Shekinah Garner is speaking out after she was put on blast for her living conditions.
As Monsters and Critics recently reported, Shekinah faced intense backlash after Sunday’s episode of 90 Day Fiance.
In the episode, her fiance, Sarper Guven, arrives in America, and Shekinah shows him his new living quarters.
While Sarper was excited about his new life in The States, he was far less enthused about Shekinah’s cramped home where she conducts services for her aesthetics business.
Shekinah came under fire for servicing her clients in her cramped kitchen, which left little to no space for Sarper.
Additionally, she forced Sarper to leave their home while she was working and did not allow him to cook any food in the kitchen.
Following the episode, Shekinah conducted a Q&A in her Instagram Story.
Shekinah says she lives in a ‘shoebox’ because she’s ‘poor’
One of her followers called her out for living in such a tiny home, and Shekinah had a succinct response.
“Why not buy a house instead of living in a shoebox[?]” asked the Instagram user.
Shekinah responded with a video of herself walking through a parking garage, sipping on a drink as she filmed herself.
“Because I’m poor,” she wrote. “Help me.”
In another Instagram Story slide, Shekinah hinted that she may be experiencing a loss of cash flow due to her frequent traveling.
She shared that she has lost “a lot” of clients due to being in Turkey so much over the past few years, likely while visiting Sarper before he came to America on his K-1 visa.
Is Shekinah really ‘poor?’
Whether or not Shekinah genuinely is “poor” is up for debate.
For starters, the TLC personality has spent a small fortune on altering her appearance.
She has admitted to having multiple surgeries, including breast augmentation, facelifts, nose jobs, neck lifts, fat transfer, and Botox and filler injections.
Going under the knife and the needle is no cheap habit, so Shekinah obviously doesn’t strike 90 Day Fiance fans as “poor.”
In addition, her work as an aesthetician seems to be a profitable business.
Shekinah charges a pretty penny for her services, including virtual consultations, dermaplaning, brow lamination, and facials, which range between $75 and $350 per service.
The LA-based aesthetician also earns money selling cleansers, serums, facial mists, moisturizers, eye and lip care products, facial devices, and more.
Shekinah also earns a buck teaching online master courses at $420 a pop.
The mom of one touts her services on her website, advertising her twenty years of experience as a licensed aesthetician.
In addition to working as an aesthetician, Shekinah is also a makeup artist and certified airbrush artist.
Her work as a makeup artist has earned her a perfect five-star review on Yelp, where her clients gush over her “exceptional” work.
Does Shekinah really work out of her home?
Interestingly, per her IMDb bio, Shekinah “practices as an Aesthetician at the historic Beverly Hilton.”
So, could that mean Shekinah’s in-home business was all for show? Or does the 90 Day Fiance star work both out of her home and at the Beverly Hilton?
Either way, the idea of Shekinah working out of her LA home has irked 90 Day Fiance viewers and her fiance, Sarper, alike.
Season 11 of 90 Day Fiance airs on Sundays at 8/7c on TLC.
Poor? Come on now! If you were poor, you wouldn’t have had all the cosmetic surgery and traveled back and forth to Turkey so many times! You don’t know what poor is! Worry about paying rent and where you’re going to get food from–thats poor. You’re just trying to scam people into sending you money! You are very far from POOR!!
I think it is crazy that she thinks people should help her financially. Where did she get the money for all her cosmetic surgeries and what about the cost of her flying to see Harper all the time. She needs to see a financial planner and start working more !!!
Shame on you saying that you are poor.
You look like a freak.
The way you treat your boy friend is shameful.
Kind of makes us all see Sarper as a bit of a victim that was scammed by the American, no? I kind of see him in a totally different light now that we’ve met his family and we’ve seen that he may be an alpha male but his family is everything to him and they feel the very same way about him. He lived a racy life in his country standards but here you’re lying to yourself if you think that what this show is portraying him as is not a total crappy boyfriend that any girl would experience here. His culture is vastly different and there is A LOT loved in translation and you can see it in this season with his beautiful family. She-Whine-A is the loser in this relationship and this show is not portraying the real her! This buy me a house thing because I’m poor is just the tip of her iceberg! WOW!