As Natalie Mordovtseva is busy wondering if Mike Youngquist even likes her on 90 Day Fiancé, in real life, she seems to have discovered a new-found love. No, it’s not Natalie who’s cheating on Mike this time, but it’s her love for cooking and becoming a recipe blogger. After offending thousands of fans with cultural appropriation in her sushi tutorial video, vegetarian Natalie is now creeping out Instagram with a video of her making seafood pasta. Here’s why fans think 90 Day Fiancé season 8 star Natalie’s latest video is “painful.”
It was when 90 Day Fiancé returning cast-member Natalie cooked salmon for her first YouTube video that she got backlash for it being a self-proclaimed vegetarian. Fans also wondered if Mike and Natalie were no longer together, considering the kitchen was nothing like Mike’s from the TLC show. Moreover, Natalie then uploaded another video of herself making sushi where she grossed her followers out by eating her own hair as she took a bite of her creation. But 90 Day Fiancé celeb Natalie really did incite wrath when she wore a Chinese outfit, has chopsticks in her hair, and folded her hands in a prayer pose when making a Japanese dish. While Natalie did claim, “I love the culture and will do my best and showing respect” the 90 Day Fiancé star’s latest video is making fans uncomfortable again.
The Ukrainian Natalie, this time around, showed off her culinary talents in a video for Italian pasta with shrimp. While promoting it on her Insta, Natalie Mordovtseva also revealed that she’ll soon be making a video on food to eat in order to lose weight as well. When a fan joked if Natalie will be using butter in her recipe, “because everything is better with butter,” Natalie replied laughing, “Mike’s mom convinced me.” However, the actual video from Natalie’s YouTube channel saw fans commenting about she appears to be “trying to pull a sexy cooking show,” which they can “hardly watch” and also that the entire thing with her “dancing and being so fake” is “extremely awkward to watch.”
On the same video, which has been reposted by the 90 Day Fiancé fan page 90DayFianceNow, more criticism came Natalie’s way with fans leaving comments like, “good grief that was painful to watch,” and “Please… Leave us ALONE.” But a common consensus amongst most of these TLC viewers appears to be the fact that Natalie has taken the term “food p*rn” quite seriously. Fans also noted that with Natalie “acting like a sex symbol” after years of coming across as a “poor me innocent person” on 90 Day Fiancé, and “touching the food then touching the hair” repeatedly is “horrible.”
So far, the videos that Natalie has been posting have somehow only gotten fans to troll 90 Day Fiancé star Mike’s lover rather than giving her the praise, that in contrast, her season 8 co-star Yara Zaya gets for her videos. Could it be that Natalie is the one who’s stirring the pot on purpose by not only getting people to hate-comment but also indirectly engaging in her content to give her good views? This pasta video, for instance, has surprisingly fetched 90 Day Fiancé’s Natalie over 15k views already.
90 Day Fiancé season 8 airs Sundays at 8pm EST on TLC.
Source: Natalie Mordovtseva/Instagram, Natalie Mordovtseva/YouTube, 90DayFianceNow