Gym Buddy, Baby Daddy, Mystery Man: Who Is Matt Branis, Jasmine Pineda’s Partner?

If you only know Jasmine Pineda’s boyfriend as “the gym guy,” you are two seasons behind. Matt Branis walked into 90 Day Fiancé as a footnote in someone else’s marriage and ended up at the center of Jasmine’s next chapter — partner, baby’s father, and the man fans still cannot figure out. So who is he? Here is everything we actually know — and what remains “according to reports.”

Photo: TV Season & Spoilers, via Jasmine’s Instagram — Matt Branis and Jasmine Pineda, all smiles

The Basics: A Romanian Named Matthew Branistareanu

Matt Branis is short for Matthew Branistareanu. He identifies as Romanian on Instagram. Blogger-shared screenshots of his LinkedIn profile reportedly put him at 37, around Jasmine’s age, and linked him to Detroit and Eastern Michigan University. Those details come from blogger screenshots, not Matt himself, so treat them as reported. What is confirmed: he is Jasmine’s partner and Matilda’s father.

From Planet Fitness to Prime Time

Jasmine met Matt at a Planet Fitness in Michigan while still married to Gino Palazzolo. He drove her to and from the gym, and the workout friendship grew close. Both say nothing romantic happened until Gino agreed to an open marriage; Gino claimed on Happily Ever After? that she cheated four months earlier. She denied it, and the row never settled.

Matt debuted on 90 Day: The Last Resort Season 2 in February 2025, then joined Happily Ever After? Season 9. His move to Florida for work pulled Jasmine along — and the gym buddy became the main storyline.

What Does Matt Actually Do? Cars, Acting, and a Tow Truck

According to online reports, Matt is a Screen Actors Guild member with small Michigan acting credits — A Night to Seize, Clayman, Haunt Hunters: Stagecoach Shop, and the 2017 film American Sharia. None of it is publicly verified. What Jasmine has confirmed is simpler: Matt flips cars and owns a towing company, after buying a tow truck on Happily Ever After? Season 9.

Becoming a Dad: Matilda and the Head-Shaving Moment

Jasmine announced her pregnancy on February 18, 2025, and confirmed at the Tell All that Matt, not Gino, fathered the baby. Matilda arrived in April 2025, Jasmine’s third child; her older sons, Juance and JC, live in Panama.

Photo: TV Season & Spoilers, via Jasmine’s Instagram — Jasmine and Matt, both with shaved heads, after Matilda’s birth

After the birth, an alopecia flare-up led Jasmine to shave her head. Matt shaved his own head in solidarity, and Jasmine has praised him for standing by her through alopecia, PTSD, anxiety, and postpartum struggles. She has said she wants no more pregnancies.

The String Proposal, the Breakups, and Where They Stand in 2026

Nothing sums up Matt and Jasmine like the Happily Ever After? Season 9 finale: he proposed with a piece of string instead of a ring. Jasmine neither accepted nor rejected him, saying marriage felt overwhelming.

Since then, according to reports: a Tell All claim that Matt cheated with a woman named Elizabeth, a November 2025 post where Jasmine said she would never marry again, and a December 2025 kick-out that ended with her asking him back. Yet in 2026 they still present as a family: her divorce from Gino is final, and July 2026 Miami photos of Matt on one knee with an angel-wing ring turned out to be a Chihuahua adoption joke, not a proposal. In October 2026, a TLC crew reportedly filmed the family at Tampa airport.

Photo: TV Season & Spoilers, via TLC — Matt and Jasmine with newborn Matilda

So, Is Matt Branis the Real Deal?

So is Matt the steady partner Jasmine deserves, or a mystery man whose résumé never adds up? After everything, do you think Matt and Jasmine make it to the altar — or is “partner” where this story stops? Tell us in the comments.