“Self-Conscious” Nick Viall, 42, “Carded” Natalie Joy, 24, Before They Dated And Got Engaged
‘Self-conscious’ Nick Viall, 42, ‘carded’ Natalie Joy, 24, before they dated https://t.co/abF2MC5CnB pic.twitter.com/QjKfIsc1si
- Page Six (@PageSix) May 7, 2023
Nick Viall was taken aback by how young his now-fiancée, Natalie Joy, was when they first talked on social media. “We started messaging [online], and I carded her,” Viall, 42, recalled during Wednesday's The Squeeze podcast hosted by Taylor Lautner and his wife Tay Lautner. This because of the 18 year age gap between the two. “I wanted to make sure she was a real person.”
Joy, 24, recalls how the Bachelor alum asked for her driver’s license before he officially asked her out. “He was like, ‘I want to see your ID,'” the surgical technician said.
“The age [gap], at the time, I was very self-conscious about. I was very guarded,” Viall confessed, explaining that he initially told Joy they “would never date.”
Nick said he turned down Natalie “so many times” because of their age difference and the long distance. The two officially began dating in summer 2020 after first crossing paths in late 2019. “She slid into my DMs. We messaged for a couple of weeks. We met up in New York,” Viall told the Twilight actor, 31, and his wife, 26, of the couple’s initial in-person meeting. “I think we were both thinking the other person was a little crazy. We kind of both knew we’d end up spending the weekend together. I think we were both pretty guarded.”
Joy added. “I knew after that weekend, I was like, ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life with this man.’ And I knew it and he didn’t,” she said. “So I was like, ‘I’m just going to hang on because he’ll come around.’ So I asked him several times to date me.”
ONTD, do you card people before you date them?
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