There is no such thing as old age. And she proved it. An ageless actress, a living legend, a woman over whom neither nature nor time has power - this is all about her. Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko turned 71 on November 12, 2006. This seems like an incredible, ridiculous mistake, a typo in the passport - anything but true. After all, you won’t give this brilliant woman even 45.
In all interviews, when asked why she does not seek to hide her age, Lyudmila Markovna answers with her characteristic dignity: “What should I hide when on the very first page of my book it is written: “I was born on November 12, 1935.” Hide? Stupid." Gurchenko is a shining example of how an older woman can behave, albeit at the cost of considerable effort and the skillful work of a plastic surgeon.
It's no secret that Lyudmila Gurchenko is almost the main record holder for plastic surgery among domestic stars. Even in her youth, she decided to go under the surgeon’s scalpel in order to use blepharoplasty to change the shape of her eyes to almond-shaped. Her desire for perfection is understandable, because any woman, and even more so a famous actress, dreams of making her appearance as close to ideal as possible.
68-year-old Gurchenko was rejuvenated with selenium, which was a completely new direction in cosmetology. After the procedure, Lyudmila Markovna seemed to go back 15 years ago.
Lyudmila Gurchenko became a real star after Eldar Ryazanov’s film “Carnival Night”. She was only 20 years old then. The role of Lenochka Krylova brought the actress resounding success and popular love: the whole country started talking about the young, bright and cheerful Lyusa Gurchenko. They say that at that time Lyudmila Markovna had a fantastically narrow waist - no more than 45 cm! There were even proposals to include her in the Guinness Book of Records as the actress with the narrowest waist. The wasp waist is Gurchenko’s trademark, which is admired by more than one generation of men. Even now, at 71 years old, Lyudmila Markovna’s waist circumference is 56 cm. It’s hard to believe, but 20-year-old girls can really only envy.
Lyubov Orlova
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Lyubov Petrovna became one of the first Soviet actresses to apply to the Beauty Institute on Novy Arbat. Orlova took great care of her appearance and suffered when the first wrinkles appeared. The actress used various expensive creams that were brought to her from abroad.
But at a more mature age, she began to turn to the country's chief plastic surgeon, Alexander Shmelev. It is known that Lyubov Petrovna had a face and neck lift several times, as well as blepharoplasty of the eyelids.
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“One of the celebrities that Dr. Shmelev operated on was Orlova. There were rumors for a long time that Lyubov Orlova was in France, underwent surgery, and arrived after the operation. No, she underwent surgery with us,” said Emma Dolzhikova, Shmelev’s assistant.
It is interesting that Orlova even hid her real age and asked that the press not indicate the figure that frightened her anywhere. The actress wanted to be remembered by her fans as young and beautiful.
By the way, her husband, director Grigory Alexandrov, came up with special effects and filmed his beloved wife from the most favorable angles. It is not surprising that in the film “The Starling and Lyra” the 76-year-old actress managed to play the 40-year-old heroine.
Lyudmila Gurchenko had plastic surgery despite the prohibitions of her doctors
April 7 is nine days since the death of the great actress. We loved her anyway. The country said goodbye to Lyudmila Gurchenko, with whom an entire era passed away - fatal femininity, fanatical worship of beauty, romanticism. No one served these gods as passionately as she did... At 75, the actress looked much younger, took care of herself, took care of her girlish figure and phenomenally thin waist - 44 cm - which she preserved until her last days. And most importantly, she was full of strength, which forced her to go on stage, to catch the elusive light of the spotlights - only under it did she live... It seemed that Gurchenko, like her movie heroine once, knew a certain “Makropolus remedy”. But unlike the heroine, she couldn’t stop in time. And she continued this merciless battle for perfection, not sparing herself, risking her health. She did not do this for herself - she wanted to remain the ideal of eternal femininity in the eyes of the audience. And she didn’t understand a simple thing: we would love her even with wrinkles. And with a slightly less thin waist. We would love any of her - for her enormous talent and amazing energy, gushing with a joyful fountain, which she generously showered on the audience.
We will remember her like this: young and full of strength...
We will never forget her Tamara with funny curlers from “Five Evenings”, the wrapped up Vera from “Station for Two”, her haircut almost to zero with a faded face to Nika from “20 Days Without War”. On stage, for the sake of her role, this magnificent actress was not afraid to be ugly. And in life, when there were no good directors around, I hid from old age in colored feathers, rustling sequins, breathtaking dresses as if from a cabaret dressing room. In recent years, stylists and plastic surgeons have clearly fooled her, promising to return something that cannot be returned. And there was really no need for it. Her main beauty was not her face, which was reshaped many times, but what beats inside her bodily vessel. Now they have begun to say that Gurchenko allegedly filmed a video and gave an interview so that it would be shown after her death. I do not believe. Gurchenko was not going to die - she was going to live. Even when this severe leg injury occurred, she told our correspondent: “Even if I’m in a wheelchair, I’ll be back on stage!”
1963 - a face untouched by plastic surgery.
After all, she wasn’t even that old: 75 today is not old. Some still get married, go into politics... What ruined her: burning herself out in every role, playing to break up, or an endless battle for youth? We talked to those who tried to restore her beauty.
1973 - there may have been a nose job. The nose has become different. The tip is lowered, which is very noticeable.
Doctor Alexander Teplyashin: “She, like Lyubov Orlova, went to any lengths” - Some women and actresses lose interest in their appearance with age. They can afford to gain weight and look unimportant. Gurchenko constantly fought for her beauty. Because she was one hundred percent WOMAN. And it’s impossible not to respect this desire to be forever young,” says Beautyplaza plastic surgeon Alexander Teplyashin. “Another thing is that in this almost manic, passionate desire to look young, she sometimes overdid it. She, like Lyubov Orlova, went to great lengths to prolong her youth. Unfortunately, Gurchenko is a lady of the old school: she began to operate a long time ago using old, “armour-piercing”, very traumatic techniques, and stuck to them. I did not agree to simpler, non-surgical methods of rejuvenation. I strove to ensure that there was not a single wrinkle on my face, and I found doctors who agreed to this, even against common sense. The last plastic surgeries were unsuccessful. And yet, I admire the femininity of this actress, the fact that she always looked stylish, modern, fashionable, and therefore did not leave the stage, but remained in demand... According to Teplyashin, the actress did physical exercise every day, and sometimes went on a diet. She took drugs to remove fluid from the body - this helps with weight loss, but is not very useful in large doses.
1981 - I don’t see any surgical intervention. The face is clearly aging.
They injected extracts from the embryos - My mother talked with Gurchenko, took x-rays of her. Both had rheumatoid polyarthritis,” says Teplyashin. “It was he who shortened my mother’s life... Lyudmila Markovna took anti-inflammatory drugs. All this seriously spoils the kidneys. As a doctor, I could see that the actress was sick. It was enough to look at her hands - they were deformed. Her mouth was dry due to frequent use of drugs (this was evident from her demeanor). I know that she was injected with cell extracts taken from late-stage human embryos. Then she quarreled with the academician who injected her with these extracts. Something didn't suit her.
1986 - clearly successful plastic surgery of the face and neck, plastic surgery of the upper and lower eyelids was performed. Face looks younger
The extracts are called stem cells, but in fact they are something special and not safe. These methods are dangerous for humans, unlike stem cells taken from adult adipose tissue. She herself admitted that she occasionally allowed herself to eat potatoes at night, but then she reproached herself for this weakness; she generally had a hard time with any changes in her appearance.
1987 - something was done to the cheekbones. Or they inserted some kind of prosthetic bones, making cheekbones, or pumped him up with something. At that time, apart from silicone, nothing else was pumped in.
“Once on the set, a fan jumped up to Lucy and suddenly shamelessly said: “Oh, you have so many wrinkles, but they’re not visible on the screen.” Lucy burst into tears. She tried so hard to look good! I know that I exhausted myself every day in the gym to have a good figure. She was a real woman and a wonderful actress,” says actor Alexander Mikhailov, with whom Gurchenko starred in the film “Love and Doves.”
2005 - probably had a facelift before that. In my opinion, the nose has been operated on again, because the nostrils have been trimmed. Usually the rounded nostril comes out of the nasolabial fold, but here it seems to be at a right angle. The nostrils have become smaller. The shape of the eyes became narrowed. Something
Surgeon Sergei Kulagov: “I refused to pull her skin yet” - Gurchenko was a patient of our, the very first in Moscow, Beauty Institute on Arbat, - plastic surgeon of the Beauty Institute Sergei Kulagov told KP. — In the 80s, when our institute was virtually the only institution where the greats of this world underwent rejuvenation, Gurchenko was operated on by one of our surgeons, a lady who is no longer alive. She had several operations with this doctor. She probably would have continued to do so, but the doctor died. And after her death, Lyudmila Markovna came to see me with the same request - to get rid of wrinkles. But I refused her. I just couldn’t find a solution for Gurchenko to remain the same. Her face was already so difficult. Redoing another surgeon's work is more difficult, but possible. But in her case there have already been several operations, not just one. A circular lift is a very complex operation, if done well, with understanding and with some high goals, and not just to tighten the skin, as some say. It's just like painting a good picture. You can draw, but it’s difficult to draw a good one. I tried to dissuade Gurchenko from surgical interventions. Her face was already changing. She was already a little different. I was worried that after the new operation her face would become distorted, which is what happened later. I tried to convince her not to continue in this direction. At least at that time. Because over time you still need to maintain your face. But then, you see, it’s like inflating an already inflated balloon. It might burst, that's all.
2010 - she definitely had a nose job. The nostril is not rounded and the scar is visible. And her end wing cartilage has split in the middle, so her nose seems to bifurcate at the end and is wide. Lumps have appeared around the nasolabial fold - these are the gels migrating, and from
— They say that she had very big problems with her facial skin after a series of operations? - Well, I warned her about this. And he said that we had to be very careful. — Can the skin tear? -You approach mechanically. The face and facial expressions become different. And the person who gets hooked on these operations also becomes different. Managing the psychological process through plastic surgery is a big responsibility. It wasn't just a matter of pulling and pulling. You need to really think about this: where, how, how much, why, etc. We’re not trying to stretch our skin, we’re changing fate in the end... You can change it so that this person will even become crazy. We influence the patient’s psychology. — Did you manage to dissuade Gurchenko from the operation? - No. She was determined. Still, there were surgeons who took on her face... I will not comment on the work of my colleagues. And yet I admire the plastic surgeons who managed to keep her alive with the remnants of tissue that she had. And it is important to note that Gurchenko herself received encouragement from her updates. This added drive and self-confidence to her. Many women have a keen desire to look young. In Gurchenko it was hyper-exacerbated. If she had not been interested in plastic surgery, she would have left the screen long ago. Where do you see Brigitte Bardot? And no one would now grieve so much for Gurchenko, who showed an example of courage, the fact that you can shine on stage even at her age. She gave it her all. Yes, perhaps I went too far with plastic. But even at 75 years old, everyone was looking at her.
The end of 2010 is not a good look, just a “Michael Jackson mask.” You may have been injected with Botox, which can cause problems with your smile. The face became different. In this case, the “rejuvenation” was unsuccessful. But it's not so often that you can turn a 75-year-old into a 40-year-old.
Dr. Andrei Zvonkov: “Plasty could undermine health” - They said that Gurchenko had done a dozen operations on her face. I can definitely say that any operation or anesthesia has a bad effect on health. Damage is caused to the heart, kidneys, liver, and cells of the nervous system are also affected. And constantly pulling the skin on your face is very dangerous. The skin has a so-called “framework” - it wears out and the skin sags, there is no longer any “stretch”. I am sure that Gurchenko could have undermined her health due to frequent plastic surgery. About personal Gurchenko’s first husband was screenwriter Boris Andronikashvili, from whom the actress gave birth to a daughter, Maria. The daughter was raised by her grandmother - Gurchenko worked a lot and was the only breadwinner in the family (her husband was unemployed). Gurchenko admitted to her friend that she was tired of her husband’s infidelities and was filing for divorce. The second marriage with the adopted son of the writer Alexander Fadeev did not last long. Her next husband was Joseph Kobzon. But family life with him did not work out right away. After the divorce, the former spouses did not communicate. For a long period of time, her common-law husband Kuperweis was next to Gurchenko, who admitted that he had been her slave for 18 years. The actress demanded that her husband pay full attention only to her career. In recent years, her husband, producer Sergei Senin, has brightened up her life. “He managed to melt my heart. He is somewhat similar to my beloved father. No offense will be taken. He loves me, my creativity. He’s my assistant,” the actress admitted. Unfortunately, Lyudmila Markovna did not have spiritual closeness with her daughter. “If I learned about the death of my grandson Mark not from my daughter, but from the boys, what kind of family can we talk about?! — the actress was horrified. “One day I called her: “Masha, I feel bad, will you come?” She said there was no time now. I didn’t call them again.” Who knows what kind of mental pain she was going through. But we always saw Gurchenko smart, smiling, lively. She said to herself that she dreamed of a real family, she would like to have one husband for the rest of her life. Apparently, she was not completely happy in her personal life. But it’s clear that on stage, under the lights and cameras, she felt like a goddess... Death overtook her instantly - a blood clot came off. She passed away at home, listening to her songs and dreaming about the stage. An enchanting woman, the greatest actress!
Ekaterina Furtseva
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In Soviet times, many women dreamed of looking like Lyubov Orlova. However, changing one’s appearance at that time was considered a real whim, and an expensive one at that, so only the wives of high-ranking officials, artists, and the only female minister, Ekaterina Furtseva, could afford to go to plastic surgeons.
Doctors at the Beauty Institute later admitted that she had a separate operating room, where only close doctors could enter. The operations that Furtseva performed and her stay in the hospital were kept in the strictest confidence. Only over time it became known that she had undergone a number of anti-aging procedures, including a facelift.
A game of hide and seek with time
Not everything was rosy in the actress’s career, but despite all the adversity, she always found the strength to get up and move on. The excellent physical shape of the no longer young lady is a clear confirmation of this. However, Lyudmila Gurchenko herself never tires of assuring that she does not put any effort into this: “And I don’t take care of my figure at all. Why do I need diets, if by nature I can eat what I want and as much as I want, without getting fat or losing weight. To my shame, I don’t even do exercises.” If this is really the case, then Lyudmila Markovna, again, can only be envied. But knowledgeable people understand how much colossal work is behind such a supposedly random external result.
She performed the second major operation - a circular lift - already abroad. After it, the face turned out to be overtightened, and the condition of the skin still showed age.
Recently, the actress again “updated” her face with a circular lift. But numerous operations led to complications, and Lyudmila Markovna’s eyelids began to swell greatly. The body of an already middle-aged person begins to react negatively to the slightest outside interference. Still, the game of hide and seek with time cannot continue indefinitely, and Lyudmila Markovna herself understands this very well: “For some reason, I didn’t worry about meeting the age-related moment for a long time, I didn’t prepare for this inevitable. Although you look at least 35, but what about your brains, your body, the life you’ve lived? Where are you going to put it? This woman admires not only her ability to “hold herself,” but also her incredible worldly wisdom. Whatever you say, she knows “how to live without disappearing into the thick fog of everyday life.”
Clara Luchko
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Klara Stepanovna also wanted to remain young and beautiful as long as possible, so she turned to plastic surgeons. The actress wanted everything to be secret and asked her secret not to be revealed to anyone.
However, today many experts, looking at Luchko’s photographs, note that surgical interventions did take place. Klara Stepanovna, like many famous women of that time, had a face and neck lift, and also paid attention to the décolleté area. It should be noted that the doctors did a good, almost masterful job, as they did not deprive Luchko of his individuality.
Anatoly Ktorov
Anatoly Ktorov, photo: kulturologia.ru
Anatoly Ktorov decided to have plastic surgery at the age of 60. He believed that appearance was the reason for lack of work. The recovery period lasted a long time, the pain was unbearable at times. However, Anatoly Ktorov’s rejuvenated face did not bring him big roles.
Nonna Mordyukova
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Nonna Viktorovna came to the Beauty Institute after the death of her only son, actor Vladimir Tikhonov. Then the actress fell into depression, and at that time she was less and less invited to successful projects.
A friend of Mordyukova decided to bring her back to life and understood that the transformation and a rejuvenated appearance would help her with this. Although many friends tried to stop Nonna Viktorovna.
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"When she wanted to do it, I said, 'Why?' Because she had such a face. The fact is that when the role is: what kind of face is there, the actress will do anything,” said Rimma Markova.
But Mordyukova decided that she would undergo plastic surgery. After surgery, she called the Beauty Institute several more times and thanked the doctors for giving her a second youth.
