90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days stars Ben Rathbun and Mahogany Roca have deactivated their Instagram accounts and fans are wondering why. Several 90 Day Fiancé fans were sure that 24-year-old Mahogany was a catfish scamming 52-year-old Ben when they were introduced on Before The 90 Days season 5 episode 6. Mahogany being shy to do video calls with Ben, taking a $1,000 loan from him, and photoshopping her Instagram pictures to look like someone else made it seem like there was something fishy going on between them. Expect, Mahogany did turn out to be real, and Ben still wants to make her his wife - a plan that is seemingly on its way to success. Recently, Ben and Mahogany were spotted together in a mall in Peru. Alas, the couple has also disappeared from Instagram now.
Ben met Mahogany, who he considers the love of his life, online after she fell for his shirtless modeling photos and sent him a friend request. Three months is all it took for Ben to devise a plan to bring her to the US, which his grown-up kids openly resisted. Alas, Ben overlooked all the red flags to fly to Peru only to get ghosted by Mahogany, who claimed to have been scared of meeting him. Meanwhile, Ben didn’t really appeal to her parents as an ideal boyfriend candidate due to his age and Mahogany said that he looked smaller in person and had catfished her. Nonetheless, a bigger plot twist took place when Ben realized Mahogany had lied to him about her real age. She was 22 years old age, not 24.
While Ben was freaked out and almost went back to the airport at the end of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days season 5 episode 11, he posted a romantic selfie with Mahogany and defended her. “The waves of ignorance and hate continue to pound her daily, but she continues to smile,” Ben wrote in his post (re-posted by @90daythemelanatedway). He also explained that Mahogany’s last name “Roca” means rock, even though some fans are sure that her first name might be fake. This was the last post on Ben’s page before he and Mahogany both deleted their Instagram pages.
All things considered, the biggest reason behind Ben and Mahogany’s disappearance could be that they don not want to deal with “hate” from fans. However, it could also be due to a Reddit user (via @90daythemelanataedway) stumbling upon a Facebook page belonging to Ben and a woman called “Amy Phung.” The joint Facebook account became known to fans on March 2 and suggests that Ben may have been engaged or married to a younger woman in 2019 who he doesn’t talk about on 90 Day Fiancé. There are romantic professionally-shot photos of Ben with the lady on a page called “Ben N Amy Rathbun-Phung,” hinting at how serious the relationship may have been. To be clear, this isn’t the same woman Ben spoke about on 90 Day Fiancé. The woman who Ben got engaged with after his divorce and was 17 years his junior and is a completely different person.
Right after Ben and Amy’s Facebook page was reported, Ben and Mahogany’s Instagram pages were wiped from existence. Furthermore, many fans also think that Ben and Mahogany are paid actors who are faking a romance on 90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days. According to an old video of Ben, he was contacted by 90 Day Fiancé producers after they saw his fitness photos in a magazine. He has now retracted his claims of being scouted, but Mahogany’s on-screen behavior with exaggerated expressions and “oh my gosh” exclamations did make her seem like she is acting (badly) on the TLC series. Due to their 30-year-old age gap, Mahogany’s heavily edited photos, and her fake San Bartolo home, fans have criticized Ben and Mahogany on social media. It can be assumed that this is the big reason why Ben and Mahogany have gone on an Instagram break even though it’s likely there are many more reasons that the fans have yet to unfold.
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source https://screenrant.com/90-day-fiance-ben-rathbun-mahogany-roca-instagram-deactivated-explained/
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