Bachelor alum Nick Viall and his wife, Natalie Joy, are taking their relationship expertise to TV with Age of Attraction. The Netflix series, which is now streaming, throws singles ranging from 22 to 60 into the dating pool, with one provocative twist: no one knows anyone else’s age. The point? To find out whether age really matters when it comes to love.
The show is a fitting social experiment for Nick and Natalie: The couple, now 45 and 27, respectively, have an 18-year age gap.
While Nick has admitted to having a “hard time” coming to terms with their age difference early on in their relationship—“What were people going to say?” he remembers thinking—he eventually let that fear go and embraced their compatibility. Now, he said, “Having Natalie in my life has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
Keep reading to learn more about the Vialls’ romance, including their bold first encounter and whether they have kids.
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Nick is married to Natalie Joy, a former model turned healthcare professional who has since pivoted to co-hosting the podcast The Viall Files with her husband, as well and the new Netflix series Age of Attraction.
Natalie first entered Nick’s life in 2019, after he appeared in two seasons of The Bachelorette (2014 and 2015), one season of Bachelor in Paradise(2016) and, finally, The Bachelor (2017).
The two tied the knot on April 27, 2024, in a ceremony on Joy’s family farm in Georgia, just months after welcoming their first child.
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What does Natalie Joy do for a living?
Natalie dropped out of high school at 15 to pursue a career in modeling, but she ultimately returned to school and became a certified surgical technologist, meaning she’s worked in operating rooms assisting surgeons. (At one point, she worked for a reconstructive surgeon at the Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery.)
These days, she’s best known as a co-host on Nick’s podcast, The Viall Files, and now as a co-host on the Netflix dating series Age of Attraction.
Nope. After years of dating within Bachelor Nation, including a short-lived engagement to Vanessa Grimaldi in 2017, Viall ultimately found love off-screen.
“On the show, you’re feeling excitement and lust and chemistry, but real love is trust and security and the feeling that your partner knows who you are, which is all impossible to have on The Bachelor,” he told Esquire. “Real love isn’t possible in that environment, but real feelings are. Sometimes they turn into love, and sometimes they just get confused with love because of the general excitement level.”
How did Nick Viall and Natalie Joy meet?
Like a lot of modern love stories, this one started with a DM—and a pretty bold one at that. “You’re unreal,” Natalie messaged Nick. That led to talking and texting, but given their distance—he lived in Los Angeles, she was in Savannah—they didn’t meet until the following month, on a trip to New York.
They spent the next 10 months seeing each other as much as they could—a weekend here, a weekend there—but it wasn’t exclusive, despite Natalie’s wishes, because Nick wasn’t ready.
“I feel like the reason I stuck around for so long is because I genuinely always knew it was him, and I just knew he would come around at some point,” Natalie told The New York Times. “Every time I was with him, I felt at home. I felt super safe and protected.”
Still, she wasn’t going to wait around forever, and Nick knew it. “I wasn’t fully giving her everything she deserved at the time,” he told the New York Times. “She wasn’t going to stick around for something that was less conventional. Which I obviously always respected about her and, you know, made me really have to think long and hard about what was important to me.”
In July 2020, he told her he loved her and wanted to be exclusive. By November, they were living together in Los Angeles.
Nick and Natalie have an 18-year age gap. While Nick admitted to feeling “self-conscious” about their nearly two-decade age difference at first, Natalie has never been fazed by it.
“I wasn't really the one who had any doubts or nervousness around it,” she said, explaining that age gaps are common in her family. ”It just wasn't anything that I wasn't used to. So I think, for me, that's just an easy thing to not really worry about.”
Now the couple is monetizing their age difference as co-hosts of Netflix’s Age of Attraction.
When did Nick Viall and Natalie Joy get married?
The couple got married on April 27, 2024, in a romantic, multi-day celebration in Georgia, when their daughter was nearly 3 months old.
Although the celebration took place on a farm, it wasn’t without elegance. "I've always wanted to have a tuxedo black-tie event. And even though we're having [the wedding] on the farm, we're doing both," Nick said of the occasion. "...It's kind of like a Vogue on the farm kind of vibe."
Yes, they share a daughter, River Rose, born Feb. 2, 2024, and are currently expecting twin girls.
"It's only added to my life,” Nick said of being a father. “It has only added more meaning and purpose and wonderful moments. I truly feel like I'm living the dream and it's been an incredibly fulfilling experience."
How many miscarriages has Natalie Joy had?
The Vialls have been open about Natalie’s pregnancy losses, sharing that she experienced three miscarriages in 2025 alone.
On a January 2025 episode of The Viall Files, Natalie revealed that she was “actively miscarrying” while taping. “It has been the biggest heartbreak, I think, of my life," she said of the experience.
After her third miscarriage, Natalie sat out the podcast. “She's obviously at home resting, healing, both physically and emotionally,” Nick shared. “It's been a whirlwind and we're trying to get through it as a family. It's all very confusing how you're supposed to mourn something like this … but we appreciate your support."
After a series of losses, the couple revealed in February 2026 that they were expecting twins.
“It's surreal. It's a dream come true,” Natalie told E! News. “I can't believe I get to even say the words out loud that I'm pregnant and that I'm this far along and that I'm having twins. It's crazy to me. It feels like a fever dream.”
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Nick and Vanessa got engaged on The Bachelor in 2017, but the relationship didn’t last. They split about five months after their engagement was televised in March 2017, ending their relationship in August.
Are Nick Viall and Natalie Joy still together?
Yes, very much so. Gushing over his wife, Nick said, “I was grateful for the life I had before, but in every meaningful and measurable way, [Natalie’s] changed it in such great ways.”
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