Payment for fame and success: 5 famous Soviet actresses who did not know the joy of motherhood

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

They had everything one could dream of - fame, success, admirers, prosperity, beauty. They were lucky enough to meet their other halves in due time and build families. But they were deprived of what could make their happiness complete - they had no children. Lyubov Orlova, Elina Bystritskaya, Tatyana Doronina, Natalya Gundareva, Liya Akhedzhakova believed that perhaps this was a price to pay for success in cinema and all-Union popularity. Some of them, in their younger years, preferred a career to the joys of motherhood, which they later regretted.

Lyubov Orlova was called the most beautiful actress of Soviet cinema of the 1930-1940s, thousands of Soviet women imitated her, she was considered a style icon - she managed to look fashionable in those days when it was extremely problematic to get fashionable outfits. Orlova was the first in everything - she became the first visiting Soviet actress and often went on tour abroad, the first was not afraid to wear outfits from foreign designers, she was the first to start doing plastic surgery. According to her acquaintances, she was terrified of old age and the fact that she would lose her beauty. According to one version, that is why she did not give birth to children - she was afraid to spoil her figure. The reasons why she did not become a mother, Lyubov Orlova herself never named, but in her environment they said that she had abortions more than once. According to another version, her husband, director Grigory Alexandrov, who already had a son from his first marriage, did not want children. Be that as it may, Orlova never hid the fact that art was in the first place for her all her life.

Elina Bystritskaya, who turned 90 this month, managed to achieve a lot in her life: she played about 40 roles in theater and cinema, the brightest of which was Aksinya in "Quiet Don", taught at the school. M. Schepkina and in GITIS, was engaged in social activities, earned the title of one of the most beautiful actresses of the twentieth century. and the title of People's Artist of the USSR, she lived in marriage for 27 years, all her life she had a huge number of fans. But the biggest tragedy of the actress, according to her, was that she could not have children. With bitterness, the actress said: "". She gave all her love to the audience and students with whom she was engaged in acting.

The famous actress, director, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater Tatyana Doronina was always surrounded by fans and was officially married 5 times. But despite the fact that her life was full of love and she was surrounded by the most worthy men, she was not fully happy - fate did not give her children. Years later, the actress admitted that she could have become a mother in her first marriage with Oleg Basilashvili, but then she quarreled with her husband, jealous of him for another actress, and decided to have an abortion, which she later regretted very much: ""

People's Artist of Russia Natalya Gundareva called the theater her greatest love, and her worst bad habit was “congenital workaholism”. In the profession, she has always been very obligatory and demanding of herself, which is why she suffered. In 1973 she was offered the lead role in the film "Autumn", and at that time she was three months pregnant. She had to make a difficult choice, which she later regretted very much. “- said Gundareva. - ". At 38, the actress realized the need to finally become a mother, but for medical reasons this was no longer possible.

Liya Akhedzhakova was married three times. Her first husband was actor Valery Nosik, with whom they worked in the Youth Theater. One of the reasons for their separation was that there were no children in this marriage. The happiest actress calls her third marriage with photographer Vladimir Persiyaninov, with whom she joined fate at 63 years old. She called him the very man she had been looking for all her life. The only thing that darkened their happiness was the absence of children. She cannot discuss this topic without tears. But the actress gave her voice to the characters of more than 20 cartoons and says that they are all her children and grandchildren.

The once famous Soviet actress also decided to sacrifice personal happiness for the sake of the acting profession. Isolde Izvitskaya: from triumph in Cannes to death alone.