The Bachelor alum Nick Viall’s wife Natalie Joy has clapped back at “ridiculous” trolls criticizing her busty wedding look.
Natalie wore two different wedding dresses, one off-the-shoulder ballgown for the ceremony and one sexy strapless dress for the reception, when she married Nick on April 27 at her family’s 300-acre farm outside of Savannah, GA.
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Both of Natalie’s dresses featured a low-cut corset bodice that accentuated her chest, and many people said Natalie looked “cheap and trashy” with her “big smashed boobs” during her wedding reception.
In response to all the shade, Natalie wrote via Instagram Stories, “Some of y’all are actually being ridiculous with these comments,” according to Us Weekly.
The 25-year-old mother of one continued in Monday, April 29, “Yes I’m breastfeeding so as the night went on my boobs got bigger.”
Natalie, who welcomed daughter River Rose with Nick in February, also insisted she was “not in pain” from her tight dress and she couldn’t help that her breasts got “massive” throughout the evening.
“I was surrounded by people I consider family and literal family,” Natalie continued.
“Nobody made it weird so y’all don’t make it weird. Anyways continuing on with good vibes and wishing y’all the best !!!”
Natalie previously said she felt “so sexy” in her reception dress on Instagram, but many of her followers commented on how it looked like “a costume.”
Natalie, however, had her fair share of supporters on Instagram as well, some of whom called her a “beautiful mama,” and Nick commented about how his wife had taken his breath away.
Natalie and Nick are now on their honeymoon with their two-month-old daughter.
Nick, a two-time The Bachelorette contestant who also appeared on Bachelor in Paradise, and Natalie, a surgical technician, welcomed River on February 2.
“Named after Natalie’s great grandmother and niece… The best part of life starts now,” Nick captioned a carousel of images featuring Natalie and their baby girl.
The pair announced they were expecting their first child together in early August 2023.
“Our biggest dream came true,” the pair captioned two black-and-white maternity photos as well as a sonogram image via Instagram on August 8.
The couple then revealed they had a baby girl on the way in early September.
Nick and Natalie got engaged in Venice, CA, in January 2023 after three years of dating, and they made it known at the time that they didn’t want a long engagement.
In July, Nick revealed he bought the lake house his grandfather had built in 1965 for his mother so that it will stay in the family.
“[This is now] the place we will make new memories with our kids [one day]. Finally home,” The Bachelorette alum shared with his social-media followers.
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Natalie also wrote on Nick’s Instagram post, “What a JOURNEY this has been!! We will create the most beautiful memories here and our children will get to grow up enjoying the same slice of heaven their dad grew up enjoying.”
Nick and Natalie first became romantically involved in 2019 but attempted to keep their relationship private for more than a year and didn’t go public until after widespread reports that they were dating surfaced in January 2021.
Nick and Natalie had been living together prior to Nick proposing marriage, and so their engagement didn’t come as a big surprise to fans. The couple had openly talked about the possibility of getting married and having children together for some time.
“We’re having those conversations that everyone is scared to have, but they’re definitely needed,” Natalie said during a joint interview with Nick on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in June 2022.
“We talk about finances, children, where we want to live, and things like that. We are definitely opening up and talking about those things more. We’re not not trying, we’re not trying either. We’re just living life.”
Nick even got emotional when talking about his strong feelings for Natalie and confessed that, for the first time in his life, he would “not be okay” if Natalie left him.
According to the former The Bachelor star, he had typically anticipated a breakup in each of his prior relationships but Natalie made him feel “so safe.”
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During the interview, Nick also revealed he and Natalie initially met through friends but she was the one to make the first move.
“She slid into my DMs. It was very romantic,” Nick recalled with a laugh, adding that he first met her when he was with some of his friends in New York.
Nick starred on Season 21 of The Bachelor in 2017 after several prior attempts to find love on the franchise didn’t work out for him.
After competing for Andi Dorfman’s heart on The Bachelorette’s tenth season in 2014 and finishing as the runner-up behind winner Josh Murray, Nick also appeared on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s The Bachelorette season the following year.
Kaitlyn ended up giving her final rose and getting engaged to personal trainer Shawn Booth, whom she split from in November 2018 after three years of being together. (Kaitlyn just ended her second engagement to The Bachelorette 14 alum Jason Tartick in early August after splitting from Shawn in November 2018).
Nick continued his search for love on reality television following his split from Kaitlyn through a stint on Bachelor in Paradise, but when a romance with Jennifer Saviano didn’t work out, ABC selected him to star on The Bachelor’s 2017 season.
Nick got engaged to Vanessa Grimaldi, who worked as a special education teacher at the time, but their romance kicked off with more challenges than the average The Bachelor couple to come out of the show given Vanessa had been living in Canada and Nick preferred to stay in the United States.
Shortly after getting engaged for the first time, Nick also competed on Dancing with the Stars, which soaked up a lot of his free time and energy.
Nick and Vanessa split in August 2017 and Nick seemingly never entered another serious relationship until Natalie in 2019.
As for Vanessa, she announced her engagement to Canadian businessman Josh Wolfe in August 2020, and the couple got married on August 2021 in their hometown of Montreal, Canada.
Vanessa and Josh welcomed their first child in October 2022.
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