Lauren revealed: “The show \u2026 [pays] for the weddings, they pay for the dresses, they pay for the rings. I think they got real rings now, but mine was not. The diamond fell out, turned green when I got in the pool. I was heartbroken, but now I think they have a jewelry partner, so they get real rings now.\u201d<\/p>\n Lauren Speed also shared discussions that she and Cam had during Love Is Blind about the possibility of them having children together and how that would work. The pair welcomed their son Ezra in October last year. <\/p>\n She explained on the podcast: “Back before we even had children, this is one of the first conversations that me and Cam had while we were on the show. It was like, \u2018What if we have kids one day?\u2019 Cam and I, we were talking. I don\u2019t even think they showed this, but I had a moment where I actually broke down and cried. I was like, \u2018You know, I don\u2019t want him to go through feeling like he doesn\u2019t belong anywhere \u2018cause some people who are biracial, they say they don\u2019t feel fully accepted here, they say they don\u2019t feel fully accepted there.\u2019 I just didn\u2019t want that for my son.\u201d<\/p>\n She continued: “Just with him growing up being a Black boy, a biracial boy, there are some things that Cam won\u2019t be able to relate to because he\u2019s not black. He hasn\u2019t had a Black experience. He didn\u2019t grow up being afraid of the police pulling him over.<\/p>\n \u201c[We are having] those types of conversations \u2026 now about that cultural difference of, you know, my son versus what [Cameron] experienced,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course, I have my brother and my dad\u2019s brother who stepped in to be a granddad [after my father died]. We\u2019ve all sat down and been like, \u2018He needs to have these Black men leading him in areas that can teach him those things.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like <\/i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> on <\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘I was heartbroken’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":66180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1528,1438],"class_list":["post-66175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-love-is-blind","tag-netflix"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/09\/lauren-speed-reveals-her-love-is-blind-engagement-ring-was-fake-after-it-turned-green\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Lauren Speed reveals her Love Is Blind engagement ring was fake after it ‘turned green’","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/09\/lauren-speed-reveals-her-love-is-blind-engagement-ring-was-fake-after-it-turned-green\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/09\/lauren-speed-reveals-her-love-is-blind-engagement-ring-was-fake-after-it-turned-green\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-36-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-36.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["love is blind","netflix"],"dateCreated":"2026-11-09T09:11:24Z","datePublished":"2026-11-09T09:11:24Z","dateModified":"2026-11-09T09:11:24Z"},"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-37.png\")
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