Looking at the TV screens, where beholding those who decided to call the stars, the majority of viewers think that celebrities have always been such as all - more beautiful, more intelligent, more communicative, more successful in relationships with other people. In a word, that the stars have always been special. At the same time for some reason many forget Andersen fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" - because in fact many of those to whom worship today millions have done it this way, from ugly duckling to white swans. And the famous singer Vera Brezhnev is one of the most striking examples of this.

Chapter One: The Ugly Duckling

Vera V. Galushka born February 3, 1982 in Dneprodzerzhinsk, an industrial satellite city of Dnepropetrovsk .  Her family was the most that neither is working, proletarian - his father worked in the Dnieper chemical plant, his mother, a doctor by training, worked at the city Steel Mill .  However, her work experience is often interrupted by prolonged maternity leave: the family had four daughters, the eldest Galina average Vera and younger twins .  Anastasia and Victoria .  Many children, of course, for the happiness of the parents, but when the family budget is made up of humble workers' earnings, this means a very modest financial conditions of life .  Faith from childhood knew the value of money, because they were very, very little, and has the phenomenon of wearing out the things older sister and their transfer by inheritance younger, she was familiar with how seldom anyone else .  Therefore Faith Galushki working career began at the age of 11 - to help parents somehow it got during the summer holidays to earn money in a city park auxiliary worker .  In a tense mode simultaneous study and work took almost all his childhood faith: she with her grandmother processed vegetable gardens, as a fee to get agricultural products, washing dishes in a cafe Dneprodzerzhinsk .

Besides, Faith did not develop relationships with classmates .  On the one hand, she was subjected to constant ridicule because of poverty of their families - because the children are very observant and notice when one of them every day comes to lessons in the same clothes .  Yes, and he played a role challenging the independence of the Faith, which did not take anyone ridicule and was always ready to defend their case .  Portrait of the classic "ugly duckling" perfectly complements the fact that a teenager Vera was highly awkward girl with a short haircut, with serious vision problems (even had to do the surgery) without the ability to dress up, and besides, and has begun visibly to grow with some delay .  So it is not surprising that the school girl broke up without any regrets, not even taking part in the graduation ceremony .  Plans for the future Vera were many: she finished courses of secretaries, take an extra English, wanted to enter the lawyer .  But it so happened that she entered the correspondence department of the Faculty of Economics of the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Railway Engineers .

Chapter Two: White Swan

In Dnepropetrovsk, Faith and met his first love - a native of Zaporozhye Vitaly Voichenko, with whom she lived for several years in a civil marriage Civil marriage - it just dies?   and from which in early 2001 had a daughter Sonia .  Soon, however, because of financial difficulties, as usual for a young couple, Vera and Vitaly broke up, and she began to look for new ways to implement .  By the time of her awkwardness was gone, Vera turned into a beautiful young woman .  In 2002, she passed the qualifying audition to participate in a beauty contest "Miss Dnepropetrovsk", but before participating in this contest, she heard about the selection held in Kiev in the musical group "VIA Gra", and decided to try happiness .  And happiness she smiled in November 2002, she was chosen as producer of the band, Konstantin Meladze and Dmitry Kostyuk, as a member of the new group structure .  However, at the insistence of Kostyuk, the name "Galushka" nickname was changed to "Brezhnev" (the fact that a countrywoman Vera Leonid Ilyich) .  In January 2003, the new composition of "VIA Gra" was presented to the public, and it is this part, Vera Brezhnev, Anna and Nadezhda Granovskaya Sedokova rightly called by fans and experts "golden goal" project .  It is in this part of "VIA Gra", and has achieved the peak of its popularity .  However, for a long time, this composition did not last, upheavals began with participants .  Plus in 2006. Vera married Ukrainian businessman Mikhail Kiperman and decided to devote more time to family life .  Therefore, in 2007, it became aware of the output from the Brezhnev "VIA Gra" .

However, Vera was a very good base to start as an independent performer: thanks to the participation in the popular project it has achieved recognition as a singer, and her external data provided to her multimillion army of fans-men - in 2007 the magazine MAXIM acknowledged her as the sexiest woman in Russia .  In 2008, Brezhnev actively takes on the case: becoming the leading entertainment show "The Magic of ten" on the First Channel, produces videos for a few solo songs (2008 - "I'm not playing," "Nirvana", 2009 - "Love in the City", 2010 - "Love saves the world") .  In early 2009, comes the romantic comedy "Love in the City" with faith in one of the main roles in the beginning of 2010 - a continuation of the picture .  Both films are in great audience success and collected solid "cash" .  In September 2009, Brezhnev became a permanent member of the comic show "fuss" on the First Channel, in which returned in 2010 after a holiday .  Vacation This was taken at the good reason - in December 2009, she gave birth to a second daughter, named Sarah .

Alexander Babitsky