Yasmin Toseafa Is Entering the Pods: What to Know About Her Season on Love Is Blind: UK
If you’ve been part of our community for a while, you may know Yasmin’s name—she’s one of the women in our Living Dappled Collective, and she regularly shows up in our social feeds, helping tell the story of women with vitiligo. Now she’s about to tell a piece of her own story somewhere much bigger: Yasmin Toseafa is entering the pods for Love Is Blind: UK Season 3, premiering on Netflix August 19.
The news
Yasmin “Yaz” Toseafa—32, a physician associate based in London—is one of 30 singles cast for this season, filmed earlier this year.
Where and when to watch
New episodes drop on Netflix each Wednesday, starting August 19:
Week 1 (Wed, Aug 19): Episodes 1–8
Week 2 (Wed, Aug 26): Episodes 9–10
Week 3 (Wed, Sept 2): Episode 11 (Reunion)
What is Love Is Blind: UK, exactly?
For anyone who hasn’t watched it: Love Is Blind: UK is the British version of Netflix’s dating experiment, hosted by Matt and Emma Willis. Singles date each other through a wall in the “pods”—talking, but never seeing one another—and can get engaged before they’ve laid eyes on their match. Only after getting engaged do they meet face-to-face for the first time. From there, couples navigate the real world together—moving in, meeting families, planning a wedding—all before deciding, at the altar, whether to actually go through with it.
It’s a show built entirely around the idea that connection without appearance is possible. For a woman who’s spent over two decades navigating what it means to be looked at, watched, and judged on sight, there’s something worth sitting with in that premise—whatever comes of it in the pods.
Who Yaz is
Yaz has already made one kind of history. In late summer 2025, she stood on stage as a Miss Universe Great Britain finalist—the first woman with vitiligo to do it. She’s a physician associate in London, a model, and—as she told us back in January—someone who spent a long time assuming certain rooms just weren’t built for her.
“I convinced myself that someone who looks like me would never be able to compete in a pageant,” she told Living Dappled earlier this year, describing the moment everything shifted: watching Logina Salah become the first woman of Arab descent with a skin condition to be crowned Miss Universe Egypt. “Being a woman with vitiligo who is also of Egyptian heritage myself, Logina really resonated with me. I thought she looked absolutely beautiful, and she was so inspirational. It made me think, if she can do it, maybe I can too!”
She’s had vitiligo since she was eight or nine. “I do know it can be caused by trauma,” she told us, tracing it back to a bike accident—a scraped, bleeding face that healed into the first white patches.
For Yaz, competing in Miss Universe GB changed something—not by fixing how she felt about her skin, but by proving a room she’d written herself out of was actually open.
“The biggest takeaway I have from competing in Miss Universe Great Britain is that most of the time, the only limitations we have are the ones we place on ourselves,” she said. “I finally took the chance, and look what it did for me. I’m not sure if I’ll compete again but perhaps I’ve paved the way for someone else with vitiligo to apply.”
Now she’s stepping into a different kind of room.
Why this matters
Vitiligo is still rare to see on mainstream TV, and rarer still on a show built entirely around attraction and connection. Many of us living with vitiligo have spent our lives being the only person in the room who looks like us—at work, at school, in the mirror.
Dating adds its own layer. The exhaustion of feeling like we have to explain ourselves before anything else can happen—bracing for the question, deciding how much energy to spend on someone else’s curiosity, wondering if a person is even seeing us or just our skin.
That’s exactly what makes this show so interesting. The pods strip that first moment out entirely. Nobody’s reacting to anything before Yaz has said a word. Whatever she builds in there, she gets to build without the explaining, without the bracing—just the conversation. It puts a woman with vitiligo on one of the biggest dating shows in the world, getting exactly what the rest of us have wanted at least once: to be a voice in a conversation before we’re a thing someone’s noticing.
Cheering her on
We’re rooting for Yaz the way you root for someone from your own community—not for a storyline, not for a particular ending, just for her. She posted her own announcement the day this news broke: “I am so random, I can’t believe I just did that … See you all in the pods on 19th August.”
We’ll be watching.
