What happened to Love is Blind Emma's arm? Season 10 contestant explains how she got the scars on her arm

Although the point of the famous pods is for single men and women to get to know each other without focusing on looks, Emma felt she wanted to tell her dates about what happened to her in case things progressed and they went on to meet in person at the reveal.

She explained that when she was just three-years-old she got adopted from China and does not know who her biological parents actually are. She was raised in Ohio - where all the singles are from this season - by her adoptive parents. What she does know is that when she was born she had birthmarks all over her arm.

Doctors discovered that these birthmarks were actually very high-risk and pre-cancerous. As a result, by the age of seven she’d already had 10 surgeries in order to remove the birthmarks on her body, and she still had to get annual checks for melanoma.

These surgeries were intensive, particularly given Emma’s young age, and left her with permanent scarring on her arm. She said that this has previously made her feel self conscious of when it comes to dating.

She told Tudum: “That’s why I didn’t date in middle school or high school a lot. Getting into college and coming into my own, I also definitely became very self-aware of what my body looked like. Meeting someone out in the wild, they ask [me about them], but it wouldn’t be like ‘tell me more.’ It’s more like ‘what happened to your arm?’”

She explained that she’s never felt able to be her “true self” in any of her previous relationships because of the scars on her arm, and also because of being a Chinese adoptee raised in a white family. She continued: “I love my family, but [being adopted] was definitely something that integrated into how my identity and my self-esteem were formed.

“I had these things I wanted to talk about [in romantic relationships], but I was so afraid that if I did, they would run away. And so I kept at surface level, and I think that also did me a disservice because I was hiding a very major part of who I was, and what I wanted my partner to share with me.”

Emma formed a connection with Mike in the pods, and the two are one of eight couples who got engaged in season 10 of the hit Netflix dating show.

* Love is Blind season 10 is airing on Netflix now.