Stas Kostyushkin on the family and children: interview 2016

- Julia told me that she was pregnant in the secondtime, in an unusual way. She met me after working with a beautiful box in her hands. To the question "What kind of holiday?" The wife replied: she just wanted to make me feel good. At first I thought that there was some bracelet inside or a watch. Imagine my surprise when, tearing up the package, I found in the box a pregnancy test with two strips. Was delighted madly. He said: "Well, everything, I will have a daughter!"Photo: Persona Stars

Children made a woman's wife

At the first ultrasound, only a small one was seen on the screenhead and tail. That's why I initially called the child a fish. I walked around happily thinking about a girl. However, the next visit to the doctor, which we went to with the whole family, revealed that there would be another son. When I left the clinic and went outside, my wife ran out after me saying, "You're very upset, aren't you?" I tried to calm her down: "Are you crazy? Of course not." Gender is not of fundamental importance. If we draw an analogy, it's the same as getting a good, expensive car. And whether it's a Mercedes or a Porsche, it doesn't matter. Yes, I dreamed of a Porsche, but I'm no less happy with a Mercedes. Yulia didn't torment herself with unusual desires during her pregnancy. Once at night she wanted a Prague cake. After filming, I stopped by the store, bought it. I gave it to her and said, "Eat." She said, "I won't. I just wanted you to bring it." So no one touched it. But these are trifles. In general, pregnancy has had a positive effect on Yulia's character. With each new child, she becomes more feminine. This quality was carefully knocked out of her by professional sports; she did rhythmic gymnastics and acrobatics. At the beginning of our relationship or during our work together (I was her boss), we often argued because of my wife's straightforwardness, rigidity, and integrity. Now I notice that Yulia has become softer, makes concessions more often, and can remain silent where she would have previously blurted everything out in the open. The children have brought up tolerance in her. The baby screams, pees, poops, doesn't want to eat, and you have to kiss him on the top of his head and calm him down... I am not a supporter of a man being present at childbirth. Besides, I can't stand the sight of blood, so I never dreamed of cutting the umbilical cord of a newborn. And my wife is completely against such practices. Firstly, it is too intimate a process for her, and secondly, her husband, lying unconscious in the corner of the delivery room, is the last thing she would like to see at such a crucial moment. Myron and I first met a couple of hours after his birth. I thought then: "He is so cute and nice." Newborns usually look like little bluebirds, but this one is not. Perhaps it is partly because it was a cesarean section. And I am glad about it. Yulka did not suffer, and the child tolerated it better. She gave birth to Bonya (Bogdan, Stas and Yulia's eldest son. - Antenna's note) naturally for 6 hours, and it affected him. For the first three years, her son was very nervous, did not sleep well, two nannies sat with him on a rotational basis. So he experienced this stress. And for my wife, the difficult birth became a test. For some time, she could not accept her son. When the doctors put the child on her stomach, she told her to remove him immediately. Yulia started having postpartum depression, she couldn't see her child. But soon everything changed dramatically. My wife said that she loved only Bogdan, and she didn't need anyone else: neither her husband, nor her mother. She admitted that she had lost interest in me. After such a revelation, I emotionally wrote the lyrics to the song "Just a Friend" overnight and read them to her the next morning. Surprisingly, the lyrics had an effect, they switched some switch in her head, and our relationship improved.