Are 90 Day Fiancé stars and still together? The season 8 couple seemed to overcome the obstacles facing them when she arrived in America on her K-1 visa to begin the 90-day countdown to their wedding day. But the TLC stars bickered and only continued to have their arguments after appearing on the show, which has fans wondering where their relationship stands after filming season 2 of 90 Day: The Last Resort.

Julia and Brandon met while his friend was on vacation in her native country of Russia. The friend ran into Julia at a club, where she worked as a dancer, and they FaceTimed Brandon to introduce them. Brandon and Julia exchanged numbers, and the rest was history.

After only several months of dating, he proposed to the brunette beauty during a romantic vacation to Iceland and began the K-1 visa process, which would legally allow Julia to move to the U.S. as Brandon’s fiancée under the condition the couple weds within 90 days of her arrival.

Brandon had accrued about $10,000 of debt funding their long-distance relationship, so he and Julia planned to live with his parents on their family farm to save money for their wedding and their own place. Along with the free room and board, Brandon’s parents — and Ron Gibbs — set rules in place: Brandon and Julia were not allowed to sleep in the same bedroom until they were married and Julia was to help out with the farm chores like cleaning and feeding their animals.

Julia was not on board with the rules and after a month of living with Brandon’s family at their home in Dinwiddie, Virginia, she gave Brandon an ultimatum — either they move off the farm and into their own place immediately or she goes back to Russia. As a last-ditch effort, Brandon asked his parents if they would be open to letting him and Julia sleep in the same bedroom. Out of fear of losing their son, they agreed.

The couple had a pregnancy scare shortly after — which was resolved with a negative pregnancy test. Once the drama was out of the way, they turned their attention on planning their nuptials. But Julia started to grow increasingly frustrated with Brandon’s lack of enthusiasm and interest in helping her lay out the details of their big day. She was particularly upset when Brandon didn’t show any emotion or share his opinion with her while they went wedding dress shopping with his mom, Betty.

The drama between Brandon and Julia came to a peak during a March 2021 episode. While touring a local church as a possible venue for their wedding ceremony, the warden asked for details like how many guests they were expecting. Betty immediately responded they would hope to invite “50 to 70” people, which was a surprise to Julia. She asked Brandon if he knew how many people he would want to invite, to which he said, “No.”

“I guess [he] don’t know [about] the wedding nothing [sic],” Julia said, visibly upset. Betty defended her son, explaining to Julia that this is his first time he’s ever been engaged. “OK, second time, [you’ll] be fine,” Julia hit back at her husband-to-be. Brandon, Betty and Ron laughed but Julia didn’t seem to find it funny and was upset because she felt Betty was the one who was planning their wedding.

The warden then asked which date the couple hoped to walk down the aisle, which was a point of contention between Brandon, Julia and his parents in a previous episode. Julia wanted their wedding date to be May 9, which is the anniversary of the first time Brandon messaged Julia. Betty and Ron didn’t think May 9 would be a good idea because it fell on Mother’s Day weekend that year.

But Julia was still settled on the May 9 date. When the warden asked about the significance of the date, Brandon said, “Nine is her favorite number.” Julia was shocked that Brandon didn’t remember why the date was important to her. In his confessional, he admitted he forgot that detail. Once they were alone, Julia confronted Brandon about his lack of emotions toward their wedding.

Following their time on the show, Julia and Brandon moved away from his parents and into their own apartment off the farm.

“When we moved in the apartment, things got much better for our relationship,” Brandon detailed during a June 2022 episode of 90 Day Diaries. “But the city has not been my favorite place to live.”

The international couple then detailed plans to start a new life in Ocala, Florida. However, the couple had yet to tell Brandon’s parents.

“We need to tell your parents we’re moving to Florida,” Julia told her husband as they drove to the Sunshine State to check out their possible new home. “And your mother [will] probably hate us.”

“She’s not going to help us pack up and move to a different state,” he replied. “She’s going to be pissed.” 

Julia and Brandon returned to screens in December 2024 to repair their relationship on season 2 of 90 Day: The Last Resort. Julia and Brandon were working to get their relationship back on track as they faced major intimacy issues.

In addition, Julia confessed to kissing another man when Brandon went to visit her family in Russia.

“I acting horrible and we almost broke up because I met my ex and we plan to … We thinking to go back to each other,” Julia told Brandon in a group therapy session during episode 9. “It has hurt me for four years. Not cheating but we kissing.”

The group slammed Julia and told her that kissing was considered cheating. “We’re already dealing with so many other things and now the impact that infidelity is going to have on us, I feel like divorce has become a stronger possibility,” Brandon said in a confessional interview. “I’m so angry at Julia.”

Despite the drama, Julia and Brandon are seemingly still together as of November 2024. Julia shared a TikTok of her and Brandon traveling the world in October 2024, joking that “There’s always the person who plans everything and a person who has to ask what country they’re in.”

However, amid the trip, he took to his Instagram Story to reveal, “We have to postpone traveling because there are things at home that need taking care of.” In her own Story, Julia added that she and her husband — who tied the knot in 2020 — had “a lot of urgent issues” to deal with, but did not specify what was wrong.

Everything seems to have worked out, though, as Brandon and Julia continued posting content together on social media in the weeks that followed. Before season 2 of 90 Day: The Last Resort premiered, she shared a video of them together to tease the season with the caption, “Social media is not reality, it’s time to tell what I usually started to say and always stopped myself. but we really missed you guys, thank you for your warm message and faith in us.” Meanwhile, Brandon included Julia in one of his November 2024 Instagram videos, which featured them teaming up to promote a product.