Chelsea Macek and Yamir Castillo were one of the more quietly compelling couples from “90 Day Fiancé” Season 2 — not because they were the most dramatic, but because the tension between them felt genuinely real. He was a pop star from Nicaragua who gave up his band and his career to move to Illinois for her. She was a teacher from a small Midwestern town who wasn’t sure she could give him the life he needed. They married in 2014 and divorced in 2016, and both of them have gone on to build lives that look nothing like what viewers might have expected.
Chelsea’s story in particular is one of the most quietly remarkable post-show journeys in the franchise.
How They Met & What Went Wrong
Chelsea and Yamir got engaged after meeting in Nicaragua at one of Yamir’s concerts with his band Myla Vox. Yamir quit his band to move to the United States with Chelsea — a significant sacrifice that the show captured honestly, including his growing frustration that Galesburg, Illinois was not going to be the launchpad for the American music career he had imagined.
Yamir wanted to move to Chicago, but Chelsea was comfortable where she was. They eventually made the move, but the underlying incompatibility never fully resolved. Chelsea officially filed for divorce in November 2016, with the case finalized on December 9, 2016.
Following the divorce, Chelsea came out publicly as bisexual and then pansexual, emphasizing in interviews that her self-discovery was not the cause of the breakup.
The split was handled with more grace than most franchise divorces. A year after their divorce, Yamir publicly wrote that just because two people are no longer together does not mean they cannot have a relationship, that there was no hate between them, and that he had spoken to Chelsea recently and she told him she was happy — and that warmed his heart.
Chelsea’s Remarkable Second Chapter
After the divorce, Chelsea moved to Colorado and began building a life that looked entirely different from the one cameras had followed. She met a man named Daniel Colombo Verní — Dani — and what followed was the kind of love story that does not fit neatly into a reality TV narrative.
In March 2020, with the world shutting down around them, Chelsea and Dani quietly walked into the El Paso County Courthouse in Colorado Springs, acted as their own witnesses, and got married. Just the two of them. Six days earlier, Dani had gotten engaged to her in the mountains in what she described as a moment of pure magic. Two days after that engagement, he received deployment orders — he was an Apache helicopter mechanic in the US Army, and in less than two weeks he would be gone.
So they made a choice. Not out of convention, she wrote on their fifth anniversary, but out of devotion. Out of love. They were married on Friday March 13 — what some might call an unlucky day — and then spent the first nine months of their marriage apart while he was deployed.
When Dani came home in 2021, they had a proper ceremony — an intimate gathering of friends and family to witness what, as Chelsea put it, their souls already knew. She wrote on their fifth anniversary in March 2025: “Dani, you have shown me what true, unconditional love in partnership looks like. What it means to serve and be served in love. Every day by your side is an adventure — one filled with laughter, care, joy, support, and devotion.”
Chelsea is now based in Colorado Springs and runs The Devotion Experiment, a wellness and conscious living platform rooted in the values of intentional partnership, self-discovery, and showing up fully in love and life. It is a long way from Galesburg, Illinois, and in every good sense of that phrase.
Where Yamir Is Now
Yamir became a US citizen in 2021 and has relaunched his music career as a solo artist, with his music available on streaming platforms. He currently lives in California. His social media presence is minima,l and he has largely stepped away from the public eye. The last public words he had about Chelsea were warm ones — and that appears to be where things remain.
He has said he does not regret marrying Chelsea. Given what both of them have built on the other side of that marriage, it is hard to argue with him.
90 Day Fiancé and its many spinoffs are streaming now on Max. New episodes air on TLC.
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