90 Day Fiancé: What To Know About Patrick Mendes' Weightlifting Career
Patrick “Pat” Mendes, the newest 90 Day Fiancé season 9 cast member is a familiar face to many because of his weightlifting career. The 2022 season of 90 Day Fiancé stars Patrick opposite his Brazilian fiancé Thaís. 31-year-old Patrick from Austin, Texas had gone to Brazil to reconnect with his father’s side of the family when he decided to look for a Portuguese teacher on dating apps. That’s when he swiped right on 25-year-old model Thaís, who’s about to become his second wife. Before Thaís, Patrick was married to his first girlfriend who he’d met at the gym. Patrick’s first wife was also a weightlifter like him.
Patrick, who wakes up at 5 am to work out, believes that pain is weakness leaving the body. On 90 Day Fiancé season 9, newcomer Patrick describes himself as hardworking and goal-oriented. Patrick had been competing in sports since the age of nine and became a weightlifter in high school. He believed that being stronger than everyone else is what he was really good at after meeting his weightlifting coach John Broz in 2008. After training for a year and a half, Patrick became “one of the strongest people in the country.” Apart from now being a reality TV star in the making, Patrick has a high-paying job in sales. He sells home security door to door and manages sales teams throughout Texas. Patrick sells the alarms and his brother John Mendes installs them.
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While Patrick supposedly earns $1,000 a day in his new job, his life before sales was very different. The 90 Day Fiancé season 9 celeb had made the U.S. national team, competed at the Pan Am Games and World Championships, and eventually started training for the Olympics, as per
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