This is probably one of the hardest breakups fans have ever had to watch on Love Is Blind!
And it’s all because insane body standards somehow warped this dude’s ability to follow his heart in the real world.
Viewers watched Season 10’s Chris Fusco and Jessica Barrett fall in love in the pods, ultimately leading to an engagement. While they had one of the strongest connections at the start of the show, their relationship later became strained because he struggled to develop a physical connection with the DROP DEAD GORGEOUS 39-year-old doctor, and he questioned whether he should’ve gone with his second choice, Brianna McNees, who got engaged to his friend, Connor Spies, instead. Yeah. Wow.
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Episode 8 ended with Jessica and Chris at their shared apartment, where he unloaded about his problems with their relationship — including that she doesn’t exercise all the time. Chris explained that he tends to date women who go to CrossFit and Pilates every day, and because Jessica doesn’t work out, he doesn’t find her physically attractive and doesn’t enjoy being intimate with her. We wish we were joking, but that’s pretty much what he said!
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Chris tells Jessica he's used to dating women who "work out all the time."
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Naturally, hearing all this upset Jessica. She can’t even believe her not working out every day is a topic of conversation, especially when she was “upfront about that from the beginning.”
The girl is an infectious diseases physician! She’s busy taking care of patients a majority of the time and doesn’t have time for the gym! What did he expect? And, again, she is a STUNNING woman, regardless if she works out or not!
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His remarks also made her “feel like s**t” and “not good enough” when it’s something she can’t control. Oof. And ultimately, Jessica wasn’t going to put up with the BS. If he couldn’t love her body the way it is, she wasn’t sticking around, so they ended their engagement!
The breakup was bad enough, but it gets worse! We later find out Chris made a new Instagram account and posted a video of himself at the strip club the same day as the split with Jessica — with a dancer on his lap, no less! She, unfortunately, found out about the outing! Jessica also learned he slid into the DMs of another girl, which turned out to be Brianna! WTF!
Oh, and there’s more! Shortly after the breakup, Chris also flirted with Bri at the pod squad mixer! All while also badmouthing his supposed pal/her fiancé, Connor, to her face! AND he even had the audacity to publicly say ON THE SHOW that sex with Jess was “the worst” he’s ever had. TOTAL D**K MOVE!!
Whew, this guy really comes off like a piece of you know what! OMG!
So after all this, Chris is basically in everyone’s burn book at this point, so what does he have to say for himself? What about Jessica? What are her thoughts on everything? The pair gave a breakdown about their insane breakup to Netflix’s Tudum on Thursday! Chris, for his part, acknowledged he wasn’t on Too Hot to Handle. He went on Love Is Blind, where it is all about an emotional connection:
“I know this isn’t Too Hot to Handle. This is about building a connection based on emotions first, and I did that with Jessica. I came into this experience totally 100% open to the idea because I’ve seen it work for other people, but it obviously didn’t work for me.”
According to Chris, he knew something was off after their romantic getaway in Mexico with the other couples, as they suffered from some communication issues. But when he got a glimpse into their future as a married couple, he began to have doubts:
“When we left Mexico, there were just so many thoughts running through my head about our lifestyles and what [life] would really look like when we’re not in vacation mode. We had this crazy emotional connection, and it’s like, I don’t know how to get past this problem.”
The biggest issue for him was their lack of “sexual chemistry,” but Chris pointed out that he thinks Jessica is “attractive.” That’s not the problem for him. He insisted it goes beyond her physical appearance:
“She’s a beautiful person. I think she’s attractive. When I first saw her, I was like, ‘Wow.’ But there’s just so many things involved with sexual chemistry, like the way someone touches you or how they smell and their pheromones.”
Um, but that is NOT what you told her during the breakup! Chris specifically called out her body! So, something tells us it did come down to whether he found her attractive or not! Especially when he later brought up how it played into their sex life!
Chris noted that he realized maintaining an active lifestyle was “obviously more important” to him than he had thought before, adding:
“When you’re not behind a pod, and you’re with someone living in the real world, things can change. It comes down to lifestyle as well. I was out skiing earlier, and I want someone to do that with me. I didn’t think she [was] going to be that type of person.”
Jessica isn’t on the same page about the reasoning behind the split, though. She said:
“I don’t think I’ll ever understand all of it. I don’t know if he really does either.”
In her eyes, she believes Chris had other issues, such as feeling insecure about his life in comparison to hers. She explained:
“We’re in very different places in our lives — workwise and everything. That became a bit more in his face once we were actually in each other’s spaces. The other women were like, ‘Oh, so he saw your house and then freaked out?’ I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, maybe that’s part of it.’ I have a lot of security in who I am — regardless of money, my house, or anything superficial like that. I do think that that ignited a lot of stuff for him personally that really had nothing to do with me.”
We can see that! Chris swears he tried to voice his concerns as sensitively as possible, but knows now that he didn’t handle the situation well:
“I don’t regret being honest with her. I just regret the way I expressed the words that actually came out of my mouth. I was not trying to hurt her or crush her as a human being. I was about to marry this person in a couple of weeks and I didn’t know how to get past this problem, so I just really wanted to just kind of lay it all out there. I wasn’t trying to be malicious, but I understand it may come off that way.”
The guy definitely owes her a HUGE apology at the reunion! Chris also maintained that he wanted to work out their issues together and “wasn’t trying to end [the relationship] right there and then,” adding:
“We shared a lot of common values and had just an overall positivity and optimism about just life in general. I felt like she was really there for the right reasons. She was so open, and that made me feel like I could be open, too. No one else really did that.”
Yet, he was all over Bri the second that he became single again! Chris said he never thought she was an option as a “romantic long-term partner,” but he wanted to explore their connection:
“I was single and we had this connection. It was kind of this what-if question for me.”
However, he knows he didn’t handle the situation well at the mixer:
“I probably should’ve never even gone. I was obviously intoxicated, but that’s not an excuse. I take full accountability for everything I said, and I apologize sincerely. One night doesn’t define my entire character. Life moves on, and you either move on with it or it’s going to move on without you. I obviously f**ked up, and I made a mistake, but I try to grow and learn from those.”
Yeah, let’s hope he learned something! One night may not define his character, but one night can truly crush a person’s spirit.
For her part, Jessica is just proud of how she dealt with Chris’s comments:
“Years ago, I wouldn’t have handled it as well.”
She credits her previous relationships, including her “very long and very painful” divorce, with teaching her how to keep cool during the tough conversation:
“I’ve spent a lot of time working on myself, and I have this sense of self now that I didn’t before. Of course, what he said hurt my feelings, but I know he’s wrong. I know who I am, and I know where my worth lies.”
Hell yes! And she now has no regrets about how she reacts to Chris:
“In six months, I wanted to look at myself in the mirror at the end of the night, go to bed and say, ‘Good for you. I’m so glad I handled it that way.’ Could I have gone crazy and said all sorts of s**t? Absolutely. Did I want to at times? Absolutely. But at the end of the day, I have to sit with that, and I’m not going to do that to myself.”
Jessica handled everything with such grace, and she deserves to find a guy who will treat her WAY better than Chris!
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