Hello, I'm new here. I bring the translation of the interview from the last Glamour magazine. It seems it was not there yet. Sorry for my imperfect English.
-You have a birthday at the end of November, you will be 18 years old. Is there going to be a party?
-I'm not a fan of noisy companies, I despise alcohol, so there's not like:”Ah, ah, club, gifts, take me soon, me is eighteen already”.* I have absolutely calm attitude to this date, I don’t make fuss about it.
- Maybe it’s because you are psychologically older? Sport is a serious life school.
-Probably. I am at the rink since I was three. In childhood it was disappointing and incomprehensible: children of my age play on the court and nobody demands anything from them and nobody yells at them. But when I was 10 years I started thinking about it like an adult. Even if the coach is scolding me I understand it’s not just for offence but to anger and hence to motivate me.
-This pressuring does not break the character? It turns out that athletes are taught to obey from childhood.
- Oh, no, outside the rink I'm very stubborn. If I have been decided something for myself, serious arguments are needed to convince me.
-Do you easily lose your temper?
-I'm not explosive, but sad to say I can easily burst into tears. But it’s not like I get depressed and start sobbing. Rather, my tears are caused by resentment and outrage sometimes. And not only on the ice but my anger is recycled into tears outside the rink too.
-How are you calming down in such moments?
- I lock myself in my room and sit there in silence. I don’t have TV or radio. There is only an aquarium with gurgling bubbles. This pacifies me.
-But what about compassion and support of relatives?
- I hate it when they express pity for me! My relatives know this, so they do not cry over me: "Zhenechka, don’t worry, it did not work out today but tomorrow will be better."
-Why is that bad?
-Because such words can be repeated to the person from day to day to end of life forcing to believe that something will turn out for him or her as it will always be "tomorrow". And as a result nothing will ever come of it.
-You make the impression of a human with an iron character. Do you have any weaknesses, phobias, for example?
-Oh, I'm afraid of clowns and butterflies even shaking. By the way recently I’ve tried to overcome fear of clowns, we went with my mother to "It".
-To treat by similar?
-Something like that. By the way I also got on horror movie for the first time in my life, I did not watch such movies before because I have great fantasy so I was afraid it can caused nightmares.
-And how was it?
-Awesome movie! I liked it, and it was not scary on the contrary I was laughing to tears when in the end the children started to kick this clown.
-Do you always go to the movies with your mother? And what about friends?
- Almost always with my mother and we also travel together and having fun. I have friends but not many, sport does not leave space for active communication.
-How many people did ask you for a selfie at the entrance to the cinema?
-No one. I am rarely recognized. I do not feel like celebrity at all.
And are you get rich already? People think that being world champion means being a millionaire.
- What do you mean? It’s only football players are so lucky.
*quote from Russian song