A good year and a half after her divorce from boxing star Vitali Klitschko (52), Natalia Yegorova is ready for love again, as she revealed to the magazine “Bunte” in an interview. Yegorova recently turned 50 years old. She wants to use the milestone birthday as an opportunity to get started again – both professionally and privately. “I feel alive as a woman again,” says the Ukrainian model about her new attitude to life. And she adds: “It’s always nicer to look at life with four eyes than with two.”
Klitschko and Yegorova announced their divorce in August 2022. Today she says of this time: “I would always fight for my marriage, but when there is nothing left to save, you have to leave.” However, there is no sign of the rubble of a failed marriage in the statements of the woman in her fifties. “Fortunately, we didn’t part in a negative way and continue to communicate and talk on the phone,” said Yegorova about her contact with ex-husband Vitali, with whom she has two sons Max (*2000) and Yegor-Daniel (*2005) as well as daughter Elizabeth-Victoria (*2002) has. “We were married for 25 years. Of course, this step was painful and associated with fear.” However, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine, she “suddenly had other worries and had to take care of my family.” About her family and about herself. She gave up the name Klitschko and took back her maiden name, under which she was celebrated in Ukraine as a model and singer. In 2023 she danced her way free for the first time as Natalia Yegorova in the RTL show “Let’s Dance”, the first steps on the way to the new self.
At 50, Yegorova seems to have completely freed herself from her label as “Vitali Klitschko’s wife”: “For many years I was only in the role of wife and mother, and my own self faded into the background.” But she doesn’t want to imply “that a divorce is necessary in order to feel free.” It is “always nicer to look at life with four eyes than with two,” says Yegorova. Accordingly, she feels ready for a new partnership again: “I am a woman with many feelings and am therefore open to love.” Her criteria: “The most important thing is respect and equality. I need a lot of freedom and don’t want a man who is by my side 24 hours a day,” says the mother of three. “At 50 you no longer feel like fitting in.”
Her openness to a new man at her side has not yet been crowned with success. “No man has caught my interest yet.” Problem: “I feel like I see through men very quickly.” She wouldn’t rule out dating apps in principle, says Yegorova. “Maybe I’ll try it out for fun.” She imagines it would be “incredibly difficult” to start all over again. Nevertheless, going through life as a couple is “of course nicer.” Her plans for the future have nothing to do with a new man: she wants to work as a model again, travel the world and support her social projects. Her dream: her own book. It would certainly be exciting to find out more about the turbulent past years from her perspective. Not as “wife of…”, but as Natalia Yegorova.
