Out of the 30 men and women that started their journey for blind love on Netflix’s new hit show, Lauren Speed, 32, and Cameron Hamilton, 28, became clear fan favorites.
The couple fell in love and got engaged all without ever seeing each other through the dating experiment that has taken the internet by storm, Love is Blind.
Since filming and their wedding concluded back in fall 2018, the two have hidden their marriage and for over a year and are finally spilling the beans.
Wedded bliss: Lauren Speed, 32, and Cameron Hamilton, 28, were fan favorites on Netflix’s Love is Blind and both said ‘I do’ just weeks after meeting. After keeping their relationship a secret for over a year they are spilling the beans
Speaking to People, out Monday, the couple dished on married life, how they kept everything a secret and life after the cameras.
After what the show called the ‘Pod’ phase where dates took place, in two separate rooms with a divider, sometimes for up to 19 hours the couples who got engaged, headed off to Mexico, before returning home to Atlanta to start life together.
When asked if they had any doubts after moving in together, Lauren seemed to have more of an internal struggle than Cameron.
‘After we had left Mexico and started sharing a space and living together, I found myself kind of fighting myself,’ she said. ‘The timeline for the marriage — I was getting scared. It’s legally binding. So I did go through a time in my mind when I was like, “Am I really ready?”’
Second engagement: After what the show called the ‘Pod’ phase where dates took place, in two separate rooms with a divider, sometimes for up to 19 hours the couples who got engaged, headed off to Mexico, before returning home to Atlanta to start life together
Unwavering: It was Cameron who got her through, with her saying ‘Thank God that Cameron, he never wavered throughout everything. He’s like “Look, no matter what, we’re still going to be together even if we don’t get married. We can still continue”‘
Adding ‘I closed off a little bit in some ways. I had never been as happy as I have been with Cameron, and I think that scared me because I was so afraid of being disappointed, and I was projecting that onto Cameron. I had to really fight through that, and that was tough.
It was Cameron who got her through, with her saying ‘Thank God that Cameron, he never wavered throughout everything. He’s like “Look, no matter what, we’re still going to be together even if we don’t get married. We can still continue.”‘
In regards to doubts, Cameron went through it in a methodical manner.
He said: ‘I tried to do this sort of comprehensive assessment of things like, are the family things going to be a problem? Or religious things? Or other social things? I went through that list and there was nothing that was a roadblock for us or nothing that would give me unease.’
Too perfect: Even for Cameron it seemed too good to be true. Adding: ‘So I was like, “Man, this does seem too good to be true.” I think it’s a testament to the fact that when you find the right person you can just kind of know, and it doesn’t take a ton of time to know that’
Hiding: ‘I can’t even really post pictures of my family because we still have to keep it a secret,’ Lauren said. ‘So many great moments that we’ve just shared in the past year and a half that we haven’t been able to share with the world’
Even for him it seemed too good to be true. Adding: ‘So I was like, “Man, this does seem too good to be true.” I think it’s a testament to the fact that when you find the right person you can just kind of know, and it doesn’t take a ton of time to know that.’
While the process of the show was documented to be rocky, keeping their successful relationship a secret after filming was even tougher.
‘I can’t even really post pictures of my family because we still have to keep it a secret,’ Lauren said. ‘So many great moments that we’ve just shared in the past year and a half that we haven’t been able to share with the world.’
Though she did say she plans to roll out the pictures now that they can be open about their relationship.
Real love: The couple also seemed to be soaking up all of the love from viewers they were getting. Though Lauren said some people think their relationship is ‘too perfect,’ and that they are actors
While Cameron added: ‘That’s a lot to catch people up on. I mean, we’re obviously fundamentally the same people in the core, but I think we’ve evolved with each other and in some ways mirrored each other, picked up each other’s mannerisms or elements of our personalities.’
The couple also seemed to be soaking up all of the love from viewers they were getting. Though Lauren said some people think their relationship is ‘too perfect,’ and that they are actors.
‘It’s heartwarming because I’ve actually received messages from people just being like, “I almost gave up on life and just seeing you two has inspired me that the world still has love,”’ Lauren said.
Two success stories: Of the six couples viewers got to see get engaged, five walked down the aisle but only Lauren and Cameron, and Amber Pike and Matt Barnett (bottom left) said ‘I do’
Adding: ‘It’s those comments that really are like, man, I’m so happy that our story and testimony is impacting the world like this. The fact that we gave the world a happy cry, it’s just cool.’
With Cameron adding: ‘So it’s been overwhelmingly positive in that regard.’
Of the six couples viewers got to see get engaged, five walked down the aisle but only Lauren and Cameron, and Amber Pike and Matt Barnett said ‘I do.’
The show’s creator Chris Coelen recently talked to E! News about his hit show and talked about the turmoil the producers felt not knowing exactly what would happen at the alter.
Saying: ‘They certainly could choose to do whatever they wanted to do. Again, being there on the wedding day, I personally, knowing these people and their stories, I didn’t know what was going to happen.’
Other success: Amber and Matt are also still together over a year after filming ended
Shock: With the shock ‘I don’t’ of Damien Powers during his wedding to Giannina Gibelli creator Chris Coelen said ‘People are just gasping in the control room. Like, anything could happen with any of them’
‘I love that it’s sad, I love that it’s stakes because when you then have a success story like Cam and Lauren, it’s real,’ Coelen said. ‘It’s real and they are in love and that love is going to bond them for the rest of their lives.’
He added. ‘It’s incredible to be a part of that. It’s super high stakes, it’s the highest stakes in a relationship standout you can have, so you heighten the stakes to that level, you are going to have this amazing rush of success but you’re also going to have the crash of it not working out and people being devastated. It’s all real.’
With the shock ‘I don’t’ of Damien Powers during his wedding to Giannina Gibelli Coelen said ‘People are just gasping in the control room. Like, anything could happen with any of them.’