How could I wait for so long?’”Īfter Navratilova publicly proposed to Lemigova at the US Open in 2014, the couple tied the knot later that year, with a star-studded wedding reception attended by Brooke Shields, Chris Evert, Lynda Carter, and models Karolina Kurkova and Rachel Hunter. And then I was thinking, ‘Oh my god, what a fool I was. This town helped me come out of the closet.
It’s only when I came to Miami that I was open. “I don’t even know how she stayed with me for so long. What if somebody sees us, the neighbors?’” Lemigova said with regret. When she tried to hold my hand, I would say, ‘Darling, we cannot do this. “I must have hurt Martina so much because she’s a pioneer of LGBTQ liberation and being herself. Mary Beth Koeth for NY PostĪlthough they were living together, she still didn’t publicly come out. And then she moved in.” Mirimari gown, $4,500, contact for buying information. Then we had another breakfast the next day and then one more breakfast. And I asked her to have breakfast with me the next day. “I literally bumped into her with a tray of food. “We bumped into each other in the players’ restaurant,” Lemigova recalled. It was a brief interaction, but the tennis star remembered the beauty queen when they saw each other again, eight years later, during the French Open. Lemigova first met Navratilova, now 65, in Paris in 2000 at a nightclub. I was very much in the closet all those years.” I couldn’t imagine holding another woman’s hand on the street. Still, she added, “Even though I had relationships with other women, it was in a private closed circle. “It’s only when I left Moscow and moved to Paris that I discovered that there were all types of relationships and loves.” “We never talked about gay relationships in Russia,” Lemigova, 49, told The Post. However, it took the former Miss USSR a long time to be open about her sexuality, even shamefully hiding her romance with Navratilova at first. Larsa Pippen ‘traumatized’ over ex Scottie Pippen constantly ‘punishing’ herĪs the only Real Housewife in a same-sex marriage - to tennis legend Martina Navratilova - Miami’s Julia Lemigova knows about breaking boundaries.
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