Back ‘The Barnes Bunch’ Boo’d Up: Matt Barnes and Anansa Sims Seem to Marry Less than a Year After Model Sued by Eight-Woman Baller in Double Shot
- Anansa accused Matt of cheating with 8 women in one month, including Love & Hip Hop star Masika Kalysha.
- Matt admitted he was emotionally unavailable, much to his family’s dismay, but Anansa called him ‘untruthful’.
- The couple’s on-again, off-again relationship spanned decades, including a 2018 split that resulted in a restraining order.
Anansa Sims and Matt Barnes appear to be husband and wife, and the “I do” comes less than a year after Sims allegedly All Smoke Dirty dog podcast host who bangs eight women twice in one month.
on friday, NeighborhoodTalk shared a video of Anansa in a white wedding dress, complete with a veil, kissing Matt, who was wearing a black tux. Their son Ashton was also seen in the pictures hugging his parents.
No further details about the Barnes family’s marriage are available.
Ananasa Sims sued Matt Barnes for cheating with 8 women in January 2025
The alleged marriage of the couple comes after Anansa kicked Matt out on January 31, 2025, for allegedly cheating with 8 women in that month alone.
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The model publicly identified all eight women, tagging their Instagram accounts and sharing the dates associated with the alleged affair. He said many women had slept with Barnes for years, including two who were said to have been involved with him for six and seven years.
One of the women who allegedly had an affair with Matt was Love and Hip Hop star Masika Kalysha, who quickly denied these rumors, he said TheShadeRoom, “I don’t care about Matt at all.”
That prompted Sims to release alleged evidence showing first-class plane tickets and Uber receipts for Masika and Matt allegedly traveling to Denver, Colorado, together.
Matt went on to say in his own All Smoke An unresolved child abuse podcast left her emotionally unavailable, saying she “hadn’t cried in 30 years” and ultimately cost her family.
“I was a hard giver. I wasn’t there emotionally, I didn’t have empathy. I wasn’t willing to share those feelings. Those were the things my ex-girlfriend would tell me. Like… ‘You’re a wall,'” Matt said.
Soon after, Anansa called him out again, this time for telling “incomplete truths” and trying to gain public sympathy despite his “toxic choices.”
Source: Arnold Turner / Getty“If you’re going to talk publicly about our business, tell the Whole Story. Don’t post half-truths about me and our past relationships to gain sympathy from the masses,” he warned.
“I am in a position to do a hard job making sure that all our children are fine. You did not make an effort to emotionally support all our children in this sad change that you caused, but you are willing to be “vulnerable” to strangers on the gram for profit? Please don’t say my name in your mouth. Since I left, I have not said anything about you and the man that you can’t say to you. Don’t respect yourself or me, at least have respect for our children who follow you and see your posts,” he continued. Sims.
“Your post wakes up the children and me, while we are in the midst of healing and rebuilding our lives. We are the ones who have reaped all the damage that your continued selfish, toxic choices have caused. You did not consider our children in your actions before, please try to think about yourself now. If you want to do something good, please don’t talk about me, go find a more important relationship, and start building an important relationship with God.
Matt Barnes and Anansa Sims Relationship History
Matt and Anansa are no strangers to rollercoaster relationships, having been on and off again for decades now.
Source: Rodin Eckenroth / GettyThe Lakers alum and the model first met in the 1990s at UCLA, which began their long, on-again, off-again relationship. The couple finally got engaged on Christmas Day 2022, which came after a public split in 2018 that led to Sims filing for a restraining order.
In 2018, they welcomed their first child together, Ashton Joseph Barnes. Their second, Austin Matthew Barnes, was born in 2024. Barnes is also the father of twins Carter and Isaiah from his previous marriage to Gloria Govan. Sims has three children from her marriage to David Patterson Jr.
In 2024, the couple started their own reality show, The Barnes Bunchon WEtv, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at their lives as a blended family.
