Fans Accuse Mimi Faust of ‘Trying to Be Like’ Joseline Hernandez in New IG Video

“Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta” fans are comparing Mimi Faust to her arch nemesis Joseline Hernandez in her most recent Instagram video.

Reality stars Faust and Hernandez have been feuding for several years after learning on “LHHATL’ they were both having intimate relations with music producer Stevie J. Their beef is being reignited by fans who are comparing Faust’s workout routine to Hernandez’s.

MiMi Faust

(photo credit: L; Mimi F. and R; Joseline H.)

The “Keep It Clean” owner took to Instagram on Tuesday and shared a video of her doing a variety of exercises. She starts off doing crunches on the floor and then goes to doing squats. The reality star was promoting fitness product “What Waist” sweatband and wrote, “I’ve been feeling so mentally blessed recently, I had to make sure my physical body was just as snatched. Let’s start October with good vibes and better workouts! #whatwaist#fitness.”

Fans instantly bombarded Faust’s comments and called her a copycat, and compared her workout video to Hernandez’s 28-day fitness challenge routine.

One critic wrote under Faust’s comment, “Girl by tryna be like Joseline.”

“Trying to be like Joseline! Work on getting an a** cause that’s some u don’t have,” another person commented.

“You cld neva be like da Puerto Rican princess!” an Instagram user exclaimed.

One petty fan referred to Hernandez’s workout program and said, “You should try #ri28challenge it’s a great program.”

Faust and Stevie J. were together from 1997 to 2012 and welcomed their baby girl Eva Jordan into the world in 2009. However, their relationship went downhill after Stevie J. admitted to cheating on her with Hernandez. The love quarrel between the three VH1 co-stars has gone down as the infamous love triangle on “LHH.”

Nevertheless, the 48-year-old and Hernandez can’t stand the sight of each other and in 2017 Faust filed a restraining order against “Joseline” in an attempt to keep her away from little Eva.

Faust told the AJC, “I’m not angry. I’m not jealous. People think this is a f***king joke. This is for real. … If he’s [Stevie] not going to protect my daughter, I will.”

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