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'Love Is Blind' star Cameron said his mother was nervous about him having kids with Lauren, fearing their biracial kids would face discrimination

Julia Naftulin   

'Love Is Blind' star Cameron said his mother was nervous about him having kids with Lauren, fearing their biracial kids would face discrimination
  • Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton's book "Leap of Faith" gives a behind-the-scenes look at their journey to find love.
  • As an interracial couple, Speed and Hamilton discussed race often, including with their parents.
  • A dinner conversation about raising biracial children never made the show, so the couple shared it in the book.

Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton became fast fan favorites on Netflix's hit reality dating show "Love Is Blind."

Now they're giving viewers a deeper look inside their journey from strangers to spouses in their book "Leap of Faith."

The couple was one of two duos on the show to get married, among 30 men and women who dated in pods where they could only hear, but not see, their love prospects.

Speed and Hamilton hit it off from the start, and got engaged after five days of intimate conversation. It wasn't until they met in person that they realized Speed is a Black woman and Hamilton is a white man.

Though the episodes allude to talks Speed and Hamilton had about race, the pair says the show never aired a clip that showed their immediate families discussing how their future biracial children would grow up.

Both families talked about what it would mean to raise biracial kids

Once they got engaged, Hamilton met Speed's parents. Soon after, Speed met Hamilton's parents and then both families sat down together for a dinner that Netflix filmed as a part of the show.

In "Leap of Faith," Hamilton wrote that the dinner started with banter about how wild the show experience was, but soon they began to discuss race.

"We all started talking about the prejudice that exists in the world today and what that might mean for our family moving forward," Hamilton wrote.

He added that his mother said she was concerned about the bad treatment her future grandchildren might experience due to their race.

In response, Hamilton said he finds it's "ultimately a blessing to have children, even if they have to face certain hardships, even if they're discriminated against," and that he, Speed, and their parents will provide as much love and support as they possibly can.

Hamilton said the clip didn't air because it wasn't dramatic enough for TV

In the book, Hamilton wrote he believed the moment didn't air because it wasn't dramatic enough for reality television, though the producers told him otherwise.

"This idea that we would all be working together toward the same future struck a very beautiful note, which is funny because none of the meeting made it into the show." he wrote. "Production later said that there were technical issues with the audio."

Since that initial meeting of their families, Speed said she and her husband have strengthened their connections with their in-laws through phone calls and weekly dinners.

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