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Jasmine Pineda and Gino Palazzolo made their explosive 90 Day Fiancé debut in 2021 and there hasn’t been a dull moment since. From watching their love story unfold on Before the 90 Days to witnessing Jasmine’s jaw-dropping pregnancy reveal during Season 2’s Last Resort Tell All, the pair has always laid everything out on the table and kept fans talking. And the preview for Part 1 of the 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Tell All definitely has fans talking. The special brings every Season 9 cast member together — not just on the same stage, but also under the same roof. That’s right: Instead of individual hotel rooms, everyone—including Jasmine, Gino and Matt—will be staying at the same house together and the cameras will be capturing every shocking moment. Before Part 1 of the 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Tell All premieres this Sunday, we got to sit down with Jasmine, so she could tell us all about everything from her new baby to how dirty Gino’s house actually was. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 You’re officially a girl mom! How has that been for you? I’m tired, but Matilda is an awesome baby. She’s always happy and she brings so much light and happiness to my life. I feel so lucky that I’m her mama. Has it been different having a girl? Absolutely! My boys are 14 years old now, but when they were babies and growing up, they were always jumping and doing stuff, climbing trees. Matilda is more relaxed, more calm. I don’t know where she gets that from! Not from me. Maybe her dad! I know Matt was not super on board for it to be a girl at first. How is he now? Well, I can tell you that he was born to be a girl dad because he is truly the best. He loves this baby so, so much. He was scared of having a girl because it’s his first child and he sees girls like a very delicate flower, but he’s doing an amazing job and I’m very proud of him. Related: ’90 Day Fiancé’ Stars Overjoyed by New Addition to the Family Gino obviously had quite a reaction to finding out that you were pregnant. Were you surprised by the way he reacted? At that moment, I was very surprised because, he was like, “I don’t care.” And then watching the season play out, he was saying, “Oh, you were supposed to have this baby with me.” It’s contradictory to his actions because when we were not having intimacy, I told him out of desperation, “I’m ready to have a baby. If you are intimate with me, I’m giving you the child you’ve always dreamed of.” And he was like, “No, not even that is gonna make me be intimate with you.” Then, he’s saying, “You were supposed to have this baby with me.” I was like, make it make sense. It was very confusing. You’re so beautiful and obviously he sought you out. It’s surprising that he wasn’t able to be intimate with you. I think that the the issue with Gino is something that he has to work on. As his wife, I wanted us to solve it together, but he rejected it. You know, time will give me the reason and I really hope that he heals from that. I feel like you didn’t come to the decision to have an open marriage easily. Well, I knew that we were at a very bad place. We went to The Last Resort, we received couples therapy and then I opened up the idea of exploring this option of an open marriage. At the moment, I thought that was the only way to save our marriage. Because I gave him options. As a matter of fact, I told him, you are either intimate with me, or you agree to an open marriage so I get these sexual needs satisfied, or we get divorced. And he opted for the open marriage and now he’s blaming me. But the open marriage obviously didn’t work; it actually made things worse. Was it weird to watch Gino with Natalie? Yes. A lot of people say, “How dare you get mad if you were with Matt?” Matt was just a sexual partner and I have no affection for him. My love was for Gino. And for me to see my husband – who has rejected me for almost a year – being so close to a new person? It was one of the hardest things for me to see on TV. And those scenes make me cry and make me very heartbroken. It was not easy. I don’t wish it upon anybody because it made me feel even more insecure. I have struggled with how I look and I feel unworthy, like I am the problem. Because, look, he’s ready to jump in the hot tub with this woman, but with me, he couldn’t or he didn’t want to, so that really affected me emotionally. Does Matt watch the show with you? Is it weird? This is the thing with Matt: We started as friends, and that bond has been the foundation of our relationship. He watches this show with me, he understands these reactions and he helps me navigate through those feelings. He said, “I’ve been in love before, I’ve been heartbroken and I have felt rejection, so I know what you’re going through.” And even though he’s not happy about it, he’s very understanding and he’s just there to support me and be a shoulder to cry on, even if it is for Gino and deep inside he’s like, “Are you serious?” He knows that love is not like a switch that you can turn on and off. The feeling is there, and it’s going to take a while for you just to get over it. I feel like he has to give you a little grace on that because he knew what he was getting into. Absolutely. I was always honest about what I want and how I feel. Matt knew that I was in love with Gino and my heart belonged to him. Gino called your marriage a scam. Do you think he really believes that? This is the thing with Gino. And trust me, I dated this man for five years, so I know. He is very stubborn and he is in that place mentally where he wants to believe that it was a scam and no one is going to take him out of that. So it’s just sad because to call it a scam, to think about me wasting five years of my life to be with you, come here, plan my life all around you and put myself in such a vulnerable position — in a country with no family. And you call it a scam after everything we went through? That’s the part that hurts me the most. Like, how dare you? Because if there is someone that knows that I love him and I was obsessed with him, it’s himself. So he can lie to himself, but deep inside, I hope that he knows the truth. He said that he sent you $40,000 while you were in Panama. How much do you think he actually sent you? Okay, this is the most ridiculous idea ever. Even if it was true, if you do the math per year, it was so little money, even for a Panamanian. To survive with that money is not possible and on top of that, I’m a single mom of two, so that is ridiculous. I have always worked, but he was always offering to help. I never requested anything. It came out of the goodness of his heart. No one forced him; he did it because he wanted to help me. Now he’s claiming I owe him that money — it’s just ridiculous. And the two of you met online, right? Yes, I’ve always been honest about everything. We met on a sugar daddy, sugar baby website. I have never been ashamed of saying it. I have never tried to hide the truth. It is what it is. He knew it and I let everyone know it, even his family. When they asked me, I told them the truth. But you know what’s funny? I didn’t get any sugar from Gino. Gino is not a good sugar daddy. He’s very cheap. You seemed absolutely stunned when you went to his house in Michigan for the first time. It was a mess. It was a disaster. We were video calling every day for months, but he is very sneaky because he was picking the spaces where he will talk to me. “I’m gonna be here in this corner and everything looks good.” You know, he will kind of make it look clean. So it’s one thing looking at portions of the house on a phone, and then you come in and seeing it, I was in shock. I was not expecting anyone in the United States of America to live in these conditions. I’m not talking about luxury, but how dirty the house was. It was like he had never cleaned that house, ever. Even his family offered to clean it up because they were concerned about me and he was like, “No, it’s fine.” He didn’t flush the toilet – like that’s how bad it was, right? Yeah. That’s how bad it was. I remember being scared of entering the shower because there were green and black things — I think it’s called mold. I was like, what if I go barefoot in that thing? I’m gonna get a fungal infection or something. That’s how bad it was. I was so scared of even taking a shower. Instead of coming out clean, I’m gonna come out with a disease. We saw that he’s still up to some of his old habits because he was eating moldy cheese. Moldy cheese and crackers. It just makes me so sad. I haven’t seen him in so long. He looks like he’s not eating well. He’s not taking good care of himself because even though he’s almost in his 60’s, he’s like a child. He doesn’t know how to take care of himself. And we saw that he’s no longer trying to meet sugar babies. He googled something like how to avoid getting scammed. It’s ridiculous – like his search history. Like how not to get scammed by sugar babies. And I’m like, what about not dating sugar babies at all? Like, how can a sugar baby scam you? The term sugar baby, they want sugar. So you want a sugar baby without giving the sugar, like you did to me? I’m just one exception to that rule. Good luck finding another Jasmine. He’s always dated women from other countries, right? His first wife was from Brazil? Yes and she’s beautiful. She had a profession. He dated women with a lot of potential. Why do you feel like he was always seeking women outside of the U.S, though? When someone is in another country and it is virtual, it is easier to pretend to be someone you are not. And Gino is so good virtually. The man is adorable; he is so charming online. He’s so supportive. You feel so loved. He could be like, “Baby, you’re alone, you’re sad. I’m going to stay here with you if you don’t want to talk. Just so that you know that I’m on the other side of this screen, just here for you.” And then in person you’re like, “Baby, could you please hold my hand?” and he cannot do it. It’s like what the heck is this? That’s why he seeks internationally. Because he doesn’t have the pressure to meet the person immediately. Do you think Natalie caught on? I don’t know that much about Natalie, to be honest. I really hope that she finally realized. There were so many red flags and all of the lies. It’s too much. Why would you want to stay, right? You have to be stupid like me. I ignored all the red flags. Speaking of red flags, you had a lot of arguments over the years. When you look back on it now, was there a time where you’re like, I probably should have called it quits then? You know, when he went to Panama and he shared my naked pictures with his ex, that was it. Yeah. That was the universe in its mercy. Saying girl, not here. But why did you decide to stay? Because I’d been dating the guy for a year, and I was emotionally attached to him. And that is something that is my problem. You know why? Because I get so emotionally attached to the people that I date that it’s so hard for me to say, “You know what? Enough is enough.” It’s like I get obsessed, like, no I have to make this work to prove my worth to you. And that is something I’m working on. You’ve been really open about your alopecia journey and you recently shaved your head. I just wanted this constant war that I have had with my hair loss to be over and my postpartum really triggered that. A lot of hormones and emotions fluctuate during postpartum and I was like, I don’t have the emotional, mental, and physical energy to deal with this hair loss again. It was getting so, so bad. And I was like, I want to feel like I am in control. Shaving the head make me regain that power and it felt so liberating. And it’s like also like a tangible representation of starting a new chapter in my life and saying goodbye to this old version of me and this is the new me. Matt was really supportive. He shaved his head as well. I was not expecting him to do that. The amount of love and support that this man shows me day to day amazes me. And it’s something that I don’t know how to handle because I have never been in a healthy relationship my whole life and I don’t know how to how to act. I don’t know how to see these things because I’m like, instead of being happy and feeling relief, which I am, there is this other side of my brain telling me like, what is the gotcha? There is something, he’s doing it for something. Maybe he did something wrong behind your back and that is his way of compensating what he did. And he was like, “No, no, it’s just because I love you and I want to show to you that it’s just hair. And regardless, you look beautiful and you see, you still like me without hair, right?” I’m trying to make that clear in my brain that I’m safe with him. What do you think will help you to get there? Well, for once, I’m in therapy. Yes, I’m in therapy. I’m dealing with my emotions. A lot of people think, like, oh, couples therapy when you’re having problems, but sometimes, you are the problem. And I want to be the partner that I want to have, so to create that I have to work on myself first. And so far, you know, I have seen some progress. So yes, I’m just a work in progress. Part 1 of the 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Tell All premieres Sunday, November 9 at 8/7c on TLC. Watch a sneak peek at below!
