• Jessica Monty is a professional surfer and yoga instructor
• She has two sons with her ex-husband, Pablo Schreiber
• She is currently dating Matt Montee, a practitioner of functional medicine
• She enjoys cooking healthy food, fishing, and dancing
• Her net worth is estimated at over $300,000

 


Jessica Monty became a celebrity when she married Pablo Schreiber, a famous American actor well-known for participating in the TV series “Orange is the New Black”, in which he appeared in the role of George ‘Pornstache’ Mendez. Jessica and Pablo divorced in 2013, but she carried on and found a new love, still taking care of her sons Timo and Dante. Let’s find out more about her age, net worth, job and new boyfriend.

Early life, family

Jessica Monty was born on 21 May 1980 in the USA, apparently in Miami, Florida, and where she was raised. Almost nothing is known about Jessica’s parents – except that they were of part-Cuban descent – neither their names nor their age. Jessica once shared that her mother was a fisher woman raised her alone, and she never knew her biological father, or if she had a step-father. It’s known that Jessica’s grandmother had great influence on her – her name was Alicia Monty, and Jessica once shared that she was her inspiration and that she taught her to be friendly with strangers. Jessica wrote that she took after her grandmother in her passion for quiet apartments and a calm family life, and that she took pride in being a carer and a. Jessica also has a thrift store juju because of her grandma.

Education

Nothing is known about the high school Jessica attended and matriculated from. We know for sure that Jessica graduated from the Natural Gourmet Institute and she is also a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

Jessica Monty

Career

Jessica is a professional surfer and a yoga instructor, working as a chief at the Kelly Slater Wave Company. She cooks healthy and diet food for the community of the company, and teaches them how to cook healthy dishes at home. She also has private clients for whom she cooks healthy dishes. She also makes special meals for Jason Momoa, the star of the legendary series “Game of Thrones” in which he played Khal Drogo, and a recent movie “Aquaman” in which Jason got the title role. Jessica cooks and delivers Jason poked aku (Hawaiian skipjack tuna), cakes made with diet and healthy ingredients, and more.

Divorce, ex-husband Pablo Schreiber

Pablo Tell Schreiber is a Canadian-American actor, born on 26 April 1978. He is famous for his roles in such movies as “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008) in which he played Ben, “Nights in Rodanthe” (2008) in which he appeared as Charlie Torrelson, and “First Man” (2018) in which he got the role of James Lovell. He is also well-known for his roles in various TV series, especially in “Orange is the New Black” (2013 – present) in which he played George ‘Pornstache’ Mendez, and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (2005 – present) in which he played Ricky Falcone.

Jessica and Pablo married in 2007, lived together for seven years and had two sons, Timoteo and Dante, before Jessica filed for divorce in 2014 two years after Dante’s birth. She explained her reason was irreconcilable differences between her and Pablo. Jessica gained custody of both kids, and she brings them up with her new boyfriend Matt Montee.

Pablo apparently found a new love, popular professional dancer, Karina Smirnoff (born Smirnova). Half Russian half Greek, she takes active participation in the TV show “Dancing with the Stars”. They dated for some time but soon broke up, in fact, Karina is well-known for her affairs with multiple partners and several engagements which ended up with no marriage, and lasting for a year or less.

Current boyfriend Matt Montee

Jessica has been dating her new boyfriend Dr Matt Montee since 2018, who is a surfer and sportsman, a California native, and known for being a practitioner of functional medicine. Matt Montee graduated from Cornell University, eventually attaining a PhD in medical science in orthopedics and sports medicine. Dr. Montee mostly works with sportspeople. helping them to recover from sports-related injuries. He’s worked with such funds, companies and societies as Waves for Water, Doctors Without Borders, Peruvian Health Outreach, the Wilderness Medical Society and Surfing Doctors. Matt is the Director of Outreach for UCLA’s National Institute of Cannabis & Endocannabinoid Research. In his medical practice he takes a holistic approach and is always looking for alternative healing tools to compliment his functional medicine methods, complementing them with allopathic and naturopathic medicine.

His private Instagram account is closed from the random reader, but he has 1,865 followers, though his working account in which he shares his knowledge about functional medicine and alternative healing is open, but it has less than 1,000 followers.

Jessica once wrote on her Instagram account that she was clear about the man she wanted in her life, though she often wondered if she had set her expectations too high since she already had a painful breakup with her ex-husband Pablo Schreiber. As for the moment, Jessica claims she is happy with her new boyfriend, and she is glad to call him her family. She often jokes about the similarity of their surnames saying: ‘Monty + Montee= Monteey’. They now live in Topanga Canyon, California.

Children

Jessica has two sons with Pablo Schreiber: Timoteo (born 20 October 2008) and Dante (born on 19 February 2012). The kids do a lot  of sports: swimming, skiing, horse riding, hitchhiking, etc. Jessica tries to spend as much time with her kids as she can, though she is busy with her work. They often go travelling to various destinations, love mountain hiking or simply swimming in the ocean.

Hobbies and interests

Jessica loves cooking at home and often shares recipes of the dishes she cooks on her Instagram accounts. She likes dishes with fish, vegetables, nuts, herbs and other natural and healthy ingredients – even when she bakes a cake, she minimizes the amount of confectioner sugar, using healthier sweeteners and coconut oil instead of oil made from sunflowers seeds.

She has a dog, a silver labrador called Vega Red, and a pug called Boston which lives for some periods of time with her ex-husband.

She loves poetry, and sometimes quotes poems written by American poet Maya Angelou, such as “Phenomenal Woman”, or by a famous American songwriter Tyler Childers,  in the captions to her photos which she posts on her Instagram account.

She enjoys fishing and takes any opportunity to spend some time on a calm river or a small pond with a fishing rod. She also loves dancing and takes dance classes.

Social media presence

Jessica is very active on her Instagram account on which she has around 2,100 subscribers. She doesn’t have a Twitter account or a Facebook page.

Appearance

Jessica has naturally dark brown curly hair which she likes wearing half-up half-down, and has dark brown eyes. Her skin is always tanned as she spends a lot of time at the beach,  surfing and swimming. Her precise height, weight and vital statistics are not available fot the moment, though one can see she keeps fit since she is very careful about her healthy diet and pays a lot of attention to her physical activity. She loves wearing crystals and stones in the jewelry pieces, preferring the brand called “POUND” which produces handmade jewelry with selected stones which are claimed to have healing properties. No one knows whether Jessica believes in the healing properties of those stones or just enjoys how they look on her, but she wears such jewelry constantly, mentioning it on her posts on her Instagram account.

One can buy similar necklaces or pendants such as Jessica wears for average prices from $85 to $350. As for her clothing style, Jessica prefers casual dresses and tops paired with pants made from natural fabrics such as linen and cotton. She mostly wears clothes made by her friend Raquel Allegra, who is a fashion designer and has her own clothing brand and a store in Los Angeles. Jessica has a tattoo on her left arm below her elbow with two words (which can hardly be seen on her photos) and another tattoo on her right arm also below the elbow which depicts a flying hummingbird.

Net worth

Jessica’s net worth as estimated by sources is over $300,000, with spousal support from her ex-spouse and income from her on-going endeavours as a yoga teacher and a chef. It’s known that Pablo Schreiber had an impressive net worth of $5 million at the moment Jessica filed for divorce, so she probably got a big part of that net worth since both their kids live with her.


Source: IMDb, Wikipedia

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