The thinner lead singer of the group Artik & Asti boasted of a slender figure

Beautiful, sexy, talented as a singer and dancer, famous and in demand, she has not become a star, on the contrary - fans call her “simple to the point of horror,” “one of their own.” Artem Umrikhin’s partner in the popular duet “Artik & Asti,” Anna Dzyuba, regularly gives interviews, shares details of her personal life with fans, but the public still has many questions for her. Is the smart and beautiful Anya getting married? Why is she reluctant to talk about breaking up with her boyfriend? How does such an attractive girl manage to work with Artem in a busy schedule without making his wife jealous?

Brief biography

• Real name and surname: Anna Dzyuba;
• Creative pseudonym: Asti;
• Date of birth: 1990, June 24;
• Place of birth: Cherkassy, ​​Ukraine;
• Zodiac sign: Cancer; according to the Chinese horoscope – Horse (element – ​​metal);
• Patron Planet: Mercury;
• Height and weight: 175 cm, 55 kg;
• Figure parameters: 90 – 63 – 93;
• Nationality: Ukrainian;
• Occupation: singer in the group “Artik & Asti”;
• Marital status: not married, no children.

Asti's musical career

Producer Artem Umrikhin (Artik) was looking for a soloist for a new project and came across Anna’s songs on social networks. He realized that the girl would be ideal for this role and got in touch.

Soon the duo Artik & Asti recorded their first song, but real fame came to them only a year later, when the video for the track “My Last Hope” broke viewing records.

Anna and Artem moved to Moscow and began to work closely on their musical careers, recording songs, filming videos and performing at concerts.

The decline in popularity also turned out to have another side: the talented singer also had ill-wishers who criticized Asti’s figure and openly accused her of being overweight. The girl reacted very painfully to this and began serious work on herself.

Anya Dzyuba: childhood

Ukraine is the homeland of many talented individuals, but who could have imagined that a girl born in the summer of 1990 in the city of Cherkassy would join their ranks? Anya spent her childhood on the banks of the Dnieper, and her parents and numerous relatives still live there. By the way, the girl is not shy, unlike other pop stars, to show her “simple” parents on social networks. She respects her father and mother, madly loves her sister and nephews, and often visits them.

Anna Dzyuba as a child with her grandmother. Photo https://www.instagram.com/astiselfmade/

The Dzyuba family was not poor, but was not particularly rich. “I didn’t have a mobile phone or a computer,” the singer later shared in an interview. And then she added with a smile: “I feel like an old granny who begins to talk about how it was “for us, in our time.” She told details about how she spent time with her peers: they took sausage, bread, and candy at home, had a picnic in the yard, and hours happily flew by talking.

Her words about school: “I studied well because we had great teachers.” Yes, as a child she did not dream of becoming a singer or model, but from the first grade she sang in the choir and went to a music club. The artistic girl took part in choreographic performances, often staying for extra classes after school. And after classes, her parents were often called to school! Anya was so talkative and noisy that her classmates encouraged her to disrupt the lesson: with endless questions she “clogged the air” of the class, and time passed unnoticed, the bell rang.

with my nieces...

Boys from her classmates called her “kiddy”, “scratchy” - Anna is not shy about recalling this in an interview. “I was more of a friend to them than a candidate for their first love. I wasn’t particularly beautiful; they also teased me about my plumpness,” she said. Relationships with boys did not always end smoothly - things even ended up in fights! There was even a case, described personally by Anya, when high school students gathered after school and beat a girl after school for impudence and jokes.

The “lighter girl” (again her personal words) tried to be friends with her classmates, but it didn’t always work out. She told in one interview about a close friend at school: the friend tried to please Anya, gave compliments, and gossiped behind her back that Anna was poor and “uncouth.” Having learned about this from conversations in class, the girl broke off relations with the traitor, and from then on she tried to be friends only with guys: “It’s easier with them, they are not gossipers or envious people.”

with mom…

A calm character, lack of envy in life - this is what her parents brought up in her. “All we need is love,” the Beatles sang long before the birth of the future Asti, and parental love was the main thing in her childhood. Dad and mom adored their daughter, tried to dress her well, despite her modest income, but “I was fashionable only in their minds,” the singer later said, laughing. The principles that the mother instilled in her daughter as a teenager: “Be neat and clean so that you never smell bad. Wash your hair as often as possible. Always clean your shoes. Don’t be jealous of expensive things.”

with sisters...

But she did not envy anyone, slowly growing up, turning into an attractive girl. The guys started staring at her and asked her friends to introduce them to her. And the girls in her class... they were, according to Anna, often envious, stooping to the point of stealing beautiful things from her. “I never held a debriefing, even if I found out who did it. She simply remembered, mentally wrote it down in a “little black book” - that was her reaction.

The appearance of Artem Umrikhin, the beginning of his career, moving to Moscow

She listened to cassettes with recordings of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston until she listened to them like an accordion; together with her older sister, in her last grades she organized real concerts with a fashion show, but she was afraid to dream of a career as an artist. “For this you need either rich relatives or “bed” protection,” she was sure, the first was not in sight, the girl categorically disagreed with the second. After school, she began searching for a profession: she worked in a law office as a legal assistant, then as a makeup artist. For fun, I recorded demo versions of famous singles and posted them on the Internet.

photo https://www.instagram.com/astiselfmade/

By 2010, her future groupmate Artem Umrikhin was already a fairly well-known personality in show business. The discs “Platinum Music” and “Dirty Music” as part of the ensemble “Carats”, collaboration with “Quest Pistols” and “Hot Chocolate” - this made him popular in Ukraine and in many former CIS republics. He had the idea to create a new project in which songs would be performed by a guy (him) and a girl, and the search for a soloist began. Yura’s friend Bardash (the future head of “Mushrooms”) sent him several songs on his computer by an unknown Ukrainian woman who “sings incredibly cool.”

Artem now doesn’t remember who ultimately helped him find Anna’s phone number, and for her the call from the famous producer came as a real shock. “I have already accepted that nothing special will happen in life. I didn’t want anything, I gave up, I was ready for a banal marriage, cooking borscht and doing housework,” Anya later admitted. More of her words about the significant call: “It was as if I felt a few minutes before the conversation with him that something incredibly cool would happen. She walked nervously in circles around the room. I lived in my own little world in a small town, no hope, and suddenly - this conversation and invitation! He still doesn’t tell me through which tenth generation he found my number, but Artik is like that, I already know that if necessary, he’ll get it out of the ground.”

“We tried to record a couple of songs, and immediately sang along, so to speak,” - again a quote from the interview. In the Kyiv studio, where Artik and Asti began working seriously, the first full single with full-fledged musical design was created. And a year later, the Internet literally “blew up” their track “My Last Hope”: in a few days, more than half a million people listened to the song and watched the video.

Endless Ukraine-Russia flights began: Anya did not immediately agree to move to the big capital. Another quote about the conversation about whether to move to Moscow or not: “I discussed it with a friend and shared that I was terribly afraid of this city. And she told me that as soon as I arrive in Moscow with the intention of staying, I will immediately understand whether the metropolis accepts me or not, and I will understand this instantly, at the airport or at the train station. And so it happened: when I arrived with thoughts of staying forever, I felt a surge of incredible energy that was coming to me from Moscow.”

She still emphasizes that she left Ukraine only because work and an incredibly busy schedule required it. “I love my country, I love my hometown and the Dnieper, I feel calmest and sweetest there. But I was already suffocating from endless charter flights, didn’t get enough sleep, and had to change my place of residence just to have more free time for creativity,” her words. Artik helped the girl adapt to her new life in the capital, and endured her nervous breakdowns and hysterics when her nerves gave out. “He not only became a dear person, he is my brother! I came to Moscow and was completely alone, and we overcame my difficulties together,” is another confession of Asti.

Duet Artik&Asti: We are just friends

Today, Artik&Asti songs are nominated for prestigious awards, and concert tickets are sold out several months in advance.

Their music has amazing melody, dance drive, and the incredible voice of the soloist. The duet Artik&Asti began with one call: an already famous author, composer, performer and producer called the then unknown singer.

— Artyom, Anna, tell us how your duet was formed: how did you meet and decide to work together?

Artik: Quite by accident, I came across a recording on the Internet in which Asti took part. And I really liked her voice. I was just looking for a vocalist to work with.

Asti: One evening my phone rang, I picked it up - Artik was calling! I recognized his voice on the phone because I was already familiar with his work. At first I couldn’t believe that he just called like that. Art suggested that I try to work together and said that he was going to the studio to write a song for me. And a couple of days later we met and recorded the song “Antistress”. From that moment on we worked together, so to speak.

-? The Internet writes about Artyom that his passion for music began with the group “Malchishnik”. Anna, who or what pushed you to study music and vocals?

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Asti: As long as I can remember, music has always been with me, and I sang from a very early age. I spent my entire childhood in front of the mirror in some outfits, singing with a comb in my hand. My sister also had cassette tapes - Whitney Houston's "Body Guard" and Mariah Carey, one of the first albums with the song My All. I listened to these tapes to death, I didn’t know English, but I sang everything. And I still love Whitney Houston very much, I think she is the best performer of all time. At the age of 17, I wrote my first song, and my friends posted it on the Internet under the name Anna Dzyuba. This was my first serious composition, and I realized that perhaps what I thought was my dream could become real.

-?You managed to make a breakthrough in your career, literally shoot. Why/who do you think made this happen? Is there some luck in this or is it all just work and more work?

Artik: Everything is important here, nothing is unimportant. Of course, this is work, and chance, and luck. We didn’t just “shoot”, we worked towards it. We worked, wrote songs, toured. And before television and radio companies paid attention to us, listeners fell in love with us, for which we are eternally grateful to them.

-?What is happening in your creative life now?

Artik: We recently released a new video for the song “I am yours.” Concerts are taking place as part of the big tour #You can do everything in Russian cities. And in October we had a big solo concert in Moscow, at Izvestia Hall. We have also started recording a new album, so don’t miss the premiere!

-?Every year new talented artists appear in show business, but few stay. Why do you think this happens?

Artik: We just do what we and the audience like. And since our album became triple platinum at the end of 2020, it means we are on the right track.

Asti: We always do everything from the heart and soul and are always happy if our efforts, our work and our creativity are in demand and liked by the audience.

-?Does it happen that you quarrel?

Artik: We have no disputes or quarrels, and, accordingly, no reasons for them either. (smiles).

Asti: Artik is a producer! Who will argue with the producer? (laughs).

We get along well, from the first minutes we understand each other without words. Artik is the only person in my life whom I listen to. I don’t even listen to my parents; no one can advise me. And I listen to Artik, we are friends, work partners, he is like an older brother to me. And I'm fine.

-? Anna, you recently opened a “Beauty Bureau” - how did this idea come about?

Asti: I am a creative person, I always want to develop, I want something new. As a child, probably almost every girl played “hospital” or did everyone’s hair and makeup. I'm not an exception. Now our games have become more real. That’s why I decided to open a “Beauty Bureau”.

I have four wonderful hair stylists, whose services I have used myself for several years. A new technology for hair coloring with oils, the latest trends in care, haircuts and styling are presented. Hair retains shine, silky, dense structure for several months. And of course, cosmetology services, manicures and pedicures will be provided. The basis of our work will be the quality of services. Nowadays in Moscow you don’t always find the “right” and “your” master, even for such a small thing as cutting your hair, for example. You ask to shorten it by 2 cm, they cut it by 6, you ask for one color - they make another, and then you sit and cry.

I myself suffered with such problems for a very long time until I gathered all the good masters in one place, in my “Beauty Bureau”. This is a team that knows their business and easily understands what the client wants and how to help him further emphasize his beauty. All my friends have been asking about my hairdresser for the last couple of years, admiring the color of my hair and its shine. Who would know what happened to them two years ago... And now my hair is the merit of my hairdresser, who is on my team.

-? Anna, are there any “tricks”, your own secrets that help you look good? And what do you do to stay in good shape - diet, fitness?

Asti: I don’t go on diets, I do fitness only if I really want to. Yoga, meditation and stretching help me. I do stretching in the gym, and before going to bed I take a warm shower, turn off the sound on my phone and just immerse myself in an atmosphere of peace and quiet. The main thing here is to find balance in yourself, and for this you need to rest, relax. For me, the main thing is to get enough sleep, then I have the mood and strength.

-?Are there plans for a vacation?

Artik: In the summer we worked, performed, recorded new songs, and prepared for a tour around the country. We rest in winter. For example, last winter we visited Thailand. I like to relax in Israel, there is a special atmosphere and energy there. I also often visit Vienna, I have friends there, and I visit them periodically.

-?Well, the last question - when can we expect you to give a concert in Tula?

Artik: Tula is a very beautiful city, we’ve been to it more than once and always with pleasure! We hope to be there soon!

Artik & Asti: Artyom Umrikhin and Anna Asti.

The group was created in 2010.

The first song is “Anti-stress”.

The second album “Here and Now” became one of the most popular in Russia in 2020.

Artyom is a producer and songwriter, works with such artists as Dzhigan, Ivan Dorn, DJ SMASH, Anna Sedokova, L'One.

Hits of Artik & Asti: “I won’t give it to anyone”, “Half”, “You can do everything”, etc.

Rise to the top of show business Olympus

She cried bitterly: millions admired her, imitated her, sent declarations of love, and others wrote about her in the media: “A mediocre plump with a square face.” And it was all about unfortunate photographs from the wrong angle! There’s a paradox about being overweight: at that time she was at least five kilograms lighter than she is now, and she was still trying to lose weight, going on diets. Asti will later say a special “thank you” to Anna Sedokova many times: she taught her how to dress correctly and apply proper stage makeup.

The microphone was shaking in her hands, she was afraid to move on stage, although she was naturally artistic. It always seemed that the audience was looking for only flaws and ugliness in her. “I had to go from being “simple,” “one of my own,” to becoming self-confident, even arrogant in some ways, in order to get rid of my complexes.” And she also said to herself then: “I am no longer a “green” girl from a small Ukrainian town. This is my style – how I move, what I wear, how I communicate with the audience. And in general, absolutely everyone likes only a hundred dollar bill!” But despite the forced “corrections” of her character, Anna remained herself: kind, open, and at the same time purposeful.

photo https://www.instagram.com/astiselfmade/

All fans of the duo know the names of their creations by heart, but it’s still worth listing what brought Artem and Anna incredible popularity:

• 2013: the album “ParadiseOneForTwo”, which instantly soared to the top ranks of the most widely rotated media products;
• Same year: nomination for the Russian Music Box channel award in the “Best Promotion” category;
• 2015: the collection “Here and Now” is among the five most popular albums according to official data from Yandex.Music;
• Six months later: several prestigious awards for the video “You Can Do Anything” (based on the film “50 Shades of Gray”;
• 2016: “Best role in a video”, “Best start” - nominations for the RU.TV awards;
• The same year, in the summer: the lead composition of the upcoming album “I’m Yours” appeared on the Internet. Some critics responded ambiguously to the video: supposedly the shooting in the spirit of an action movie did not suit the lyrical song. But other professionals praised the group's work as "superb camera work";
• 2017, spring: the release of the third album of the group “Artik & Asti” entitled “Number 1” and again - the delight of fans and the top lines in the charts.

photo https://www.instagram.com/astiselfmade/
The year 2018 should be described separately - so much success and well-deserved awards literally “fell” on Artik and Asti:

• They become nominees for the “Album of the Year” award in the “ZHARA Music Awards” project for the already mentioned collection “Number 1”;
• For compositions from this disc they are nominated for an award at the Golden Gramophone. In total, they have received four gold figurines from the Golden Gramophone to date;
• Recognized as “Best Group” and “Best Pop Group” (according to “RU.TV” and “Muz-TV”, respectively);
• “Group of the Year”, recognized in the “Fashion People Awards” nomination.

In March 2019, fans saw a new video of the duo called “I Don’t Need It.” Fans then wrote on YouTube and on their social networks:

“It’s a soulful song that excites you extraordinarily and takes you far away...”

“Every video they make is a bomb! And this one too!”

“Bravo, great! It’s so sad that they don’t love us as much as in this story...”

“It touches the soul! Good luck in your future work!”

In June, a photo appeared on Ani’s Instagram showing them as the winners of MUZ-TV. “My palms were sweating, my whole body was shaking until they announced us! I cried! Dream job and best boss!” – Asti wrote on her page. Artik appeared on stage in a formal suit with a bow tie, and the singer in an unusually feminine beige dress with a train and a new bob hairstyle. And a little earlier, Anna celebrated another victory: she gained a million subscribers on her beloved Instagram.

The key to success on MUZ-TV was the single “Sad Dance” - fans of the group first heard it on AUTO RADIO in early March in a live performance. A couple of days later, the video of the song that Artik and Asti sang together with Artem Kacher received more than three million views. And the highly professional clip, which appeared later under the same name, currently has a view count of forty-three million plus.

About her personal life

This topic is now almost closed, because she recently experienced many unpleasant moments in terms of relationships with the opposite sex. Her spirit is supported, as always, by Artik, not allowing her to think about sad things. Despite regularly appearing gossip about their “non-stage” relationship, no one has any doubts - they are partners and close friends, nothing more.

And in 2017, the girl’s fans, with bated breath, read in the press and listened to her “live” revelations about how happy she is... “I don’t shout about it and don’t publish big posts, because I realized that happiness really loves silence, like someone great said,” she said in an interview. And then, openly and sincerely, she shared: “At my age, it’s time to think about family, children, but I won’t go on a long maternity leave, if anything - the music business does not tolerate downtime.”

Who is he, this thin young man with whom she willingly took pictures then, smiling happily into the camera? The press even published photographs of Asti with her fiance and potential mother-in-law. And suddenly, in mid-2017, he suddenly disappeared from her Instagram page, no more talk about marriage, short maternity leave, or the birth of a baby. What happened?

Only two years later, in April 2019, in the project “Rumors Are Going,” she agreed to lift the veil of a sudden separation from her boyfriend. Anna said a shocking phrase in an interview that shocked listeners: “We broke up because of our mutual friend.” Did she really cheat on him with a friend? Or (it’s scary to say) her potential husband turned out to be of a “different” sexual orientation? Everything turned out to be simpler, but this makes it no less offensive: the young man, it turns out, did not miss the opportunity to “walk to the left,” and his friend supported him in this.

“My boyfriend traded me for a close friend. And let's leave it at that! – she said how she cut it off, but, unable to bear it, began to share her experiences and described what she did next. “I never forgive betrayal and do not intend to do so. They are dead to me. Both. When one of them came up to me later by chance, I told him, before turning away: “Sorry, I don’t greet the dead.”

photo https://www.instagram.com/astiselfmade/

Despite the painful breakup of a strong relationship that “threatened” to develop into a family, she has not lost faith in people and still hopes to meet a noble and caring man. “I will definitely have children, but only after marriage - it’s not right for them to grow up without a father. My sister has two, I will have no less,” her words.

Was there plastic surgery?

Anya has never had an excellent figure. Volumes had to be adjusted by food restrictions, yoga, and physical exercise. However, the lost pounds quickly returned.

Having gained popularity, the girl received a lot of criticism, which drove the aspiring singer to hysteria and depression. Harsh statements in the media regarding her figure, as well as a busy, exhausting schedule, unsettled the star. She lost weight, so much so that her curves were no longer seductive.

Last year, the singer decided to undergo lipofilling of the buttocks (redistribution of adipose tissue into the desired parts). For this operation, she even had to gain some weight to add volume to her buttocks.

Fans believe that Asti's nose was corrected by rhinoplasty. Comparing photographs from different years, one can indeed assume that the shape of the star nose has changed. He became narrower and a little smaller.

The singer also regularly increases the volume of her lips using fillers. According to the girl herself, her face looks much more harmonious this way.

Now Anna is completely happy with her figure, she continues to play sports and eat right; Anya is not yet thinking about any serious changes to her body. Her story is confirmation that appearance is not as important as talent, because it was the latter that brought her popularity and the fulfillment of her hopes.

2019-01-18

Author: Svetlana Sergienko

Interesting facts about Anna-Asti

1. She is not only a successful singer, but also a confident, competent businesswoman. On April 7, 2017, she officially opened a salon, which she called “Asti Beauty Bureau.” The girl personally communicates with clients, helping them with advice on how to become well-groomed and beautiful. Satisfied visitors publish a lot of reviews with words of gratitude, admiring the friendliness and professionalism of the charming hostess. Anna also later became the designer of her own line of lingerie, and her products sell well in prestigious Moscow boutiques.
2. Touring all major cities of Russia (tight schedule - through the month of October), recording new songs and videos - Anya’s business does not forget her main love, music. She says: “My greatest happiness is when I sing, perform, and when people listen to me. There have never been moments in life that brought more joy.” And a pilot version of the song “There are no people like you” has already appeared on the network - a harbinger of a new disc, which is being recorded by a duet together with Dzhigan. Young people described it as “the most romantic and kind song of this summer.”
3. Stage image is the main “weapon” of any star after vocal abilities, everyone knows this. For a long time, Anya was brought to tears by the sharp tongues of those who mocked her face and figure in the media. She does not hide the fact that she had her lips and cheekbones adjusted by plastic surgeons in order to correct the “wrong” shape of her face. The makeup skills she acquired at work after school allow her to apply makeup correctly, and she also carefully selects her clothes to look sexy, but not provocative or vulgar.
4. In October 2018, after giving several long interviews after a short disappearance from the stage (fans were terribly worried!), she openly announced that she was in a plastic surgery clinic. An operation called “3D lipomyosculpting” was performed. Before surgery, according to the artist, she had to gain six kilos. The specialists took the “excess” from the abdomen, and with the help of this material Anna was formed into beautiful, lush buttocks.
5. Now she has a flat athletic tummy, smooth transitions along the hips, she has become even more beautiful. “I only went for this operation now, although I’ve been dreaming about it for a couple of years. I couldn’t find time because of work, but I finally decided,” the girl shared in the media. She also said that the recovery period will be difficult for her: she cannot sit for a long time, she will have to sleep in a certain position, and she must follow a strict diet. The diet is special, high-calorie, because under no circumstances should she lose weight, otherwise all the results of the operation will “go away.”
6. The brave girl loves getting tattoos, and the most noticeable one is on her right arm. “My cat’s soul sings and cries, and while I’m worried, I paint my body,” Anya wrote on social networks, posting new photos from this tattoo. There is a cat, flowers, a treble clef, beads and pendants, and much more.
7. And she loves animals! She has a Sphynx cat at home, who sometimes accompanies her owner to interviews. There is also a dog of the French bulldog breed, no less beloved. Heated discussions periodically arise about his character, habits and pranks on Anna’s Instagram.
8. A couple more “secrets” about Anya Dzyuba. Secret No. 1 (which she doesn’t really hide) is her fear of large crowds. Because of this, she doesn’t often go to clubs and hates taking the subway. But what about the concerts, you ask, since there are thousands of excited fans next to her? “They are below, and I am above on stage with my people, I have nothing to be afraid of,” the singer replies. Second secret: just like large crowds of people, she hates TV. He can't stand political programs and only sometimes watches concerts.
9. They are still close friends, Anya and Artem. Their group has a real family atmosphere, they are like brother and sister. If they fight, they quickly make up, because both understand: the duo is at the peak of popularity, and without each other they cannot exist in show business. The credit for the strength of their creative union, as Anya herself says, belongs to Artem. “He doesn’t act like a boss, and he’s the only person in the world at the moment whose advice I’ll take,” says Asti.

Interesting facts and rumors

Anna is a young and beautiful girl. It is not surprising that rumors arise around her person. Due to the lack of information about her personal life, fans often come up with non-existent facts.

Artik and Asti - did the couple have an affair?

Duets consisting of a guy and a girl often appear on the Russian stage. At the same time, team members often have close relationships. The romantic lyrics of Artik & Asti's songs give a lot of reasons for discussion among fans.

For a long time, fans wondered whether Anna and Artem were dating. In fact, there is no romantic relationship between the young people and they are only together on stage or on set. Also, Anna Dzyuba and Artem Umrikhin are not relatives, although often in interviews the girl admits that she treats Artik like an older brother.

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Anna had a young man, with whom she sometimes posted photos on Instagram. They recently broke up. And now Asti is in search of the man of her dreams.

During the existence of the group, Artem had a lover. They got married and recently had a son, Ethan. Artik is an exemplary father and often posts photos with his family on social networks.

Anna is pregnant

Rumors about Anna's pregnancy did not arise out of nowhere. Fans perceived as news about the future baby the message that Asti recorded for her future daughter on her day of happiness.

Later in the interview, the girl admitted that she would really like a large family and many children, but now this is impossible. Work takes all her energy.

Since the singer broke up with her boyfriend, you shouldn’t expect a quick addition to Anna’s family. The girl spends a lot of time on tours, recordings and her own business. Of course, she is trying to arrange her personal life. But Anna avoids questions about her boyfriend, hinting only that she now has a boyfriend.