Biography of singer and model Erica Herceg: personal life, before weight loss, plastic surgery, nationality, photo

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Ukrainian and Russian pop star, singer Erica Herceg became famous thanks to her performances as part of the VIA Gra group. A spectacular, curvy blonde with an interesting life story and a funny accent interests many not only on TV screens, but also on social networks. The girl is followed by more than 800 thousand subscribers on her Instagram account.

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Childhood and photos in youth

Erica was born into a binational family. Her father was Hungarian by birth and worked as a fireman. And my mother had Ukrainian and Hungarian roots and took care of the housework. When the girl turned 5 years old, her second child was born - a boy. Suddenly, the mother of the future singer became seriously ill with a mental illness and could no longer pay proper attention to the children. The head of the family started drinking out of grief, but in moments of enlightenment he tried to care for the kids.

Erica went to first grade abroad - to a Hungarian school in the city of Zahony, 12 km from home. From the 6th grade, the girl transferred to a school in her village. And from the 9th year of study she went to the church reform lyceum, located in the neighboring village of Velikaya Dobron.

Erika’s native language was Hungarian, and she began learning Ukrainian at school. From an early age, the girl became addicted to singing and was a member of the church choir. In high school, she became a soloist and also performed in several local competitions.

After graduating from school in 2006, Herceg decided to continue her studies. She entered the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute named after. Ferenc Rakoczi II in the city of Beregovo. The girl chose the Faculty of Economics and Management. To feed herself and help her family, she worked as a waitress in a cafe, and later got a job as a call center operator.

Brief biography

• Full name: Herceg, Erika Nikolaevna;
• Place of birth: s. Malaya Dobron, Uzhgorod district, Transcarpathian region, Ukraine;
• Date of birth: 1988, July 5;
• Zodiac sign: Cancer; according to the Chinese horoscope - Dragon (earth element); patron planet - Moon;
• Height and weight: 175 cm, 48 kg;
• Parameters: 87 – 60 – 90;
• Higher education; Graduated from the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute named after. F. Rakoczy in 2006;
• Occupation: model, singer;
• Place of work: Ukrainian pop group “VIA Gra” (soloist);
• Marital status: not married, no children.

Weight loss and breast enlargement

Erica suffered from excess weight in her youth. With a height of 168 cm, at the end of school she weighed almost 80 kg. Even the singer’s first love broke up due to extra pounds. The guy preferred a not so beautiful, but thin girl.

Then Herceg decided to radically change her appearance, hoping that life would improve. She lost 34 kg in 8 months. In 2009, the girl dropped out of her unloved specialty and decided to build her own career. She entered into several contracts with domestic and foreign companies, and became a model for collections of underwear and jewelry.

Using the money she earned herself, the girl decided to undergo plastic surgery to improve the shape of her breasts. Before plastic surgery, this part of the body was size 1, but after a sharp weight loss it almost disappeared. The girl also had to gain a couple of kilograms to avoid developing anorexia.

About Erica Herceg's childhood and youth

The girl Erica was born in a small village on the border of Hungary and Ukraine, her father is half Hungarian, half Ukrainian, and her mother is Hungarian. The parents of the future soloist of the famous group came from border Hungary, but since the girl grew up on the territory of Ukraine, she rightfully considers herself a real Ukrainian. However, even though Erica’s geographical homeland is this country, from birth she spoke Ukrainian much worse than Hungarian, and she had to get rid of her pronounced Hungarian accent for a long time - it greatly interfered later in her musical career.

Erica Herceg in childhood. Photo https://www.instagram.com/erikaherceg/

When the girl was five years old, the Herceg family added another child. In all the biographies of the current successful soloist of VIA Gra, they write that Erica’s mother, after the birth of her sister, was unable to recover from childbirth, that she had a severe nervous breakdown. Since subsequently the girl always talks only about her younger brother, and does not mention her sister at all...

The head of the family, according to Erica, worked as a firefighter all his life. In his free time, he traveled to Hungary, bought vegetables there, and then sold them at the local market. The family also gardened - they grew tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, and tried to set up a greenhouse. Erica's paternal grandmother helped them in this: the girl recalled that when her younger brother was very little, the grandmother and her two sisters took the baby to live with them in order to somehow help the family.

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The year when her mother fell ill became incredibly difficult for the five-year-old girl. The woman was seriously ill, scandals were constantly breaking out in the house, plus there were difficulties with money: medicines were incredibly expensive, especially IVs, which had to be “put on” for the sick mother every day. The father showed weakness and began to seek solace in alcohol, and their daughter was actually left to her own devices. Let Erica’s ill-wishers tell anything about her allegedly bad behavior in childhood and adolescence - she was modest, well-mannered, despite the fact that her parents did not care about her for some time. Instead of “going rogue” and being left unattended, the teenage girl got a job in a church choir, soon becoming a soloist there.

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It was fortunate that in the lyceum attached to the school choir, where the girl sang, there was something like a boarding school. Children who lived very far away were allowed to stay there, and Erica settled there, visiting her parents a couple of times a month. “I didn’t have normal clothes then, I dressed cleanly, but not fashionably and impersonally. Instead of a hairstyle - a short haircut. My friends avoided me, I often cried and dreamed of long curls. No normal family, no friends... But I tried my best to study - I wanted to get a good certificate and then get a higher education,” Erica’s story about that time.

Casting for the show “I Want V VIA Gru”

In September 2013, Erica's father pushed her to go to the casting of Konstantin Meladze's reality show. So the singer was among the contenders for a new soloist in the program “I Want V VIA Gro”. At the end of October, residents of Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus chose Misha Romanova, Erica Herceg and Anastasia Kozhevnikova as their favorites.

Erica Herzen at the casting for the show “I Want V VIA Gro”:

In the finale, the young trio presented the audience with a fresh project called “Truce,” which later received a large number of awards. Later, the girls began touring with a repertoire that included old and new VIA Gra singles. The singers have repeatedly taken part in erotic shoots for men's magazines.

Work as part of VIA Gra

The one who didn’t like Erica Herceg at first became her mentor during the next rounds and prepared the new trio for a successful finale - we’re talking about Nadezhda Granovskaya. The current lead singer of the group constantly expresses gratitude to her for criticism at the beginning of the casting, and for sensible comments, and for her help later in forming the right image.

The first event where Erica showed herself in full glory along with her new friends was the “We Are One” concert in the Kremlin, which took place on November 4, 2013. Konstantin Meladze gave the girls just two weeks to sing and rehearse, and the success was deafening. A big tour began, where, along with new songs, Erica and the rest of the trio members performed seventeen old VIA Gra singles in a new arrangement. In December, the group was invited to NTV for a new project, “The Best,” and she had to learn English: in the program she had to sing something from the Spice Girls’ repertoire, and she did an excellent job.

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Concerts at Crocus City Hall, releases of new CDs on the Love RADIO radio station, filming of new videos, continuous tours - and the new soloist of VIA Gra, Erica, shines everywhere. They tour not only around Russia: in March 2018, for example, the group created a real sensation when they arrived in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. Tickets were sold out long before the concert, and they were also invited to perform at several major nightclubs. Since the formation of the new lineup at the casting, by this time the group had changed members twice: Misha Romanova left for personal reasons, then Nastya Kozhevnikova got married and terminated her contract. But Erica Herzen is not thinking of leaving the group, she feels comfortable in a team with new girls, quickly made friends with them, fans admire her - what else can you dream of now?

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And she dreams that everything will be fine with her parents, as they once did in early childhood... Her father suddenly became seriously ill - his passion for alcohol was not in vain. She was not prepared for a sudden call from home: her brother said that their father was dying and that an operation was urgently needed. Erica goes home and decides to take her seriously ill father to Kyiv: in the train car he was lying on an IV and everyone was afraid that the man would not make it to the hospital. The doctors announced the cost of the operation and said: “We can start right now if you pay.” The whole amount was not there, and the girl began to call her boyfriend (who it was - we will mention later), and he sent the missing money.

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In total, Erica's father underwent three operations, and his daughter was so happy when he opened his eyes after anesthesia! “Our Erica is the best!” - he now says to both relatives and friends. But there was a time when he was embarrassed by his daughter, listening to the comments of his acquaintances: “Your daughter behaves indecently, acts naked, nothing good will come of her.” Now the girl is trying not to remember this: “If you live with bad thoughts, remember all the grievances, then bitterness will accumulate in your soul, but this is impossible - all this will poison your life,” - her words.

Erica Herceg's family is proud of her, and she is happy when she can visit them and help her brother financially. The group’s latest video in 2019, “I fell in love with a monster,” is in the first lines of the charts, and Erica is called in the media “the most striking character of the group in recent years of the trio’s existence.” “Yes, the fans love me, but this happened because I once fell in love with myself and “made” myself the way I am now,” the singer answers the question about her success in show business.

Future plans

Rumors that the girl left Viagra only make her smile. The singer is not going to embark on a solo journey; she wants to devote the next 5 years to a career in the team.

Herceg also plans to open his own business. The girl is the only person in the family who is able to provide for the life of her parents and younger brother Nikolai . She has a keen sense of duty and a strong character. The singer dreams of opening her own beauty clinic so that all women, like her in her time, could correct something in themselves, become more beautiful and more confident.

Erica Herceg's diet: the opinion of nutritionists ^

Nutritionists are inclined to believe that the singer managed to lose weight not only through diet, but also through sports, otherwise such results would not have been achieved. The maximum that could be done is to lose no more than 20 kg. There is one nuance here: physical activity without proper nutrition will be ineffective, so those who want to become slimmer need to combine them together.

What Erica Herceg looks like now: photo

Despite the dizzying success, Erica Herceg, who has lost weight, still continues to eat the same as before, explaining this by the desire to stay in shape, because. she has a tendency to be overweight. Her only regret is that her breasts disappeared along with her weight, but she solved this problem very simply - she saved up money and had an operation.

Now that she has ideal parameters, many call her the second Vera Brezhneva, and this is partly true: the girls are really similar, and both are sex symbols for many fans of the ViaGRA female group, which has existed for more than 10 years.

Personal life of Erica Herzen

After a failed first love, Erica began dating a businessman. The couple had a strong relationship and even planned a wedding. The guy supported the singer in her desire to enlarge her breasts and even added some money for a trip to Budapest. However, the girl returned home 2 days earlier than the agreed time and found the groom in the arms of another.

Already in Kyiv, the girl established a relationship with another man. His work involved frequent business trips, and the young man’s character turned out to be jealous and distrustful. After 2 years of relationship, Herzen left her gentleman.

In 2021, Erica showed subscribers a beautiful, expensive ring that looked like an engagement ring. Then the singer said that she had fallen in love again and was waiting for a marriage proposal. In 2021, it became known that the chosen one of the curvy blonde is named Mikhail. He runs his own business. The couple has a slight age difference.

The lovers plan to get married after 2021 in Europe and expect to invite only their closest friends and relatives to the celebration. Erica Herceg and her future husband want to travel after their wedding.

Personal life

The lead singer of VIA Gra began her first relationship in her youth. One gentleman himself abandoned a plump girl as not corresponding to his ideas of beauty.

When Herceg gained her slim figure, a new boyfriend appeared. The next chosen one came from a wealthy family and gave Erica money “for her chest.” Returning from the hospital, she found her beloved with someone else.

For 4 years, Herceg dated a wealthy man, whose name she did not disclose. According to the singer, this man helped her get a job in Kyiv, since the model’s salary was not enough to meet all her needs. There were rumors that the artist’s lover was the Hungarian consul in Ukraine.

The chosen one, Herceg, was glad that his girlfriend became the new soloist of the VIA Gra group, and supported her in her endeavors. But due to the man’s infidelities and causeless jealousy, the couple broke up. Erica had a hard time with the breakup, and the support of her bandmates played an important role in her moral recovery.

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In January 2021, fans spotted a gorgeous ring on the ring finger of Erica’s right hand. She recorded a New Year's video greeting for Instagram subscribers, in which she wished love, health and happiness and, as if by chance, “demonstrated” the decoration. Fans took this as a hint of an engagement. After all, shortly before this, a photo appeared on the performer’s microblog with a man turning his back to the lens, accompanied by a romantic comment.

Of course, the game “Guess Who?” immediately began on the Internet. Some claimed that this was the Latvian singer Markus Riva, others argued that this was the Ukrainian hero of the show “The Bachelor” Dmitry Cherkasov or the lead singer of the MBAND group Artem Pindyura. But, unfortunately, as before, Herceg chose not to reveal the name of her chosen one.

And in 2019, the online community suspected the singer of having an affair with the group’s producer. Some media even wrote that the girl was pregnant from Meladze. One of the reasons for the rumors was that Konstantin Shotaevich took the artist to the Maldives. However, the real purpose of the trip was not romantic, but work - a video was being filmed on the island. It got to the point that the producer’s wife Vera Brezhneva published a post in which she assured that everything was the same with her husband and there was no reason to worry.

Erica has an attractive appearance, which can be judged from the photo without makeup. By the way, the blonde is strikingly similar to her predecessor in VIA Gre - just as slender and beautiful. The media wrote that the girl had plastic surgery more than once. The surgeons worked not only on the blonde’s bust, but also on her nose. She may have also removed Bisha's lumps and regularly resorts to "beauty injections."

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Erica Herceg and Misha Romanova
Herceg also shared her secrets of losing weight with journalists. There was no talk of a fitness club in the village. She changed her diet - switched to yogurts, vegetables and fruits, fish and dairy products. No fast food or soda, no sweets - only before lunch. Now Erica works out with a trainer in the gym, dances and swims. She often shows off her figure in a swimsuit.

“A wonderful transformation occurred not only with the body. I think it’s like this in many ways: at first you put in maximum effort and work on yourself, and then one day - and fate picks you up and opens up new opportunities, as a kind of bonus and a chance to achieve even more. And other tasks and goals appear. The main thing is to believe that anything is possible.”

In October 2021, it became known that Erica Herceg was in a civil marriage. In an interview, she talked a little about her lover:

“My husband is Kazakh. He is very handsome, there is only a year difference in our ages, he is a promising young businessman. And he's unmarried. I couldn’t be a second wife - I’m very jealous. He works in other countries, but we talk on the phone every evening. We've been together for three years."

It was in order to arrange her personal life that Erica moved to Kazakhstan. Now the artist is truly happy and does not regret anything.

Height, weight and all plastic surgeries of Erica Herzen

The singer of Hungarian origin takes good care of herself. She visits the gym, where she works out under the supervision of a trainer, dances a lot and is interested in gymnastics. For the sake of good appearance, he carefully monitors his diet.

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Erica Herceg's career: VIA Gra and modeling

In 2011, Erica Herceg, who had dramatically lost weight, moved to Kyiv, where she decided to build a modeling career. A sophisticated girl with a chiseled figure and a gorgeous bust quickly found herself in the modeling business. Already in 2012, she received her first highly paid contract with a French lingerie brand, and also starred nude in the November anniversary issue of Playboy. In the magazine, Erica's photo was published next to Anna Sedokova, Tatyana Kotova, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Meseda Bagaudinova - each of these girls was related to the VIA Gra group.

Photo shoot by Erica Herceg for one of the glossy magazines. Perhaps this coincidence was a sign of fate. In 2013, Erica Herceg took part in the show “I Want V VIA Gro”. Konstantin Meladze, who recently announced the dissolution of the group due to its outdated format, said that he was holding a reality competition, the main prize in which would be participation in the new version of VIA Gra. “I want to join VIA Gra”: Erica Herceg, casting Having successfully passed a difficult qualifying stage, Erica Herceg found herself in the same “three” with Anastasia Kozhevnikova and Misha Romanova. Everything was going well until, before the battle for mentors, the girls decided to cut off their dresses just before the performance. Meladze considered this act to be in bad taste and intended to kick the girls out of the show, but Nadezhda Granovskaya stood up for the hapless designers. Under her leadership, Erica Herceg and her partners won, becoming the new lineup of VIA Gra. By the way, it was Erica Herceg who was named by the producers of the show as the brightest participant in the project.

Erica Herceg and the new composition of “VIA Gra” Erica Herceg’s first creative work in “VIA Gra” was the song “Truce”, for which a video was quickly shot. In 2014, the singles “Oxygen” and “I got another one” were released, in 2015 - “So strong” and “It was wonderful.” “VIA Gra” - “Truce” (2013)