The real parents of Sukhankina's children. Margarita Sukhankina and her children: how the singer’s family lives after the adoption process
Not everyone can raise someone else’s child, but, as practice shows, many modern stars decide to do such an act Russian stage. Margarita Sukhankina became the natural mother of “her” two adopted children.
Singer Margarita Sukhankina has four marriages behind her - with a chef, composer, accompanist and lieutenant colonel, but Margarita did not give birth to a child from any of the men. And there were chances of becoming a mother: Sukhankina was pregnant more than once. Only at the age of 48 did the woman finally fulfill her dream, becoming the mother of adopted children - Seryozha and Lera.
Margarita Sukhankina became the heroine of the program “My Truth” on Channel Five
The series of programs “My Truth” continued on Channel Five. On Sunday morning, April 7, an episode was released with artist Margarita Sukhankina entitled “It was just a mirage...”.
Like a schoolgirl from a simple place Soviet family conquered the world stage? What sacrifices did the singer make for the sake of high art? Why was the star of “Mirage” fired from the Bolshoi Theater? And what didn’t the lead singers of one of the country’s most popular groups share? Why did four marriages of Margarita Sukhankina collapse? And also where did she find her true happiness? Viewers saw the revelations of the ex-soloist of the legendary band in the new release of the project “My Truth.”
How did the artist decide to adopt?
One day Margarita saw a story on TV in which they talked about Seryozha and Lera - kids without parents. At that moment, the star realized that she wanted to become a mother for them. In order to meet the kids, the singer overcame a rather long and difficult path.
After all the adoption documents were completed, Margarita took the children to her place. Since then, she has been raising Leronka and Sergei. It is worth noting that immediately after the adoption procedure, the babies’ real parents wanted to take them back, but this was prevented by the fact that birth mother was officially deprived parental rights, and the father has five criminal records.
Biography and creativity of Margarita Sukhankina, personal life
The singer was born in 1964 in Moscow. Her father and mother are engineers by profession. Her older brother Pavel also grew up in the family. Margarita demonstrated excellent vocals even in her early childhood years. Found it in my daughter's musical abilities, her parents took her to the Palace of Pioneers, where she was accepted into the choir. As she grew older, she studied music and sang in the children's choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, directed by Viktor Popov.
Also in student years the artist received an offer to perform in the Mirage group as a soloist from her longtime friend, composer Andrei Letyagin. But she did not agree to sing on the stage, she was afraid of being expelled from the conservatory. Then the composer asked the girl to record several of his songs, which the group members soon performed to the soundtrack.
Despite the fact that her last name was not mentioned anywhere, Sukhankina absolutely loved singing and recording compositions. The songs “The Stars Are Waiting for Us,” “Video,” and “This Night” were known by the whole country by that time, thanks to which they gained wild popularity among listeners. The compositions of the second and third albums were performed by Tatyana Ovsienko, Irina Saltykova, and then Ekaterina Boldysheva, the singer herself for a long time remained in the shadows.
After graduation, the singer got a job at the Bolshoi Theater, where she sang roles under the name Maruna. In 2003, she completed her opera career and soon began performing as a duet with Natalia Gulkina, recording the album “Simply a Mirage” in this collaboration. In 2016, Margarita took up a vocal career: she created her own band and now performs not only her early songs, for which she received the permission of the authors, but also new compositions.
In 2017, the stage star took part in the television competition “You’re Super!”, occupying the jury’s chair for the project. It was difficult for her to judge the performances of the participants, since children who were left without parents sang.
Sometimes children who grew up in star family, know nothing about their biological parents. However, real parents are those who raised, educated, gave love and tenderness
Deciding to adopt a child is a difficult step even for an ordinary woman. What can we say about an artist whose every day is scheduled - tours, filming, concerts, recordings, and whose life is constantly under the radar of the media.
However, there are many cases where representatives of show business become wonderful, truly natural mothers for adopted children. About them - in the material E.G.. RU.
Tatiana Ovsienko
Famous singer Tatiana Ovsienko lived rich life- performed in concerts throughout the country. One day, fate brought her to distant Perm, and there she was invited to a charity event at the Orphanage. By that time, Tatyana already knew: she couldn’t have her own children. That's what the doctors said.
All the kids in the Baby House were having fun, running around, laughing at the holiday, and a little three-year-old boy sat alone on the sidelines. He alone did not participate in the fun. The singer asked the staff what was wrong with him. “Heart pathology,” answered the Orphanage employee with a sigh. It turned out that the boy’s parents abandoned him immediately after birth after learning about his heart disease. And now, according to doctors' forecasts, he only has a little time left to live - a few months, and maybe even weeks...
Tatyana could not come to terms with this. She found a clinic where the baby with sad eyes underwent surgery. All the time while the child was recovering from a serious operation, the singer was with him, and then she told her husband that she could no longer part with this boy, she wanted him to become her son. And since then Igor lived with his mother Tanya.
True, in adolescence certain problems began, and at that time I already provided enormous support ex-husband Tatiana - Vladimir Dubovitsky. He took the boy to America, where he then lived. Igor still lives in America, but often flies to his mother in Russia.
Ekaterina Gradova
Actress who played the radio operator Kat in the popular TV series “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, she raised a talented daughter - an actress Maria Mironova. But at 47 years old Ekaterina Gradova for the second time I had the opportunity to become a mother, only this time for an adopted child.
Visiting again for a charitable purpose Orphanage, Catherine could not pass by the two-year-old boy. She was very worried about how her husband would react to her desire to adopt the baby. However, her husband only supported her idea. Gradova’s adopted son is the same age as her grandson.
Margarita Sukhankina
Singer Margarita Sukhankina, to the soundtracks of which the soloists of the group “Mirage” once performed, she could not forgive herself that in her youth she refused the opportunity to give birth to a child by having an abortion at the request of her husband. After that, she tried several more times to carry and give birth, but then the doctors deprived her of last hope, assuring that the singer was barren.
Two orphans from orphanage I saw Sukhankina on TV. 4 year old Seryozha and 3 year old Lera immediately won the singer’s heart, and she went to another city to pick up her children. So 48-year-old Margarita finally became a mother.
Only now does she feel, as she admits, completely fulfilled and happy. Margarita does not consider herself a heroine - she simply does not understand how she could live without her children before.
Natalya Belokhvostikova
The actress Natalia Belokhvostikova and her director husband Vladimir Naumov Her own beautiful adult daughter has already grown up. And there were no thoughts about adoption, but then fate intervened. Belokhvostikova performed at creative evening in an orphanage. He suddenly approached her a little boy with an unusual request - to give him a cross.
Three year old Kirill touched the artist's heart. The very next day, 65-year-old Natalya Belokhvostikova and 80-year-old Vladimir Naumov came to this orphanage again, and soon took the baby home.
Many condemned the married couple - how come they decided to take on the responsibility of becoming parents in a very mature age! But the artist admits that she and her husband never regretted their decision. Kirill saved them from loneliness.
Irina Alferova
I happened to become a foster mother and an actress Irina Alferova. Besides my own daughter Ksenia she raised two children of her third husband. When Irina’s sister died, she took her nephew into her family Sasha. Of course it wasn't easy. But she always thought that it was even more difficult for children! They had to get used to life with a new mother, adapt, and had to endure serious experiences.
However, today all the worries are behind us. All of Irina Alferova’s children are already adults, each of them is a successful person in their own way.
Margarita Sukhankina with her son Sergei and daughter Valeria The recognizable “voice” of the most popular hits of the group “Mirage” Margarita Sukhankina to this day he performs songs that the public loves. Lyricist Valery Sokolov gave permission to perform his compositions to only two singers - her and Svetlana Razina.
Less known to fans is that Margarita worked in Bolshoi Theater. The artist has a classic mezzo-soprano voice and has become a successful opera singer.Now the 53-year-old artist leads her own musical group and is on the jury of the children’s vocal competition “You’re Super!” on the NTV channel, and also writes a column dedicated to foster parenting for one of the major Internet portals.
“I saw my children, who are now very much loved and integral to me, for the first time on TV, in Timur Kizyakov’s program “While Everyone is Home.” I am very glad that on this day I was at home, turned on the TV and saw the section “You are having a child,” where they showed my children. I immediately had a “heartbreak,” and literally a few days later I arrived in the city where they lived.”
The artist recalls that she instantly “coincided” with the children - the very next day Seryozha and Vika called her mom. The singer herself fell in love with them at first sight, and every day she feels them more and more close and dear.
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At first, Seryozha often bullied and offended Lera. Margarita patiently explained that she and her sister were family and should take care of each other and treat each other kindly. Over time, the children became very friendly: “It seems to me that Seryozha and Lera truly realized the truth that they are brother and sister precisely when they came to live with me.”
The singer noted that she is very strict with children, since she is responsible for them: “At the same time, I am categorically against any punishment of children! And it doesn’t matter at all how you try to punish the child: by boycotting him, insulting him with words, depriving him of pocket money, or hitting him. Insults and punishments can achieve only one thing - the child will begin to be afraid of you. Parenting is about controlling your emotions and calmly explaining to your child what he did wrong. When he understands the situation and tries not to repeat his mistakes again, it means you have succeeded as a parent.”
According to the artist, the main thing for parents is to educate themselves: “By indulging children’s whims, not following your own words, not showing your child an example of how to behave, you won’t achieve results, believe me.”
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Last year, the lead singer of the Mirage group, Margarita Sukhankina, adopted two children from Tyumen - 3-year-old Lera and 4-year-old Seryozha. The singer saw the kids in the program “While Everyone is Home,” where in a special section they talk about children who do not have a mother and father. And I immediately decided to take them from the orphanage.
The singer completed all the documents and brought the guys home. Already on the second day they began to call her mom... But... a few months later, the biological parents of Lera and Seryozha appeared on her horizon. Alexander and his 25-year-old wife Olga. They said that they miss the kids very much, so the kids should live in the house of their mother and father.
Mirage soloist Margarita Sukhankina: “I adopted wonderful kids, and now they want to take them away from me!”
True, life is difficult for them (the children’s biological father was convicted five times and still cannot find permanent job. - Ed.). Because of this, their eldest son, who has been disabled since birth, cannot be taken from the orphanage. But unexpectedly surging parental feelings do not allow them to come to terms with the fact that Lera and Seryozha live with a wealthy and famous mother... Moreover, Olga was expecting another child at that time.
For the singer, this came as a real shock: after all, the children had long become family to her...
I will not give my babies to anyone! Lera and Seryozha lived in an orphanage for six months, no one visited them for six months. Their biological mother has been deprived of parental rights. According to their documents, they didn’t have a dad at all: there is a dash in the “father” column. Sometimes Seryozha remembers his former life: “But when we lived with another mother, they didn’t feed us there...” I asked him if he wanted to see that other mother. He replied no.
Well, how can I give them away? The kids are with me legally. Now they have warmth, comfort, motherly love.
Alexander and Olga first abandoned their daughter and son, abandoned them, and now they are shouting “help”! But children are not toys...
I don’t want to condemn anyone, but a man who, by the age of 30, already has five convictions, wants to take my daughter and son away from me! What can he give to children? Or a mom who has problems with the bottle? Fortunately, even Alexander’s mother did not support the impulse of these would-be parents. We talked to her, and she honestly admitted that she was glad that the children were in good hands.
I really enjoy being a mom. I finally understand for whom I open my eyes in the morning. I have a meaning in life. Fur coats, diamonds, resorts - I've already seen all this. You can’t imagine how I feel when I come home and my children fly out of the house screaming towards me: “Hurray! Mommy has arrived!” Now I can call myself a truly happy woman.
In 2013, Margarita Sukhankina, the lead singer of the Mirage group, popular in the 80s and 90s, at the age of 49, became a mother for the first time, with two children at once: a boy and a girl. However, the newfound women's happiness Margarita was not happy for long. A few months later, the singer’s son and daughter were almost taken away.
Unsuccessful marriages and pregnancies
Margarita Sukhankina always dreamed of becoming a mother. However, unlike professional activity The singer’s personal life did not work out for a long time. Sukhankina's first husband was a foreigner, Croatian Antun Maruna. Together with her husband, she lived either in Germany or in Switzerland. But the established life abroad turned out to be an unreliable platform for the family. In addition, as Sukhankina herself admitted, Marun made her a housekeeper, and she wanted to perform on stage. In the end, 2 years later, Margarita and Antun divorced, without having time to have children.
The performer’s second choice was a man whose name she never mentioned. However, Sukhankina more than once recalled that her husband often raised his hand to her and suffered from alcoholism. He forced Margarita to have an abortion when she first found herself pregnant. Next time, the singer decided not to listen to anyone and still give birth to a child. When the pregnancy was already coming to an end, the baby suffocated in the womb and was born dead.
Children from TV
As time went. Age no longer allowed Margarita to rely on her own strength. But Sukhankina had no intention of giving up her dream. She considered both in vitro fertilization and surrogacy. However, as often happens, chance decided everything. In 2012, in one of the television programs, the vocalist saw a story about a brother and sister who turned out to be unnecessary to their parents and were sent to an orphanage. Margarita realized that these were the children she had been looking for all her life.
Already in next year 3-year-old Valeria and 4-year-old Sergei celebrated their housewarming in the house of Margarita Sukhankina. Despite the fact that the brother and sister took a long time to get used to the unfamiliar surroundings, they began calling Margarita mom already on the second day after the move. Just when adopted son and Sukhankina’s daughter settled into a new place; the biological father and mother of Valeria and Sergei unexpectedly appeared in the singer’s life.
Father is a criminal and mother is an alcoholic
Having learned that their children had been taken in by a famous artist, the parents began to feign remorse and insisted that they missed them very much. However, Sukhankina did not believe them. Valeria and Sergei’s father, Alexander, by the age of 30 had been behind bars at least 5 times, and his mother, Olga, abused alcohol. Moreover, when she showed up to Sukhankina, the woman did not hide the fact that another of her children, a disabled child, was in a boarding school, and she herself was pregnant again.
Fortunately, the unfortunate spouses were unable to return Valeria and Sergei. The father’s numerous criminal records, who were not even included in the children’s birth certificates, and the mother’s alcoholism, who, among other things, by that time had already been deprived of parental rights and had no intention of changing her lifestyle, played a role. And soon alcohol completely drove the woman to the grave.
Valeria and Sergey today
It is interesting that, according to Margarita Sukhankina herself, who, of course, did not intend to give up the children, the mother of the biological father of Valeria and Sergei took her side. Elderly woman was glad that her grandchildren were finally in safe, kind and caring hands. And indeed it is.
Today, the singer’s daughter and son are already going to school. Besides training sessions, they attend hobby groups: Valeria is interested in dancing, and Sergei is learning to play the piano and plays basketball. As Sukhankina admits, now she thanks God every day for the happiness given to her.
