Irina Starshenbaum is a bright young star who has become a hostage to her own surname: the girl is constantly compared to her sister, Anna Starshenbaum. But it seems that talent for acting runs in the family for these artists. The same as the ability to take away other people's men. Irina Starshenbaum and Alexander Petrov began an affair at a time when the actor was practically a family man... Will this affair become a fatal mistake in the biography of Irina Starshenbaum?
The childhood of Svetlana Khodchenkova
Svetlana Khodchenkova was born in Moscow on January 21, 1983. The future actress spent her childhood in the village of Zheleznodorozhny near Moscow. The mother raised the baby alone - the father did not make any attempts to get to know his daughter until she came of age.
Trying to provide her only daughter with a normal existence, her mother grabbed any job - builder, janitor, cleaner. As a teenager, the girl, understanding what her mother was going through, began to help her. But there was still only enough money for the essentials, and there was nowhere to wait for help.
Sveta tried her best not to upset her mother again. Therefore, she brought only good grades from school and actively participated in the life of the class. Dreaming that her daughter would receive a good education and a prestigious profession, her mother transferred her to one of the capital’s lyceums. The diligent and well-mannered child was accepted without problems.
But Sveta herself did not expect the difficulties she would have to face at the new school. The main problem was that her classmates there were the children of fairly wealthy parents. Every day, self-doubt grew in Svetlana’s soul, and in order to overcome it, Khodchenkova filled out an application form for Slava Zaitsev’s modeling school.
When the girls were accepted there, she finally believed in herself. Gradually, complexes disappeared, confidence in the future and even the first pocket money appeared. When, after several months of working in Japan, Sveta brought back money that was unimaginable for her at that time - a whole thousand American dollars, she fulfilled her mother’s long-standing dream and installed a telephone in the apartment.
Svetlana’s modeling career developed very well, but when her age began to approach adulthood, unequivocal proposals began to be heard more and more often. Brought up on strict moral principles, she could not come to terms with the seamy side of a modeling career and made the difficult decision to leave this business.
