

Shaina Hurley and Christos Lardakis Araya Doheny/Getty Pictures for Netflix
Love Is Blind alum Shaina Hurley and husband Christos Lardakis predict their first baby.
Hurley, 33, and Lardakis introduced the thrilling information on Tuesday, September 5, telling Us Weekly in an announcement, “We really feel so grateful and grateful that now we have been given such a blessing. Our hearts are full! We can’t wait to start out this subsequent journey of parenthood collectively and to satisfy this little soul!”
The previous Netflix character began courting Lardakis after ending her transient engagement to Kyle Abrams on season 2 of Love Is Blind. Hurley went public with Lardakis in March 2022 and introduced their engagement two weeks later.
Hurley and Lardakis tied the knot in July 2022 at a courthouse in Chicago. Whereas celebrating the one-year anniversary of their marriage ceremony, Hurley devoted a candy tribute to her husband.
“Pleased one yr Anniversary agάpe mou. What an incredible first yr and to many extra blessings to come back 🤍,” she wrote through Instagram in July.
Lardakis additionally took to social media to bathe his spouse with love, writing through Instagram that very same month, “Pleased 1 yr anniversary MY LOVE One of the best is but to come back!! 7.21.2022 @shaina.hurley.”

Earlier than discovering her fortunately ever after with Lardakis, Netflix viewers watched Hurley’s journey to seek out The One on season 2 of Love Is Blind. She initially shaped a reference to Abrams, 31, and Shayne Jansen. Hurley ended up getting engaged to Abrams within the pods, however she later advised Jansen, 34, about her emotions for him.
Hurley and Abrams known as it quits after leaving the pods forward of the reunion particular, which aired in March 2022. On the time, Hurley opened up about feeling pressured to just accept a proposal that she wasn’t prepared for. “It was a people-pleasing second and I ought to have by no means mentioned sure to you. I ought to have by no means mentioned sure,” she shared through the Love Is Blind episode.
That very same month, the hairstylist elaborated on why Abrams wasn’t the correct individual for her.
“As a result of even earlier than he proposed, I used to be like, ‘I don’t know the way it’s gonna work.’ … I used to be making an attempt to be open-minded as a result of that is an experiment,” she defined on the “Viall Recordsdata” podcast in March 2022. “This was, like, 10 days — persons are appearing like this was years. … Through the reveal, I had [the] intention, [then] I’m like, ‘You understand what? I don’t know if we ought to be doing this.’ And after I noticed him, it was like, ‘Oh, my God, that is actual.’”

Hurley additionally famous {that a} pivotal dialog between her and her now ex-fiancé ended up not making it into the present. “I used to be very sincere with Kyle and I had advised them like, ‘I can’t do that,’” she added. “I broke up with him for a cause. And I had defined that to him in Mexico, and I needed to go dwelling. I used to be type of over it at that time. And I simply wanted to see my household once more, like, we weren’t capable of see them for about three weeks, so I had no exterior affect.”
Through the podcast, Hurley revealed that she has since moved on together with her “fairly severe” boyfriend Lardakis, saying, “He’s been nice all through the entire state of affairs. I’m joyful.”