90 Day Fiancé couple Nicole Sanders, AKA Nikki Exotika, and Igor Shutencov, AKA Justin, almost split at the end of episode 10, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t together. Nikki is a 47-year-old trans woman from Hoboken, New Jersey. When she’s not performing as her alter ego or busy being a social media influencer, Nikki is a make-up artist and gives plastic surgery consultations. Justin is a 36-year-old personal trainer from Moldova. They star in the 2023 season of the popular reality TV show and have intrigued fans with their off-beat romance. Nikki went to Chișinău on the show before Justin could move to the U.S.
Nikki was about 20 years old when she underwent her gender reassignment surgery. At the time, Nikki was living in stealth. She never told people that she was a biological male. Nikki was in the closet and closed off for a long time. She didn’t have any gay or trans friends but only had female friends she hung out with. This affected the outcome of Nikki’s relationship with Justin when he came to America for the first time 15 years ago. Nikki and Justin rekindled their romance, but Justin wasn’t the same person she’d met in Moldova all those years ago, and neither was Nikki.
Nikki & Justin’s History Before 90 Day Fiancé Explored
90 Day Fiancé couple Justin and Nikki got engaged for the second time before applying for season 10. Nikki spoke at length about her shocking relationship with Justin on episode 1. Nikki revealed how her love story with Justin began almost two decades ago. She used to date a Russian man before Justin became her boyfriend. They had met at a nightclub in New York City. She thought he was the love of her life. The “bad boy” committed a crime and got deported back to Moldova. Nikki made a plan to fly to Chișinău, Moldova, and surprise her boyfriend.
When Nikki went there, the man had another woman living with him in his house. A heartbroken Nikki made a profile on a dating site and found Justin. She renamed him Justin because, according to Nikki, he looked like Justin Timberlake 17 years ago when she met him. They spent the rest of her trip together, and she flew to Moldova four more times before Justin proposed to her in a park. Nikki said yes and applied for a K-1 visa. However, two weeks after Justin came the first time, they had some “issues” that couldn’t be worked on. Justin was lazy and didn’t help her cook or clean.
They got into a lot of heated arguments and in one of the arguments, Nikki told Justin, “Yeah, well I have a secret to tell you, I used to be a man.” Justin freaked out. It had been two years since Nikki and Justin had been dating. She traumatized him, and he went back home. Justin was depressed for a really long time. Justin and Nikki kept in contact over the years, and they started talking again 15 years later. Both of them were single, and Nikki thought it would be “funny” if they gave each other another chance.
Justin Slept With Other Women Before Engagement
Nikki arranged a trip for them to meet in Mexico three months after they started talking again. They connected physically, mentally, and emotionally while they were there. Justin told Nikki she was the love of his life and proposed to her again. Nikki applied for a K-1 visa again. What Nikki didn’t expect was Justin refusing to show intimacy towards her when she went to meet him in Moldova. When they finally got intimate, Nikki complained that Justin did it at 3 am. “So would you rather just be friends?” Nikki asked him, considering they were not having sex at all.
Justin started explaining, “So it’s almost like we’re friends here in our country with women and men and just sex.” He continued, “We have like this something relationship just friendship,” calling the act “friendly sex.” Nikki asked Justin if he had had friendly sex with his girlfriends in Moldova. He said, “Many times.” Nikki wanted to know if Justin did it when they had been together. “No, not in this period,” he insisted. Nikki realized that Justin was not faithful to her until he gave her a ring. He said that he had been “clear” since then. However, Nikki applied for a K-1 visa, thinking they were monogamous.
Nikki Questioned Her Future With Justin
“Babe, this is better than masturbating,” Justin joked. She said she “knew” that Justin was not being faithful. She now “clearly” understood why he wasn’t making love to her. “I don’t know if I want to go forward with the engagement at this time,” Nikki told the cameras. Justin admitted he had some “sex friends” before he got engaged to Nikki. He said it was “physically needed stuff.” He kept telling Nikki it was in the past as he tried to convince her to stay. He told her what he did meant nothing to him. Justin told Nikki that he wanted to create a future.
Nikki confessed that people like her didn’t have a lot of options, especially with a good-looking person who’s also open-minded like Justin. She wondered what her future would be like if they broke their engagement. Nikki felt hurt by what Justin had done to her. She felt used and betrayed. She said it would have been different if they’d agreed to have an open relationship ahead of time. However, that was never something they discussed when starting out in their relationship. She said she’d helped Justin when he really needed the “most help” in his life.
Nikki was with Justin when he needed financial help. To her, that meant they were in a relationship. Justin apologized to her and told her, “I want to be with you, and I love you.” He said he changed everything when he gave her a ring. To him, it was a serious act. Justin didn’t feel bad about what he’d done because he had told Nikki “some truth.” He said that he wanted to be with “some girl” because he was “normal.” Nikki asked Justin whether her applying for a K-1 visa or hiring an immigration attorney was not serious enough for him.
Did Nikki Still Marry Justin Despite His Infidelity?
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Justin asked Nikki to “drop the situation in the garbage.” However, Nikki told Justin that if she did that, he would also go in the garbage with the situation. Nikki asked herself why Justin even wanted to be with her. She’d invested enough in the relationship and him saying that wasn’t enough was making her question everything. “If I knew this I would have stopped the K-1 visa,” said Nikki, while wondering if Justin had someone else in his life apart from Nikki. However, Nikki seemingly didn’t stop the K-1 visa process after episode 10.
In July 2023, Nikki shared a now-deleted Instagram post where she wrote, “I love him so much, we been waiting now 13 mo for our K1 Visa – within these 2 months we should be getting an answer!” Considering that, if Justin’s visa was approved, he might have come to the U.S. by October 2023. Neither Nikki nor Justin’s social media pages confirm that he is in America at present. However, her posts do confirm that Nikki and Justin are still together after filming 90 Day Fiancé. They’re also still following each other on Instagram.
