Glamour: Okay, let’s get to the most important things first. No spoilers, but I have to ask you what you think about the memes of Garrett’s wardrobe and styling improvements.
Taylor Krause: I think that it really could go either way. He could have had a breakup glow-up, or he has a really great lady in his life that could be me, could not be me.
Very good—and cagey—answer. So far, your relationship with Garrett has been relatively stable for Love Is Blind. There have been some challenges, like your parents being skeptical about the show. How was that to navigate?
Honestly, your daughter getting married and having a wedding—all of those things are things that I think most parents hope that they’re involved in and are a part of. And so, I felt guilty. I felt like I was taking that away from them and making them go through a really fast-paced thing that they didn’t necessarily sign up for. Once they were able to talk to me and see that I’m okay, they were way more open to it. As a viewer, I remember watching parents that were absolutely not into it and being like, Come on. Now I’m like, Oh my God, no, this is nuts. I get it.
We also saw you and Garrett have some pretty intense conversations about the fact that ultimately, you want to raise kids in your hometown of San Diego. Were you always planning to move back home?
DC in particular is a very transient city. It’s kind of a revolving door. Clearly there’s a turn of administrations, and then all the jobs that go with that. I’d been in DC for about five years up to that point and didn’t really have a lot of luck dating there. But every time I came back to San Diego, I kind of got in a situationship. I was thinking that, Okay, well, maybe it makes sense. I want to have kids near my parents. It would make sense to come back to San Diego and find someone that wanted to be in San Diego.
But then you ended up on Love Is Blind. Did you bring up your plans in the pods?
Going into the pods, I brought up that I’m from San Diego and really want to raise my family there. It’s actually never been that hard of a sell for men that I’ve dated to be open to doing that. But for Garrett in particular, he was like, “I could do that.” Other guys that I was dating were like, “I could do that.” I was shocked. I was really shocked that they would be willing to do something like that. At the time, I was like, Oh, duh, it’s San Diego. That sounds great. You [Garrett] like fishing. There’s fishing there.
The weather speaks for itself, in my opinion.
Yeah, so we didn’t talk too much about it in the pods. As it became a bit more real, and clearly that means he’s moving away from his family, that’s really tough. That was the impetus for talking about it a lot more once we left the pods.