Shekinah Garner is facing harsh criticism after last night’s episode of 90 Day Fiance.
Shekinah and her fiance, Sarper Guven, have returned to Season 11 of the flagship series after making their 90 Day Fiance debut during Season 5 of Before the 90 Days.
On Sunday, viewers watched Sarper arrive in the US, and Shekinah welcomed him to her home in LA.
Sarper was surprised to discover how small Shekinah’s home was and that it was cramped with skincare equipment. This left him wondering how much space he would have.
The Turkish native was even more taken aback when Shekinah revealed some of her house rules.
As Shekinah explained, she conducts her aesthetics business out of her home’s kitchen, so she and Sarper “can’t really cook” there because she doesn’t want the place smelling like food.
Sarper is shocked by Shekinah’s living space
Additionally, Shekinah required that Sarper leave the home when she has clients.
Since most of her clients are female, Shekinah didn’t want them feeling uncomfortable with Sarper roaming around the house during their treatments.
Sarper wasn’t exactly pleased with the living conditions. During a solo interview, he asked, “What the f**k? I mean, are we living in a hotel room?”
“Where will we live?” Sarper wondered.
Sarper felt that it was unfair Shekinah didn’t give him a heads-up about his living conditions.
After watching the show, 90 Day Fiance viewers agreed, taking to X (formerly Twitter) to voice their opinions.
90 Day Fiance fans side with Sarper
One of Shekinah’s critics called her workspace “illegal,” adding, “It’s not sterile. Cooking or not is irrelevant.”
Another critic called Shekinah’s living/working plan “ridiculous” and felt she had more than enough time to find another space to operate her business.
“I imagine they don’t take s**ts inside the apartment either so the clients won’t be disturbed,” joked @anfisasredbag, who also questioned whether Shekinah’s business practices were legal.
90 Day Fiance podcaster George Mossey called Shekinah “broke & stupid” for making Sarper leave while she had clients.
Others agreed, calling Shekinah “broke, and rude,” surmising that Sarper likely wouldn’t have come to the US if he knew the conditions of his living space.
One 90 Day Fiance viewer suspected that Shekinah made Sarper leave so her clients wouldn’t “come on to” him.
Sarper is thriving career-wise since moving to America
Despite his living arrangements, it appears that Sarper has taken to life in LA quite well, conducting his own business outside his and Shekinah’s cramped home.
On Instagram, he has been promoting his personal training and coaching business.
As Sarper shared in an Instagram Reel on February 5, he provides one-on-one sessions in LA or virtual sessions for those who don’t live in the area.
“Train with Sarper – The success [is] inevitable,” Sarper wrote in the caption.
While Sarper’s business appears to be thriving, based on some rave reviews in his comments section, it’s surprising that he’s training women.
That’s because, in previous seasons, Shekinah made it crystal clear that she wasn’t okay with Sarper having female clients, so he stopped to honor her wishes.
But Sarper’s Instagram Reel shows that he does, in fact, train female clients, which raises the question: did Shekinah have a change of heart, or did Sarper resort back to his former bad boy ways?
Season 11 of 90 Day Fiance airs on Sundays at 8/7c on TLC.
It is obvious that they are both very selfish individuals with personal goals that do not necessarily include each other. That could work out temporarily, until their goals clash, since there is close to zero communication and co-mingling of long term plans, as it seems very fly-by-night right now. If they do finally marry, I envision Sarper flying back frequently to Turkey with her not voluntarily coming, despite his reservations about the 13-14 hour flight time. Let’s remember, they both starred initially on 90-Day Fiance, The Other Way. That being the case, Shekinah was supposed to live in Turkey with Sarper, not in LA. This seems more and more as a lust crush for mutual sexual gratification, in contrast to a committed loving relationship. For in the latter you compromise and sacrifice even though it may difficult, because you genuinely have care and compassion for the other individual, and put aside yourself for that person, in similar fashion as to sacrificing your life’s ambitions for your children. Shekinah in particular is far too selfish for any thing like that. Sarper is also selfish, but generally he responds to her as a newborn trained puppy would.
With my spouse we generally share almost everything, good and bad, for the Bible says that a man shall leave his mother and father and be united to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. Americans as well as cosmopolitan Europeans resist this until their natural deaths in most cases, for it is natural human nature instinctively to do so. This maybe explains the high divorced percentages on both continents.
As far as my current spouse and I, we both had other marriages that the other ex-spouses simply walked away from, because they apparently suddenly lost common interests. Most probably that did not happen, and the ex-spouses married us under false pretenses, thinking that the other would cash out when the time was right, and with my current spouse that is exactly what that ex did to him.