On the verge of suicide, or how Katya Semenova survived the betrayal of her husbands

Ekaterina Semenova is an actress, star of Russian films and television series, who in each of her work knows how to convey a whole range of the most sincere feelings. Easily playing the wives, mothers and girlfriends of brutal movie characters, the actress (who has changed greatly in photographs taken before and after plastic surgery) begins her life anew every time on the first day of the New Year, hoping after many unsuccessful attempts to finally find her true happiness.

Brief biography and personal life

Ekaterina Semenova is an actress (photos of her before and after plastic surgery are shown below in the article), who was born in April 1971 into a Moscow creative family of a director and animator.

From early childhood, little Katya knew that she would be an actress and arrogantly passed the entrance exams to the Moscow Art Theater before even receiving a school certificate. After graduating from high school, the young actress worked for several years with Galina Volchek in her Sovremennik, and then moved to Oleg Tabakov at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

Ekaterina began her film career as a teenager, starring in “We Are From Jazz” and “Portraits of Men,” followed by participation in “The Masked Sinner,” which became a Russian-French project by Tatyana Dogileva and Claudine Villiers. Having replaced Inga Ilm while working on Goryachev and Others, Ekaterina played one of the key roles in the series, but Vera from Two Fates made her truly famous.

While starring in “Game of Survival,” Semenova worked on:

• "Deadly force";
• "Motherland";
• "Wild";
• "Montecristo"
• "Keeper";
• “Halves of the Impossible”;
• "Mentalist";
• "Tomorrow will come";
• "Love is not divided into two."

Ekaterina Semenova actress, photo from the film “Love is not divided into two.”
Playing diverse heroines, Ekaterina tried to show the depth of feelings and experiences in each of her characters, filling her wives, mothers and girlfriends with the most important human qualities. In 2019, Ekaterina played a minor role in The Diplomat, and then managed to work on Chills and Ghosts of Zamoskvorechye. The actress’s next work was “Freedom”, and in 2020 Semenova appeared in the tragic and at the same time mysterious “Dead Lake”.

As in her film career, the actress’s personal life has always had many bright and high-profile projects.

The first common-law husband and father of her son Nikita was Artem Tabakov. The young people were introduced by a friend of Catherine’s, and at first not even slight sympathy arose between them. After 2 years, the actors met again and, despite the age difference, began to live together. Over time, a son, Nikita, emerged from a union that lasted 5 years, and then the relationship fell apart largely due to the ambitions of Catherine, who did not want to exchange a successful film career for the role of wife and mother.

Semyonova’s second bright romance was her relationship with Ilya Medkov. This time the actress entered into an official marriage, but the happiness was short-lived. The husband was shot by competitors shortly after the wedding, leaving Catherine with real estate and regrets about the unborn child.

For the third time, the actress decided to try her luck with Kirill Seagal. The man very beautifully wooed Catherine, but having become the official husband and father of her daughter, he began to show dictatorial habits, forcing his wife to refuse work. Catherine was not satisfied with this prospect, and she left her beloved husband, but allowed him to communicate with her daughter.

The actress’s new love was Gennady, who suddenly came to her while working on “The Last Hero” and forced her to face many obstacles due to living in two countries. Gennady was replaced by an entrepreneur from America - Leonid, with whom the actress lived for about 5 years, having met during a trip to visit his son in the USA, and then Alexey Makarov, with whom family life was filled with quarrels and scandals.

Now Ekaterina is officially single, but journalists attribute her to a relationship with Ivan Zhidkov. According to rumors, it was Semenova who became the reason for the divorce between Ivan and Tatyana Arngold.

Cleaned the entrances

Katya didn’t do well at school: when the girl was in fifth grade, her mother died. As Ekaterina herself recalled, after those tragic events, the class teacher called her to the blackboard and said, addressing the class: “Katya Semenova now has no mother, she needs to be pitied.” Since then, everyone pitied Katya, first of all, the teachers, giving her C grades even for completely unlearned lessons. Katya used this both in general education and in music school. But not out of self-interest, but because she simply did not have time to carefully prepare her lessons: after school, the girl went to earn money - she washed entrances, and at the sanitary and epidemiological station she treated Petri dishes after tuberculosis patients. There she caught tuberculosis herself and had to undergo treatment for a whole year. At that time, Katya had no prospect of any career as a singer.

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But then chance intervened. Katya at that time worked as a secretary in a veterinary clinic. One day at work, she opened one of the newspapers that she had filed in a folder. And I came across a message that the All-Union Pop Song Competition was looking for talent. Katya decided to try her luck. I recorded my voice on a regular tape recorder and sent it to the competition. And she made it to the finals. And already at the in-person performances she became the winner. From that moment on, Catherine’s life turned 180 degrees. She became a popular singer who was invited to tour throughout the country. She really enjoyed going on stage and seeing the sparkling eyes of the audience, but the increased attention to her personal life from strangers often brought her to tears.

Singer Ekaterina Semenova’s performance with the Big Children’s Choir of Central Television and All-Union Radio at the Druzhba festival club at the NRB Embassy in the USSR, 1985. Photo: RIA Novosti/ Yuri Prostyakov

Appearance and figure parameters

Ekaterina Semenova is an actress (before and after plastic surgery photos show negative changes in the face of a film actress), who in the hearts of millions of fans is inextricably linked with the image of the kind, sweet and sympathetic Vera from “Two Fates”, and her beauty has forever become a prototype of the loyalty and devotion that the heroine carried through many years.

Figure parameters:

Early years, childhood and family of actress Ekaterina Semenova

Ekaterina Semenova was born on April 18, 1971 in the small town of Monino near Moscow.
Her family was closely connected with art. His father, Tengiz Aleksandrovich, was a famous director, and his mother, Natalya Orlova, worked as an animator. As noted in some sources, the talented woman drew her heroine Alisa Selezneva, known from the cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet,” using the image of her daughter as a prototype.

Future actress Ekaterina Semenova was born into a creative family

As for Katya herself, she began to dream of becoming an actress quite early. And how could it be otherwise with such and such parents! Already at the age of eleven, the girl began studying in a theater studio, and at the age of fifteen she attempted to enter the Moscow Art Theater School. At the exams, the girl passed all the specialized tests with “excellent” marks, but the obstacle to entering a university was her school certificate with a D in algebra.

Katya was not allowed to retake her school exam paper on a boring subject. However, at this moment Semenova’s parents intervened in the matter. The father and mother reached the head of the city administration and only there they managed to obtain the right to retake the test for their daughter. As a result, Ekaterina received a three in algebra. And this very single point was finally enough for admission to a theater university.

Plastic

Ekaterina Semenova is an actress (photos before and after plastic surgery caused a negative resonance among her loyal fans), who became a hostage to one role and does not hide her passion for plastic surgery, which helps her maintain youthful skin and delay the onset of age-related changes as much as possible. In an attempt to delay her fading beauty, the actress went on a strict diet, which negatively affected the condition of her skin, which was deprived of microelements important for health.

Noticing wrinkles and fatigue on her face, Ekaterina turned to a cosmetologist, who prescribed her a course of hyaluronic acid injections designed to fill wrinkles and nourish the tissues with the moisture and microelements she needed. Regularly carrying out procedures at home, which allowed her to avoid unnecessary publicity, Ekaterina decided to make more radical changes in her appearance by undergoing circumferential facial plastic surgery.

The actress’s mistake was turning to a surgeon who, according to rumors, had previously operated on Vera Alentova, and who made exactly the same mistake when working on Catherine’s appearance. As a result of the operation, Catherine’s face changed the shape of her lips, where the “Cupid’s arch” and the oval line of her face and chin completely disappeared. The actress’s cheekbones and cheeks also began to look completely unnatural.

In return, the lower part of the face became more toned and wrinkle-free, which becomes completely unnatural with strong lip tension.

The next operation that Ekaterina decided on was blepharoplasty, which widened her eyes and removed the drooping eyelid due to age, and then Semenova eliminated wrinkles on her forehead with Botox and added volume to her lips by introducing hyaluronic fillers.

Personal life

The actress met her first beloved man, Anton Tabakov, the son of the Soviet screen legend Oleg Tabakov, at the age of 17 at Easter. Katya’s best friend Ksenia, daughter of Valentina Talyzina, took part in the meeting. At first, the relationship between the young people did not work out, as Semenova was embarrassed by the age difference.

Only 2 years later, having accidentally encountered each other again, they began dating, and then living in an actual marriage. Ekaterina and Anton were together for 5 years. During this time, a son, Nikita, appeared, but the parents never made it to the registry office. On the show “Secret to a Million,” Semenova took the blame for this: she did not have enough wisdom and experience, she was young, thinking about a career, and Tabakov wanted home comfort, a housewife wife.

Millionaire Ilya Medkov surrounded Catherine with luxury, showered her with gifts and even became friends with Anton. However, a happy family life did not work out this time either - the man was shot. Semenova only had an apartment, a car and memories of her unborn child.

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A year later, the actress met businessman Kirill Seagal. He courted his beloved very beautifully and wooed her for a long time. In 1997, their joint daughter Maria was born, and then jealousy awoke in her wife. Seagal forbade Katya to perform on stage and act in films, but the young woman was not happy with this prospect, and she left.

The mother never forbade the children to communicate with their fathers, believing that they were not to blame for the problems of adults. Nikita grew up like his father, studied to be a producer in America, lived in London and returned to Moscow, working in the IT industry. Maria chose the directing department of VGIK.

The public learned about Gennady’s chosen one when he came to Semyonova for the “The Last Hero” project. The couple met at a tennis tournament, and a month later the man left for the UK under a contract. Catherine had to deceive the embassy in order to fly to her beloved more often, but distance gradually killed her feelings.

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Ekaterina Semenova in 2021
The actress lived in marriage with entrepreneur Leonid for another 5 years. The acquaintance took place in America when Catherine was visiting her son. After separation, the ex-spouses do not contact each other.

In relations with Alexei Makarov, violent quarrels alternated with passionate reconciliations. Both soon realized that each needed a calmer companion, but they managed to maintain their friendship.

Semenova was considered guilty of the discord between Ivan Zhidkov and Tatyana Arntgolts. The actors had an affair even before Ivan’s wedding, and Tatyana later stated that the reason for the divorce was not treason.

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The actress is a lover of delicious food, but at the same time maintains a slim figure (weight 54 kg, height 170 cm). Ekaterina gave up tobacco, alcohol and sugar, went to the gym in her youth, and eventually switched to Bikram yoga. She has a positive attitude towards plastic surgery and does not hide the fact that she has “beauty injections”.

Semenova has an unverified account on Instagram, where photos and videos from film sets, official events, and family gatherings are published.

Appearance after plastic surgery

Actress Ekaterina Semenova, as can be seen from the photographs before and after plastic surgery, according to aesthetic medicine specialists, became a victim of surgical intervention. The changes that happened to the actress did not please fans and experts at all, who noticed the unnatural state of their idol’s lips, cheeks and cheekbones.

After applying plastic correction, Catherine’s face took on the appearance of a frozen, waxy mask, her height became unnaturally stretched and large, and the skin on her cheekbones and cheeks became very stretched. The actress, who has lost her former charm, according to experts, has become too carried away with beauty injections, but fans do not consider such changes fatal, finding the appearance of their idol still as beautiful as in her youth.

Ekaterina Semenova

The theater and film actress was very popular in the early 2000s. Ekaterina starred in film after film, and the audience only had time to admire her talent and natural beauty. Then Semenova disappeared from the screens for some time and returned only in 2017. This is where everyone was surprised: the actress’s face was irreparably damaged by plastic surgery.

Semenova, who was 46 years old at the time, looked like she was 60. Fans suggested that she fell for the same bait as Vera Alentova: she was too carried away by the pursuit of youth. Now it is unclear whether the lift was done poorly, or whether they injected something wrong (and Ekaterina has repeatedly spoken about her passion for injections). Be that as it may, the result is the same - lost beauty.

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Beauty secrets

Ekaterina Semenova is an actress (before and after plastic surgery photos appeared on the covers of Russian fashion publications), who learned to take care of herself quite early, but the actress tries to conduct courses of useful procedures without unnecessary publicity. In this case, Ekaterina is saved by her best friend and part-time cosmetologist at one of the Moscow aesthetic clinics, who helps the actress maintain a beautiful, young and piquant appearance at the age of 50.

Katya Semenova. Photo

Skin care

Ekaterina’s skin care cosmetics were recommended by her friend, who brought jars of creams from the USA.

The actress's daily care routine includes:

• day and night skin cream;
• care product for the area under the eyes;
• special cosmetics with vitamin C, rejuvenating and brightening tissues.

The cosmetics used by the actress cost from 1000 rubles. and higher for a jar of cream, but Ekaterina herself is not at all sure that the high price greatly increases the effectiveness of the drugs, since there are now a huge number of cheaper analogues. The main thing in self-care, according to the actress, is to understand that one product cannot solve all problems at once, and to eliminate dryness or inflammation you need to look for suitable skin compositions.

Another secret of the actress is the mandatory year-round use of sunscreen cosmetics, which prevents early aging and skin pigmentation.

Cosmetology procedures

The actress prefers to do salon procedures at home, and that is why her cosmetologist regularly comes to give “beauty injections” designed to deliver nutrients to the deep layers of the skin.

The actress’s cosmetologist also described for her a step-by-step hardware facial treatment, during which first Catherine’s top layer of skin along with dead cells is burned with a laser, and then a few days later, during which the swelling subsides and a new, young layer of tissue is formed, mesotherapy and others are performed. restorative procedures.

Ekaterina Semenova calls Thai full-body massage her favorite, and also does not hide the fact that, like many women, she uses discount and auction coupons for beauty salons, which allows her to take care of her beauty at more affordable prices.

When carrying out cosmetic procedures, Ekaterina is sure that the main thing is not to overdo it, since starting early to introduce hyaluronic acid can completely relax the skin with a constant supply of nutrients from the outside. According to the actress, any aesthetic manipulations should be carried out together with a cosmetologist, who selects the necessary course and properly prepares the skin.

Hair care

When she has free time, Ekaterina goes to her cosmetologist and carries out ampoule hair care designed to restore damaged strands. The actress does not forget about her hairstyle at home, including vitamins with biotin in her diet, rinsing her hair with chamomile infusion after washing, or making a herbal mask with vegetable oils for 15-20 minutes.

Nutrition

Having suffered from anorexia for a long time, Ekaterina was able to cope with the disease only after the birth of her first child, but her constant struggle with excess weight remains relevant to this day.

For the first time, problems related to her figure arose for the actress during her student years, when, having heard fellow students talk about diets, Ekaterina, who weighs 63 kg and is 170 cm tall, suddenly imagined herself to be fat. In the struggle for ideal body proportions, the actress began to deny herself food, eating only water 3-4 days a week, and achieved that even eating a peach caused a feeling of oversaturation in the body.

Faced with her skirt falling off while on vacation and her unusual thinness, the actress was able to stop only “when a homeless man on the subway offered her a bun with the words that apparently she had no money at all for food.” Catherine stepped on the scale and found out that she weighed 44 kg and was able to stop for the sake of love and her unborn child.

After the first birth, the actress’s weight settled at 49 kg, but then with age it began to periodically increase. Having tried many strong and traumatic diets for the body, Catherine settled on a protein diet consisting of lean meat, a small amount of vegetables and low-fat dairy products. The actress tries to eat according to such a program when she gains extra pounds, completely removing sweet fruits and vegetables from her diet during the diet.

Speaking about her weight, the actress laughingly notes that she does not have scales at home, and determines the slimness of her body by stage costumes and the degree of their fit on the figure.

Ekaterina cooks, bakes or cooks all her own dishes using an air fryer without any flavoring additives, and when purchasing products she very carefully studies the ingredients, excluding foods containing sugar. Bakery products, potatoes, pasta, rice and other groups are completely prohibited for the actress.

Despite the obvious benefits of a protein diet, Ekaterina does not sit on it constantly, noting that she uses restrictions only to bring her weight back to normal, and after losing extra pounds, she again switches to an optimal balanced diet.

Sport

At the age of 25, Ekaterina unexpectedly discovered a fitness club, which she began to go to almost every day, persistently “pumping iron.” Having achieved a muscular figure, the actress maintained her achieved shape for 10 years, and then became interested in Zumba, which helps bring the body back to normal without the use of strength exercises.

Among her latest hobbies, Ekaterina names Bikram yoga, which differs from regular yoga in the absence of meditation. According to the actress, there are only 26 different poses, but they are performed in a room with a temperature of about 50 ° C and high humidity, completely replicating the Indian climate.

In such conditions, according to Ekaterina, a minute after the start of exercises, sweat begins to flow from a person, and by the end of the exercises, a whole puddle forms under the mat and near it, where not only sweat accumulates, but also toxins released from the body.

Career of actress Ekaterina Semenova

Having entered the Moscow Art Theater, Ekaterina Semenova began studying in I. Tarkhanov’s group. In her second year, the directors of some Moscow theaters drew attention to the girl. So, soon our today's heroine made her debut on the theater stage. First, the young actress performed one of the roles in the play “Ondine,” which was staged at the Moscow Art Theater, and later also appeared on the stage of the Sovremennik Theater in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.”

Actress Ekaterina Semenova with her ex-husband Anton Tabakov and son Nikita

In 1987, Katya also appeared before the audience with her first screen role in the film “Portraits of Men” by Valery Lonsky. In this context, it is worth noting that the named work is still not Semenova’s first work in cinema. However, Catherine’s episodic appearance in the legendary film “We are from Jazz” (1983) is not always perceived by critics as a full-fledged acting work.

Looking ahead a little, we note that during her student years, Ekaterina Semenova quite often acted in films. In total, from 1987 to 1992, the actress played six roles, among which the most popular was the role of the actress in the films “Predators”. In addition, the television series “Goryachev and Others” also brought considerable success to our today’s heroine, in which Ekaterina Semenova got a fairly large role.

The talented young girl often continued to act in films after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School. During this period, she played in films of various genres - melodramas, comedies, adventure films. During these same years, Ekaterina Semenova also received her first leading role - in the film “The Masked Sinner.” This was also followed by notable work in the films “Prisoners of Fortune” and the drama “See Paris and Die.”

Despite the fact that the celebrity’s screen career has always been quite successful, at one point Ekaterina finally decided to leave cinema. What caused this is not known for certain. Maybe it was all due to a stormy personal life, or maybe it was the desire to focus on a theatrical career.

Ekaterina Semenova played her first roles in the late eighties

However, one way or another, the actress left cinema in 1993, only to return to it nine years later. During these years, Ekaterina Semenova played at the Sovremennik Theater, where Galina Volchek made her one of the central actresses. For nine years, Katya played a huge variety of different roles, but in the end, she decided to make a change.

In 2002, the talented actress began working at the Chekhov Art Theater, and some time later she again appeared on television screens for the first time in a long time. Semyonova’s first screen work after a long break was the series “Two Fates,” which instantly returned her lost status as a television celebrity.

Awards and interesting facts

Ekaterina Semenova, who starred in 65 films and performed in 11 performances during her film career, was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR and a favorite of many generations of viewers for her work.

Interesting Facts:

1. The actress loves to eat delicious food, and before traveling to a new country, she always studies the local cuisine and nearby restaurants. For an actress watching her weight, this is equivalent to gastronomic delights, which she had to give up long ago.
2. The actress’s mother is an animator who copied the image of Alisa Selezneva from “The Secret of the Third Planet” from her little daughter.
3. The actress's father is a famous documentary film director and winner of many film awards.
4. Ekaterina participated in the “The Last Hero” project and, although she did not become the winner, she decided to perceive the project as a completely new, invaluable survival experience, which, as she is sure, she will never need again.
5. The actress’s personal life was as eventful as her cinematic one, but most of the marriages fell apart due to Catherine’s reluctance to change her career to the role of a housewife and loving wife.
6. The actress has an unverified Instagram page where she posts photos from filming, official events and family gatherings.
7. In recent years, Ekaterina, who lives in 2 countries in America because of her son, received an offer to open a children’s acting school, but the actress herself is in no hurry to take up the offer, because she believes that such work will become her “swan song,” and she is not yet ready for this.
8. Ekaterina also managed to try her hand at dubbing, having worked on the cartoon characters “New Year’s Adventure of Two Brothers” and “The Captain’s Daughter.”
9. Family and children have always been the main part of the actress’s life. In addition to her own children, Ekaterina devotes a lot of energy to charitable projects, including the Gift of Life Foundation by Chulpan Khamatova. The actress often visits orphanages and hospitals, believing that every person should help disadvantaged people to the best of their ability.

Ekaterina Semenova is a popular Soviet and Russian actress, known for her work in “Two Fates” and “Montecristo”. Having gained fame after her role as the tender, faithful and devoted TV star Vera, she became the idol of a whole generation of Russian women, and her stormy personal life was followed with delight by a whole army of fans, eagerly awaiting new vivid photographs of the actress, taken both before and after plastic surgery. .

Former husband of Ekaterina Semyonova - Anton Tabakov

The future common-law spouses met during their studies at the theater institute. Anton was the first to come up and invite our heroine to dance. From that moment on, meetings between young lovers began. Then they decided to live together without registering their marriage yet. Even the birth of their son did not encourage them to register their relationship.

The ex-husband of Ekaterina Semyonova, Anton Tabakov, met a new lover in the early 90s. Despite this, he did not stop participating in the fate of his son. Tabakov is a fairly successful restaurateur. The man has not acted in cinema and theater since the late 90s. He recently began to develop his business in Paris.

Anton was married several times. He communicates normally with all his offspring.