Mille Jovovich - 45: What is she proud of, what she is ashamed of and what she regrets about the famous native of Kiev

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

December 17 marks 45 years of the famous American actress Milla Jovovich. She spent the first 5 years of her life in the USSR, and then left with her mother to the USA, where at the age of 11 she began acting in films and made a successful acting career. She became one of the few emigrants who managed to achieve success in Hollywood, but at the same time admits that at the beginning of her career she made many mistakes for which she is still ashamed …

Her real name is Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich. She was born in 1975 in Kiev, in the family of the Soviet actress Galina Loginova, who graduated from VGIK and worked at the film studio. A. Dovzhenko, and the Serbian doctor Bogdan Jovovich, who at that time studied at a Soviet medical university under a student exchange program. After completing his studies, he could not obtain a visa and had to leave the USSR. A marriage with a foreigner broke the career of Galina Loginova - after that she was included in the "black lists", and she was no longer invited to appear. Then she decided to emigrate from the USSR. The family first moved to London, and then to the United States.

The first years in America were very difficult for the family - Milica's mother could not continue her acting career there - not knowing the language, she could only work as a cleaner. The father failed to obtain a doctor's license, and later went to jail for fraudulent medical insurance. Galina Loginova invested all her unfulfilled ambitions in her daughter: having got a job as a housekeeper, she devoted all her strength and funds to her training - music, dance and acting lessons. In addition, she organized photo shoots for her, and from the age of 9 the girl began working as a model. At 11, she first appeared on the cover of a magazine, and then over the course of two years starred in many commercials and posed for 15 glossy magazines. And from the age of 13 she began acting in films.

Many accused Galina Loginova of allowing her daughter at such a young age to appear in rather candid photo shoots, which were published in magazines designed for an adult audience. However, the scandal that erupted due to the involvement of an underage girl in the world of show business attracted even more attention to her, and soon the most famous brands were vying with each other to sign contracts with her. When Jovovich was 28 years old, Gianni Versace named her as his favorite supermodel, and a year later her name was on the list of the highest paid models in the world.

Early fame played a cruel joke with Milla - she could not avoid star fever and later burned out with shame for her behavior and statements in the press. Years later, she confessed that she very much regretted her antics and what she said in her first interviews. "", - Jovovich admits.

Milla understood that her mother wanted a better future for her, and did not blame her for allowing her to become independent so early, but at the same time, her daughter Jovovich tries to protect her from all the temptations that almost broke her life. When 9-year-old Ever was offered modeling, Milla categorically refused. She wants her daughter to have a fulfilling childhood and not grow up too early. Meanwhile, Ever, as a child, decided to also become an actress and at the age of 5 asked her mother to take her to the casting. Milla was not opposed to her daughter following in her footsteps, but only if it does not interfere with her studies. Ever has already started acting in films, but Milla controls the time she spends on the set.

Galina Loginova, who was cut off the oxygen in her profession in her youth in the USSR, after moving to the USA sometimes allowed herself disparaging statements about her homeland. But Milla Jovovich always remembered her roots and stressed this more than once in her interviews: “”.

The actress also made sure that her children did not forget their roots: she hired a Russian nanny for her daughter Ever and admitted that already at the age of 3 the girl spoke Russian better than herself. Milla can no longer express herself freely in Russian and catches herself constantly switching to English, which has long become her native language. She went to an American school and never learned to read in Russian. Jovovich regrets very much that she got to know Russian classical literature only thanks to English translations.

Despite the fact that she managed to achieve great success in the acting profession and earn worldwide recognition, Milla Jovovich considers this to be the result of her hard work and perseverance, and not outstanding talent. She says: "".

Many mistakes, which later had to be regretted, were made by the actress in her personal life. She was married three times, and the first time she got married only because she wanted to run away from home and start an independent life at the age of 17. Then Milla literally jumped out for the first comer - they met actor Sean Andrews on the set and got married just a few days after they met. After only 2 months, her mother achieved the dissolution of this marriage - she stated that her daughter was a minor, and demanded that the marriage be declared invalid.

Milla Jovovich regretted her second marriage with director Luc Besson for another reason - she said that she was then too young and inexperienced to keep the family together. After the release of their stellar collaboration - the film "The Fifth Element" - they got married, but after 2 years this marriage broke up.

Only in adulthood Milla Jovovich was able to realize all the mistakes of her youth, most of which can no longer be corrected, and only in her third marriage, the actress finally found her happiness and became the mother of three children: Milla Jovovich's secret to a strong marriage.