Childhood and youth
Natalya and her twin sister Anna were born in 1982 in Smolensk. At the age of 4, Natasha’s mother brought her to the rhythmic gymnastics section. From there, after a couple of years, the girl was expelled as unpromising. Nowadays, artistic gymnastics is a mandatory companion for a blogger, along with dancing and “hardware” in the gym.
Blogger Natalya Davydova
As a child, the celebrity loved to try on her mother’s outfits and select jewelry in order to somehow stand out. According to Davydova’s stories, her parents worked as simple engineers, but there was no need to complain about the lack of income in the house.
Nevertheless, a commercial streak awoke in Natasha: she sold all sorts of small things at the local market, gave her friends and their mothers manicures. One day I found out that it had become fashionable to have small dogs. There was a Pekingese in the family, the girl found a “groom” for the pet, and then sold the puppies for a profit.
Natalia Davydova
After graduating from school, Natalya entered the institute and received the specialty of “teacher of Russian language and literature.” But the diploma remained on the shelf, and the girl went to conquer Moscow; while still in Smolensk, she gained modeling experience.
In the capital, Davydova starred for magazines, participated in beauty contests, and met famous and influential people. However, she did not achieve success on the podium.
The story of Natalya Davydova’s acquaintance with Prince Albert II of Monaco is widespread on the Internet. The royal person noticed the sisters when they were having lunch at a restaurant in Monte Carlo.
Natalia Davydova and Prince Albert II of Monaco
Albert presented the beauties from Russia with a bottle of wine and invited them for a yacht ride. Natalya refused because she came for work and was going to Italy. Later, the prince invited Davydova to the wedding ceremony with swimmer Charlene Wittstock.
But the presence of this fact in the biography of the Instagram star is questioned by haters. They say that it is unlikely that His Highness will be so generous with unknown strangers, while his circle of attention included entirely world-class celebrities.
Blog
On the social network, the cheerful lover of mixing styles, a healthy lifestyle and travel is known under the nickname “Aunt Motya.” On Natalya’s blog, she doesn’t have boring long rants about how bad it is to be a person who is not satisfied with her own reflection in the mirror. The woman openly said that she herself was motivated to transform herself by the desire to please the man she loved, and that health problems in her children forced her to change her eating habits.
Photo by Natalya Davydova from the blog “Aunt Motya”
In addition to publishing beautiful photographs, Davydova shows exactly what needs to be done to become perfect, shares menu examples and dish recipes. Open and cheerful, Natalya became a beauty consultant for publications like ELLE, VOGUE, GQ. She happily tells you how to create your own style, be it a hat on your head or the color of the wallpaper in the interior.
Yes, the photos in the account demonstrate luxury and they were taken by professional photographer Evgeny Fist, the husband of another fashion blogger Yana Fist. But a beautiful picture is presented with comments, from which it becomes clear that in life Natalya strives to be needed by her subscribers, and not just to show off her own capabilities.
Natalia Davydova
Each subscriber, according to Davydova, has value for her, and it doesn’t matter whether he shares Natalya’s point of view or just came to throw some barbs at her. The blogger claims that she has outgrown the concept of status, gone through extremes, and ultimately took a place “between a lady in diamonds and a visiting provincial woman.”
Test of life. Lyudmila Davydova
One of the most beautiful actresses of Soviet cinema, she was very successful in sharp character roles, men were crazy about her spectacular appearance, and she herself was worried, telling herself that life was not a success, which ultimately led to a tragic ending...
Lyudmila was born in 1939 in Tula into a military family , the mother of the future movie star was an ordinary housewife, Lyudmila’s maiden name was Shlyakhtur, she became Davydova after marriage. When the war ended, the family moved to Moscow, Lyudmila went to school.
Even during her school years, the girl began to be drawn to art, deciding to become an artist, performing at school festivals, reciting poetry, and participating in amateur productions.
After graduating from school in 1957, Lyuda entered the acting department of VGIK on her first try , and after finishing it, the entire course was sent to the newly created experimental theater “Ektemim”, but the experiment did not last long, the theater was closed. Lyudmila is forced to look for work; she was accepted into the Theater-Studio of Film Actors, where the actress faithfully served for 30 years.
Beautiful actress Lyudmila Davydova
Davydova made her film debut during her student years in the film “First Date”. Filming in this film helped me meet my first husband; Lyudmila met actor and director Andrei Ladynin. For a long time, classmates gossiped that Lyudmila was getting married for convenience, since Ladynin was a rich and promising groom, the son of famous parents Ivan Pyryev and actress Marina Ladynina. It was thanks to this gossip and the husband’s temper that scandals arose in the young family from the very beginning, and after a short time the marriage came to naught.
In cinema, Davydova gets mostly small episodes, but even in them she plays noticeably brightly, which is greatly facilitated by the actress’s appearance, directors are happy to look for roles for her in order to get to know the beautiful actress better, one of these directors was Valery Uskov, Davydova’s second husband, who directed the actress in one of the films that made Lyudmila truly recognizable and famous, “Shadows Disappear at Noon,” the vivid image of Natalia Menshikova did not leave the audience indifferent. But the marriage also lasted several years and the spouses separated; one of the reasons was that the spouses were never able to have a child.
“Shadows disappear at noon” Natalya Menshikova
As before, the actress acts a lot in films, Davydova’s roles are varied, she plays everyone, waitresses, German SS women, Soviet intelligence officers, princesses and court ladies, and does not refuse a very interesting offer from director Govorukhin, she stars in his detective film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” The brilliant small role of Verka the milliner was played by Davydova simply wonderfully; it reflects all the facets of acting talent, realism, and impulsiveness. Vysotsky himself is fascinated by the beautiful actress, they say that he tried in every possible way to show signs of attention to Davydova, what this resulted in remains a mystery.
The third husband of the actress was the dean of the MGIMO faculty Georgy Davydov, it was his last name that the actress kept for herself, but the marriage also turned out to be unhappy and did not last long. Lyudmila got married for the fourth time, this time her chosen one was foreign language teacher Vladimir Kotelkin, the ex-husband of Lyudmila Zykina.
The actress is still not offered large and significant roles either in the theater or in the cinema, and although there are more than thirty film roles in Davydova’s creative baggage, the viewer remembers only a few. Lyudmila begins to suffer more and more about her unfulfillment, the actress begins to experience terrible depression, her last film role was the film “Champagne Spray”, released in 1988.
Lyudmila Davydova last years of life
In the 90s, when many actors suffered from their lack of demand, Davydova was no longer invited to the movies, health problems began: chronic headaches and continuous long-term depression. This was aggravated by the lack of happiness in numerous marriages; the actress was tormented by the fact that she did not have children and ordinary female happiness and was very worried. All this became the cause of mental deviation and Davydova was placed for treatment in a psychiatric clinic.
After being discharged from the clinic in December 1996, according to doctors, the actress completely restored her frayed nerves. Davydova returned home and closed herself off from everyone in the literal and figurative sense of the word, and just before the New Year holidays, on December 25, she committed suicide. Lyudmila Petrovna Davydova was buried at the Domodedovo cemetery next to her father’s grave.
Actress's grave
Personal life
All the delights of the so-called beautiful life are available to Natalya, largely thanks to her husband Ivan Streshinsky. The Russian oligarch is a friend and colleague of Alisher Usmanov, Farhad Moshiri and Andrey Skoch. Ivan is a member of the boards of directors of Mail.ru Group and Megafon, and previously headed Coalco, Gazmetall and Telecominvest. In 2012, he headed the company USM Advisors. In the same year, his wife invited Streshinsky to get married, which the couple did in Paris, in the Church of Alexander Nevsky.
Natalya Davydova and Ivan Streshinsky
The former model and businessman has three children growing up - sons Vanya and Dima and daughter Mila. It was after the birth of the girl that Natalya began to cultivate a healthy lifestyle, because, by her own admission, she realized that she had never been able to boast of a figure in an open swimsuit.
She turned to the help of a personal trainer, with whom she works out 6 times a week, and switched the whole family to adjusted nutrition. Now there is no place for sugar, gluten and other “harmful things” in the house, and the housewife accepts the admiring glances of her husband and others. With a height of 178 cm, Davydova’s weight is within 60 kg.
Natalya Davydova with children
The changes in the figure of a mother of many children did not go unnoticed by those who claim that a woman who breastfed three children and with such muscle mass simply cannot do without plastic surgery.
“And he’s doing something to Davydov’s face,” say commentators on the Internet who call themselves Natalya’s fellow countrymen, and therefore are supposedly closely acquainted with the blogger.
In 2014, the family acquired a castle in France. In fact, this is a 2-story building, as followers note, and does not look like a castle - like a very large house, just old. The house has a name - Marienthal, and among the owners was the French businessman Alec Nathan Wildenstein, whose wife Jocelyn is known by the nickname “Catwoman” and the corresponding appearance.
Natalia Davydova's castle in France
The circumstances of the acquisition of the mansion served as the basis for rumors about Natalya and Ivan’s divorce. Allegedly, Davydova purchased real estate abroad by marrying a French billionaire. But Streshinsky himself has said more than once that family happiness is the most important treasure in his life.
Professional designers helped Natalya create the atmosphere of the castle. Davydova brought the same amount of humor that permeates her Instagram account to the luxurious interiors: in the office, upholstered in purple silk, “portraits” of the owners hang on the walls - a couple of ostriches in a tuxedo and evening dress. In the photo of a happy mother with her children, a pet, the Spitz Donut, occasionally appears, and in the garden of the French house, as Natalya told in an interview with Tatler, the cat Pipita lives.
Natalya Davydova now
At the end of 2017, the glossy publication Glamor awarded Natalya Davydova the title of first fashionista of the year. In the summer of 2018, on the pages of the same magazine, the blogger appeared in a fashion photo shoot organized by the Swiss watch company TAG Heuer. The filming was timed to coincide with the FIFA World Cup, so the Russian woman was accompanied by members of the Manchester United team Anton Martial, Victor Lindelof and David de Gea.
Natalya Davydova in 2020
The beauty's ability to mix luxury and mass-market items in one look has long attracted the attention of fashion brands. Natalya regularly receives invitations to appear in advertising sessions. Thus, together with Anton Sevidov, producer and founder of the electro-pop group Tesla Boy, the blonde advertised No One brand shoes. Before this, she became the face of the “A La Russe” collection by designer Anastasia Romantsova.
Natalia Davydova
In addition to demonstrating clothes, Natalya is happy to tell subscribers about the books that became the motivator of her transformation, about the people whose advice she relied on, looking at whom, again and again, got up from the couch and went to the gym. Davydova herself is preparing to release a book in which she plans to talk about her personal experience of losing weight, about the girls who took advantage of her course called #pressbody.
“It’s very inspiring not only to read abstract recommendations, but also to see concrete results, and not from professional models, but from ordinary people - just like the reader.”
It was then that one of my favorite expressions became “on the cutting edge of fashion.”
I remember how we seriously discussed with the London bosses whether it was possible to mix mass market and luxury in fashion photography. Nowadays, collaborations of this kind are ubiquitous, but 15 years ago a Dior skirt and a Mango blouse in one look seemed unthinkable, and Glamor was the first to do this.
Then there was Tatler. As editor-in-chief, I began to travel to Haute Couture shows and attend jewelry and watch presentations. I discovered a world where centuries-old traditions, manual labor, and an individual approach to the client rule the roost. Tatler is a magazine about people, it was famous for its interviews: we worked even on small materials for weeks, bringing them to perfection. Resonant articles were then discussed for months!
Jumper,
Dior ; skirt and ankle boots, all Fendi
Winston Churchill once said: “My requests are simple - I like the best.” I can say the same about Vogue - it is the quintessence of fashion, style, taste. In 2010, I returned to Vogue and became its editor-in-chief. Collaboration began with the best creative people in the world: photographers, stylists, models, writers. I talked to Karl Lagerfeld, Nicolas Ghesquière, Silvia Venturini-Fendi, Hedi Slimane, Alber Elbaz, Marc Jacobs. I remember in New York and Paris during fashion weeks I had twenty meetings a day (this is between shows!), where we discussed ideas for shoots and covers, large articles for the upcoming season. I don’t want to brag, but as a result, the magazine’s circulation increased by a quarter.
At the same time, a digital revolution was taking place in the world, and one fine day it turned out that magazines ceased to be as relevant and advanced as before, and went, so to speak, to the periphery of time. I no longer had enough feedback from readers; many began to judge our work based on a couple of photos on Instagram, without opening the magazine itself. This work “into the void” was, of course, demotivating.
But why remember the past and be nostalgic for what magazines were like in their heyday? It's like looking at old photographs and sighing how young and beautiful we were without detox and Botox. It was just a different time.
