The Buzaglo Couple Open Up About Their Marriage, Painful Low Points and Personal Reinvention

Assi and Adi Buzaglo, one of Israel’s best-known reality TV couples, are entering a new spotlight with their appearance on the upcoming Reshet 13 show "Power Couple," which premieres Sunday. In a podcast interview with ynet’s weekend magazine "HaBrazia," Adi said the experience was the most incredible thing in her life, while Assi described it as a test of comfort, pressure and mutual support.

Adi said the show helped her feel seen for who she really is, not as people assume from the outside. She also spoke about a long personal process that included learning to live with hearing loss, which she had denied for years. She said the COVID era was especially difficult because masks prevented lip reading, and that finally wearing hearing aids changed her life, though she still struggles in noisy places. Assi said he encouraged her through the process and called himself her "biggest psychologist."

The couple, who will mark 20 years of marriage in September and first met 23 years ago, also described years of instability. Assi said they went through "seven bad years," marked by financial stress, ego clashes and two separations of about six months each. He said they made the mistake of involving family in every argument and only stabilized after leaving Adi’s family home in Ramat Gan. "We were two children raising a child," he said of their early marriage.

Adi also discussed her weight loss of nearly 40 kilograms, saying it came through daily running, workouts, and diet, not bariatric surgery. She said she had once tried to solve everything with cosmetic procedures, including a tummy tuck and fat removal from her chin and arms, but that real change came from discipline. She also said she still lives with eating disorders, and now uses her Instagram to help others. The pair, whose eldest daughter Ayer is nearly 20, also spoke about Assi’s protective attitude toward their daughter and Adi’s view that he remains "primitive" about clothes and relationships, though she called him the most liberal primitive she knows.