Popular 90 Day Fiancé season 9 star Patrick Mendes’ new job after his weightlifting career ended has sparked accusations that he’s part of a pyramid scheme. Former professional weightlifter Patrick, a 31-year-old from Austin, met Thaís Ramone, a model from Brazil, on a dating app when he was visiting her country. Patrick took multiple trips to visit Thaís after their first date, and on 90DF, she arrived in the U.S. on a K-1 visa to get married to him. Patrick and Thaís had a supposedly happy ending, as revealed during the Tell-All, when they announced that they were pregnant. They are expecting a baby in November.
However, Thaís did expose Patrick by telling her co-stars that he cheated on her with a different woman eight months into their relationship. Before Thaís, Patrick was married to a woman he’d met at his gym around 2013, who had become his first girlfriend. Patrick married his ex-wife in 2017, and the two remained together until their divorce in 2020. On the show, Patrick said that his wife had fallen in love with the “weightlifter,” but shared that they started to grow apart after he was busted twice for testing positive for illegal substances. By then, Patrick shifted his focus to sales, by beginning to sell home security door to door. He managed sales teams throughout Texas. When Patrick sells an alarm system, his brother John McManus, who works in the tech team, installs it.
As per Patrick’s 90 Day Fiancé interview, his spending a lot of time away in Brazil affected his income. Patrick claims to have lost $1000 a day every time he went to Brazil to meet Thaís. He’d supposedly been there 14 times, for two-week periods. According to InTouch, Patrick’s has worked as a general manager for Vivint Smart Home since 2013. Patrick’s LinkedIn has since been deleted, but the Vivint Onboarding Tool lists him as a “recruiter.” Recently, u/klc_2125 made a Reddit post, asking exactly what Patrick’s job is. They remembered Patrick claiming he spent “almost a million dollars” on their house, and how he would have had a “lot of money,” in order to be sitting on a yacht before his wedding with Thaís.
Patrick & Thaís Have Clashed
In one other pivotal and memorable moment, there was a very heated argument between Thaís and Patrick, where she accused him of not telling her how much money he makes. “Show me,” Thaís told him, and Patrick had exclaimed that he didn’t “fully trust” Thaís with his financial data. “My finances and how we get by is doing its job and doesn’t need to be checked on,” Patrick stated. Under the Reddit post, fans such as u/chanceordestiny wrote, “He works for a MLM or pyramid scheme selling alarm systems door to door.” u/skittlemonsterr said that, in order to make any money with these companies, one will typically have to recruit people under them. “The actual selling doesn’t make any money at all,” they added about 90 Day Fiancé celeb, Patrick. TLC viewer u/rulesforrebelsdefinition commented that this is “basically the definition” of an MLM, whereby a person earns money by bringing others in, rather than by actually selling the product that the business is supposedly all about.
Fans Have Been Asking Tough Questions
A curious fan even asked Thaís if Patrick is involved with an MLM, and while trying to play it cool, she posted an example of Patrick working hard. Thaís revealed that Patrick only had five people in his team when she met him, but over the past two years, his team has grown exponentially. She added a video of Patrick addressing a large group. Thaís doesn’t seem that bothered by what 90 Day Fiancé fans have to say about Patrick’s job. At one time, she posted a link that people could use to connect with Patrick via a private Zoom call, so he could help them to save money. Thaís also feels that her husband is smart and honest, and believes that anything else written about him online is not true. She thinks it’s cooked up by people who are very jealous of him.
