Yuri Zhirkov with his wife. Inna Zhirkova - Komsomolskaya Pravda: “I am proud that I can change someone’s life for the better! Competition for successful and beautiful mothers
The wife of Anzhi Makhachkala midfielder Yuri Zhirkov, Inna, made an official statement regarding the video that was released with her participation, in which she answered “tricky” questions from VGTRK journalist Boris Sobolev.
An interview with Zhirkov’s wife, posted on the YouTube video hosting site under the title “If you have money, you don’t need intelligence,” caused a huge resonance. Within a few days, the video collected almost 2,000,000 views.
“I appeal to everyone who cares about Russia and cares about its future. To everyone who wants to make their country better, but does not dare to prove themselves due to some restrictions,” Championship.com quotes Inna Zhirkova’s statement. - In 2012 I won the title “Mrs. Russia - 2012”. I am grateful for the trust placed in me and for this opportunity to realize my plans. I am 23 years old, I am married, I am the mother of two children: a four-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter.”
“Having the title “Mrs. Russia” and using the support of my husband Yuri Zhirkov, I can more purposefully carry out sponsorship and social activities, thereby demonstrating my social position,” says the published statement. “I’m lucky - despite my young age, I can already to be proud not only of being a wife and mother of two, but also of being able to make a difference in someone's life."
“I believe that a person personifies his life through his actions and deeds. I am sincerely sorry that behind all my intentions, journalists were able to find only a niche for themselves to demonstrate their oratory skills and highlight the imperfections of our modeling business system. Nevertheless, I once again thank my husband for his support and the organizers of the competition for the opportunity to make this world at least a little happier,” Zhirkova sums up in her open letter.
In a scandalous interview, the mother of two children was presented in an unsightly light, revealing a complete lack of basic knowledge. The winner of the competition could not answer simple questions, such as whether the Earth revolves around the Sun or who wrote Oginsky's Polonaise. She also admitted that she had never worked in her life.
By her action, Inna actually caused the so-called “Streisand effect.” What is it: a phenomenon expressed in the fact that an attempt to delete certain information only leads to its wider dissemination, often through the Internet.
The term Streisand Effect gained currency following an incident in 2003 when Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for $50 million because a photograph of her home was available among 12,000 other photographs of the California coast. Adelman claimed that he photographed the house along with other homes on the coast as part of the California Coastal Records Project, a government-authorized and commissioned study of coastal erosion.
Before Streisand filed her lawsuit, photo number 3850 was downloaded from the project's website only 6 times; two of the downloads were made by Streisand's lawyers.
Later, journalist Paul Rogers (San Jose Mercury News) noted that as a result of the spread of information about the lawsuit, a photo of Streisand's house became very popular on the Internet. For example, in the month after the lawsuit was filed, the image was viewed by more than 420 thousand visitors.
Adelman said the lawsuit brought more than a million visitors to his website and the photograph was used in a report by the Associated Press, leading to its republication in multiple newspapers around the world.
In a broader sense, it is a response, supposedly cleansing speech, which, instead of smoothing out the impression, causes a backlash.
After Inna Zhirkova’s interview, even more viewers watched the video, and the number of reposts with phrases like “shitty excuse” and “where are all the good deeds she talks about” increased. And really, did she really expect us to be ashamed when we learned that she is such a sweet, wonderful person and in general, thanks to this competition, she saves women, children and everyone, everyone, everyone, and we don’t give a damn about her work for the benefit of humanity and we all laugh at the fact that she doesn’t know some stupid basic things that and you don’t need to know if you’re eager to save the world? A big mistake by her PR managers.
In general, we wanted the best, and it turned out as always.
Get the title of beauty queen and give it up. She has a peculiar relationship with her husband, which does not prevent her from remaining a beloved wife for a whole decade.
Inna Zhirkova: biography
As a child, Inna was a pretty girl, no different from her peers. She was born on May 15, 1989. His early years were spent in a small town near Kazan. She was the younger sister of Dima's brother. The family in which Inna Zhirkova grew up was the most ordinary: dad was in the construction business, and mom was a housewife. The girl's favorite hobbies were dancing and classes in a choreographic circle. Inna also loved to sing, attended a music school and sewed dresses. Already at school age she could make a full-fledged outfit for any celebration.
First steps in the modeling business
The girl’s bright appearance has always been the center of attention, so many predicted a dizzying modeling career for her. For family reasons, the family moved to the city of Kaliningrad, where Inna Zhirkova was able to participate in the Miss Kaliningrad beauty contest. She won the main title. Having received the coveted crown and ribbon, and with the support of her beloved mother, Inna set off to conquer Moscow at the All-Russian competition. But the triumph was not destined to happen due to a sudden illness.
Education
Inna graduated from the International Humanitarian Institute. Her specialty is “Socio-cultural service and tourism”.
Meeting football player Yuri Zhirkov
2007 became a landmark year in the life of a young girl. She had a strong desire to build a career as a successful model and for this purpose moved to Moscow. An unexpected acquaintance with Yuri foreshadowed a whirlwind romance. And so it happened: already in February 2008, the young people officially registered their marriage.
Family and Children
Marriage made its own adjustments to the model’s life plans. She decided to devote herself to her family. Now mother Inna is raising three children: Dmitry (8 years old), Milana (6 years old), Danil (half a year old).
Competition for successful and beautiful mothers
A few years after the birth of her daughter, the decision was made to participate in Mrs. Russia 2012. Inna Zhirkova won the main title and a crown studded with a huge number of Swarovski stones. The competition was organized in Malta. 23 girls from different cities took part. Inna represented her native Kaliningrad.
Scandal and title relinquishment
In 2013, Inna Zhirkova became a key participant in a high-profile scandal. This happened because of an interview that host Boris Sobolev took with the owner of the title “Mrs. Russia 2012” for the program “Crowned Individuals.” The topic of corruption in all beauty contests was discussed. Boris re-read the regulations about the event and projected them onto the invited guest. The document stated that the winner should be the participant with the most outstanding talents, beauty and erudition. Zhirkova Inna could not answer a single basic question. She also noted that she does not have any talents. Except for beauty. For example, she was puzzled by the following points:
- Who wrote Oginsky's polonaise?
- Agnia Barto and Samuil Marshak - who are these people?
- Does the sun revolve around the Earth or vice versa?
The video of this conversation was posted on the Internet and caused a strong reaction from the public. People left bad reviews. In order not to prove her right to own the crown, Inna decided to renounce it and the title.
MiloMilo by Inna Zhirkova
After participating in Mrs. Russia 2012, Inna Zhirkova decided to develop her own business. Having children does not stop her from doing this. She opened her own atelier for tailoring designer clothes for the whole family. She held the presentation of the first collection with the help of other stars who demonstrated models on the catwalk. Yulia Baranovskaya, Nadezhda Ruchka and Nastya Zadorozhnaya, together with their children, were the first to wear clothes from Inna Zhirkova.
Relationship with husband
Inna Zhirkova and Yuri Zhirkov have been together for a long time. In her interviews, the wife admits that they often quarrel over trifles. She is always the first to reconcile, and her husband always remains right and does not consider it necessary to apologize. Inna also values flowers very much, because her husband gives them to her very rarely. For any other woman this may seem nonsense, but Inna feels happy in this relationship.
Inna Zhirkova was born in Kazan on May 15, 1989. Inna grew up in a full-fledged family with her parents and older brother. Inna Zhirkova's parents were very responsible in raising their children. My father ran a construction company, my mother raised children. Inna Zhirkova's maiden name is Gracheva.
During her school years, Inna studied choreography. She worked in this direction for about two years. Later, Inna began to attend a cutting and sewing club. Hours of hard work passed unnoticed by the girl. At a young age, she could sew her own outfits. It was this hobby that Inna Zhirkova turned into a business in the future.
Model business
While still at school, Inna Zhirkova’s family moved to Kaliningrad. It was there that Inna's career as a model began. While in 10th grade, Inna decided to participate in the Miss Kaliningrad beauty contest, where she managed to win.
Afterwards, Inna Zhirkova moved to Moscow, where she planned to continue her modeling career and take part in the large-scale Miss Russia competition. But, unfortunately, for some reasons Inna was unable to participate.
After marriage, the wife of a promising football player, Inna Zhirkova, returned to the modeling business. This was not surprising, because even after giving birth to two children, the girl remained in amazing shape. Inna Zhirkova's height is 173 centimeters, weight is 60 kilograms.
Afterwards, the girl participated more than once in various beauty contests. Inna Zhirkova has a fairly striking appearance, so receiving many titles was not difficult for her, but brought pleasure.
Personal life
Almost immediately after the move, Inna Zhirkova met her future husband, football player Yuri Zhirkov. The young people met through mutual friends. After a year of relationship, in 2008, Yuri Zhirkov and Inna got married.
The newlyweds were unable to have a wedding due to Yuri's preparations. However, after his return, Inna and Yuri played a magnificent wedding in one of the Moscow restaurants. Later, Yuri and Inna had amazing children: son Dmitry and daughter Milana. And then, in 2015, Inna Zhirkova gave birth to her third child.
Now the young family is happily married with three children. Inna Zhirkova and Yuri are considered an ideal couple. Many girls strive to have a relationship like Inna Zhirkova’s.
Project “Team of Footballers’ Wives”
Inna Zhirkova, together with her husband Yuri, decided to take part in the television project “Team of Footballers’ Wives” in 2018. Together with Inna, other wives of Russian football players also took part:, and.
In the TV project, the girls talk about their lives with the players of the Russian national team. The girls not only show their luxurious lives, but also talk about their problems and difficulties.
Inna Zhirkova is the youngest participant in the television project. However, it is Inna, according to TV viewers, who is the main character of the project. Many fans were glad to see Inna on television, and even her real life.
Atelier of Inna Zhirkova
Inna Zhirkova is a popular celebrity stylist. Not long ago, Inna opened her own studio in the city of Kaliningrad. Inna's dresses are worn by many popular girls. In addition to women's clothes, Inna began to sew men's collections.
In one of the episodes of the TV project “Team of Footballers’ Wives,” Inna’s husband, Yuri Zhirkov, helped her try on a men’s tracksuit. The girl plans to open several more chains of her atelier.
Popularity on Instagram
Inna Zhirkova is very popular on Instagram. More than 200 thousand people have subscribed to the girl. Inna regularly shares her family photos with her subscribers. Also, on Inna Zhirkova’s Instagram you can often see outfits from her atelier; the girl, together with her famous friends, takes beautiful photographs of her dresses and suits.
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An interview with the wife of football player Yuri Zhirkov, Inna, created a lot of noise in blogs and in the media. In 2012, Inna won the title "Mrs. Russia", and VGTRK journalist Boris Sobolev decided to ask her about the competition. The interview was included in a major film about beauty pageant fraud called "". "Mrs. Russia 2012" not only failed to talk about her talents, but also failed even to answer simple questions.
During the interview, the journalist cited the provisions of the Mrs. Russia competition, which, in particular, say that the main goal of this competition is “to identify the most active, educated, spiritually developed and beautiful woman-mother.” In response to this, Zhirkova admitted: “I don’t have much social activity.” When asked about work, the football player’s wife stated that she had never worked and does not work now.
When asked why she managed to win the competition, Zhirkova found it difficult to answer. “Unfortunately, I don’t know what I took,” she said. "Perhaps erudition?" - Sobolev suggested. “Maybe. Because every day I tried to look beautiful,” Zhirkova continued. “I got ready for breakfast every morning - a long dress, made up, styled...”
Inna Zhirkova could not cope with the question of whether the Earth rotates around the Sun or vice versa. She found it difficult to answer who Agnia Barto and Samuil Marshak were. But she honestly admitted that there was no competition for erudition among the “Mrs. Russia” participants.
A fragment from Boris Sobolev’s film with the participation of Inna Zhirkova was watched on YouTube by more than 870 thousand Internet users. In numerous comments, users spoke about the intelligence of beauty queens and fashion models. And TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak rather sharply commented on this interview on Twitter: “Inna Zhirkova, the wife of football player Zhirkov, is burning. Sveta from Ivanovo has a serious competitor.”
There were also those who thought that Sobolev acted “unmanly” by asking a woman questions that were obviously difficult for her. In her microblog, Sobchak posted a post by her husband, Maxim Vitorgan, who said that in this interview, “what bothers him the most is the journalist sleek with a sense of superiority.” He advised Sobolev to communicate in the same tone with the head of state.
However, there were also those who did not believe that “a person could be so shamefully stupid” and suspected that “something was wrong here.” Zhirkova’s PR manager Daria Arslanova also announced “something was wrong.” According to her, Sobolev was trying to find out how much Inna Zhirkova paid for the title “Mrs. Russia.”
“For obvious reasons, he did not succeed - the competition was won fairly. Without any evidence to the contrary, Sobolev in his program stoops to dirty slander,” Arslanova wrote on your social network page. According to Arslanova, Zhirkova’s correct answers were simply cut out of the interview. She added that she wants to give this story wide publicity, regardless of whether the Anzhi midfielder and his wife sue.
Boris Sobolev, in turn, is perplexed why everyone jumped into the interview with Zhirkova. According to him, this is far from the most interesting thing in his film. He is also surprised that someone attributes to him attempts to portray Zhirkova in an unfavorable light. Especially with the help of installation.
“This is all complete nonsense! Well, who will be there to falsify anything?! There was no trace of purposefully making material about this Inna! All this is part of a big investigative film that we have been preparing for more than a year. It is dedicated to the mafia, which organizes competitions beauty, - the journalist said in an interview with the radio station "". - And besides this Inna, we have several dozen characters there. We talk about the ten largest competitions, including the world ones. We show all this fraudulent underbelly. And we ask similar questions to four or more. to five contestants - at the level of “Why did Gerasim drown Mu-mu?” I must tell you that all the other young ladies answer no better than Inna.
According to Sobolev, after the film aired in the PR service that works with football players and members of their families, someone “got into trouble,” and now the PR people are “pretending to be vigorously active.” As for Inna Zhirkova herself, according to the journalist, he is sorry that after this interview the beauty queen got the boot from the Internet community.
Sobolev added that all the original video materials on the basis of which the film was created are stored in his editorial office. And he is ready to confirm in court that there was no editing and no attempt to slander the football player’s wife. The journalist added that he asked questions from the field of general erudition not only to participants in beauty contests, but also to their peers - students of Moscow universities. And not all of them were able to give the correct answers. According to Sobolev, the educational problem of an entire generation can already be traced here.
Inna Zhirkova, interview, YouTube
On Friday, April 12, the Russia 1 TV channel aired an interview with the wife of football player Yuri Zhirkov, Inna. The three-minute interview later ended up on YouTube and broke the Internet. In the interview she appears in the image of a “close-minded blonde” who does not know who Agnia Barto is. The journalist who did the interview was later accused of fabricating it.
Inna Zhirkova, interview
The Russia 1 program aired on Friday, April 12, 2013. A conversation with Inna Zhirkova was included in the program about cheating at beauty contests. The wife of an Anzhi football player was interviewed as the owner of the title “Mrs. Russia 2012”.
In the interview Inna Zhirkova is presented in the form of a girl who does not know whether the Earth revolves around the Sun or whether this celestial body revolves around our planet. Journalist Boris Sobolev asks the football player's wife several erudition questions that she cannot answer. Also, the Rossiya 1 correspondent is trying to find out from the girl whether she bought the title “Mrs. Russia 2012”, but his attempts are unsuccessful.
After the release of the interview with Zhirkov’s wife a video of him ended up on YouTube. The video immediately became popular. Over the weekend, more than 870 thousand people managed to watch it. YouTube users in the comments to the post (almost 4 thousand) were divided into two camps. Some believe that Inna Zhirkova is that blonde who answers “I don’t know” to all questions. The second camp blames the journalist who conducted the interview. Allegedly, Inna Zhirkova was promised that these questions would not be broadcast. They were asked to relax the football player's wife.
Interview with the wife of football player Yuri Zhirkov - transcript
Journalist: Inna Zhirkova, the wife of the famous football player, “Mrs. Russia 2012,” upon her return from the competition, kindly agreed to answer our questions. Hello.
Inna: Hello.
Journalist: The regulations on the competition say that the main goal is to identify the most active, educated, spiritually developed and beautiful woman-mother. Here, let's start with activity.
Inna: Well, I don’t have much social activity.
Journalist: Are you working?
Inna: Not at the moment.
Journalist: Have you ever worked?
Inna: No. I haven't had to work yet.
Journalist: This talks about identifying the winner through equal competition between the participants. Was it equal?
Inna: Well, maybe it wasn’t equal, because many won in appearance, many won because they sing well. It is important…
Journalist: And you?
Inna: Unfortunately, I don’t know what I took it with.
Journalist: Maybe erudition. Here we are talking about erudition.
Inna: Maybe because I tried to look beautiful every day. Maybe this year...
Journalist: What is erudition?
Inna: I'm telling you, wait. I got ready for breakfast every morning, wearing a long dress, made up, and hair done. And that’s why they decided to reward me with such a crown.
Journalist: Okay. Here, here, in the regulations on the competition it is said that in addition to the fashion show, a competition of unexpected questions is expected. Was there a competition?
Inna: Well, the competition... It wasn’t really unexpected.
Journalist: Tell me, please. Unexpected question: Does the Sun revolve around the Earth or does the Earth revolve around the Sun?
Inna: Well, probably, after all. Well... Probably, after all, the Sun. No. Earth!
Journalist: So the Earth or the Sun
Inna: I don't know.
Journalist. Creative abilities and talents. What are your creative abilities?
Inna: Well, I don’t even know how to say it. Because even if I sing, I sing just for myself, it’s at karaoke, yes. I don't really dance either. Well, since childhood I went to music school for piano and choir, of course.
Journalist: Please tell me who wrote Oginsky's polonaise?
Inna: No, don’t ask me, I won’t embarrass myself.
Journalist: Well, seriously, who wrote Oginsky's polonaise?
Inna: I don't know.
Journalist: And the Griboyedov Waltz?
Inna: Don't ask me. I'm far from it.
Journalist: As a mother of two children: who is Agnia Barto?
Inna: Well, probably she is also a mother.
Journalist: Well, eh, Samuil Marshak?
Inna: No, these are questions that are far from me.
Journalist: I see. Thanks a lot. It was Inna Zhirkova, Mrs. Russia 2012.
Inna: Thank you
After the interview video the wife of football player Yuri Zhirkov went on air, the representative of the Anzhi player Daria Arslanova made a statement. She stated that the erudition questions should not have been included in the program. “Inna, don’t worry, these questions are to make you relax and the interview to be more emotional. Of course, they will not be included in the program,” Sobolev’s assistant Alexandra Orekhova allegedly said.
Questions were asked during testing about family and children, says Arslanova. She claims that all the correct questions were cut out. PR manager Zhirkova added that information about Sobolev’s actions was brought to the attention of the VGTRK management, but there was no reaction. “Regardless of whether Yura and Inna sue or not, I want this story to receive maximum publicity,” she added.
Zhirkova, wife of a football player, interview
Author of the interview with Inna Zhirkova Boris Sobolev calls Arslanova’s words “utter nonsense,” writes “Soviet Sport.” The journalist said that he was ready to sue the Zhirkovs. “The source files are intact and intact in my editorial office. I am ready to provide them at the first request of the court. We will look at all this with Daria Arslanova or anyone else, and if she claims that there was a fact of falsification, please go to court,” he said.