Maria Sittel dreamed of working as a doctor as a child, but she built a successful career as a TV presenter. With a high demand, she managed to become a mother of many children, seriously take up dancing and even try the profession of an actress.
Dizzying career
Maria Sittel was born in Penza in 1975. Her birthday is November 9th. Little Masha dreamed of treating people for a long time and, hoping to be an orthopedic surgeon, began her path to the profession by studying at the appropriate lyceum. Young Sittel even managed to work for about a year and a half in the orthopedic department of one of the city hospitals, but when choosing a higher education she chose a career as a researcher and decided to study chemistry and biology at the Penza Pedagogical University. In her student years, an important turn in her biography awaited Maria: friends invited the freshman to appear in an entertainment program. Despite the fact that one of the Moscow television men who found themselves in Penza called the tests of the future star unsuccessful, the bright girl was noticed on local television and was soon invited to the role of a permanent presenter. At first, Maria Sittel worked in the Musical Souvenir program, then she retrained as a correspondent for the news release of the Express channel and after a while moved to the Penza State TV and Radio Company. It took Maria only two years to reach the ceiling in the regional division and move to Moscow. In the fall of 2001, Sittel received the post of presenter on the Rossiya channel, working in tandem with Dmitry Kiselev and Andrei Kondrashov. Soon, the talented journalist became the face of the company and the Conversation with Vladimir Putin program, and won the TEFI award and the Order of Friendship for her contribution to the development of television.
Personal life
In parallel to her intense work, Sittel devoted a considerable share of her time to her family and self-development. After Penza University, she graduated from the Institute of Finance and Economics with a degree in Finance and Credit and now she herself transfers the accumulated knowledge of young people at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting Ostankino (MITRO). In 2006, Maria Sittel ventured to demonstrate her choreographic talent to the general public and won the show "Dancing with the Stars", after which she participated in the "Dance Eurovision 2007" competition, where she rose to seventh place. In 2002 and 2004, Maria successfully performed as part of the Russian team in the Fort Boyard quest, and in 2005 she played herself in the television series The Goddess of Prime Time. Maria has an active rest - she is engaged in mountain skiing and art photography. With all this, Sittel managed to build a happy personal life, meet true love and give birth to five children. The first child, daughter Daria, was born in 1996 from the TV presenter's first husband. With her second husband, she became the mother of the sons of Ivan (in 2010), Savva (2012), Nikolai (2013) and daughter of Catherine (in 2016).
