Amber and Matt Barnett are celebrating seven years of marriage.
Amber, 33, shared a post to social media on Friday, Nov. 14, in celebration of her anniversary with Matt, 35.
“Seven years ears ago we literally had no idea what we were getting ourselves in to…” she began her lengthy caption, alongside a photo taken of the Love Is Blind stars on their wedding day.
“But the moment I met you and felt literal sparks all the way down to my toes, I knew whatever happened it was gonna be good, like retelling adventure stories at holiday parties kind of awesome,” she continued.
“Now, here we are all this time later, parents to a real live human being who I’m certain is an actual angel on Earth, still with no idea what we have gotten ourselves in to,” Amber joked. “I’m gonna go ahead and say damn it feels good to be right because I may not have known what it would be, but I did always know it would be you.”
Also in Amber’s post was a quote that read: “You were always mine, I just had to find you.”
“Our life together has been such an amazing adventure that’s only getting better every year,” she finished. “Happy Anniversary my love! Cheers to 7 and 70 more.”
The couple found love during the first season of the hit Netflix series and tied the knot on TV. Since then, they’ve been candid about their relationship together — and welcomed their first child, a daughter, in April.
Amber announced the happy news on Instagram, sharing a photo of herself in a hospital bed, seemingly taken just moments after her daughter’s arrival. In the image, both she and Matt have their hands resting on their newborn as she nestles against her mom’s chest.
“Baby Barnett has arrived and is more perfect than anything I could’ve dreamed,” Amber wrote in the caption. “If you hadn’t guessed yet Baby B is a She and I literally still can’t believe the hospital let us take her home and that she is actually ours.”
She continued: “It may be the hormones but @barnettisblind and our baby girl have my heart so full I can hardly function, I hope this feeling never goes away .”
While celebrating their second anniversary in November 2020, Amber told PEOPLE that they may have a second wedding someday.
“I would love to do another wedding. There’s no rush on it. We’re married now, but at some point,” she said. “We’re still having a lot of fun. Like I said on the show, ‘Joke’s on my mom! She thought I was going to settle down and Matt’s just as wild and adventurous as I am!’ “
At the time of the couple’s proposal, Amber said she challenged her husband-to-be with a non-negotiable before saying “yes,” explaining that she needed more “emotional connection” from him and she couldn’t be the only one always opening up emotionally.
“I’m really proud that I didn’t just jump into it,” she shared. “I was like, ‘I need to know that you really need this. You are sure that you’re in this because we’re going to make it work.'”
Matt’s response made it easy for Amber to accept the proposal. “He goes, ‘I’ll do whatever you want to make you happy. I love you,'” she recalled. “I just started crying and I was like, ‘Yes! Yes! I’ll marry you!'”
All nine seasons of Love Is Blind are now streaming on Netflix.
Alethea Shapiro, who was featured on Wendy Osefo‘s episode of Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition last Sunday, isn’t happy with Bravo’s portrayal of her and her family dynamic.
In a series of posts against the network, which paired her and her husband, Craig Shapiro, with the 41-year-old Real Housewives of Potomac star and her spouse, Eddie Osefo, 41, Alethea accused Bravo of “defamatory editing,” suggesting that it chose to ignore her mental health diagnoses for the sake of entertainment.
“I highly recommend people watch it/rewatch it with the knowledge that Bravo [and] Truly Original decided to pursue a defamatory editing job when they decided to remove my AuDHD [and] Neurodivergent context with respect to my burnout and the Neurodivergent philosophy of Low Demand Parenting,” Alethea wrote on her Instagram Story, as seen in a screenshot shared by OMFGRealityTV on Instagram on November 12.
While Alethea chose to promote the episode since she had a “fun experience” and had “great memories made on and off screen with the Osefo kids,” she didn’t appreciate the lack of context surrounding her struggles with autism and ADHD, and the decisions she made for her family because of them.
“What was done in the editing room with some unknown, suspect intent is not my fault,” she noted.
In videos she shared, Alethea said Bravo was guilty of the “mischaracterization and hijacking of a one-sided narrative that created a storyline both harmful and untrue, framing Wendy as a savior while stripping me of depth and humanity.”
According to Alethea, by erasing her AuDHD identity, Bravo misrepresented her life.
“By deliberately deleting or choosing not to connect low-demand parenting to the realities of my neurodivergent life, Bravo also stripped it of its meaning and depth,” she wrote. “Using a neurodivergent philosophy out of context felt exploitative and appropriative, reducing something rooted in lived experience, disability, and care into a shallow punchline. I imagine many disability and PDA advocates will share my concern about seeing a framework designed to protect our community turned into a cartoon. This hurts my heart, because I would never intentionally bring harm or embarrassment to the autism community that I love deeply and feel protective of.”
Alethea then included an explanation of why Bravo’s edits could be considered appropriation.
“It should be viewed as a form of cultural appropriation, but through a disability lens rather than a racial or ethnic one. Appropriation happens when elements of a marginalized group’s lived experience, language, or framework are used by outsiders without credit, context, or respect, often for entertainment, profit, or aesthetic value,” she explained.
She also said that low-demand parenting was not just a style of parenting, but a care philosophy rooted in advocacy and trauma.
“When media removes that neurodivergent context and reframes it as quirkiness or permissiveness, it’s taking ownership of an idea born from disability culture and twisting it into something unrecognizable for laughs or ratings,” Alethea stated. “That’s exploitation of a marginalized community’s lived framework for neurotypical consumption.”
“In other words, it’s not just editing out of context. It’s editing out of culture, history, and purpose behind it — which is exactly what appropriation does,” she added.
Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition is currently streaming on Peacock.