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Before Bianca Censori found fame and controversy through her “marriage” to Kanye West, she was in a healthy and loving relationship with a Melbourne businessman – and the two still stay in touch.
Nick Forgiane, 28, who owns a cafe and factory in the city, was Bianca Censori’s first love. The couple met in Ivanhoe in 2007 when they were just 14 years old.
Friends say Censori, also 28, was always very popular with the boys, but the pair only became romantically involved in 2014, when they were 21. They stayed together for six years.
In a previous interview with Nova FM’s Fitzy & Wippa, Forgaine said that while Bianca was “not a fan” of Kanye, he made “hilarious” videos of her dancing to “I Love It,” Kanye’s collaboration with Lil Pump from that year 2018, had.
The couple finally split up the day before Melbourne went into lockdown in March 2020
Nick Forgiane and Bianca Censori attended a friend’s wedding in Greece in 2018
Last month, Chron was told that Kanye had instructed his wife to “never speak” – and set a series of rules for her to live by, including certain foods she can eat and what she can wear
“Bianca was always bigger than Melbourne and we both knew that,” he said of their split. “Once we traveled to America and she told me she would live there one day.”
However, they have continued to “support” each other, Forgiane said, and she may well turn to him for support on her journey down under. Friends and relatives told Chron they were confident she was aware of West’s “controlling ways” after he was told to “wake the fuck up.”
Chron Australia revealed that Censori returned to Australia last week to visit her parents Leo and Alexandra and her sister Angeline.
She was spotted going out at Melbourne pub The Marquis of Lorne in Fitzroy on Friday evening.
One guest said Ms. Censori went largely unnoticed at the bar and that the architectural designer would most likely have enjoyed the anonymity after her antics since her marriage to 46-year-old West nearly a year ago attracted much attention.
Forgaine previously said that it wasn’t Bianca’s move abroad that led to the couple’s split.
“The girl is extremely talented and took the step to achieve her dream of becoming a famous architect, which she achieved,” he said.
Chron Australia has spoken to confidants and colleagues who remember 27-year-old Bianca Censori (above) as a stylish and intelligent “social butterfly” in her hometown of Melbourne
Bianca shows off her party tricks at the Rainbow Serpent Festival 2019
“Of course I support her.” If Bianca is happy [with Kanye]I’m happy for you.
“She has always supported my relationships. I wish them all the best and hope it becomes a modern love story.”
Photos Forgiane shared with her ex-boyfriend on her Instagram page show images of the then-loved couple during their six-year relationship.
The couple is seen posing for the camera while on vacation in New York’s Times Square in New York in 2015 – a year after they began dating.
Other photos show the pair dressed in monochrome for the 2017 and 2018 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival Oaks Day.
In 2019, the couple was photographed at celebrity hotspot Raes on Wategos, a boutique hotel in Byron Bay.
Forgiane’s social media page also features photos from the Rainbow Serpent Festival, where Censori was photographed with her feet in her face and posing for group photos.
In January, a series of images obtained by Chron Australia show young Bianca with tassel pasties on her nipples at the Rainbow Serpent music and arts festival in the state’s west.
The former couple met at the spring racing carnival Derby Day in Melbourne in 2018
During a vacation abroad in 2018, the couple could barely keep their hands off each other
The couple visited New York City in 2015 after dating for a year
Bianca, who has worked for Yeezy since November 2020, “married” the rapper two months after her divorce from 42-year-old Kim, which was finalized in November.
According to reports, the couple celebrated their wedding at a private ceremony and both were seen wearing wedding rings.
At the informal wedding ceremony, the filing of a marriage certificate was apparently not followed.
The former Carey Baptist Grammar School student made headlines for her bizarre fashion choices while in Europe with West earlier this year. She was pictured leaving her Florence hotel in a flesh-colored bra, strangely holding a single purple pillow over her chest.
She paired her look with beige high heels and flesh-colored leggings, which made her appear completely naked from a distance.