Lera Kudryavtseva - biography, personal life, photo, news, age, Instagram, husband, “Secret to a Million” 2022

The tabloids annually and meticulously monitor the appearance of stars have the most unexpected ratings. Do you know which Russian celebrity has had more plastic surgery than fashion model Kim Kardashian?

The leaders in the race for eternal youth were Svetlana Loboda and Lera Kudryavtseva. Spectacular (unnatural) blondes have undergone at least 13-15 surgical interventions: correcting noses, implanting breast implants and getting rid of Bisha's lumps. Let's look at what Lera Kudryavtseva looks like before and after plastic surgery and whether it is possible to compete with young competitors at 50 years old.

The multifaceted Valeria Lvovna is often called “a woman without age.” The star, who celebrated her fiftieth birthday, looks younger than her peers and is married to a 33-year-old hockey player. Few young divas can boast of such success, achieved at the cost of undergoing the most painful procedures. Assessing what Lera Kudryavtseva looks like before and after plastic surgery, commentators enter into debates about the benefits and aesthetic beauty of each change.

It is obvious that actress Kudryavtseva became significantly younger after plastic surgery. Three decades spent on stage are not reflected in the appearance of a youthful woman. According to surgeons, the effect is achieved by enlarging the lips and smoothing out wrinkles in the cheeks, nose and chin. The process does not require serious surgical intervention; correction is carried out with a course of biogel injections.

A somewhat radical tattoo of wide, curved gray eyebrows and extended eyelashes focus attention on the presenter’s expressive eyes.

Comparing photos of Lera Kudryavtseva before and after plastic surgery, you can be convinced of the girl’s original beauty. Statements about an ugly duckling tormented by complexes do not sound very realistic or indicate excessive demands on one’s own appearance.

Childhood and youth

Valeria, the youngest of two children of researchers Lev Nikolaevich and Alexandra Ivanovna, was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan in May 1971. At school, the girl studied well, only her behavior let her down, but the teachers forgave the activist-entertainer’s pranks. Contrary to popular belief, Lera did not dream of becoming a TV star at a young age. Looking at her mother, who worked in the laboratory, she wanted to become a doctor, then a flight attendant, and entered the local cultural and educational school, the department of theater directing.

Lera Kudryavtseva as a child
Sister Oksana, who had already moved to Moscow at that time, invited the future celebrity to visit, her parents did not object. And then a happy accident helped. In her youth, Kudryavtseva worked at the House of Culture, where touring artists gave concerts. This is how she met the drummer of “Tender May”, and nothing kept the girl in her hometown.

Study at GITIS

Despite success at the beginning of her career, Lera Kudryavtseva disappeared from TV screens in the 2000s. The TV presenter realized that she lacked education for further growth. Lera entered GITIS, the acting department.

The TV presenter studied at GITIS very diligently. Eating practically nothing but instant noodles, Lera spent time at constant rehearsals, read books, and took exams.

The TV presenter's sleepless nights ultimately bore fruit. After graduating from university, Lera made a qualitative leap upward in her career.

A television

Valeria's creative biography began with working as dancers and backing vocals for famous artists. The future star worked on the same stage with Igor Sarukhanov, Bogdan Titomir, Svetlana Vladimirskaya and Evgeny Osin.

The path to television for Lera was paved by Igor Vernik, whose acquaintance, according to rumors, resulted in an affair. The artist was looking for a co-host for the “Party Zone” program on the TV-6 channel. Kudryavtseva left the casting with the thought that she shouldn’t wait for an invitation. Next to her bright and sleek rivals from modeling agencies, Kudryavtseva, with a height of 167 cm, 300 Afro braids and piercings, was clearly losing. However, Wernick called the next day and said that she was being hired.

As soon as Lera’s candidacy was approved for the role of co-host in the “Party Zone,” she became no less popular in several programs than the artists for whom she had worked before. The entertaining format of the show made Kudryavtseva one of the bohemian crowds.

Lera Kudryavtseva in her youth
On the same TV-6, Valeria worked in the MuzOboz project, on Muz-TV in the Test of Loyalty program, and in the Ex-Wives Club on TNT. In 2008, Valeria participated in the Star Ice show. Together with Gwendal Peizer, the celebrity became the winner of the project. After some time, the TV presenter starred in the “Dancing with the Stars” program, this time her partner was Alexey Mazurin.

In 2009, Valeria, together with Andrei Razygraev, hosted the “Cultural Exchange” program on the TV Center channel. And a few years later, Muz-TV launched the author’s program of the TV presenter, “The Show with Lera Kudryavtseva.”

In the fall of 2016, Lera became the host of the “Secret to a Million” program on NTV, where the guest stars were asked uncomfortable questions about life. It could be either small details of his school years, which the celebrity no longer remembered, or a mysterious love affair, which not everyone wanted to talk about. Accordingly, the more provocative, scandalous and intimate the question, the higher its price.

Natasha Koroleva, Anastasia Volochkova, Boris Moiseev, Anfisa Chekhova, Alexander Vasiliev and other celebrities took part in the program and shared their secrets with the audience. The money the stars won went to charity. Only the most frank and courageous participants dare to answer the question for a million rubles.

Lera Kudryavtseva and Oscar Kuchera
And in 2022, NTV launched a new show “The Stars Aligned,” where celebrities shared the latest news from life with the public. Lera acted as the main presenter. For the first 3 years of the program’s existence, Oscar Kuchera worked in a “duet” with the blonde. In the spring of 2022, Kuchera became infected with the coronavirus and left the project due to disagreements with the program’s editors.

Soon Alexander Koltov was invited to replace Oscar. Lera's new partner on the show worked until November - until his death in a plane crash. For some time after this, Kudryavtseva hosted the program herself, and at the beginning of 2022, Anton Privonov became the co-host of the star.

As a presenter, Kudryavtseva participated in hundreds of music festivals, concerts, and special events. Since the founding of the New Wave competition, Lera has invariably appeared on stage presenting participants and performances. Her partners during this time were Timur Rodriguez, Ksenia Sobchak, Yulia Kovalchuk, Tina Kandelaki.

In the New Year's episode of the NTV channel's "Mask" show, released on December 31, 2020, Lera appeared before the public in the image of a "herring under a fur coat." The celebrity performed the popular “Song about 5 Minutes,” confusing the jury, who assumed that Svetlana Loboda, Tatyana Navka and even Maxim Galkin were hiding under the original costume.

Big screen

Lera Kudryavtseva appeared on the big screen in 1995. Her debut on television was the program “Party Zone”, where she was invited by Igor Vernik.

Lera came to the casting with an earring in her ear and African braids on her head. The producers liked the bright appearance of the contender. Practice then showed that Lera Kudryavtseva can simply stay in the frame perfectly.

As part of her first program, TV presenter Lera Kudryavtseva also visited nightclubs, where she interviewed stars. Thus, the “Party Zone” became an excellent launching pad for her. Soon Gosha Kutsenko and Otar Kushanashvili became Lera’s colleagues on the set. The girl also received an invitation to become a co-host of the popular program “Muzoboz”.

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Movies

Valeria's film debut took place in 2004 - then fans saw the star in the role of Varya Zamakhina, the owner of the Gvozdika bar, in the popular series "Streets of Broken Lanterns 6." Kudryavtseva’s acting turned out to be so bright that later the celebrities offered to star in the 7th and 8th seasons of the project.

Lera Kudryavtseva in the program “Secret for a Million”
In 2007, the actress appeared in the film “On the Roof of the World”, followed by “The Best Film”, where she played a cameo role. A year later, Kudryavtseva got work in three films at once - “Oh, Lucky!”, “A Very Russian Detective” and “Adventurers”. In subsequent years, the celebrity played in several film projects, and also acted as a dubbing actress in the animated films “Bee Movie: The Honey Plot”, “Cinderella: Full Throttle!” and others.

Personal life

For the first time, Kudryavtseva married Sergei Lenyuk, a musician of the popular band “Tender May,” and gave birth to a son, Jean. The boy received such an unusual name in honor of Jean-Claude Van Damme, the presenter’s favorite actor. The marriage turned out to be fragile - the husband cheated on Valeria, which was the reason for the divorce. The star had a hard time with the breakup, began to abuse alcohol, fell into depression, but stopped in time.

The TV presenter entered into her second marriage with entrepreneur Matvey Morozov. They signed 3 months after they met. This relationship ended in divorce after 3 years. Morozov was sent to prison for fraud, but then it turned out that he had already been convicted of a serious crime. The TV personality kept the details of her marriage secret for a long time, and explained her husband’s constant absence by numerous business trips.

Lera Kudryavtseva with her son
From 2008 to 2012, Kudryavtseva dated singer Sergei Lazarev. The lovers appeared together at numerous social events, and the paparazzi kept catching them on vacation. Bohemia and fans were looking forward to the celebrity wedding, but they separated, maintaining a warm relationship. It was rumored that Lera was preparing to become a mother, but lost her child in the second month of pregnancy, and this tragedy ultimately prevented the couple from starting a family.

However, there were also those who did not believe in the sincerity of Lazarev and Kudryavtseva’s feelings, considering the novel a well-thought-out PR campaign. They say that the singer is thus dissuading the public of the existence of a relationship with his own concert director, which Alla Pugacheva allegedly let slip in an interview with the performer.

Scandalous speculation angered the TV personality, and in 2022 resulted in an open conflict with Dmitry Shepelev. The TV presenter posted a post on Instagram in which he confirmed his affair with Ekaterina Tulupova. At the same time, the showman ridiculed rumors about his own gay orientation. Shepelev noted that if he needed “cover,” he would have turned to Kudryavtseva.

Valeria did not hesitate to respond, threatening to reveal unpleasant facts from the artist’s biography. The conflict remained open. Later, in 2020, in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak, the celebrity admitted that she hated Dmitry, in particular because he mocked Zhanna Friske in the last months of the singer’s life.

Lera Kudryavtseva with her husband Igor Makarov
After the separation of Kudryavtseva and Lazarev, there were rumors that the woman was having an affair with Nikolai Baskov. In fact, artists are just good friends. In 2013, Lera agreed to the marriage proposal of hockey player Igor Makarov, and 5 years later she gave him a daughter, Maria. Despite the excitement surrounding her person, the mother did not disclose the details of the girl’s birth.

It is known that Kudryavtseva initially planned to give birth in Russia, but, according to insiders, Maria was born in an elite clinic in Los Angeles. True, not everyone believed that the 47-year-old TV presenter gave birth on her own. Haters vying with each other insisted that the star used the services of a surrogate mother.

The artist herself added fuel to the fire by posting a new photo with Masha on Instagram. Detractors noticed that the child was too large for a newborn, and Kudryavtseva looked too slender, and very quickly, after only 3 weeks, she joined Oscar Kuchera in the studio of the “The Stars Aligned” show. As a result, Lera decided to intervene in the discussion, asking her to stop making wild guesses, and added that she carried and gave birth herself, no matter how much anyone would like to hear otherwise.

By the way, in August 2018, the media disseminated information that Valeria had become a grandmother. Initially, the celebrity denied such statements, but later admitted their veracity. Kudryavtseva’s pet, Fofya, a Scottish fold cat, has a separate page on Instagram. The owner loves her pet so much that when he disappeared one day, she turned to psychics for help.

Lera Kudryavtseva with her daughter Masha
In 2022, at a music competition in Sochi, Lera appeared without a wedding ring, which fueled rumors of a quarrel with her husband. The video posted on Sergei Lazarev’s Instagram account also told individual fans that Kudryavtseva and Makarov were close to divorce. In the video, former lovers who came to Germany to hold a concert talk about renewing their relationship.

The hockey player's fans did not like the joke. They felt that on Valentine's Day, when the recording was published, the TV presenter should have congratulated her husband, and not had fun with her former boyfriend. In 2021, while participating in the scandalous YouTube podcast Comment Out, the celebrity again hinted that the relationship with her husband was far from ideal. To Vladimir Marconi’s question about how often Kudryavtseva hears from others about her sexuality, Lera replied that she had been married for a long time, and Igor stopped telling her something like that.

Unsuccessful plastic surgery, or why the face changed so much

The general public and experts have different assessments of Lera's appearance and the results of attempts to improve her. But there are several signs of unsuccessful changes:

The TV presenter's nose is far from perfect. The first operation was performed after an injury received in his youth. After it, it became uneven, with a small hump. Further intervention, although it improved the appearance, did not radically correct it.
Lips look unnatural. This is perhaps the biggest drawback of Kudryavtseva’s appearance. Their appearance is direct evidence of the correction; the changes are very noticeable.

The reason for this is primarily cheiloplasty, but also the passion for fillers. The lips are so swollen that it looks like Leroux was stung by bees. And when she smiles, the top one rides up to her very nose, which doesn’t look very attractive.

By the appearance of breasts it is easy to determine that they are not natural. The implants are very large, which makes Lera’s fragile figure heavy. Due to the size of silicone endoprostheses, their edges noticeably appear through the skin.

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But discussions of Kudryavtseva’s appearance in the press and even direct questions from journalists about plastic surgery do not bother the TV presenter. She continues to wear bright makeup, work hard, and have affairs with men much younger than herself. And he says that he will do everything to preserve beauty and freshness, but for now he can do without the help of plastic surgery.

Appearance

Over decades on the stage, Lera has grown from a VJ on a music channel into a true style icon and today for millions of girls she is a model of beauty and femininity. The TV personality regularly pleases her subscribers with new photos: in a swimsuit, in an evening dress, on the set of new projects, on vacation. The star is not shy about posting pictures without makeup.

In 2015, the attention of the press was attracted by Lera’s resemblance to the popular foreign star Kim Kardashian. The women differed from each other in hair color: Kim was a burning brunette, and Lera was blonde, although in her youth she was dark. When the American woman bleached her hair, the tabloids joked that she was copying the style of the Russian beauty, and celebrities began to really get confused, because Kudryavtseva is a frequent guest in the United States. Valeria was not embarrassed by this similarity, and on Twitter the star even tagged the news about the confusion with the hashtag #anythinghappens.

Lera Kudryavtseva in a swimsuit
Lera is 16 years older than her husband, but few would argue that she looks amazing for her age. At 39 years old, the TV presenter starred in a provocative photo shoot for the men's magazine Maxim, showing off her luxurious figure. The celebrity denied having plastic surgery, allegedly even being allergic to Botox. But at the end of 2019, the secret became clear - the artist removed her breast implants because one of them burst. On Instagram, Kudryavtseva advised women to monitor their health more carefully and not to believe doctors’ stories about a lifetime guarantee for operations.

In addition, experts noted that Valeria probably had a nose job and blepharoplasty, a cheekbone lift, and regularly “pricked” her lips. As for being slim, it comes down to diets, and sports are excluded due to problems with the spine. The star admitted that she needed to thank genetics and a massage therapist, and no one canceled a trip to a cosmetologist.

Kudryavtseva’s back is decorated with a tattoo in Sanskrit, Etmente Etanima. The closest translation in meaning is: “Both with the mind and the heart.” Obviously, these words reflect the calm and reasonable character of the TV presenter. And on the wrist is a Latin phrase meaning “The most important thing in life is love.”

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The beginning of 2022 was not the easiest for the TV presenter. In early January, it became known that Lera fell ill with COVID-19. And at the end of the same month, the star, who had barely recovered from her illness, faced a new “test” - she fell unsuccessfully and broke her sacrum. Videos appeared on the Internet in which Kudryavtseva was taken to doctors in a wheelchair.

The celebrity's misadventures did not end there. In March 2021, Leroux was taken by ambulance straight from the set and placed in intensive care. After the examination, the doctors did not reveal anything serious, concluding that the cause of poor health was stress, nerves and lack of proper rest.

Lera Kudryavtseva and Sergey Lazarev
A fighting spirit helped Valeria quickly come to her senses. In the spring, the TV presenter appeared on the shows Comment Out and DebateCandidates. In the first project, the TV presenter was given several difficult tests. Among them is the need to leave a “vicious” comment on the Instagram account of one of your creative colleagues. Kudryavtseva refused to write “nasty things” to Manizhe, but decided to “check in” on Alexander Oleshko’s page, after which she announced that the latter had stopped communicating with her.

At the second show, created by the New People party, the star acted as an expert (together with journalist Dmitry Guberniev, blogger Dava and others). There were some revelations: during one of the tasks, Lera admitted that she could not adopt a child infected with HIV. On Instagram, the celebrity posted a post and photo from the filming of the show and said that the “DebateCandidates” program is a new format that has not previously been on TV.

And in August 2021, a scandal broke out involving Kudryavtseva and director Sarik Andreasyan. As the host of “New Wave,” Lera read out a joke written in the script about the director’s projects, which for the most part are not distinguished by their quality. He reacted on his Instagram account to the celebrity’s words, insulting her. Her husband Igor Makarov stood up for the TV presenter, inviting the filmmaker to meet in person.

In November 2022, Lera joined the jury of the new season of the NTV channel project “Superstar!”, where she was accompanied by Sergey Sosedov, Stas Piekha and Masha Rasputina.

First husband

In the early 90s, a young and not very famous artist met one of the members of the popular group “Tender May” Sergei Lenyuk. Soon after the modest painting in the registry office, the girl gave birth to Sergei’s son. It seemed that the family had become complete, but life together was far from ideal. The young couple lived with the musician’s mother, which made Lera uncomfortable, but everything finally collapsed when it turned out that her husband was secretly having fun with his fans.

Lera, along with her son and personal belongings, left Sergei. The first divorce greatly affected her mental state. She experienced a lot:

long-term depression;
unwillingness to live;
alcohol abuse.