‘Love Is Blind’s Madison Maidenberg shares best pickup line in DMs…
She’s catching their eyes.
“Love Is Blind” star Madison Maidenberg bought dumped by her fiancé on TV — and as soon as the breakup episode aired, she obtained social media messages from males hoping up to now her.
Maidenberg, 28, who was identified at 21 with a uncommon condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes a gradual loss of imaginative and prescient, revealed the one pickup line that actually bought her consideration.
Madison Maidenberg said people along with her uncommon eye condition, called retinitis pigmentosa, have reached out to her through social media. “To give visibility to this community means more to me than I could ever even imagine,” she said. madisonvm/instagram
“Last night this guy was like, ‘Baby girl, he broke your heart. But I will help you when you’re blind, mi amor,’” Maidenberg told The Post on Thursday, the day after the stunning episode dropped on Netflix.
Since she appeared on the actuality courting collection, she’s gained near 24,000 Instagram followers and obtained a whole bunch of messages from people with retinitis pigmentosa, thanking her for elevating consciousness for the affliction, which impacts roughly 1.5 million people worldwide.
“I had this one guy, it was so sweet. He was at a dark bar. Somebody went to shake his hand and he obviously didn’t see it because we have a hard time with peripherals,” she recalled.
And the individual observed and said, ‘Do you have what that girl from ‘Love Is Blind’ has?’”
In the second episode of Season 9 of “Love Is Blind,” which airs its finale on Oct. 22, Maidenberg explained to her future fiancé Joe Ferrucci that her condition “can lead to blindness.”
“In low light situations, my peripherals are very, very difficult to see … so if I’m looking at somebody’s eyes and I’m talking to them, I’m likely not seeing below their nose,” she told The Post. “And then on top of that, I see what I name TV static. It’s nearly like a filter over my imaginative and prescient all the time, which also makes it very tough with depth notion.
“So I miss stairs a lot of times … I trip and fall a lot.”
Maidenberg, who works as a digital designer, ended up getting engaged to Ferrucci, a sales exec, who — after lastly seeing her — told her he often dated “more petite women.” COURTESY OF NETFLIX
The brunette magnificence utilized to the collection — the place singles date each other by walled-off pods, never seeing what the other seems like until after they’re engaged — after she heard it was casting in her hometown of Denver.
“I was like, ‘Gosh, I would love to be able to experience that and kind of get a taste of what my life could be if I lost my vision.’”
Maidenberg, who works as a digital designer, ended up getting engaged to Ferrucci, a sales exec, who — after lastly seeing her — told her he often courted “more petite women,” which triggered her to develop an consuming dysfunction.
“Obviously, like many women, I had my own insecurities about my body. But his comments triggered something in me that really brought that disordered eating forward,” she said.
“I’m no longer struggling with that eating disorder, but I still struggle with the thoughts that come with it.”
The brunette magnificence declined to disclose how a lot weight she’s misplaced since filming.
She’s slimmed down since filming, which ended in mid 2024, however declined to disclose how a lot weight she misplaced.
“I think that the biggest thing to take into account here is that I am healthier than I’ve ever been. I am so proud of the body that has carried me for 28 years, and that is what deserves to be celebrated rather than a number on a scale.”
Maidenberg also dished that she has seen Ferrucci since the cut up.
“We met up to get dinner. … We say goodbye. … We kind of start making out and he starts tearing up. … So I texted him after we left, ‘Why did you tear up? And he was like, ‘I don’t know, that was weird.’”
The Castle Rock, CO, native went on 40 first dates in just over a yr before becoming a member of the present. madisonvm/instagram
In a new interview with US Weekly, Ferrucci downplayed their relationship, admitting they shared “a strong, physical connection,” however including, “I think that and fighting were the only two things we did.”
“I was shocked by that. … There were many moments that, like any couple, we were laughing, we were connecting, we were having a good time,” Maidenberg said.
“And to see him continue this narrative of minimizing me and our relationship is sad because that is absolutely not true.”
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