Lena Kuletskaya. Model Lena Kuletskaya: biography, career, personal life. The creative path of Elena Kuletskaya
Last May, model and TV presenter Elena Kuletskaya and her husband, TV cameraman Stanislav Romanovsky, became parents. HELLO! presents their first family photo shoot with their 8-month-old daughter Nika.
The producer of this shoot was Elena herself: she independently chose the photographer, studio, style and format. Initially, the photo shoot was supposed to be part of family archive, but she turned out to be so cheerful, warm and positive that Lena couldn’t resist sharing the footage with HELLO!.
“I try not to turn into a mother who constantly posts photos of her child on social networks,” Kuletskaya laughs. - But with the advent of the baby it becomes difficult to control yourself.
A professional model, Lena has compiled a whole list of life hacks that will help you photograph a baby successfully: you need to let the child sleep before shooting, do not change his clothes too often and be sure to shoot during the day, because children do not like flashes.
Lena, your daughter seems so calm and happy in the pictures, she’s just a born fashion model. Has she already filmed?
The first photo shoot took place when Nika was only 14 days old. At that time, it was a very tiny creature that slept through the entire shooting. When she was six months old, we filmed her for the first time in the studio. The daughter behaved well, she generally enjoys new places, new people. Sociable and calm girl.
She probably got it from you? Last April, you came to our “Most Stylish in Russia” award when you were nine months pregnant and reacted so calmly to the excitement around...
Why worry? We also laughed there with Yulia Kovalchuk that my waist is almost a meter in circumference. But my pregnancy went wonderfully, calmly. There was no toxicosis, almost no lifestyle changes were necessary. We even flew twice on vacation. True, our courage was not carelessness; we consulted a doctor. I am convinced that the child always reflects the mother’s mood. If the mother is restless and irritated, then the child will be capricious and whiny. Of course, this does not mean that it is absolutely easy for me. We decided to refuse the services of a nanny. But I try to think positively. When difficulties arise, I call my grandmothers, fortunately both my mother and Stas’s mother are always happy to help.
And Stas? Is he ready to help?
If I really want to go to some party or meet with friends, my husband agrees to “stand by.” True, this is always a risky undertaking. Mothers will understand me: if a man has already sung a song and told a fairy tale, but the child still does not fall asleep, he falls into a stupor and starts calling his wife. (Laughs.) We had this too. A couple of times I left the event and urgently went home.
Your Instagram page reads like a popular book and enjoys great success on the RuNet. The sincerity with which you talk about your life today, about your daughter, about how you cope with problems is very captivating.
When you have a baby, it is not always possible to leave the house. Social networks are just a connection with outside world. You know, Instagram often broadcasts a “plastic” life, looking at which people think: well, everyone’s life is so beautiful, clean and cozy, but mine is not. And I wanted to show my subscribers that all this is not true. I, too, sometimes don’t get enough sleep, and my child can chew through the wire or stain the whole kitchen with green porridge. But let's not get carried away about this, we need to treat everything with humor!
Literally a month after giving birth, you appeared on the red carpet of the Moscow Film Festival in a revealing dress, showing off an excellent figure. How did you manage to get in shape so quickly?
Yes, I specifically chose a tight dress. (Laughs.) I wanted to show that I have a waist. To be honest, I didn't do anything special to lose weight. I planned to go to yoga throughout my pregnancy, but never got around to it. I gained 16 kilograms, but I didn’t feel them. After childbirth excess weight quickly left. I hardly go to the gym - I’m bored there, but I walk a lot and eat right. I panicked when suddenly, in my sixth month, I discovered cellulite. I started to find out what procedures could be done, but it turned out that LPG massage and wraps were harmful in my situation. I resigned myself, and after giving birth everything disappeared by itself. But in no case should one reason like this: I still have cellulite, because I’m pregnant, which means a couple of buns won’t hurt.
Elena Kuletskaya in the first photo shoot with her daughter Nika
Lena, do you see prospects in your modeling career?
I am aware that the peak of my modeling career already behind. Now I won’t break out like before to go to Paris, New York or Tokyo for a few months. Surprisingly, I now have a lot of job offers - probably the photographers managed to miss me during my pregnancy, so, in fact, I came out of maternity leave a month and a half after Nika was born. It’s just that instead of fashion, work on television came into my life. Soon we will have to travel together to Georgia, where we will film a television project. My mother will come with us, she will help with Nika... The older you become, the more you change, and at some point the realization comes that there is no real value in your life. By the time I got married, I had played enough of everything, and it was no longer so easy to enjoy life. Well I bought it new car, well, I went to new country, so what?.. Everything that happened to me was somehow superficial. So Stas and then Nika appeared at the right and right moment.
So you were internally ready for big changes?
Yes, and when I realized this, I was lucky to meet Stas. Then I was 30 years old, and I gave birth to Nika at 33. When you start a family in adulthood, you are able to perceive many things more deeply, more consciously, and this only makes them brighter.
Did your girlish dreams of a fairy-tale prince come true in Stas? Just don't say that you didn't have them.
Goals to meet fairy prince never happened, really never happened. (Laughs.) I grew up in a military family and received an upbringing in which there is no cult of appearance or cult of money. I was raised to be a decent person, not a princess. I had to be polite and decent, study well and go to music school. Therefore, when I was first invited to work as a model, I regarded it only as an opportunity to earn pocket money. Then I was invited to work in France, and again it was cool: I would go abroad at no expense! My dad wasn't happy with the idea, but he let me go in exchange for a promise that I would learn French. He was afraid that an empty bohemian life would tear me away from reality.
Stanislav Romanovsky and Elena Kuletskaya with 8-month-old Nika
But this did not happen.
I was smart enough to understand that show business is nothing but illusions. I remember how once, at the very beginning of my career, I attended a private reception with Elton John in London. I signed a contract with a large jewelry company and went there covered in diamonds as the face of the brand. (Laughs.) At 20 years old, they put a ring with a 100-carat stone and a necklace worth 20 million dollars. I found myself in a very intimate atmosphere, the guests of the evening were entirely famous actors, sirs and lords, and I was not very comfortable. It was funny that the ladies sitting next to me at the table constantly asked me to show them the jewelry, gasped, not suspecting that I had put all this on “for rent”, just for the evening. And at this time I mentally thanked my aunt, who once taught me how to use cutlery. Dad argued with her, saying, why does Lena need to know how to use a fish knife when we have a cutlet for dinner. But my aunt insisted, and years later it was very useful to me.
Did your dad also advise you to go to the Sorbonne?
I entered the Sorbonne, one might say, taking myself “weakly.” I lived in Paris, learned French - I promised my dad! — I got caught up in these shoots, dresses and shoes... One day, a friend told me that she had entered the university. I also decided to take a risk and chose the Faculty of Economics. “Well, numbers are just numbers in France,” I reasoned, not realizing that during the first two years I would have to write entire treatises on sociology.
Then you bought an apartment in the center of Paris. You were 24 years old. It is impossible not to pay tribute to your business qualities...
In France, I started making good money, but, of course, I spent my first fees at Galeries Lafayette. But I quickly got tired of it. And then I thought that since I live in Paris anyway, maybe I shouldn’t rent an apartment, but buy it? I took out the missing amount as a mortgage and finalized the deal on New Year’s Eve. I remember how my friend and I bought wine, came to this apartment, laid out some kind of oilcloth bought in a supermarket, but there was no furniture. We drank wine from plastic cups and looked out the window, behind which we could see the Eiffel Tower. I thought: “Cool, what a great guy I am!” Now I am renting out this apartment, but I am not going to sell it. Stas and I plan to spend time there when we retire. (Smiles.)
Elena Kuletskaya (on Instagram - @elenakuletskaya) was born on August 7, 1982 in Kharkov. Due to his father's profession (he was a military man), the family moved often. The girl started working as a model quite early. In 1998, she entered Moscow University, and in her first year she began working part-time at fashion shows and promotional exhibitions. In her second year, she was offered to take part in a casting at a Parisian modeling agency.
She graduated in absentia from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University and in 2001 moved to France and entered the Sorbonne University. Elena collaborates with French modeling agencies: IMG Models – Paris, Group Model Management, Louisa Midels, Fotogen Model Agency. Many brands have chosen her as their face: the RAFF jewelry brand, Rolex, Helena Rubinstein, Nina Richi, Etam, Maru Kay and others. Until recently, there were a lot of photos on Instagram from photo shoots for these companies. Interestingly, Elena Kuletskaya’s father at first did not welcome his daughter’s passion for modeling, but later became a co-owner of the Mademoiselle agency.
In addition to shows and photo shoots, Elena Kuletskaya is also a presenter in the projects “ Perfect couple"on the Domashny TV channel, as well as on the MTV channel in the programs Cinderella 2.0 and Shopaholics.
Personal life
In 2014, the model married Stas Romanovsky, who works as a television cameraman. But many remember her as ex-girlfriend Dima Bilan. They met at a French airport, he gave her his phone number, but she didn’t use it then. After some time, fate brought them together again - on the set of the video “That Was Love.” Their relationship lasted 4 years, they met from time to time and did not burden themselves with anything serious. Due to work schedules and constant travel, as well as an easy attitude to meetings, they eventually broke up.
After some time, she fell in love with a man - an American of Italian origin, Francesco, but even here serious relationship work got in the way because Elena had television projects in Moscow. And it was in this city that she met the man she married. He filmed her on one of the programs, they dated for 2 years, and then he proposed to Lena Kuletskaya, and a little more than a year ago they had a daughter, Nika, who became the main star of her mother’s Instagram.
Elena Kuletskaya threw herself into parenting, and even on her Instagram she writes about all the stages in her photo captions. For example, in the comments to one of the photos on Instagram, she describes how the fourth and fifth nights of the experiment to wean her daughter from late-night snacking went. And subscribers read this with pleasure and ask their questions, for example, about nap time. In the photo on Instagram, Elena Kuletskaya always appears with her daughter, even at Kinotavr, and her husband often joins her. In fact, judging by Elena Kuletskaya’s Instagram, in 2017 the main place in her life is occupied by family, and only then work.
Elena Kuletskaya is a Ukrainian supermodel, the face of the jewelry brand “Raff”, a participant in advertising shoots for the brands “Nina Ricci”, “Etam”, “Helena Rubinstein” and “ Mary Kay" Today the model is gaining popularity as a TV presenter. Elena Kuletskaya hosted the fashion shows “Trendy”, “Embassy of Beauty”, “Shopaholics”, “Ideal Couple”. After the model has been adjusted own life, got married and gave birth to a child, Elena Kuletskaya became the face of the new family TV show “Diary happy mom».
The famous model Elena Kuletskaya was born in Kharkov in August 1982. Together with older sister Sasha grew up with strictness and almost military discipline. Which is not surprising, because the head of the family, Alexander Kuletsky, was a military man. Daily checks were normal practice homework. Dad could punish me for bad grades. Liberties in clothing and appearance were not encouraged either.
Lena Kuletskaya in one of her interviews told how at the age of 15 she first “put bangs” with the help of sugar syrup and went to the disco in this form. In the evening, dad almost personally washed away this “disgrace” from his daughter’s head.
After graduating from school, Elena Kuletskaya entered Moscow State University, choosing the Faculty of Law. But due to her modeling career, she was forced to transfer to correspondence form training. Completing my studies was not easy. After all, constant traveling and being busy in the modeling business left neither energy nor time for science. But Lena promised her dad that she would certainly receive a “basic education.” And she kept her promise.
Later, the girl entered the famous Sorbonne, where she studied Faculty of Economics. Elena Kuletskaya speaks fluent English and French.
Career
Once, Lena, walking around the capital, was suddenly approached by a stranger. As it turned out, it was a scout from one of the modeling agencies in Paris. The scout showered the young beauty with compliments and offered to audition. The girl agreed and did not regret her decision. Elena Kuletskaya matched the model agency's measurements and height (177 cm). Having successfully passed the selection process, Elena received a tempting offer to work for 3 months in France. Kuletskaya agreed.
It cannot be said that the strict father liked his daughter’s decision. The man said that his daughter can do whatever she wants, but first she must get higher education. Elena’s argument that after graduating from university the girl will be in her thirties, and at that age they don’t start a modeling career, although upsetting, convinced her father. The father agreed to let his daughter go to a foreign country.
After 3 months, Elena Kuletskaya actually returned to Moscow, but it was not possible to continue her studies at the station. Parisian agents kept calling her. The girl did not want to refuse tempting offers, because fate cannot endlessly give such gifts. Having transferred to correspondence education, the girl returned to Paris.
So it began model biography Elena Kuletskaya. The 18-year-old girl has made a dizzying career. At the age of 24, the supermodel had already purchased an apartment in the center of Paris, from the window of which you can admire the Champs de Mars.
During her modeling career, the girl collaborated with several agencies at the same time. Elena Kuletskaya was chosen as the face of the famous British jewelry brand Raff, which specialized in gold and diamond jewelry. Lena also took part in advertising campaigns such famous brands, like "Nina Ricci", "Etam", "Helena Rubinstein" and "Mary Kay". In addition, Elena Kuletskaya advertised Rolex watches.
A television
Started at age 26 television biography Elena Kuletskaya. Famous model offered to lead several projects on Russian television. In 2010, she was invited to join the jury of the popular reality show on the MTV Russia channel called “Cinderella 2.0.” And in 2011, together with the actor, Lena took part in the TV show “Dancing with the Stars.”
Elena Kuletskaya has several TV shows on Channel One. Since 2010, the supermodel participated in the 1st, and in 2012 in the 3rd season of the project “ Cruel Games" In 2012, she won the “Special Assignment” project and took part in the television show “Fort Boyard.”
Modeling experience was very useful for Elena Kuletskaya on television. Elena became a TV presenter of the fashion programs “Trendy” (channel “Friday”), “Embassy of Beauty” (channel “U”) and the TV show “Shopaholics”.
At the end of May 2014, Elena Kuletskaya became the TV presenter of the new project “The Ideal Couple” on the Domashny TV channel. The new show focuses on harmonious families and couples, the only problem in which there is a wardrobe. The supermodel is hired to help young people with a fashion problem.
Also in 2014, the actress began hosting another show - the wedding television program “My Wedding is Better!” on the channel "STS Love". Project participants organize a wedding celebration, guided by expert advice. The girls then attend their rivals' ceremonies and rate them on a number of criteria: the bride's dress, menu, atmosphere and entertainment.
The wedding program gained popularity and became in demand among television viewers, and therefore was extended for a second season.
Personal life
In her homeland, the supermodel gained wide popularity after information about her affair with her was leaked to the media. The couple met at the airport in 2006. Elena was waiting for a flight to Germany, where the supermodel had planned filming. Young people met each other in a store. The girl reached for the disk, which turned out to be the last one. Dmitry wanted to make the same purchase. As a result, he conceded beautiful girl disk, writing your phone number on it.
But the romance broke out later, when the singer’s producer held a casting, choosing a girl for the role of Princess Anna for the video for the song “It Was Love.” Seeing a familiar face in the photo, Dima immediately chose Lena.
Their romance lasted for 5 years, but never ended in marriage. Young people were too passionate about their careers and did not want to sacrifice anything for the sake of relationships. In 2008, Dima Bilan even promised to marry Elena if he won the international musical competition"Eurovision". Russia won, but the wedding never took place. And subsequently the young people separated.
In 2011, Dima Bilan began to claim that his affair with Elena Kuletskaya was a PR stunt. The model continued to say that the relationship was real.
After the final breakup, Elena Kuletskaya’s personal life became new round: the model met an American handsome man of Italian descent named Francesco. For some time the couple lived together in rented apartment. But this romance also ended in nothing, and for the same reason: for each of the partners, their career came first.
The media wrote a lot about the alleged romance between Elena Kuletskaya and Hollywood star. But these, as Lena claims, are just rumors. Mickey courted Nastya Makarenko.
In 2013, an event happened in the life of Elena Kuletskaya that the TV presenter had been waiting for a long time. The beauty, while working on television, met a new lover. The supermodel's future husband turned out to be director of photography Stanislav Romanovsky. The engagement took place in the same year, which the TV presenter spoke about in her own blog in “ Instagram", and the couple got married in 2014 in Provence, in a chateau overlooking endless lavender fields.
In 2016, it became known that Elena and Stas were expecting a new addition to the family. On May 15, 2016, the TV presenter gave birth to a daughter at the Lapino Clinical Hospital. The girl was named Nika. Elena also shared this joy with fans on Instagram.
Elena Kuletskaya now
On September 21, 2017, Elena Kuletskaya opened a new TV show on the Domashny channel - “Diary of a Happy Mom.” Lipa Teterich also became Elena’s co-hosts.
Projects
- 2010 – “Cinderella 2.0”
- 2010 – “Cruel Intentions”
- 2009 – “Trendy”
- 2010 – “Beauty Embassy”
- 2010 – “Shopaholics”
- 2011 – “Dancing with the Stars.”
- 2012 – “Special Assignment”
- 2012 – “Fort Boyard”
- 2014 – “The Perfect Couple”
- 2014 – “My wedding is better!”
- 2014 – “City Slickers”
- 2017 – “Diary of a Happy Mom”
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Biography of Elena Kuletskaya
Elena Kuletskaya born in the summer of 1982 in Kharkov. Her father was a military man, so the family moved often.
In 1998, when the family ended up in Moscow, Elena entered the law faculty of the Moscow Institute of Economics and Law. Soon she began to combine her studies with part-time work at promotional exhibitions, and also often performed at shows. Elena managed to graduate from the Moscow Faculty of Law state university with honors, but in absentia: when she was a sophomore, she was invited to take part in a casting for a famous modeling agency in Paris, where Lena stayed for several years.
“I even swear at French. I say something like “putan brothel.” This is such a common curse word. It sounds much more elegant in French! And I don’t swear in Russian.”
The creative path of Elena Kuletskaya
While in Paris, Elena began collaborating with many famous French modeling agencies, including Group Model Management, IMG Models - Paris, Fotogen Model Agency and Louisa Models. In addition, she became the face of a famous English jewelry brand made of gold and diamonds. RAFF, and also took part in advertising campaigns for the brands Rolex, Nina Richi, Etam, Helena Rubinstein, Mary Kay, etc.
Elena's father was distrustful of the modeling business, which his daughter became interested in, but soon he himself became a co-owner of the Mademoiselle modeling agency.
In Russia Elena Kuletskaya became famous after the release of a video advertising Orbit chewing gum. And soon after that, in 2010, her TV career began as a presenter.
Elena appeared on the channel for the first time MTV as the host of the program Trendy. She also joined the jury of the show “Cinderella 2.0,” which helps ordinary girls turn into princesses with the help of stylists, fitness trainers and psychologists.
Elena Kuletskaya participated in the project “Dancing with the Stars”, where her stage partner was Russian actor Evgeniy Pazenko.
Model fees often amount to at least two hundred thousand euros. According to Elena Kuletskaya, she never needed a rich patron and purchased an apartment in Paris and a mansion in Panama with her own savings.
At the end of May 2014 on the channel “ Home"The show has started « Perfect couple", hosted by Elena Kuletskaya. Program for exemplary couples who have only one problem - wardrobe. And the Kuletskaya model and her team take on the solution to this problem. Around the same time, Elena was invited as a co-host to the project"Beauty Embassy".
In 2017 on the channel " Home"Elena's new show premiered"Diary of a happy mother."
Gradually, the work of a presenter on TV became for Elena the main thing, which truly captivates and pleases her. The time of a modeling career is becoming a thing of the past.
“I am aware that the peak of my modeling career is already behind me. Now I won’t break out like before to go to Paris, New York or Tokyo for a few months. Surprisingly, I now have a lot of job offers - probably the photographers managed to miss me during my pregnancy, so, in fact, I came out of maternity leave a month and a half after Nika was born. It’s just that instead of fashion, work on television came into my life.”
Personal life of Elena Kuletskaya
The model began to appear in gossip columns thanks to an affair with popular singer Dima Bilan. The musician even promised to marry his beloved if he took first place in the Eurovision Song Contest. The finale of the show took place in 2008, but the wedding never took place. Summer 2011 Dima Bilan admitted that their affair with Elena Kuletskaya- this is just a PR stunt. Nevertheless, Elena Kuletskaya continued to claim that she and Bilan had a close relationship.
“There was never any contract or amount discussed. This is a real relationship, just Dima and me -public people. We decided not to hide, so we went to premieres and parties together. Now, if we hid our personal life, then questions would also arise: why? And it turned out that we were always accused of allegedly promoting ourselves. Our story did not develop: it turned out that we both burned out.”
After breaking up with Dima Bilan, Elena Kuletskaya began dating a Frenchman, whose name she initially hid. At the same time, she appeared in public with famous artists. For example, for a magazine cover GQ she starred with Mickey Rourke.
In April 2014, it became known that Elena was marrying a director of photography Stanislav Romanovsky. As Elena Kuletskaya herself reported on her Instagram blog, the celebration will take place in Paris. It turns out that the couple had been dating for several years, and in November 2013 Stanislav proposed to his beloved.
May 15, 2016 at the Lapino Clinical Hospital Elena Kuletskaya gave birth to a daughter. The girl's name was Nobody. The fact that Kuletskaya became a mother became known from her Instagram, where happy Elena wrote: “At 39.6 weeks, on May 15, 2016, our daughter Nika Stanislavovna Romanovskaya, 55 cm tall and weighing 3850, appeared in K. G. Lapino.”
Elena often shoots for magazines in a duet with her daughter, for whom fans predict a modeling future, like her mother.
Photo: Anton Zemlyanoy. Style: Lusine Avetisyan. Makeup and hair: Prive7. Producer: Oksana Shabanova. We would like to thank Lotte Hotel Moscow for their assistance in organizing the shooting. We carried out this shooting at the beginning of May, and already on the 15th, on Family Day, Lena Kuletskaya and Stas Romanovsky became the parents of the beautiful Nika! PEOPLETALK congratulates the family on the new addition and publishes an interview with the happy mother. We met at the airport six years ago and went on a business trip together to celebrate the boutique’s birthday Kira Plastinina V Los Angeles. A luxurious blonde with very light eyes, in which you can definitely disappear, slipped in front of me on passport control. I, like many, knew about her from magazines - about her affair with Dima Bilan(34) and Mickey Rourcom(63) Only a lazy person didn’t write, but it seemed to me that all this was just a successful PR or a contract, as is customary among stars... We became friends on the trip and all these years we have maintained warm relations, we rejoice when we meet and discuss last news. It’s incredibly easy to be with Lena; you’ll never hear rude words or unkind comments addressed to anyone from her. After communicating with her, there is always a sweet aftertaste. When Lena finally became a mother, we had more more topics for conversation: Lena shared thoughts about motherhood, changes in life, her beloved husband and plans for the future with PEOPLETALK.My childhood was endless moving. Many people think that my father is an oligarch and it was he who promoted me in my career. But I have a normal one Soviet family: Dad is a military man, a lieutenant colonel, an employee of a research institute, and mom is a nurse. And we were happy! It seems to me that modern children are not so carefree, although they have more opportunities than we had. In general, it is difficult to say where all this talk about the oligarch comes from. Probably, in our country they simply don’t like the so-called self-made people, especially women. If a person appears in gossip columns, travels, achieves success, criticism and negativity are immediately directed at him. In fact, this is how they justify the laziness of others. Dad was transferred to Moscow, when I was six. This is where I went to school. We had a dorm room in Moscow region but we lived in Moscow, rented an apartment. Sometimes we moved every six months, so I changed seven schools. Friends also changed accordingly, and I did not become attached to the place and people. This helped me a lot in the modeling business; I easily adapt to new conditions. My behavior was not always exemplary; I, as a rule, joined the company of leaders. But everything was fine with my studies, I graduated from school with one B. Everything related to the exact sciences came naturally.
Dress, ESVE, maisonesve.com; earrings, Treasure store; shoes, Next Our dad is strict, he could punish, he demanded achievements. In the summer I studied English while my friends were running outside. He always said: “You’ll thank me later.”And when I first went abroad alone, I really remembered my dad and mentally said thank you. If I had a more trusting relationship with my parents, perhaps I could have avoided some mistakes. I remember how, at the age of 14, I pierced my belly button. Everything became inflamed, and only then did I go to my parents. Dad set limits: at 11, the daughter should be home. And mom sometimes covered. One day I came home like a huge snowball - my friends and I were riding the roller coaster. I was wearing a faux fur coat and a huge combed forelock. This was considered wildly fashionable at the time. As a result, dad took me by that very forelock and went straight to the bathroom! I was always like a boy; femininity, tenderness and sophistication were not enough. Of course, I didn’t dream of becoming a model. When did the first ones appear? glossy magazines, my favorite was Cosmopolitan, I bought it every month and put it in a pile next to the bed. I was interested in themes of relationships and sex, not clothes and cosmetics. We never discussed these issues with our parents. In general, the boys at school didn’t particularly look after me; I wasn’t the queen of the class. I had short hair, and when they grew up, I braided them - not very romantic. She wore robes and was not a “girl” at all. In high school, boyfriends appeared, but there were no queues. I didn’t wear makeup until I was 15 and didn’t lose weight like all the girls. After school, my dad and I decided that I needed to become a lawyer. By the way, dad studied all the “promising” professions. I didn't resist. Already closer to the age of 16, in my first year at the institute, I spent a lot of time with classmates who actively used cosmetics and were beauties. I learned a lot from watching them, I even started wearing skirts. 
When I came to the agency, they offered me training. There was no money to pay for modeling school, but I didn’t ask my parents for help. And my mother noticed how upset I was and gave me funds for this school. I started learning, using makeup, and walking in heels correctly. In principle, this knowledge was not useful to me, since such staged moments have little in common with the realities of the modeling business. I worked as a hostess at exhibitions and presentations. In general, I earned my first money when I was 12 years old and gave it to my mother. In the studio it was necessary to collect as many zippers as possible from a huge number of unnecessary things. AND child labour they had no objections. Mom, of course, returned this money to me, then I spent it on "Snickers" And " Kinder surprises". Later, while working as a hostess, I began to receive offers to “go out to dinner.” Of course, I didn’t understand what kind of dinner it was. My parents won't let me go! And what kind of work is this – coming to eat, why don’t they pay for it? In general, these “dinners” took place in some very seedy places and at a very late time, I didn’t get to any of them. From time to time, scouts from other countries came to the agency. So, one day I passed a casting for a French modeling agency. As I remember now, I was wearing a short, tight-fitting blue dress, which I later wore to Paris. After the casting I was asked to sign a blank White list, but as a lawyer I refused. However, everything worked out well: the agency agreed to first draw up the documents and only then get my signature. Then the actress came to the casting with me Anna Gorshkova(32), she was still underage and could fly to France only with parental permission. Her mother agreed, but only on the condition that she would personally accompany her daughter; it would be safer for my parents as well. The agency invited us for three months, initially paying all our expenses. For me it was something simply incredible - for the first time a vacation abroad and immediately Paris! In addition, dad was pleased: it was not in vain that we moved to Moscow. At night I dreamed that little green men were walking around Paris, and upside down, too, my brain was so excited. The first thing we saw when we arrived Champs Elysees, - these are people dressed, as it seemed to us, completely tasteless! Wrinkled linen pants, no heels... And here we are - girls in short dresses with heels! It took me time to get rid of Soviet stereotypes and understand that naturalness, loose hair, no makeup is beautiful. At first, when I started going to castings, the reviews from photographers were not the best. Yes, they said that the girl was beautiful, but cold as The Snow Queen, we are simply afraid of her. And at the casting you need to relax, be sociable, and not uptight. 
Among the models I am now in close contact with Zhenya Volodina(31). She is a world friend, she always helped and even gave me her apartment in New York when I came there to work. Of course, the semi-bohemian crowd is more active in New York, than in Paris, but I knew almost no one there. However, after posting on Facebook that I was in New York, literally three hours later I found all the models I knew. We went to clubs where Leonardo DiCaprio (41), Gerard Butler (46) and Mickey Rourke (63) often appeared. By that time, I already treated stars of this level without much obsequiousness. My first party was Elton John's annual charity ball ('69), to which he invited 220 people. Mr. Graff invited me to it, we were just doing a week-long shoot for Graff in London. And I felt that this was no longer just filming. I represent the brand: I’m wearing a necklace, rings, earrings. This was my first time out, everything was great! Stars I had only seen on TV asked how I was doing! Mickey Rourke and I lived next door in New York and hung out together. He started courting my friend. She didn't reciprocate, but she didn't reject him either. In short, I turned out to be a “vest”, I had to listen to his reasoning about why she was so cold, he asked me to write to her and immediately asked what she answered. One day we both found ourselves in London and went out together GQ. Before this, Mickey had already been spotted with a Russian model Nastya Makarenko. And so, we were photographed together - of course, the press declared me his girlfriend. But we didn’t meet, there was no relationship. Of course, many believe that an affair with Hollywood actor- an undeniable plus in a career. But I don't, not when he's three times your age. And even if we really had a relationship, most likely I would try to hide it. 
In general, neither I nor my husband have the habit of maintaining any friendly relations with exes and continuing to communicate. Separated means separated. We can send each other an SMS once or twice a year. I will say right away that there was no contract. Was this story part of PR - yes, because any appearance in the world and attracting attention to one’s person is PR-public relations, public relations. It’s just that our relationship organically faded away, there wasn’t even any specific point. When I started dating my future husband, Dima and I were no longer interested in each other’s personal lives, although because of my work on TV I had already spent a lot of time in Moscow. We met Stas during the filming of the “Shopaholics” program on the MTV channel, where I was the host and he was the director of photography. He very competently began to show signs of attention, and I was not very spoiled by them, since European men are quite restrained in their advances. Stas with his attention, warm sweet messages and daily wishes good morning And Have a good day He was very attuned to himself. I was used to being independent, and it was difficult for me to adapt to a serious relationship with an eye on my partner. Nowadays, every person is so self-sufficient and independent that we all lack a healthy dose of dependence and neediness. I didn’t immediately understand that I loved Stas, that I wanted to marry him. As a rule, people base their behavior in relationships on the basis of previous experiences. And my previous relationship (with an American) was quite uncertain. Yes, we lived together, but each was on his own. 
Photo: Anton Zemlyanoy. Style: Lusine Avetisyan. Makeup and hair: Prive7. Producer: Oksana Shabanova. We would like to thank Lotte Hotel Moscow for their assistance in organizing the shooting.