Alena Shoptenko: biography, personal life, career

Alena Shoptenko - a dancer who has become twice world champion in ballroom dancing to 21 years. She is more known in wide circles as the winner of a TV show called "Dancing with the Stars".

Biography

Alena Shoptenko was born on December 21, 1987. Her homeland is the city of Kiev. I started dancing from the age of 6. Seven years later, at the age of 13, Alena deserved the place of the champion of her city and reached the semi-finals in the tournament called "Herman Open".

In 2006, the dancer was awarded the title of world champion in 10 kinds of dance. After a short time she was declared the winner in the show called "Dancing with the Stars". In the room, her partner was Vladimir Zelensky.

In 2007 Alena Shoptenko won the Ukrainian Championship and took part in the project "Dancing with the Stars 3".

In 2008, the dancer took part in the project "Dancing for myself"

In 2009, she took part in the second and third parts of the above project, the last was the battle of choreographers, where she received a silver seat, fighting with the other two.

Relatives

Alena's mother is a neuropathologist in one of the hospitals in Kiev. Her father holds a mushroom farm, grows mushrooms. It is known that she has two brothers, but there is not much information about them.

Personal life

In 2013, Alena Choptenko became the wife of professional dancer Dmitry Dikusar. She accepted Dmitry's proposal in Kiev, at home. July 16, the couple swore an oath before God in one of the churches in Georgia, located in the picturesque mountains.

As Alena herself claims, they decided to get married in Georgia for the reason that this was the place that started in their relationship. Also, the beauty of this beautiful country played an important role.

They decided to marry after four months of relations. Parents were against this marriage, at least, so says herself Alena Shoptenko. Photos from the wedding you can see below.

Divorce

In 2016, the couple parted. Although, it would seem, the couple was already thinking about having children, which they were constantly asked by the TV presenter of the show "Secular Life" Katya Osadch, but after almost three years of living together, there was a news about divorce. She was later confirmed by Alena herself, giving a little account of the reason. The solution was mutual, and there is no one specific reason for it. As Alain said, sometimes the best that a couple can take for each other is to decide to part.

Appearance

According to Alena Shoptenko, an important role in her appearance is played by her hair. She does not paint them, she naturally has a light hair color. In an interview she said that her hair was painted only once in her life, and the result was not very impressive. She tried to take advantage of the chestnut shading paint, and when interacting with her natural blond hair the paint turned them into red, eventually had to walk until washed.

Experiments she conducted only over the length of her hair. As a child, she had long hair below the waist. They were naughty, and you had to constantly wear a tail, and this young dancer did not like. It turned out that she herself had to correct them, which led to bad consequences. As a result, Alena Shoptenko uses a variety of medicinal cosmetics to somehow correct the situation.

Views on the life of a famous dancer

We can say that Alena Shoptenko is completely given a dance career. Her life credo - "if you suffer for a long time, something will turn out." In the interview, she said that in her first competition she took only the fifth place. After that, life taught her that wins do not get so easily. The subsequent triumphs brought her hard work on herself. In her opinion, only in this way it is possible to achieve something, and if you invest fully in the business, it will give its result.