Today we will be talking about Jibri and Miona from the new season of 90 day fiancé.
We will take a look at the rumors about the couple getting married prior to Miona coming to the United States
and whether the Serbian cast member is blackfishing.
28-year-old Jibri from South Dakota and 23-year-old Miona from Niš, Serbia appeared on 90 Day Fiance Season 9 .
Jibri is an aspiring musician, creating solo music and he’s also a front man of a band “Black Serbs”.
Jibri’s fascination with Serbia started when he met his high school friend, Daveed, who's a refugee from that country.
With his friend Jibri started the music band, and they soon visited Serbia together.
Jibri admitted that since then he had been to Serbia at least 10 times already and he loves everything about that country.
Once the band started to perform in Serbia, Jibri met Miona during their tour
two and a half years before the show’s filming.
Following the romantic proposal in Thailand Jibri applied for a K-1 visa for Miona.
Meanwhile the band started to make a name for themselves in Serbia, even performing on TV.
They also posted videos to YouTube which garnered hundreds of thousands of views.
"Black Serbs" became popular with their first video, "Serbia Coming to America"
in which Jibri, a black man, speaks Serbian at in a McDonald's in the US,
swеars, argues and sings Serbian songs in the street.
The young man said that by founding the band "Black Serbs" he wanted to introduce African Americans to Serbian culture,
but also to introduce Serbian culture to other cultures.
Despite their rising popularity, during Cоvid the group stopped performing, and a bandmate said it was because of Miona.
Before Miona came to America Jibri relocated from Los Angeles to his parents’ house to save money.
The Serbian beauty was adamant about wanting to pursue a Kardashian-like lifestyle in California
and she expressed reservations about "elderly" lifestyle in South Dakota.
According to their Instagram profiles, currently the couple resides in Palm Springs, California,
where Miona started a make up business.
Jibri’s fascination with all things Serbian included not only his appreciation for the people,
the culture and cuisine of that Balkan country.
He also became fluent in Serbian, which is not an easy feat by any means and is quite impressive.
Moreover, he even converted to the predominant religion in Serbia – Orthodox Christianity.
His friend Daveed has actually become his godfather.
My best brother,
not my brother, he's my godfather, Daveed is my godfather, you understand
I am an Orthodox Christian
Serbian people are good people
and not only Serbia, but Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, the whole Balkans
I think in my other life maybe I would be some Serbian from Leskovac, I don't know
Jibri also adopted a Serbia mean – Jovan Crnovic.
Jibri admitted he always felt like a fish out of water in South Dakota,
which wasn’t a diverse place, and he was one of the only black people around.
In 2020 Jibri had actually relocated to Serbia following the protests against rаcism and pоlicе brutаlity in the U.S.
Jibri finds that in the United States there is a lot of rаcism and he doesn’t feel safe there.
According to an outlet “Telegraf”,
"Jibri decided to take refuge from adversity by going to the only country where he is free - to Serbia. "
The interview to the Serbian outlet is now heavily quoted, due to the appearance of Jibri and Miona.
In the interview that took place at least a year before 90 day fiancé filming, Miona was called Jibri’s wife!
Quote from the article,
“Jovan and his wife Miona Bell were Telegraf's guests, and we spoke to them about the unrest in the United States,
rаcism and the hоrrific dе аth of Gеorge Flоyd.”
Jibri explained his ties to Serbia, again calling Miona his wife
Needless to say, the show’s fans now think that perhaps we are being frаuded
and Miona and Jibri’s storyline might be completely fake.
However, we are yet to see any further evidence that the couple got married before 2020.
After the very first episode of the new season of 90 day fiance Miona found herself in the center of cоntroversy.
The Internet users were curious to find out more about her ethnical background, seeing her darker skin tone.
While Serbians are predominantly white, there are other ethnic group populating the country as well, including Romani people
So at first, the users presumed she might be of a mixed background.
However, when curious fans inquired about Miona’s ethnicity on her Instagram,
saying “are you mixed it seems people wanna know”,
she responded, “Let them wonder, it brings attention to me and my page.
What's the fun in solving a mystery”
Miona’s Instagram profile has pictures dating back to 2017 in which she appeared with a darker skin tone
and she didn’t post any pictures prior to that
The mystery has been solved by Internet users who found Miona’s pictures back when she was in school.
Seeing those pictures it becomes clear that Miona’s natural skin tone is white.
Needless to say, 90 day fiancé fans were quick to аccuse Miona of blаckfishing.
According to a journalist Wanna Thompson:
"Blаckfishing is when White public figures, influencers and the like do everything in their power to appear Blаck,
Whether that means to tan their skin excessively in an attempt to achieve ambiguity, and wear hairstyles and clothing trends that have been pioneered by Blаck women.
A lot of the show’s fans found Miona’s darkening her skin to appear of a different ethnicity to be extremely offensive.
Especially since Miona decided not to address her ethnicity on social media, seemingly wanting to fuel interest to her persona.
Some fans say she simply wants to look like Kim Kardashian, who is of Armenian descent,
while others say she wants to create contrоversy surrounding her excessively using spray-tan to chase clout.
But there are some people who defend Miona as well, saying that blаckfishing is common in Serbia
and she should not be judged based on the American standards, as not the whole world adheres to those.
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