Personal Life
Gordeeva and Grinkov had a state wedding on April 20, 1991, and a church wedding on April 28. Their daughter, Daria Sergeyevna Gordeeva-Grinkova, was born on September 11, 1992 in Morristown, New Jersey.
On June 15, 2001, Gordeeva gave birth to her second daughter, Elizaveta Ilinichna Kulik (also called Liza, a diminutive of the name Elizaveta, pronounced LEE-za), whose father is 1998 Olympic men's singles champion Ilia Kulik. Gordeeva and Kulik married in a private ceremony in San Francisco on June 10, 2002.
Gordeeva and her family resided in California for several years before moving to Avon, Connecticut in 2003. They returned to the Los Angeles area in 2007 and currently reside in Newport Beach, California. Gordeeva, Kulik, Daria and Elizaveta made their first televised appearance as a family for Kristi Yamaguchi's Friends and Family in 2005, and they also appeared in the 2006 and 2007 versions of the show. Gordeeva and her family speak Russian at home, and travel to Russia frequently.
In 2012, Kulik and Gordeeva opened a skating rink in Lake Forest, California.
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