Model gossip #2

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Does anyone know what actually happened with Tanya Dyagileva/Dziahileva? She just returned to a couture show at the age of 32. Her backstory: she started modeling at 14 ~ 2005. She hit the top and walked every runway by 2008, and then something really weird happened.

First, she didn’t show up at fashion week ~ 2009 when she normally did, and cited that she had lost her passport. Then there was talk that she couldn’t get a work visa. In 2008 the year prior, she had done a Chanel show in Monaco. Not that much later, she loses her passport and can’t get a work visa and skips fashion week. Her editorial work dropped dramatically and we didn’t see her at fashion week. She switched from IMG to Elite and there was convoluted rumor that she followed her booker to another agency vs something more sinister like having earnings stolen from her.

Paparazzi photos revealed over the next year that she was dating an oligarch a good 25+ years older. She was seen with him for a WHILE, I mean 1-2 years or so. Her social media posts were showing sights from yachts in places where the uber wealthy play and one photo of purchases of designer items.

She stayed out of fashion for a few years, and returned for a small number of shows here and there, looking less cheery and bright. People worried legitimately worried she was sad because she looked withdrawn compared to her usual demeanor. In her interview at Georges Chakra she even says “I’m very happy all the time.” She completed her degree during these following years.

Fast forward through the next 5 or so years and you see her attempt to return to fashion 2-3 times, training for fashion week and not getting much or anything in bookings.

Boyfriends other than the oligarch have been completely absent. There is no allusion that there is someone who she just doesn’t photograph.

Tanya seems like a genuinely nice person who may have fallen for a path out of working and someone who she thought was her true love at only 19 years or so of age.

Since then, it’s been unclear what she does for a living, why she stopped modeling, if the industry blackballed her (or not) or why that would have been excluded, and what’s going on that she has tried to return to fashion several times without success when she was literally the IT girl and could still easily slay the runway at the very least. She does not look 32 and seems to have a genuine love of fashion.
 
Yikes 😬

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sometimes it looks good but other times its a "deer in the headlights" look because her eyes look so tightly pulled back. but i guess she wanted to look fresh and youthful to advertise cosmoss ... cant exactly run a wellness brand when you've aged terribly
 
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