90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days has featured Avery Mills adjusting to her new culture as a recently-converted Muslim woman in Lebanon with her fiance Omar Albakour, but spoilers have already leaked out indicating whether the Season 3 couple is still together or broken up.
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Avery, a 19-year-old from Columbus, OH, and Omar, a 24-year-old from Syria, met on a Muslim dating app.
Avery, a former Christian and all-American girl -- a cheerleader and gymnast -- converted to Islam six months prior. She covered her hair every day and only showed her hands and face.
Avery had never dated a Muslim man, but she thought Omar had "a beautiful heart." However, Omar's profile said he lived in America, and Avery soon found out he's actually from Syria.
Since a war is going on in Syria, Avery's loved ones feared Omar's intentions and Avery's future with him, but she was "already hooked."
After just one month of talking, Omar asked Avery to marry him, and she had received her engagement ring in the mail. She planned to travel to Lebanon to finally meet her fiance in person since Syria was dangerous.
Avery lived with her mom Teri, stepdad, five siblings and grandparents. Teri was very afraid for her daughter because she had only talked to her fiance online.
Avery said she talked to Omar on a daily basis and was able to pick up on his personality traits. She trusted Omar and hoped to bring him to the United States on a visa between 9 months and three years due to the travel ban from Syria.
Teri feared Omar was using her daughter just to come to the United States and accused Avery of becoming a different person for this man. Avery's brother even joked Avery had a habit of coming up with wild plans, such as being a vegetarian, only to sneak fried chicken up to her room.
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Avery's family clearly had no faith her relationship was going to work out, and Teri wanted her daughter to remain in the United States with her.
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOWTo make sure Avery would be safe, Teri planned to travel to Lebanon with her daughter.
Little did Teri know, however, Avery's long-term plan was to live in Syria with Omar after marrying him until his spousal visa to come to the U.S. got approved. Omar, a dentist, had two years of schooling left in order to become an oral surgeon.
"I don't think I can be apart from him for however long this visa takes," Avery said.
Avery knew it was crazy she'd be moving to an active warzone, but she said no one would be able to change her mind. She loved Omar, and that's all there was to it.
Avery therefore wanted to marry Omar shortly after her arrival in Lebanon, and she admitted she was taking a leap of faith.
But Avery and Omar were going to have hurdles to overcome.
Avery admitted to her pals that Omar didn't appreciate the fact she had sex before but he mainly judged her on her life post-Islam.
Avery explained Omar wasn't used to her culture and so she feared not being good enough for him. She wanted to be the perfect girl and Muslim wife for Omar.
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One day before traveling to Lebanon, Avery gushed about how Omar was "the perfect person."
Once Avery and Teri arrived in Lebanon after about 30 hours of travel, Avery's luggage was lost and her phone went missing somewhere along the way, but she was more than thrilled to jump into Omar's arms.
Omar -- who called Avery his "soul mate" -- was waiting for her in the airport with a big, beautiful bouquet of red roses.
The pair embraced and Avery gushed about how Omar was so "cute" and "handsome," and he agreed Avery was even "more beautiful" in person.
He then brought Avery and Teri to their hotel room, given he and Avery were not allowed to sleep in the same room or even kiss due to the rules of their culture and religion.
As a gift for his fiancee, Omar purchased multiple head scarves for her in different colors. He noted religion is important to him and he was proud Avery decided to covert on her own to build self-confidence rather than just following a religion since birth.
Teri thought Avery and Omar's first meeting was sweet, but she anticipated there would be major cultural differences.
Both Avery and Omar were worried about there being conflict with Terri, because Omar didn't want anything to stand in his way of getting married.
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When Avery woke up her first morning in Lebanon, her wedding was two days away.
Avery, Teri and Omar therefore went wedding gown shopping together and picked out a beautiful, appropriate "Halal" dress for Avery to wear.
Teri was sad Avery was no longer ambitious and independent. She couldn't believe Avery was okay with a man telling her what to do and what to wear, but Teri predicted Avery would grow tired of being submissive and then her relationship would fall apart.
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Avery said her mother didn't embrace or understand how much she had changed her life when she had converted to Islam.
Teri was just afraid of how much control Omar was going to have over Avery's life. Teri read a Muslim handbook, for example, and learned a man can hit his wife and the wife is a "prisoner" in her own home, which really disturbed her.
Omar joked he wouldn't lay a hand on Avery as long as she was "nice," but Teri said Avery was going to be mean more than she'd be nice.
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But Avery didn't think Omar was going to follow through with certain things the law allowed. Avery said hitting a woman would be disrespectful and Omar wasn't that type of guy.
So are Avery and Omar still together and engaged, or did the 90 Day Fiance couple split?
Avery and Omar appear to still be together but be living in Lebanon instead of Syria, as they originally planned.It appears the couple got married and chose to stay in Lebanon until Omar's spousal visa gets approved since it's currently a much safer place to live than Syria.
Some fans speculated whether Avery ended her relationship with Omar since she was recently photographed in New York City with her 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days co-stars, but it appears she was only in New York to film the Tell All special that will air on TLC after the season finishes airing this fall.
In addition, it's also not a surprise Omar wouldn't attend the Tell-All in-person with Avery given the restrictions the United States currently has in place for Syria citizens.
Avery and Omar also currently share an Instagram account.
While there are not a lot of photos of the couple, a throwback picture was just posted on August 30 of Avery, Omar and her mother having dinner together in Lebanon.
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One week before that, Avery shared the couple's "first selfie" in which they were both smiling.
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Avery also appeared to drop a significant hint that she is still married to Omar and living in Lebanon when she was recently promoting her plans to launch a new online store in her Instagram Stories.
"It's an online store I am opening soon in Sha Allah... mostly selling accessories/fashion items from Middle East," Avery wrote in an Instagram Stories posting in August.
"In Sha Allah" is not the name of a place or location but means "God willing" in Arabic.
Avery revealed the online store will be called Albakour Kouture "will open in about 1 month."
"Is there anything in particular you would like us to sell on the website?" Avery asked her followers.
The word "us" suggests Omar is involved in the store as well, and Avery's decision to use "Albakour" (her new married surname) in the store's name also suggests she is still married to him.
People gave Avery and Omar suggestions on what to sell such as prayer rugs, and one follower said he or she would like to buy hand-made soap.
Avery seemed to unintentionally disclose she's currently living in Lebanon by replying, "That's actually good. Lebanon has amazing olive oil soaps!!!"
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