She looks beautiful - gorgeous hair & makeup fab dress in the red carpet picture.
She looks beautiful - gorgeous hair & makeup fab dress in the red carpet picture.
Check this page with great photos from master class of Oksana for pupils in Mariupol(the city in Ukraine, Ludmila Ivanova is the coach in local fs school)
http://lifecity.com.ua/news/7041
Direct links to photos. This September 2010.
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-016.jpg
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-002.jpg
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-008.jpg
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-027.jpg
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-031.jpg
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-030.jpg
http://lifecity.com.ua/spaw2/uploads...aBayul-029.jpg
Such great photos. Thanks all. Her smile will always light up a room.
I think she looks better than she has in a long time! Someone just needs to confiscate her eyebrow tweezers. . .![]()
Is she still married or did they divorce [can't remember his name] & marry someone else?
I think the remarks about her being drunk and/or on drugs are really not funny.
She looks amazing in the pics.
-Brian
"Michelle would never be caught with sausage grease staining her Vera Wang." - rfisher
I, too am very happy to see her looking well and tiffed (love the black dress with the buckle) although I agree about over-tweezing. Overall, she looks great and seems to be enjoying teaching kids.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
from Speedy Death
Oksana's version of The Nutcracker on Ice is my all time fave. To me she looked like the quintessential Clara. I watch it every year around Christmas time.She was my favorite skater back in her day and I was saddened at the turn her life took.
I think 2010 Oksana looks much improved(thank God) compared to her 2007 self.
I think such remarks are cruel-not funny in the least imo.
I agree-she looks amazing in the pics (thanks to all who posted them!).
Some of my all time favorite programs were by Oksana (both competitive and exhibition skates). I wish her all my best.![]()
Last edited by Sasha'sSpins; 12-05-2010 at 07:34 AM.
Great to see she's in a much happier place now.
She looks much much better.
I am very surprised she's back in Ukraine and opening a skating school there.
I imagine she'd easily make money in the US by working as a coach there.
I would expect she's a much bigger name in the Ukraine than she is in the States and as such has a lot more financial opportunities. In the States she would be a little remembered fish in a very big pond, in the Ukraine I would assume she's a big fish in a...well you know.
It looks like being home in Ukraine really agrees with Oksana. Great to see her with the young skaters and looking so happy. I'm so glad that I started this thread and thanks to all who brought us up to date with positive news about her.
Thanks for posting those photos. She looks really happy and healthy. So nice to see. And good on her for getting a skating school going.
What the hell is a Ninja Twizzle? Does it have anything to do with hard shelled aquatic life forms that live in the sewer?
Great to see her doing well again!
Last edited by Finnice; 12-08-2010 at 08:37 PM.
Yeah, you have a point. I guess I'm so used to seeing skaters in tons of make-up that when they don't have it on it just feels weird to me.
It seems that returning to her roots is being good for her, it probably doesn't require a lot of effort to feel beloved in her home country which is something I think she really needs. Hope she manages to keep it up.![]()
Obviously.
But compared to US, Ukraine is a very poor country and the money you earn there will be nothing like she would in the States.
In the US, she wouldn't need to be super successful to make a decent living. Some parents and adult skaters would surely come to train with somebody who is an Olympic Champion.
I guess the reason must be what Artifice said. Maybe she misses home or maybe - like the Siudeks - she's actually patriotic and really wants to develop Ukrainian skating.
If it's the latter even better because Ukrainian skating is in a really crap place now. The more help it can get, the better.