimmy in real life.
“I felt like I dodged a bullet, and I knew he wasn’t my person, but it was just as much of ‘oh my god, this is the person I fell in love with two or three weeks ago. And he knows more about me than most people on this planet,'” she continued. “So I felt a connection, but not a connection in the sense of ‘I want to be with him,’ or I wonder what could have been.”
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Jessica told PEOPLE that she never thought to contact Jimmy after he left the pods engaged to Chelsea Blackwell and they returned to Charlotte, North Carolina.
“No, not at all. Absolutely not,” Jessica said. “I said what I had to say… it’s weird. It was like a flood of emotions. I was heartbroken, but I also had a sense of peace. I knew it wasn’t meant to be. I think he and I probably came to the understanding at the same time that we weren’t meant to be together. So, no, I never thought about it afterwards.”
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Episodes 1-11 of Love makes you blind Season 6 is now streaming on Netflix, with the finale expected to be released on Wednesday.
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