How Irina Ponarovskaya looks and lives now: health problems and almost complete refusal to eat. The hits of this extravagant singer were sung by the entire USSR. this is where the legendary Irina Ponarovskaya disappeared... Where did Ponarovskaya disappear

More than a week ago, information appeared on the Internet that 64-year-old Irina Ponarovskaya was not in touch with her friends. The singer’s colleagues claim that she has limited her social circle and does not appear at social events.

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When these rumors reached Irina, she decided to clarify the situation. Her representative Lera Tuvina hastened to reassure the public and stated that everything was fine with the artist.

“Irina Ponarovskaya asked me to say hello to everyone, she didn’t disappear anywhere and nothing happened to her,” Tuvina wrote on Instagram. When asked by a website correspondent whether the star plans to give interviews and communicate with journalists, Lera firmly answered: “No.” However, she did not mention the reason.

According to concert director Ponarovskaya, she did not become a recluse at all. On the contrary, the performer often attends various exhibitions and is focused on her family and little grandson.

Singer Aziza said that Irina continues to engage in musical activities, but only appears on stage at private events to please the most devoted listeners. Ponarovskaya is also trying herself as a designer. In 2000, she created an atelier, which, after expanding the range, turned into a real fashion house.

The artist's last album was released in 2008. The record was called “Irina Ponarovskaya Sings”. For several years now, the celebrity has not released any releases and prefers not to attend TV shows.

December 04, 2017

The 64-year-old singer has not been in touch with fans for a long time and has not appeared at social events. Fans have been concerned for a long time about where Irina Ponarovskaya disappeared to. The artist’s relatives decided to clarify what was happening.

Irina Ponarovskaya / photo: globallook.com

For about a year now, Irina Ponarovskaya has not been in touch with fans via social networks. Fans of the honored artist of Russia were so concerned about her disappearance that they were able to track down her niece, the daughter of her older brother Alexander, Anna, who lives in St. Petersburg. She hastened to reassure those who were concerned and talked about what the singer was doing now. “She no longer sings, she minds her own business. She takes care of her family: her grandson, her son. She’s retired, she’s relaxing, enjoying life,” the woman admitted.

This information was also confirmed by Ponarovskaya’s daughter-in-law, artist Anna Chainikova. She explained that the artist loves her grandson Eric very much, who visits his grandmother’s dacha in Estonia every summer. According to her, Irina Vitalievna attends local holidays and various events, and not so long ago she began helping her daughter-in-law with paintings. She organizes exhibitions of Chainikova’s works in Estonian art galleries. The daughter-in-law also admitted that the artist left her apartment in the capital to a young couple and has now moved to St. Petersburg. According to Anna, Ponarovskaya also goes out there and visits theaters and exhibitions, but disguises herself so that no one recognizes her.

Irina Ponarovskaya’s daughter-in-law is Anna Chaikina/Photo: frame from the program “You Won’t Believe It!”

However, a former resident of the singer’s house in the Keverna capital noted that she knows nothing at all about Irina Vitalievna’s life, and on the street she often meets her mother and grandson Eric. The artist’s ex-husband, Weyland Rodd, also knows nothing about how Ponarovskaya lives now. He noted that his son Anthony does not contact him either. The man was not even moved when the journalists of the program “You Won’t Believe It!” NTV channel showed him a photo of his three-year-old grandson. Let us recall that Rodd recently became the hero of Dmitry Shepelev’s “Actually” program, where, whom he adopted many years ago along with Irina Vitalievna, but then they again sent her to orphanage. After 20 years, Anastasia decided to find out why her adoptive father abused her.

0 May 26, 2018, 20:45

At the peak of her fame, in the late 80s - early 90s, Irina Ponarovskaya was considered a model of elegance: not a single singer appeared on stage in such luxurious and unusual outfits as she did. It is not for nothing that she was once awarded the title of “Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union” by the fashion house of the same name. Now the star is 65 years old, and we decided to refresh our memory of her hits and images, as well as find out where she is and what she does.

Music

Ponarovskaya was connected with the world of music from early childhood: her father was a conductor and artistic director of a jazz orchestra, her mother was an accompanist. It is not surprising that Irina is still in adolescence I studied vocals, and after school I entered the conservatory.

In the 70s, she performed in the Singing Guitars ensemble, sang the part of Eurydice in the first Russian rock opera Orpheus and Eurydice, and was a soloist in Oleg Lundstrem's jazz orchestra. Then it started solo career, which developed more than successfully: already from the mid-80s, the country knew Ponarovskaya’s hits by heart. Her song “I Know - I Loved”, based on the poems of the famous Juna, was included in the very first hit parade to appear in the country. Among the artist’s other most famous compositions are the songs “Rowan Beads”, “You Are My God”, “I Don’t Want Anymore”, “Guitar” and many others.

Images

In addition to hit songs and a characteristic hoarse voice, Ponarovskaya was remembered by the generation of the 80-90s for her stage images. When she went on stage, she was both elegant and extravagant: the singer easily complemented her floor-length evening dresses with crazy hats, but her outfits did not look wild. When frankness began to come into fashion and pop stars began to expose themselves, Ponarovskaya remained a real lady, remaining true to her style.

Ponarovskaya’s extravagance is also manifested in frequent and radical changes in hairstyle. Long blond curls, dark bob, shades of red - the public simply did not have time to follow the changes in the star's images.

Stylist

The image of Irina Ponarovskaya is largely due to her stylist Lev Novikov. The names of his famous clients are much more famous than his own: the artist-stylist, who preferred to stay behind the scenes, worked with Kristina Orbakaite, Valery Leontyev, Angelika Varum, Sofia Rotaru and many others. It was he who advised Ivan Demidov to host the MuzOboz program in dark glasses, and Renata Litvinova to adopt a retro image in the spirit of Greta Garbo. Novikov saw Ponarovskaya as a diva and a vamp; it was he who convinced the singer to dye her hair blonde. In the late 80s, Irina was inseparable from her stylist; he accompanied her on filming and on tour. Later, Sergei Zverev began to style the star.

Lev Novikov

As for Lev Novikov, his fate turned out to be tragic: the artist suffered from AIDS. As rumors of this began to spread, many of his former celebrity clients and friends turned against him. Novikov died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 2007, before his 50th birthday.

Film roles

Since the mid-70s, Irina Ponarovskaya has been acting in films. She got her first role - in the psychological detective story "It Doesn't Concern Me" - when director Herbert Rappoport saw her on the cover of a magazine and decided to offer her to play the main character.

Still from the film "It Doesn't Concern Me..."

In the musical film "Nut Krakatuk" based on the fairy tale "The Nutcracker" Irina played the Fairy of Time, her partners in the film were Zinovy ​​Gerdt and Maris Liepa. And in TV movie She starred in “The Midnight Robbery” with Oleg Basilashvili.

Still from the film "The Nut Krakatuk"

In the comedy musical based on O. Henry "The Trust That Broke" the singer played a small but striking role as a girl of easy virtue posing as Sarah Bernhardt. Irina’s least favorite role was her work in the 1991 detective story “He’ll Get His,” for which, they say, she wasn’t even paid a fee, and the film itself was not a success.

Health and diets

According to Ponarovskaya’s acquaintances, she still adheres to a strict diet and “can starve for months.” They say that this diet was prescribed to her by doctors because of her health problems. But Irina has been carefully monitoring her figure since her youth. Then, as her friends say, she had some problems with weight: the future celebrity was a plump teenager. Since then, an active lifestyle has become a habit for her. In the 90s, by the way, the singer hosted the program “Irina Ponarovskaya’s Fitness Class”, specially for which she developed an exercise and nutrition program.

As for health, as the press wrote, Irina has had kidney problems since childhood. At one point she almost died: in 1979, while on tour in Kursk, the artist experienced clinical death; her heart did not beat for 14 minutes. The singer felt bad right on stage, and behind the scenes she lost consciousness.

I don’t really remember my return, but I clearly remember the bright light and unforgettable beauty that I saw during clinical death. The darkness and gloom were left behind, but there was extraordinary peace in my soul,

- Irina says about what she experienced while the doctors saved her life. In her opinion, after this incident she discovered the gift of clairvoyance.

Let us add that, according to press reports, it was the wrong diet that could have led to Ponarovskaya’s kidney failure.

Husbands

Irina was married three times. Her first husband was Grigory Kleimits, the head of the same VIA “Singing Guitars”, in which she at one time performed. The marriage lasted a year and a half.

Ponarovskaya lived for seven years with black jazzman Weiland Rodd. For him, his marriage to Irina was already his sixth (after the divorce, he married three more times). As the singer says, the musician cheated on her while she was raising a small child. Rodd assures that Ponarovskaya was not faithful to him either. Now their son Anthony Rodd lives in Tallinn and is engaged in jewelry art.

The ugly story about the adopted daughter of Rodda and Ponarovskaya received great publicity. According to the stories of a girl named Anastasia, the couple accepted her into the family, but at the age of 4 her adoptive parents abandoned her and sent her back to the orphanage. For Anastasia this was a real shock. And in adulthood, as the girl said on various talk shows, Irina invited her to live with her, but then accused her of stealing her jewelry and kicked her out. The singer’s director confirmed this story, adding that Weyland Rodd returned the girl to the orphanage when he and Irina had a son, and now Anastasia is “just promoting herself” on the name of the star, like Rodd.

The artist’s third husband was doctor Dmitry Pushkar, a member of the presidium Russian society urologists. The marriage, as far as journalists know, broke up due to the fact that the man could not put up with his wife’s publicity.

It is also known about Ponarovskaya’s romance with singer Soso Pavliashvili. He himself talks about a “turbulent relationship” with the artist and believes that next to him “Ponarovskaya became a queen.”

Where is she now

Unlike many of her colleagues who are still touring, performing hits from 20-30 years ago, Ponarovskaya left the stage and practically does not perform. In 2008, she recorded her last album, and a period of silence began. The artist has an Instagram, but it has not been updated for two years.

Last year there were even rumors that the singer had disappeared and was not in contact with her loved ones. Soon the celebrity herself, through her concert director, denied the information.

They said a lot that Irina lives abroad, and the artist’s management also did not confirm these rumors: her director only emphasized that Irina “is an international artist and can have housing both in Russia and abroad.”

However, the press knows that Ponarovskaya spent many years in Estonia. But a year ago, as the media recently reported, the singer’s mother died and Irina returned to her homeland. At the same time, a recent photo of the star appeared on the Internet, where she was captured with an unusual pink hair color (the love for beauty experiments, as we see, has not disappeared anywhere!). The stylist who worked with Irina explained that she wanted to highlight the performer’s porcelain skin and blue eyes with this shade.

Well, the most latest news connected with the family: less than a month ago it turned out that Ponarovskaya became a grandmother for the second time, her son Anthony had a daughter. He also has a four-year-old son.

Photo Instagram/Press services archives

Ponarovskaya was born into a family of musicians. His father is the artistic director of a jazz orchestra, his mother is an accompanist at a music school. Naturally, music was constantly playing in the house. Ponarovskaya became interested in singing at a very young age. True, the parents did not take their daughter’s hobby seriously. The grandmother took the initiative. It was she who took her granddaughter to audition with music teachers. The teachers confidently said that the girl has very great potential and she definitely needs to be trained. Well, then - a music school, a conservatory. But even after entering the conservatory, she did not dream of a career as a pop singer. She just did what she liked, and the profession found her on its own.

A friend of Irina’s father decided to create the VIA “Singing Guitars”. The musicians were assembled, but things didn’t work out with the soloist. In desperation, he invited his friend's daughter to audition as well. So Ponarovskaya found herself drawn into the world of professional stage. Irina worked as a member of Singing Guitars for five years. In 1976, after Ponarovskaya became the winner of the Grand Prix of the Sopot festival, people paid attention to her jazzman Oleg Lundstrem. Hearing the singer’s voice, he decided to get her into his orchestra at all costs. And he succeeded. In the same 1976, Ponarovskaya received offers from film directors. The singer agreed to try herself in a new capacity, and she succeeded. Ponarovskaya starred in eight films (“The Trust That Broke,” “The Krakatuk Nut,” etc.), but in the end she became disillusioned with the acting profession. And she stated that she would agree to act only if Spielberg or Mikhalkov invited her.

No matter what areas of activity Ponarovskaya tried herself in, she did everything easily, playfully. She worked as a TV presenter, opened her own fashion house in New York and her own image agency. In terms of image, Ponarovskaya has always stood out on the Soviet and Russian stage. Her charm, charm and outrageousness earned her the unspoken title “Style Icon”. And in 1990, the French fashion house Chanel awarded her the title “Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union.”

Mistakes of the past

After many years of incredible creative activity, Ponarovskaya suddenly disappeared from the stage and generally from view. She has not given concerts for a long time, does not communicate with journalists, and leads an extremely reclusive lifestyle. According to rumors, the singer currently lives in Norway. Ponarovskaya decided to close herself off from the world after several years ago, journalists from federal television channels published a very strange and controversial story related to her adopted daughter.

Irina Ponarovskaya. 1988 Photo: RIA Novosti / Yuri Somov

The singer’s family life is, in principle, quite dramatic. WITH first husband Grigory Kleimits Ponarovskaya lived for a year and a half. With a second husband, black jazz musician Wayland Rodd, the marriage lasted longer. Ponarovskaya really wanted to get pregnant, but it just didn’t work out. Then he and Rodd decided to adopt a girl from an orphanage. At first everything went well. But a little time passed from the moment of adoption, and the singer found out that she was pregnant. Adopted daughter Anastasia was four years old at that time. The couple decided that they could not pay enough attention to two children at once, and returned the girl to the orphanage. It was this story that became public knowledge and forced Ponarovskaya to close herself off from the world. It turned out that when the girl grew up, the singer decided to correct her mistake.

Failed adopted daughter invited to live with the family again. Life showed that this was a rash decision. The teenager, who grew up in the realities of an orphanage, did not fit into the established unit of society. Mutual accusations and reproaches began. As a result, the child was sent back to the orphanage. Everyone suffered from this story. Both a girl and a failed adoptive mother. More recently, Anastasia told reporters that, in her opinion, Ponarovskaya is still experiencing the events of the past very hard. And the singer disappeared from the sight of her fans not because of an easy life. And the closest and only man in her life now is her son.

No one knows whether Ponarovskaya will appear on stage again. Considering the singer’s character and ability to shock the public, her return to the stage should not be ruled out.

They say that the singer, designer and businesswoman (Irina has her own studio) attends exhibitions and watches her figure to such an extent that she can starve for months.

But it turned out that doctors prescribed Irina a strict diet as a method of general health improvement - the star’s friend, actress Iya Ninidze, spoke about this.

“Once upon a time, Ira was a chubby girl, and as it happens, this stuck in her memory, so she strives to be slim. Ira always kept herself in shape and tried her best in everything - in diets, in friendship, and in love,” said Ninidze.

By the way, her relatives speak negatively about Ponarovskaya’s ex-wife: “ Ex-husband Irina abandoned his family when their son was still a child. He cheated on Irina while she was raising a small child alone.

Rodd has not remembered his son for more than 25 years. He’s just promoting himself on the name of Irina, whom he hasn’t seen for many years.”

Be that as it may, today, according to another friend of Ponarovskaya, singer Aziza, the celebrity is in love and happy: “The man who is now next to her is lucky.

Irina is a very kind person.”

At the same time, friends of the famous pop singer, who performed the hits “I Don’t Want Anymore,” “Rowan Beads” and “Forgive Me,” are sure that she is not sitting idle. According to them, the woman continues to perform, but appears on stage extremely rarely. And here is her last photo: