90 Day Fiance couple Jovi Dufren and Yara Zaya just reunited in the United States and plan to get married and have a future together on Season 8 of the TLC reality series, but did Jovi come down with a case of cold feet? Did Jovi and Yara split up or is the 90 Day Fiance couple still together?
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[90 Day Fiance Spoilers Warning: This report contains spoilers about Jovi and Yara and if the 90 Day Fiance couple is still together or has split.]
90 Day Fiance's eighth season just premiered on Sunday night, and viewers were introduced to Jovi, a 29-year-old who works in underwater robotics from New Orleans, LA, and Yara, a 25-year-old makeup artist from Kiev, Ukraine, for the first time.RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW: WHO IS STILL TOGETHER? WHO HAS SPLIT? WHERE ARE THEY KNOW? (PHOTOS)
Jovi gushed about loving his life in New Orleans, where he could hunt, fish, drink and party with his friends all the time.
Jovi grew up on the bayou in Louisiana, so he enjoyed being a city boy in his adult years.
Jovi had traveled to about 25 countries just for work, which requires him to work four weeks straight in exchange for having four weeks off.
Jovi thought he had a good understanding of the rest of the world, and one day when he downloaded a travel app, he met Yara. Jovi said Yara is a very beautiful girl and they liked a lot of the same things -- beaches, scubadiving and traveling.
Jovi therefore met Yara during a trip to Budapest. He had no expectations when they first met other than to probably hook up, and he said their first night together was really awkward and with some moments of silence.
But after a few glasses of wine, Jovi said they "had really good sex and then things got better" from that point.
Jovi told the cameras Yara is a girly-girl who loves fashion, makeup and designer bags but he's a simple guy who thrives in the outdoors. However, Jovi pointed out they are both family-oriented and share similar values, which was important to him.
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During the next few months after meeting, Jovi and Yara kept taking vacations together -- including to Bali and the Dominican Republic -- and Jovi visited his girl in the Ukraine multiple times.
Jovi revealed he got Yara pregnant six months into their relationship and that was a huge shock to him.
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"I was dumbfounded, it was so unexpected. This is not what I'm ready for. I thought she was trying to trap me. I thought, 'This is her ticket to America,'" Jovi admitted. "But after the shock wore off, it actually pulled us pretty close together."
At that point, however, Jovi said he loved Yara -- and so he proposed marriage to her during a trip to Cuba.
Afterward, Jovi applied for a K-1 visa so he could marry Yara and they could become a family, but then the couple received bad news that they had lost the baby.
Since Yara was no longer pregnant, Jovi confessed he experienced a case of cold feet and realized there was no rush to get married anymore and settle down together in America.
But after more time passed, Jovi determined Yara was the person he wanted to be with and he felt good about having her in his life. And Yara was prepared to move to Louisiana in just a few days after her K-1 visa was approved.
Jovi said his mother Gwen was Yara's biggest supporter, but Gwen was surprised about her son's choice of partner to marry. Gwen apparently always thought her son would wed a sweet southern girl, and she had trouble picturing Yara liking Jovi's lifestyle of hunting and fishing.
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Gwen warned Jovi that Ukrainian women want to get to the United States and she didn't want Yara to use him for residency in America. Jovi said he had trouble trusting people and so deciding to trust Yara was a big thing for him.
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Gwen thought the situation was "absolutely nuts" and didn't understand how Jovi and Yara were going to make this work. Gwen wasn't even convinced Jovi was truly ready for marriage.
Jovi's friends also didn't think he was ready to be a husband and deal with the challenges of marriage. His best friend Kline's girlfriend Sara even predicted Jovi's life was going to spiral out of control.
Jovi admitted he's a free spirit who likes to drink and doesn't really think before acting, so he acknowledged a woman coming into his life and trying to change him would be tough.
Jovi was later shown buying flowers and picking up Yara at the airport.
Jovi acknowledged this relationship was crazy and it even shocked himself that he was so wrapped up in one woman. Jovi just wanted Yara to like his city and his friends.
"If Yara and I don't work out, I'll be devastated," Jovi told the cameras.
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Jovi and Yara then reunited in the airport, and they hugged. Yara joked she smelled bad and felt gross, but she blurted out, "Hurrah! Viva to America!"
Yara complained her flight was 30-hours long because Jovi was trying to save money and so she was exhausted.
When asked to reveal what she loved most about Jovi, Yara wasn't sure what to say other than he had a good body when they first met.
Yara then told Jovi that she just wanted to take a shower and sleep, which disappointed Jovi, who was prepared to take Yara out for a night of good fun and drink.
Jovi confessed, "This was definitely not the first night in New Orleans I had imagined."
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"He needs to understand I [gave] up everything I have to be here," Yara says in a confessional.
Yara later says she "deserves somebody better" after Jovi is shown joking with a friend how he wasn't married yet.
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"I'm going to walk away," Jovi threatens his fiancee.
"You f-cking walk away," Yara dares him with tears in her eyes. "I'm just done with you."
So are Jovi and Yara still together or did the 90 Day Fiance couple call it quits?
Jovi posted the video clip of Yara saying he no longer had a good body, which was footage that aired in the premiere of 90 Day Fiance's eighth season."Well damnnnnn, that's harsh," Jovi playfully captioned his post along with crying-laughing emoticons.
Yara shared the same video clip on her own Instagram account and said, "It's so funny. I'm definitely not a romantic person who can talk about feelings."
When one fan wrote, "I can't wait to see more of you and jovi you two are so cute together."
Yara replied, "Thank you," which seemingly confirms they are still a couple.
On December 6, Jovi requested of his followers, "Tune in to see our story."
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Earlier this month, Yara posted a photo of herself filming behind-the-scenes and wrote alongside it, "I want Jovi to look at me with the same loving eyes as this woman looks at me in the first photo."
Yara also uploaded a photo of herself drinking wine with a cityskape in the background, and Jovi commented on the picture, "Dayummmm. Are you single??"
Jovi's flirtatious remark would seem to suggest they're still dating.
The pair were definitely still together in early May, when Yara captioned a selfie of the couple with three red heart emojis.
One follower gushed "gorgeous couple," and then Yara responded, "Thanks."
Yara also posted a throwback photo of Jovi proposing marriage down on one knee. She wrote "memories" alongside the photo with a red heart emoji.
And in February, Yara uploaded a few photos of herself in an ivory suite and pink shirt, and Jovi commented, "Like."
Going back to late December 2019, Jovi posted a photo with Yara in which they were sitting in front of a fireplace at Christmas time.
Yara commented, "I look ugly here."
One month earlier, Yara posted photos with Jovi posing on a rooftop and captioned them, "Best [man] in the world, love you so much."
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