- 90 day fiance star Stephanie Matto details her experience babysitting a famous athlete — including the bizarre interaction that led to him firing her.
- In a now-viral TikTok video, Matt says he received flirtatious Instagram messages from an anonymous account whose profile picture was the logo of his boss' team.
- Matt said in a revealing TikTok that the sports star lives in New York and has a daughter.
A former celebrity nanny has opened up about the incident that may have led to her being fired from caring for a star athlete's family.
90 day fiance Graduate Stephanie Matt, 33, revealed some, but not all, details on TikTok about her unfortunate experience working for a prominent family, saying she signed a non-disclosure agreement. Ta.
She began her reveal video by explaining how she was “the perfect candidate for this family.” At the time, Matt was attending drama school, so she was free to pick up her daughter from her private school in the afternoon and take her to her home on New York City's Upper West Side. .
Matteau also filled the family's need for a bilingual person who could also play the piano.
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“They hired me right away,” she continued on TikTok, which racked up over 668,000 views within two days of uploading. “This job looked like any other job and was very routine. Her daughter was very well behaved. But there was one thing that was very, very strange, and that was that the father did.”
Matteau said she and the girl's father had little interaction except when she was home during shifts. The former reality star said that during her interactions, the athlete became increasingly interested in her life and work as an aspiring performer.
“When I told him I was going to acting school, he said, ‘Oh, I should have thought of that. You’re so beautiful,’” she recalls. “I took the compliment in stride, but looking back now I see it was a red flag.”
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Another time, Matt claims to be her famous boss.[pressed] His body towards me,” and reached the kitchen drawer she had blocked while preparing food for her daughter. Matt once again dismissed it as an inconsequential encounter.
Matteau said he had no idea who his new employer was because he doesn't keep up with sports. “But when I told her stepfather where I worked, his jaw dropped,” she recalls now. viral video.
Then things took a “very, very strange turn,” the TikToker says. She gained new Instagram followers who used a team's logo as her profile picture, but she didn't think the design belonged to any team since she was not familiar with the sport at all. could not be recognized.
“This account that follows me starts sliding into my DMs and saying things like, 'You're so beautiful,'” Matt explains. “I wish I had a chance to get to know you.”
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“When my dad came home one day during my shift, I put two and two together,” she said in a nearly three-minute confessional. “He has a hat with a logo on his head, which I think is from his Instagram profile. My heart sank into my stomach.”
After returning home from work, the content creator decided to confront the Instagram user. She sent a message warning, “If it's who I think it is, stop doing it,” but she said she was still unsure of the anonymous follower's identity.
“Right now, I think there's probably, I don't know, about a 1% chance that it's this guy,” Matt said in the video, referring to the athlete's employer.
“A few hours later, I realized this person was no longer following me or on Instagram,” she says. “Then two days later I received a text message from the family saying they no longer needed my babysitting services.”
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Matteau kept her story open-ended, insisting she still doesn't know if her father was behind the messages or if it was really just a coincidence.
In the comments section of the video, many TikTok users agreed that the former babysitter's intuition was correct and that the athlete was likely behind the online affair.
“It was definitely dad!!! He knew you wouldn't play with him so he replaced you,” one person wrote. Another added: “He found you too smart.”
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Other replies suggested the athlete's wife may have been “testing” how she would respond to the motto, but the former babysitter did not mention her interaction with her boss' partner in the video. There wasn't. However, Motto appeared to admit that her boss had been in a romantic relationship, responding to the comment that “Shuda told her wife.”
“I didn't feel close enough to the family to be involved in that way,” Matt said.
Either way, the negative nanny experience was enough to end Matte's high-profile childcare career: “I've never been able to go back to nannying for the rich since then,” she concludes at the end of the video.
