At first, they seemed like an unlikely pair.
Now, Zaya is adjusting to life in the U.S. as a new wife and mother.
Adjusting to parenting
What have been the biggest changes for you two adjusting to married life together?
Jovi Dufren:The biggest change for adjusting to married life is raising a child.
That brought most of the conflict towards us who takes what responsibilities.
That’s been a tough thing to get through over the last few months or year or however long.
Yara Zaya:I don’t know.
For me, everything is a big change.
Do you feel like parenting together has affected your relationship?
Yara:I don’t think it’s affecting our relationship.
When you have a kid, you cannot just do the same thing which you did before.
it’s possible for you to’t
Jovi:Or the kid’s sleeping in your bed every night.
You’re going to struggle.
At the same time, it’s [brought us] more together, but small things have changed.
What was it like for you to adjust?
Do you feel like you have adjusted to the U.S. yet, or is it still all new?
Yara:I don’t know If I can adjust.
I’m like, “Oh, they love me so much.”
Jovi:Basically, you’re saying everybody’s fake here.
Yara:I don’t want to be that [straightforward].
People don’t like when I do that.
Everything [was] different for me over here, but I feel like I am already more adjusted.
I feel like I can understand more people now and everything else.
What has it been like for you to be separate from your family while you’re raising your daughter?
I didn’t plan that, but it happened.
Biggest struggles living together
You two had a pretty short engagement.
Jovi:We knew each other pretty well before we got married.
Then, we throw a child into the mix.
That was pretty hard.
Do you feel like there were any big adjustments once you moved in together?
What do you feel was the biggest thing?
She’s really OCD, and everything needs to be in its own little spots.
I started living like I’ve been living my whole life, and then she didn’t like that.
We had a lot of arguments about different ways of doing things and where stuff goes in the house.
It’s a lot of small things that add up to conflict.
Are you on the neater side, and you want everything a certain way, Yara?
Yara:When Jovi goes to work, I live my own life here.
When he comes home, he needs to follow my rules.
I am a little bit OCD.
I am a little bit [neater].
[I] get stressed sometimes about it.
Jovi:I hate it.
Why did you move all my stuff?"
Yara:It’s family stuff, family problems.
Do you feel like that’s difficult, or are you used to being filmed at this point?
Yara:I love to be in film and all that stuff.
I’m attention hungry.
I love to do it.
When we’ve been filming and all that stuff, [I love] everybody who comes.
[They] always can talk and communicate.
I don’t like to watch myself on TV, but I like to film for TV.
Jovi:I don’t think it’s affected our relationship too much.
Do you watch the show when it comes out, or do you prefer not to?
I look stupid here."
After a time, I slowly stopped, but eventually, I catch up to it.
After a while, I’ll watch it all together to see what’s going on.
Jovi:Actually, for this season, I’m really excited.
In the past, I can’t say I felt the same way.
As time goes on, you feel more comfortable with what’s going to happen.
In the beginning, it was really stressful, with a lot of anxiety.
Now, I feel a lot better about it.
I’m excited to see how our story unfolds.
Jovi:In the beginning, that was really hard to deal with.
Now, we both have a good understanding of how to handle that and not let it affect this.
What’s kept them together?
Jovi:100%, I will say that Mylah is what’s kept us together.
Having a child and raising a child together really pulled us together.
We’ve both been pretty good parents.
Although we have some disagreements in our relationship, Mylah is really the main factor holding us together.
Do you feel the same way?
We love each other."
Okay, good to know, Jovi.
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This interview has been edited for clarity.
