The talented figure skater Tatyana Totmianina is known all over the world as a multiple champion in her sport. However, she inspires admiration not only for her sports achievements, but also for her beauty, charm, and unbending willpower. In addition, she is known as the wife of another famous figure skater - Alexei Yagudin - and the mother of two adorable girls.
Fragile skater
Tatyana Ivanovna Totmianina was born in Perm in 1981. When the parents sent the fragile and sickly four-year-old girl to figure skating, they followed the doctor's advice - to enroll the baby in the sports section so that she would be less sick. In addition, Tanya's mother, Natalya Vasilievna, was a figure skater herself in her youth and loved this sport.
An indoor skating rink has just been built in Perm in the Orlyonok Sports Center, where coach Andrei Kislukhin worked. It was under his leadership that Tatyana took her first steps in figure skating, immediately striking adults with her perseverance and patience. A large role in the development of Totmianina's abilities was played by the former Perm ballerina, choreographer Victoria Stepanovna.
A lot for the formation of an athlete was done by her mother, who devoted her life to her daughter and saw her in her dreams as an Olympic champion. As soon as Tanya was seven years old, the family broke up, Natalya Vasilievna did not marry anymore. She took the future champion to St. Petersburg, where fourteen-year-old Totmianina began to play sports at a higher level.
On a sports podium
First, Tatiana began her solo training at the Jubilee Sports Center with Natalia Pavlova, later she found herself a pair - Maxim Marinin. Already in 1997, athletes were listed in the top five pairs in figure skating. Totmianina successfully walked to the podium, in 2005-2008 taking the top places in the championships. In the winter of 2006, in Turin, the dream of Tatyana herself and her mother Natalya Vasilievna came true - Totmianina became an Olympic champion.
The beauty figure skater completed her professional career as an Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation, having won high-profile titles in sports. Victories were not easy for the athlete, but persistence in achieving the goal was instilled in Tatyana since childhood. Life has shown that she is a real fighter. During the Skate America-2004 tournament, Totmianina received serious injuries, falling on the ice, but managed not only to quickly get to her feet, but also to climb a sports podium.
glacial period
Having become the Olympic champion, Tatyana Totmianina left the big sport. Ahead were photo shoots, shooting in a sports film, active participation in ice shows. She was involved in the projects of Evgeni Plushenko and Ilya Averbakh. Together with Leonid Zakoshansky and Nikita Malinin, she performed in the TV show "Ice Age".
Tatiana spent most of her life on the ice, here she met her love. She met her future husband, the brilliant skater Alexei Yagudin as a child - they were brought together by sports. However, the romance between them did not break out immediately, and, as Tatyana herself admitted in one of her interviews, it was not easy. The athletes were distinguished by strong complex characters, converging and diverging. They had to learn to find compromises and get used to each other.
In 2009, Totmianina experienced great grief - suddenly her mother, her support and support, died in a road accident. It was Yagudin who then came to the aid of the orphaned athlete, the result was a civil marriage. Soon, a charming daughter, Elizabeth, was born, six years later the second - Michelle.
Alexey Yagudin's wife
In 2016, two Olympic champions, Totmianina and Yagudin, announced that they had finally stamped their passports. In an interview with the media, Tatyana's husband said that it did not matter for them whether the relationship between the spouses was registered - they already love each other and are happy.
The wedding was played to stop rumors. It happened in Krasnoyarsk during a tour. Before that, the couple almost broke up, Alexei for some time met with the singer Alexandra Savelyeva and was afraid of a serious relationship. However, on a wonderful New Year's Eve from December 31, 2015 to January 1, 2016, he nevertheless decided and made a marriage proposal to the mother of his children.
Having become a married lady, Tatyana did not stay at home, she continued and still continues to participate in ice shows, constantly keeps herself in good shape. By her own admission, she cannot be within four walls and cannot imagine her life without a skating rink.
Totmianina's wrestling unbending character allows her to overcome all adversity. In 2017, the athlete broke her leg, after which she underwent several difficult operations, between which she continued to perform. Her husband Yagudin, who managed to collect all the titles in men's figure skating during his professional career, also has a restless temperament and constantly participates in creative projects. So, as of April 2019, he is the host of the new season of the Ice Age. Children”on the first channel.
Despite the constant workload, the parents of two little beauties Elizabeth and Michelle do their best to be together during the rare hours of rest. When dad and daughters went to Dubai in 2018, soon mom in a cast also came from the hospital. So they walked - the husband drove his wife in a wheelchair, the eldest daughter - the youngest.
Today, the star family is still together, pets live with them in the house - two dogs. Elizaveta Yagudina dances at the Todes school, Michelle plans to study ballet and rhythmic gymnastics. Parents take the education of their children seriously. Sometimes a famous married couple of skaters confesses to journalists about problems in relationships, but their fans want to believe that these two strong people will be able to keep love and family, because they have already managed to overcome a lot.
