Patrick and john 90 day fiance childhood

We love it when new couples come onto 90 Day Fiancé and the newest one is Patrick and Thais. Patrick lives in Austin, Texas and he is a professional bodybuilder. He has been competing in sports since he was nine years old and has been training to be the world’s strongest man. He was on the U.S. National team and he trained for the Olympics.

He has only focused on his weightlifting career. He ended up meeting a woman that he thought was the one for him. Things really didn’t go so well when he tested positive for HGH right before the 2012 Olympics. Two years later, he tested positive for another banned substance and this pretty much ended his career.

90 Day Fiancé: Patrick’s Mistakes

Patrick knows that he has made some tough choices and mistakes and he told the cameras that now he lives with it every day. He still goes to the gym and still is working on bodybuilding, but he knows that he has to work in other ways as well. He lives with his brother, John now that he is starting over as a single man.

They have lived together for three years. Their mother was a drug addict and she struggled with being a mother. This made him and his brother a lot closer, but Patrick really never got the motherly attention he wanted. Their bachelor pad will not be one for much longer because his girlfriend, Thais is moving in.

Thais is a model and she is from Brazil. He met her on a trip he took to reconnect with his father. His father is Brazilian and moved there eight years ago to retire. He got on a dating app while he was there and he met her. When they met he said, “this is the hottest girl I’ve ever seen in my life.” He kept booking trips to go see her and they fell in love. All he wanted to do was spend time with her and they really did hit it off.

It may be a little bit of an issue when she comes to live with him because of the bachelor pad feel that their home has right now. He will now have to share his space with a woman and his brother. How will this work out for them? We will have to continue to watch 90 Day Fiancé on TLC on Sunday nights to find out.

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90 DAY FIANCE Throwback photos of Patrick’s mom Paula; does she have a new boyfriend?

On tonight’s episode of 90 Day Fiance, viewers finally get to meet Patrick Mendes’ mom, Paula. Patrick has talked a lot about his family this season, including what was apparently a difficult childhood.

“My dad and my mom divorced when I was seven,” Patrick revealed in an earlier episode. “Once he was gone, my mom had to raise four kids on her own.”

Patrick says that he was always vying his mother’s attention, but never felt like he got it. “I know she tried her best, but, I mean, she was bipolar, and struggled with drug addiction,” Patrick said. “It got really bad to the point where, you know, she was losing her job.”

In addition to opening up about his past, Patrick also shared some throwback photos of his mom with TLC. Here are a couple:

Due to the issues at home, Patrick separated himself from his entire family while training for the Olympics. He remained a bit distant until he divorced his first wife, at which point Patrick invited his brother John to come live with him.

After getting very close with his brother John, Patrick slowly began repairing the relationships with the rest of his family — including his mother.

“I want to bring Thais to Massachusetts before the wedding because this is where I was born and my mom and older sister, Tiffany, still live here,” Patrick explained during tonight’s episode. “I’ve been really open, um, to Thais about my relationship with my mom. And right before the pandemic, we found out that she had some type of lung cancer. According to the doctors, she has less than a year to live.”

The cancer diagnosis weighed extra heavy on Patrick due to how his relationship with his mother had deteriorated. “It’s been hard accepting [the cancer diagnosis] because there’s been years where I didn’t even talk to my mother.”

However, things are getting better. “I’m happy that we’ve been able to rebuild our relationship,” Patrick said. “We’ve talked about a lot of our issues. We’ve forgiven each other, and I know she can’t travel to Orlando, so I think she’s really going to be happy to meet Thais.”

Paula and Thais meet on camera, and it doesn’t take long for Paula to pick up on the cold feet vibes Thais is giving off in regards to her wedding scheduled for the following week.

After Thais talked quite a bit about her relationship with Patrick and her fondness for Brazil, Paula shared her thoughts with TLC cameras:

I don’t think they’re ready to get married. And I think she, deep down, doesn’t want to marry Patrick. I think she’s just doing it because she doesn’t want to make things bad by not doing it. I’ve been married four times myself. One time, two time, three time’s the charm. No, go four. And Patrick, and I think, unfortunately, he’s taking after his mother.

Perhaps five time’s the charm? Paula shared a photo on Facebook in early February of this year posing with a man she described as her boyfriend. That would have been right at the time that Patrick and Thais were visiting Massachusetts given that their wedding was planned for February 22.

Here’s the photo with the potential hubby number five’s face blurred out:

In the comments it seems clear that the distance felt between Patrick and his mom was much greater than any distance between Patrick’s brother John and their mother! Here’s how those mother/son interactions went:

  JOHN: Is that your new man maa.

  PAULA: No he’s not new been together for a while now I told you guys I had a boyfriend…don’t be jealous Ed (Paula’s son-in-law) He is a bit sexier than you.

  JOHN: lol idk about that hahaha… pimpin ain’t easy is it maa.

  PAULA: Only you would know honey only you would know you take after your mother Pimpin.

It’s a shame that Paula won’t be at the Orlando wedding because something tells me scenes with her and John together would be gold!

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