Anfisa CHEKHOVA: "When I was like a match, the producers did not notice me"

One of the few girls in the body on our television, she just convinces by the fact of her existence: there is life beyond the parameters of 90-60-90! And life, and career, and fame, and self-confidence.


The situation, frankly speaking, is not easy. Looking short-sightedly at the girl leaving the car, I do not understand: "Chekhov or not? It is painfully tiny. Compared with the screen, less than 10 kilograms, if not 15 ... "But, deciding that it's better to sign out than ignore, I'm heading to meet you. I was not mistaken, she. Ladnenka, in knitwear in a skintight, on high heels. As it later turned out, I'm not the only one confused when communicating live mismatch of real parameters and screen. The camera is known to be full, sometimes much, so the hostages of show business almost starve themselves to look slim. Loud and the host of the TV channel TNT. And much more than 20 kg. Only the one who "did this," knows how difficult it is to lose so much. Therefore, the first questions sprinkled with peas, and all about that very episode.

- Anfisa, what did you lose? How many kilograms? And when did they start to fight weight?
- I started at school, in the last grades, I had 72 kg in me. For a long time I lost weight independently, without a dietician, I decided to drink Thai pills. Two months they took, lost 25 kg. It began to weigh 52 kg with an increase of 165 cm. But I do not advise anyone to repeat my experience. Tablets are a monstrous thing. When I finally had the opportunity to contact a dietician and he heard about them, he said that the usual diet on the body, which was thus mocked, will not work. And besides Thai tablets, there was a lot more ... Well, I lost weight on them and kept weight for a year. Nothing practically did not eat, pecked like a bird, did not have dinner at all. In the evening I went into the store and wandered between the shelves for a long time, choosing what I would have for breakfast. It was terrible. I wanted everything, but nothing can be done. And it's just that you can not, and you're obsessed with it. I've never eaten grapes before, but as soon as I learned that it's less necessary to lose weight, I immediately fell in love. I dreamed about forbidden products! I dreamed how I eat a bagel, smeared with butter! ..

- You are emotionally transferring emotions of losing weight ...
- My mother was obese - since childhood. And I watched her suffer. As for months she was starving, she was lying in the clinics - whatever she did. And I, too, could have followed her course. The propensity to fullness has been since childhood, in adolescence it has become obvious. And this had to be corrected, because society required me to be skinny.

- ... So, you dropped 25 kg on Thai tablets, a year kept weight, and then ...
"And then there was bulimia." Quit smoking - and it began. I ate everything, and what I do not like: pizza, mayonnaise, potatoes, pasta. It's as if I've stuffed myself into spite! I waited for the food to slip down from the throat, and then back to the kitchen. It was impossible to stop. For three weeks I collected all the lost 25 kg and more from above.

"So say with confidence that you had bulimia ..."
- Yes, it was she, I was diagnosed. After all, I've been limiting myself for a year: for breakfast - bread with jam and sugar substitute, for lunch - eggplants with tomatoes, for dinner - nothing! And the body took revenge for all the shortfall. Three weeks later, I was horrified. Because the year has become accustomed to live in a different weight and morale, because so much effort wasted and all wasted! It was frightening at the thought of how to drop these pounds. I understood: there is no strength for repetition, and ate. I ate and hated myself for eating, and from this hatred I ate even more ...


PRAGUE, FANS AND MONTENJAK


- After that, you made another attempt to lose weight?
- After "this" I lived quietly. I realized that I do not want to lose weight the second time that I need to read books on dietetics. And the explanations of Michel Montignac seemed to me very logical. Follow his food system was not difficult: even sweets are allowed - just do not combine them with what you do not need, and that's it. I have long existed for Montignac, about a year. Thanks to him, I stopped making bans - because any of them for me are fraught with a terrible breakdown, and I began to think about what I eat. We in fact often eat thoughtlessly. They taught us to spread butter on the bread in our childhood - that's what we've been painting all our lives. And bread without oil has its own taste, and it is not worse than that with butter. Then I stopped loving mayonnaise, pastries, cakes, because I understood what they consist of and how they affect weight. "Do you want cake? She told herself. - You are welcome. But do you understand what's inside of him? Butter and sugar. Do you want to send oil in your mouth with spoons? No. And when you eat a cake, you do just that. Do you want to chew sugar? Can you imagine how he creaks on his teeth? "And when I took out the foods that were tasty for me before, I realized that I did not want them any more. But there is food, which is difficult to refuse. I love everything salty, I can not live without sauerkraut , cucumbers. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I have not found in any book that it is somehow very harmful to the body. And he periodically needs me so salty that he is ready to go to the end of the world, even at night, to go for cucumbers.

"So you read books, lived by Montignac, and you started to lose weight?"
- No, I started to lose weight for another reason. Because of stress. I had complex personal relationships - that day, then the problem. So I again lit up. Experienced, smoked, lost weight and began other problems - with blood vessels. She fainted. That's how I lost weight, not paying attention to diets for two or three years ...

- And then the stress is over and there was again a set of weight?
"And then I quit smoking again." This had to be done, because how much it was already possible to fall into public fits! Quit smoking, and weight immediately "moved." Tried to control it, did not drink alcohol, ate carrots, everything was fine, but on New Year's Eve went to Prague for four days. In the jeans, which went there, on the way back has not climbed. Weight went up, and how went! Although I did not relax, I did not eat much. I had the same diet as before, but without cigarettes, he immediately caused an increase.
I went to the doctor, and he explained everything. Smoking is a stress for the body, and we struggle with it to spend energy-calories. And when we stop smoking, the body has nowhere to give up the unspent calories, and there is an increase in weight. You'll have to wait, the doctor said, you just stopped smoking, from half a year to two years there will be perestroika ... And I got better and could not lose weight at all. And then it began. And Dr. Volkov, and diets on the house, and pills.


BEFORE THE CLOSED DOOR


- You again began to drink "pohudatelnye" tablets?
- Yes. I was frightened. Nothing helped. Weight did not go to any, from anything. And on these pills many stars were losing weight, they were fashionable. But I did not take them long, only a week. When she began to look around the street, all afraid and realized that these pills are acting on the psyche, she immediately threw them to drink. And on all this: on tablets, Volkov, a diet at home - she threw off 2-3 kg of strength. After that I decided: if something is not given, there's no need to knock on the closed door. Hence, this happened for a reason. You have to understand something in your life and change it.

- And what did you do with the "closed door"?
"Every day I began to learn to accept myself as I am. She said to herself: "Well, I recovered, well, weight does not go away, but on the other hand ... In my personal life, how does this interfere? No way. You are also loved. Well, two or three years you lived, being 10-15 kg slimmer than now. Happier was this? No. Then why exhaust yourself, scoff at yourself? Go the other way, live on, find the pros in the state you are in. " I began to look for pluses and found them so much that now I no longer feel the desire to put my weight somewhere.
The funniest thing is that the society in which I rotated and rotated (GITIS, television, show business), always demanded from me losing weight. But everything I wanted to get from life, I achieved without losing weight. And when I walked around the Ostankino corridors lean as a match, nobody was needed. Here is a paradox.

- In the TV corridors the subject of weight loss, diets are discussed actively?
- Now it is a fashionable "chip" - to sit on a diet. Come, order a piece of pie and with a happy look to eat - ashamed. It is necessary to choose salad leaves and, having informed everyone: "Oh, I have 2 kg extra", with a longing to chew them. I'll never say anything in a restaurant, it's like this: "Oh, I can not, I'm on a diet!" Just ask what the dishes are made of, and I'll make an order without straining anyone. Although it was very difficult to choose when, for example, I sat on the Volkov diet. By the way, all the men who went with me to the restaurant, always said: "Oh, Anfisa, how do you eat delicious!"

- What tactics do you follow on the table?
- I do not eat at receptions. I do not like jostling in line for food. In addition, when a child came to the table the other day, there was always a classmate who shouted: "She again eats!" Anyone else passed by, but as soon as I came up ... So they beat off the desire to go to parties. If I'm going, then I'll have lunch before the buffet as usual, but there's just that I'll drink a glass of wine. No more - not to arouse the appetite. But you do not have to walk with this plate, think where to put it, plus there will be more opportunities to communicate with people.

- When you are a guest on other people's shows, talk shows, rarely who keeps from commenting on the figure. Do you keep a good stroke - did you always know, or did it come with time?
"Since my childhood I've become accustomed to being different, like everyone else, and I had to learn to hold the blow." When someone tries to offend you, he seems to throw invisible darts at an invisible target and realizes that he got hit, only by the reaction of a person. Shunned? So, I got hit, we'll throw on. Therefore, the main thing is not to jerk. Yes, such a figure, and now what? Say that a woman with a big booty can not be loved? This is nonsense. If I am, do you worry? No. Me too.
DANCES WITH THE PAST

- Your ideal weight?
- 60 kg. When I weigh so much, I can not strain, eat and play sports, as always. Usual weight fluctuations - plus or minus 2 kg.

- On the dynamics of changes that occur with the figure, the most accurate representation is given not by a scale, but by a centimeter. Do you often shoot volumes?
- Suits are regularly made for me.

- And what are they, volumes?
- I have a bad memory for the numbers, so I remembered them like this: 90-60-90 plus 10 for each.

- Absolutely proportional figure - what else do you say? Perfect, like an hourglass! And the project "Dancing with the stars" led to any changes in volume?
- I can not say that I lost weight wildly, but I pulled myself up and felt more cheerful. And before, before the "Dance", did not have time to wake up, as already tired.

- Do you have plasticity from nature or did you practice choreography?
- (With great distrust.) Do you think I'm plastic?

- To be able to dance professionally is one thing, and being plastic is another. I watched you during the "general constructions" on "Dancing with the Stars". In a number of others, when Anfisa Chekhova was not in the center of attention of judges and spectators, she moved more relaxed and confident ...
- In childhood I studied at the school of aesthetic education. We had a plastic lesson, and the teacher sent me to the farthest corner and did not understand what to do with me at all. She is an ex-ballerina, she did not allow herself to get well all her life, but here she is a big child. I was for her like a red rag for a bull. She has production, she tries to realize some ambitions in this school, and before her eyes looms a figure that does not fit into the standards - that is, me. And she shouted to this girl: "Where have you gone, cow ?!"

- "Kind woman...
"So I hated plastic lessons and since then I hate to dance." Like many people, I can develop only in an atmosphere of love. The only child in the family, everyone loved me from childhood. When they said what a fine fellow I was and praised, it grew. When someone yelled at me because of something, I stopped interested in it at all. And when the teacher started screaming at me, she clearly decided: I can not dance and I will not go into it. Therefore, when they offered to participate in the project, the first desire was to refuse.
Another leg has recently suffered an operation, plus I do not know how to dance. But then I thought: if I'm so scared, if I have been so complex, then, on the contrary, I have to go and try to prove to myself that I can do something.

- Have you ever consulted a psychologist?
- I applied.

"Did they help you?"
- Yes. They learn to see the goal. For example, if you want to lose weight, but in dreams, imagine yourself as you are now, then you will not lose weight. You need to see your goal - your skinny.

- Few of those who lose weight refer to a psychologist. How did you decide to do this?
- I came to the doctor to solve other problems, with weight unrelated. In parallel, I learned a lot of interesting things. Very often, for example, a woman complains that she wants to lose weight to find her man, but can not get rid of fatness. But if you dig into psychology, it turns out that this woman actually does not want to find anyone. She is afraid of serious relationships, and since she has a logical link in her head "while I'm fat, I will not have anyone", then she does not lose weight. The fear of being disappointed in someone, finding a person who will then leave you, very often pushes the girl to fullness.

"Have all of you explained this to the psychologists?"
- Both psychologists and psychology books that I read have led me to the idea that often fullness is the result of a person's thinking. And very often she benefits him.

- How can completeness be profitable?
- A person without shortcomings has no incentive to develop. Slender and pumped high handsome and so fall in love - just for what he gave nature. A man of small stature, and even a fat one, will have to succeed, earn money, develop a sense of humor, otherwise he will be imprisoned, without a sense of humor. So completeness helps us grow: it forces us to look for strengths in ourselves and to realize ourselves in those areas in which we are strong. For someone it's a profession, for someone a family or relationships with people. Agree that among the fat people are much more kind and calm than among the thin. Let nature something to us and nedodala compared with those who have ideal figures , in return, she gave us another. The ability to develop other qualities in oneself and "hide" behind them the propensity to fullness or herself.


DIETS HERE DO NOT LIVE


Anfisa Chekhova is convinced: they are harmful to health and are always accompanied by prohibitions, and where there is a ban, there is a breakdown. "Diet" in the understanding of the star is a nutritionally balanced diet, and the menu of each day looks like this.

Breakfast . Necessarily carbohydrates - bread or grain bread with jam on fructose, or yoghurt with muesli, or oatmeal or any other porridge. Another option - low-fat cottage cheese with honey and grapefruit. Anfisa likes cheese cakes, cooks them without sugar, but extremely rarely, because they need to be fried.

Lunch . If he happens at home, the TV presenter is cooking something on the grill. If "out", then orders in the restaurant soup and vegetable salad or soup and the second - a portion of fish or meat with vegetables. The first is obligatory. Anfisa loves soups: oxalic, borscht, broth.

Dinner . The maximum that can eat is fruit. Supper with meat or fish she does not want.