90 Day Fiancé Season 10’s Nikki Sanders “Traumatized” Fiancé With This Very Personal Revelation
90 Day Fiancé season 10 star Nicole Sanders, aka Nikki Exotika, has a heartbreaking past where her partner left her when she revealed she’s trans.
90 Day Fiancé season 10 will introduce Nicole Sanders (aka Nikki Exotica), who’s about to unpack her heartbreaking past on the reality TV show during her debut episode. Nikki is a part of the several new faces making their way into the franchise with the milestone season. While Gino Palazzolo and Jasmine Pineda is the only returning couple for 90 Day Fiance season 10, 2023 has a total of six new couples in store for viewers. 90 Day Fiancé is the show where engaged couples have applied for or have received a K-1 visa, so they can bring their international partners to America and get married to them within a span of three months.
Engaged couple Nikki and Justin have a shocking history together. According to a preview of the 90 Day Fiancé season 10 premiere, courtesy of ET, Nikki reveals she was engaged to Justin 17 years ago and what led to their first breakup.
Nikki tells a friend that Justin was being lazy, wasn’t helping her with the housework, and expected her to cook and clean for him. They got into a lot of heated arguments. During one such argument, Nikki told Justin, “I used to be a man.” It had been two years since Nikki and Justin started their relationship. “I traumatized him,” admitted Nikki.
90 Day Fiancé’s Nikki & Justin Got Engaged 17 Years Ago
Nikki was about 20 years old when she underwent her gender affirmation operation. She had tears in her eyes after the surgery and felt like she was reborn again. After the surgery, she started living in “stealth,” which meant that she didn’t tell people what sex she was assigned at birth. As a result, Nikki was in the closet. She never made any gay or trans friends; she only wanted to have female friends. This was all part of Nikki’s journey to find herself. Justin was “in shock” when Nikki blurted out that she’s trans. Justin went back home and was “depressed for a very long time.”
This was back in 2007. Nikki and Justin had met on a dating site in Moldova 17 years ago. Justin proposed to Nikki and had come to the United States on a K-1 visa. Clearly, they did not get married then, but Nikki and Justin took another chance when they both realized they were single almost two decades later. Nikki is in a much better place now. She thought it was a good idea for them to give their relationship a second chance. Three months after they first started speaking again, Nikki and Justin met in Mexico to connect “physically, mentally, emotionally.”
Justin has proposed to Nikki again, and then she applied for the K-1 visa a second time. Justin wasn’t comfortable with Nikki’s gender identity the first time around. Nikki now knows what exactly she’s looking for in her future partner. But at this time, it’s unclear if Justin will prove that he’s indeed mature enough to accept Nikki for who she is all these years later.