Vanessa Lachey had a lot to say — and a lot of it rubbed the infertility community the wrong way.
For hounding the cast of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” with questions about which of the newlyweds would be the first to welcome a child during the show’s long-anticipated, yet ill-fated livestream reunion Sunday, Lachey, 42, who co-hosted the special alongside husband Nick, 49, is being blasted by some women who’ve struggled to conceive.
“Were any of my fellow infertility warriors at all triggered by Vanessa Lachey’s annoying baby talk on the season 4?” Jen Walski, a married stay-at-home mother, ranted in her TikTok rebuke of the embattled TV personality, who’s a mom of three.
She went on to note that the Lachey’s intrusive probe of the cast’s pregnancy plans made her “uncomfortable.”
“They need to fire Vanessa and Nick,” Walski insisted, in part, “and hire somebody who can understand where these people are coming from.”
And, unfortunately, there are millions of couples nationwide who have firsthand experience with conception issues.
In the US, approximately 1 in 5 (19%) of married women between the ages of 15 to 49, with no prior births, are unable to get pregnant after one year of trying, per the CDC. The agency also finds that about 1 in 4 (26%) women in the group have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term — an issue known as impaired fecundity.
Representatives for Lachey did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.
While hosting the streaming event over the weekend, Lachey repeatedly asked the season’s three surviving couples, “Who is going to give me our first ‘Love Is Blind’ baby?” before making reference to whether each pair was actually “trying” to get pregnant.
Before closing the show, she introduced a recorded cameo appearance from “Love Is Blind” veteran contestant Bartise Bowden, who, while cradling his newborn son Hayden, too, asked, “Who is going to be the first to become parents?”
However, before married partners Brett Brown and Tiffany Pennywell, Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi Goytowski or Kwame Appiah and Chelsea Griffin were able to respond to the video inquiry, Lachey chimed in saying, “OK, seriously, if that doesn’t make your ovaries burn, I don’t know.”
But, alas, her “insensitive” commentary left women on reproductive journeys burning mad.
“You don’t ask a couple about when they’re having babies,” scolded TikToker @KayPags3 in a video reprimand, adding that Lachey’s incessant inquiries “didn’t sit well” with her.
“You have no idea if one of those couples is struggling with infertility…You don’t know if maybe they’ve been trying and have been unsuccessful,” said the brunette.
“There are so many layers to unpack when it comes to fertility, it is such a sensitive topic,” she continued. “I can speak from experience and say that if I was on that show, and if I was getting grilled with those questions, I would have burst into tears.”
Egg donor Megan Carney, from Santa Monica, Calif., agreed, weighing in on her own TikTok profile with a professional slant on Lachey’s imprudent prodding.
“It is so unbelievably hurtful and inappropriate to ask women, couples, single people when they’re having babies,” said Carney.
“Especially if they’ve been having trouble. It’s like kicking you when you’re down,” she continued. “Please do not ask anybody when the babies are coming.”
“They’ll come when they come, if they want them to come.”
Lachey has yet to publicly respond to the social media backlash.
However, on Sunday, following the reunion’s airing, she took to Instagram with a photo of herself and the cast, penning a plea for sensitivity in the caption.
“Please keep in mind online (and in life) that ‘words have weight,’ ” she wrote, in part.
“What you say to someone you don’t know (and don’t know the whole story to) can have a lasting affect on them,” Lachey said in closing, “in many different ways.”