Ilya Kovalchuk's wife looks stunning, they have an amazing family
Ilya Kovalchuk is preparing to play his first match for the Los Angeles Kings. It is unlikely that he would have made many decisions in his career without Nicole’s support. There are often situations when athletes refuse to move to another club due to family circumstances, but this is not about Kovalchuk. In 2012, they left America with small children for St. Petersburg, and six years later they returned back - now to Los Angeles.
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Nicole and Ilya met when they were only 18 years old. The girl was singing in the group “Mirage” at that time, and Kovalchuk saw her on TV, after which he asked his friends to organize a meeting. By that time, Ilya had already become number one in the NHL draft and played for Atlanta. Ilya was immediately captivated not only by Nicole’s beauty, but also by her intelligence. Not immediately, but he won the beauty’s favor, and soon a hot romance began.
For some time they maintained a long-distance relationship, Nicole periodically came to Ilya in Atlanta, but then decided to leave her singing career and move to him in the USA in order to devote herself entirely to her beloved. In 2005, the couple had their first daughter, and two years later they married. Kovalchuk always dreamed of a big family, and now he and his wife are raising four children - sons Philip and Artyom and daughters Caroline and Eva.
Nicole is a wonderful mother and wife who skillfully manages her children, runs the house and supports her husband everywhere. When such a beautiful and loving wife is waiting for you at home, you can move mountains on the site. Ilya spent 12 seasons in the NHL, won the Maurice Richard Trophy, and in 2012 reached the Stanley Cup final with New Jersey.
After moving to the KHL, Ilya won two Gagarin Cups with SKA, in 2015 he was recognized as the most valuable player of the playoffs, and in 2018 he became the top scorer of the championship. All this time his beautiful wife was with him. In 2020, after the birth of her fourth child, daughter Eva, Nicole became interested in fitness and began regularly posting videos of her workouts and photos in underwear on Instagram. One can only envy such a figure!
His wife is Ilya’s best motivator; he is in great shape. In winter, he became MVP at the Pyeongchang Olympics and fulfilled his dream - he helped Russia win the long-awaited gold. His wife and eldest daughter supported him in the stands. Kovalchuk devotes all his free time to his family. He and Nicole have been happy together for 16 years.
A sports lifestyle is the credo of not only Nicole and Ilya, but also their children. Carolina is interested in gymnastics, Philip plays football, and Artyom plays hockey.
In the spring, Nicole received the Miss Fitness Bikini award. One can only admire her forms.
After winning the Olympic Games, Kovalchuk faces a new challenge in his career - at the age of 35, he returned to the NHL to fulfill another dream - to win the Stanley Cup. In the summer, he signed a three-year contract with Los Angeles and on the night of October 5 he will make his debut for the Kings.
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The Kovalchuks moved to Beverly Hills in the summer. Nicole, as always, took care of the household chores. For a hockey player who is constantly on the move, it is important that there is comfort and tranquility at home. His family motivates him to set new goals and achieve them. Without a doubt, with such support he will succeed.
Marta Varlamova, wife of Vyacheslav Voinov
The name of Marta Varlamova periodically appears in the press, but not thanks to her good deeds, but because of personal scandals. The girl was born in Chelyabinsk, graduated from the university with a degree in economics, married a teacher at her university department and gave birth to a daughter. The marriage was unsuccessful, Marta quickly divorced and soon married again - to the hockey player Voinov. The first years of family life were ideal, and Vyacheslav became an excellent stepfather to Martha’s daughter Christina. After some time, the family moved to the USA, where Voynov was offered a contract in the NHL. However, in the fall of 2014, the hockey player was detained on charges of domestic violence. The story was very confusing, as Martha changed her testimony several times. As a result, Voynov was convicted and given a suspended sentence, and the NHL suspended the midfielder’s work at the club. Passions subsided, the couple reconciled and returned to Russia.
Further development of relations
The sympathy turned out to be mutual, and the girl and the guy flared up with mutual passion, which later flowed into sincere devotion and love. Each of them is handsome and could boast of success in their careers. However, appearance is not the main thing that made them get closer.
Nicole Kovalchuk immediately saw in Ilya a person she could trust. He seemed to her self-confident and courageous, but at the same time modest and well-mannered, not wasting his inner strength just to boast about it.
A month later, the young man flew to the United States for work, so the couple communicated at a distance. At the first opportunity they met in person. At that moment, the athlete expressed his desire to take Nicole Kovalchuk with him to America.
The girl’s biography could change dramatically, since she would have to make a responsible decision - to give up a career on stage for the sake of well-being in her personal life. However, then she could not leave the country. A contract was concluded with Mirage, which had to be fulfilled. Then a happy event occurred in the couple’s life - the singer’s first pregnancy, as a result of which Carolina was born in 2005.
Personal life
Ilya saw his future wife on the TV screen - Nicole at that time was the lead singer of the Mirage group, and Kovalchuk, who watched the group’s performance, immediately drew attention to the pretty blue-eyed lead singer. He made every effort to meet Nicole Ambrazaitis in person and set up a first date at a cafe.
In the photo: Ilya Kovalchuk and Nicole Ambrazaitis
The girl really liked the handsome young man, a promising hockey player - Ilya won her over with his good manners and modesty. The young people began dating, and then began to live together.
Nicole became Ilya Kovalchuk’s wife only five years later, when their daughter Caroline was two and a half years old. Seven years later, another important and very happy event occurred in the personal life of Ilya Kovalchuk - his son Philip was born.
Today the hockey player and his wife already have four children - two sons and two daughters. The youngest of them, Eva, was born six years ago. When Ilya Kovalchuk moved to America, his family followed him.
In the photo: the hockey player's family
Having become Kovalchuk’s wife, Nicole left show business and began raising children. However, Nicole Ambrazaitis did not intend to remain a housewife for long - she always tried to watch her figure, and then she began to actively engage in fitness and achieved great success in this - in 2020 she became the winner of the Fitness Bikini competition.
Kovalchuk, who recently became the Olympic champion as a member of the Russian team, is proud of his wife’s achievements and believes that this is not her last victory.
The title “Miss Fitness Bikini” was given to Nicole for a reason - five times a week she works out on exercise machines, loading herself with substantial weights, and every morning she begins with a run. The hockey player’s wife has a blog on Instagram, where she shares photos and videos of her training with subscribers.
“Work out like crazy or stay the same,” she leaves such motivating captions on her page.
Nicole has appeared on the covers of fashion and sports magazines more than once. In addition, Ilya Kovalchuk’s wife produces sports nutrition under her own brand and sells training programs developed by her.
Nicole also tries to introduce her children to sports - her eldest daughter does gymnastics, Philip plays football, and Artem plays hockey, and, perhaps, in the future he will connect his biography with this sport.
Ilya Kovalchuk’s wife and children follow him everywhere - they live in the States in the summer and move to St. Petersburg for the winter.
Childhood and the beginning of a sports career
His biography definitely cannot begin with the words: “Who would have guessed that...” Surely Ilya’s father, Valery Nikolaevich, looking at his newborn son in a crib, already mentally imagined him scoring goals into his opponents’ goal. The boy, born in the Russian city of Tver in the family of a dentist and sports coach, was identified from birth by the sports Muse as a hockey star.
In the photo Ilya Kovalchuk with his family: parents and sister Arina.
From the age of four, dad took Ilya to the gym and taught him to train hard. The foundations were laid for the son to live up to the name given at birth: Ilya grew up strong and strong, like his namesake, the epic hero. Trampoline, football, basketball, acrobatics, swimming - a little of everything, but in the end hockey was chosen. When Ilya was only five years old, his father assigned him to the command of a close friend, Viktor Nikolaevich Zhukov. An honored coach of the country, Zhukov was a real “ace” in the matter of educating young hockey stars: for many years he led the junior Tverich team.
Even after going under the guidance of a venerable coach, Ilya did not remain without his father’s attention for a minute. Not a single lesson took place without the participation of Valery Nikolaevich, or more to say: they continued outside the gym. The famous “brush” throw, with which Kovalchuk the son will become known throughout the world, is his father’s merit. For many weeks, months, Ilya monotonously, under the gaze of his dad, threw the puck from the plywood into the goal painted on the wall.
When his son was in the fifth grade, his father decided that a simple school was no longer enough for serious training, and Ilya was transferred to a city boarding school with a sports focus. On weekends there was no rest: father and son went to Moscow for hockey matches. At the age of 15, Ilya moves to a new level of training: he is transferred from a boarding school to the Moscow Olympic Reserve School.
Even before the young man entered the Moscow sports school, he had already “marked his mark” at Russian youth hockey competitions. After one of the tournaments, when he scored 33 goals in total, he was invited to Dynamo Moscow, this was in 1993. A year later - a trip overseas in the children's Spartak team; In Minnesota, Ilya scores 22 goals during the tournament period and receives the title of “top scorer.”
Having already shown excellent athletic abilities, the young man at the age of 16 makes a sharp leap upward: bypassing the “junior” step, he is immediately invited to join the adult squad of Moscow Spartak. The Major League of Hockey is adding its youngest player to its ranks! At the world “Challenge Cup” in 2000, held in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, Ilya Kovalchuk became “the best player of the championship.”
2001: Spartak, for which Kovalchuk has been playing for the second season, advances to the Major League. The famous Atlanta Trashers club invites a talented young man to join them. Based on the results of the club's annual draft, Ilya is assigned the first number. Goodbye childhood, now the game will be played like an adult!
Meeting Nicole and Ilya
The first date took place in Moscow. The hockey player spent his vacation there. The young people sat in a cafe and told each other about themselves. The girl was told little about Ilya, his character traits and personal qualities, so he knew much more about her. However, it took a little time for the singer to form a positive impression of her new acquaintance.
Kovalchuk behaved very restrained and gallant, although in his heart he was afraid that he might not like his chosen one or that she was already in love with another man. After all, he was probably not the only one interested in such a beauty. However, the relationship gradually developed, and any misunderstanding disappeared. Each of them felt easy, carefree and free next to their partner. If earlier Ilya did not believe that a beautiful woman could be smart at the same time, now his point of view has changed radically.
Yulia Kablukova, wife of Ilya Kablukova
Ilya and Yulia lived next door for many years, but, by a strange coincidence, never crossed paths. They met in a common company of friends, and the girl literally fell in love with the stately and handsome hockey player at first sight. But Ilya did not immediately recognize the love of his life in Yulia, so the girl had to take the first step and call Kablukov herself. As a result, the romance between them began very quickly. In 2008, Ilya received an offer from one of the Nizhny Novgorod hockey clubs, and Yulia, without hesitation, transferred from a Moscow university to Nizhny Novgorod to be close to her beloved man. The forced business trip did not last long: Kablukov soon transferred to Spartak Moscow. In 2010, the wedding of Yulia and Ilya took place in the capital. Currently, the couple is raising a daughter and living happily.
Behind the ice skating rink
Ilya Kovalchuk is married. His wife was the former lead singer of the group “Mirage” Nicole Ambrazaitis. Ilya first saw his future wife in the group’s video and even then decided to meet her at all costs. He invited the girl to a cafe, the young people immediately liked each other.
Ilya was distinguished, in addition to sporting achievements, by a good upbringing and modesty. They dated for five years, after which their daughter Caroline was born. When their daughter was 2.5 years old, the couple got married.
A year later, in 2008, the newlyweds had their wedding in a church. In 2009, a son, Philip, was born, a year later a second son, Artem, and even later a second daughter, Eva.
During the American contract, Nicole and her children lived in America to be close to her husband. She decided to end her singing career and devote herself to her family. Ilya’s children, following the example of their father, are also fond of sports.
Ilya is actively involved in charity work; on his initiative, charity matches were organized with the participation of professional hockey players; this event was called “From the Heart.” He believes that people who have reached certain heights should help those who need it.
Nicole Ambrazaitis (Kovalchuk) is a well-known personality in the music and sports world. The wife of the famous hockey player in the recent past was the lead singer of a popular group. Now Nicole is the mother of four children and the keeper of the family hearth.
Nicole was born on May 24, 1984. According to one information, the city of birth of the future singer was Cherepovets (Vologda region). But in her own interview, the girl said that she was originally from the Baltic states. Nicole's father is Lithuanian by nationality, and her mother has Russian and Polish roots.
After school, the girl signed a contract with an Italian modeling agency and spent 4 years on the Mediterranean coast, after which she went to Moscow.
An important period in the biography of the charming blonde was her participation in the Mirage group. The group became famous for its hits, popular throughout the country, soloists-models, and the fact that the members of the group “sang” to a soundtrack voiced by a singer.
