Jamie Otis has no regrets about being “married at first sight.”
The nurse, who appeared on the primary season of the Lifetime sequence Married at First Sight in 2014, married Doug Hehner having solely met him for the primary time at their marriage ceremony. The two went on to seem on the spin-off Married at First Sight: The First Year, and at the moment share two youngsters: daughter Henley, 4, and son Hendrix, 2.
In a March 22 Instagram publish, Otis shared a video of herself and Hehner dancing whereas on their seaside trip, noting that the couple is celebrating their eighth anniversary.
She started the caption of her publish, “We were on season 1 of Married At First Sight. They all laughed and mocked us when we said, ‘I do’ as complete strangers. Back then no one had ever done it before. (I literally didn’t even know my hubby’s name until our wedding day sooo maybe they had valid reason to call us cray cray!?!) lol! But that’s the thing about society norms – they can really hold ya back.”
She added, “If I had listened to everyone’s criticism and never followed my heart I would’ve missed out on growing a love like I’ve never known.”
Otis — who’s the writer of Wifey 101: Everything I Got Wrong After Finding Mr. Right — shared that regardless of how nicely all the pieces turned out, she wasn’t all the time assured in the truth that she had “legally committed my life to a complete stranger who I wasn’t even attracted to,” sharing that she had a “full blown panic attack” on the day of her marriage ceremony. She joked, “crying on the floor trying to hide my my tears with a translucent veil was prob not my best moment in life.”
Ultimately, she went by means of with it as a result of she “desperately wanted a family.”
Now, Otis teased, that household could also be increasing. She shared that she and Hehner’s journey aim is so as to add “two more baby feet” to their household of 4 and that in the event that they get their manner, “we’re gonna leave here preggers.”
“I was hoping to already be pregnant so on our road trip (we leave April 1st!!!!) across America id be out of the first trimester and into the second, but at this point, I’ll deal w the first trimester nausea on the road,” she continued. “If we have to cut the trip short it’d be worth it!!!”
Otis beforehand shared that the couple wasn’t attempting too arduous to have a 3rd child after welcoming Hendrix in May 2020. In an August 2021 Instagram pic, she wrote, “We’ve kinda put trying for our next baby on the back burner while we focus on strengthening our marriage.”
She added, “It’s not like we are preventing it, but we aren’t scheduling and going at it as aggressively as we were a couple months back. So we are trying, but not trying if that makes sense. I just know in my heart I am supposed to have more children. I genuinely don’t feel like our family is complete yet. It’s hard to explain, but I have this really strong feeling that I’m meant to have more children living on earth and being part of this little family we’ve created.”
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