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.

Erica Herceg's childhood

Erika Nikolaevna Herceg was born on July 5, 1988 in the village of Malaya Dobron, Transcarpathian region, in the family of a railway fireman. She was named Erica in honor of her mother. Her father is Hungarian, her mother is half Ukrainian, half Russian. After the birth of her second child, the girl’s mother became seriously ill, and her father took over raising 5-year-old Erica and her younger brother.

Child photo of Erika Herceg Erika went to first grade in Hungary, in the city of Zahony, which is 12 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, but from the fifth grade she studied in her native village. In the ninth grade, she transferred to the church reform lyceum in the nearby village of Velikaya Dobron. At this time, she began singing in the church choir in Hungarian and even won local vocal competitions.

Erica Herceg with her parents After graduating from school in 2006, Erica entered the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute named after. F. Rakoczy in the city of Beregovo, choosing the specialty of economist. In 2009, Herceg received a bachelor's degree. While studying, the girl worked as both a call center operator and a waitress.

And with her younger brother, it is worth noting that as a child, Erika Herceg was quite plump - in 2007, she weighed 84 kilograms with a height of 175. A year before graduating from university, she managed to lose 30 kilograms of excess weight. The girl also had to undergo breast augmentation surgery.

Before losing weight, Erica Herceg was quite plump. When asked how she lost weight, Erica Herceg always answered that the desire to become beautiful, as well as her innate willpower, helped her. The girl had to limit herself in food, independently build a proper diet from low-calorie foods: vegetables, fruits, dairy products. She had absolutely no “continuous training and gyms,” a grueling starvation diet or miracle diet pills. Her transformation is the result of proper nutrition and an active lifestyle, in particular two jobs.

Now Erica Herceg's figure is ideal

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.

Childhood and youth

Erica Herceg is the real name of the artist. She was born in July 1988 (zodiac sign - Cancer) in Transcarpathia, not far from the border with Hungary. Her nationality is half Hungarian and half Ukrainian. Residents of their native village spoke mainly Hungarian, and few people knew Russian and Ukrainian, including Eric. Now, of course, she speaks Russian fluently, albeit with a noticeable accent.

The head of the family worked as a firefighter. The mother, giving birth to her son Nikolai, received mental trauma from which she never recovered. The father began to drown his grief with alcohol, and the girl, in fact, was left without the support of loved ones.

However, the persistence of the parents influenced the further biography of their daughter. It was they who insisted that Erica go to the casting announced by Konstantin Meladze.

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Herceg has been interested in music since childhood, was a soloist in a church choir, but after school she entered college to become a manager-economist. At the same time, she worked part-time as a waitress or in a call center.

At the age of 20, she accomplished a real feat - she lost 30 extra pounds, had plastic surgery to enlarge her breasts, and started a new life as a model. Photos of the beauty before losing weight, whose weight is now 52 kg with a height of 175 cm, cannot be found even on her Instagram account.

In 2011, Erica moved to Kyiv to achieve success in the capital. Here the girl made a number of useful acquaintances, and also appeared twice for Playboy magazine.

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.

Erica Herceg's career

In 2011, Erica Herceg moved to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, where she wanted to make a modeling career.

• A chic girl with a chiseled figure and ample breasts after weight loss and plastic surgery, she quickly understood the intricacies of the modeling industry, and already in 2012 she signed her first contract with a French lingerie brand.

• In 2012, Erica Herceg starred naked in the anniversary issue of the men's magazine Playboy. A candid photo of the model was printed next to photographs of ex-members of the VIA Gra group Anna Sedokova, Tanya Kotova, Meseda Bagaudinova and Albina Dzhanabaeva, as time has shown, this was a sign from above.

• In 2013, the beautiful model took part in Konstantin Meladze’s casting show “I Want V VIA Gro”. Having passed the qualifying round, the girl found herself in a very bright top three. Colleagues in the demo version of the group were Anastasia Kozhevnikova and Misha Romanova. The trio constantly attracted attention to their persons with resonant behavior. The last straw was that on the eve of the performance the girls cut off long designer dresses, which, in their opinion, did not fit the dynamic number. Konstantin Meladze called the trick an indicator of bad taste, and intended to kick the rebels out of the show. Only Nadezhda Granovskaya stood up for the girls. It was thanks to her advice and support that the scandalous trio won and became a renewed member of the VIA Gra group. Erica Herceg was called the most spectacular member of the trio, since then the girl’s biography has changed dramatically.

• The group’s first work was the composition “Truce,” for which a video was immediately shot.
• In 2014, the songs “I got someone else” and “Oxygen” were released.
• In 2015, two more hits “So Much” and “It Was Beautiful.”

• Hungarian was initially Erika’s native language, but after she moved to Moscow, she began to dream in Russian, which she herself informs her fans about. Erica herself considers her slight Hungarian accent a minus, while everyone else sees it only as her highlight and plus. For her appearance and manners, she is often compared to Vera Brezhneva or Barbara Brylska, noticing the obvious similarities between the women.

• Erica is considered an active social media user. Her Instagram account Erika Herceg (@erikaherceg) has about 841,000 followers. All published photos of Erica Herceg are often candid in nature. Comments under the pictures almost always develop into a showdown between those who want to “feed” the singer and fans of her slender figure.

• In 2021, Erica Herceg was included in the hundred sexiest women according to Maxim magazine. Her “rivals” were presenter Ekaterina Shpitsa, singer Olga Seryabkina, actress Paulina Andreeva and others.

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.

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 of Erica Herceg

In 2015, after three years of relationship, a mysterious lover, whose name the girl never revealed, left Erica. As it turned out, the reason for the breakup was the betrayal of her boyfriend, or, as the singer put it: “He changed me.” During this time, due to nerves and lack of appetite, the already slender Erica lost another 6 kg and began to weigh 46 kilograms.

Erica Herceg at home

Erica Herzer considers herself a careerist and does not see herself as a housewife with a child. In the future, she plans to open her own business, for example, an aesthetic clinic. Erica is also self-critical, and calls herself a complex, jealous and specific person. Erica Herceg sings on Periscope The singer’s native language is Hungarian. However, after moving to Moscow, she sees dreams in Russian, which surprises her. He has a slight Hungarian accent, which he considers a disadvantage, although everyone else sees it as a plus. She is often compared to Vera Brezhneva and Barbara Brylski, noting some similarities with their appearance and manners.

Many people think that Erica Herceg and Vera Brezhneva are similar

Due to rumors about discord in the family of Konstantin Meladze and Vera Brezhneva, which were actively circulated in 2021 - early 2021, speculation arose that Erica Greceg had allegedly become an “insidious homewrecker.”

There was no evidence, just network users were sure that having once left his wife for a young blonde, Meladze would repeat this trick again, and Erica, moreover, reminded many of the young Vera Brezhnev. But Erica's representatives hastened to disown the accusations.

Moreover, Erica’s heart is not free now. Back in December 2019, she hinted that she had a lover named Mikhail and was waiting for a proposal from him before the New Year. Apparently, her wish came true, since in April 2021 she posted a photo with a romantic gift, and when she was asked in the comments to whom she owed such a surprise, she replied: “To her husband!” She does not show the face of her chosen one.

However, there were still those who connected Erica’s departure from the group with an “affair” with Konstanin Meladze.

Erica is an active user of the social network Instagram - several hundred thousand users subscribe to her page. The photographs she publishes are often very explicit. In the comments to her photographs, battles often unfold between those who admire Erica Herceg’s figure and those who want to “feed” the girl.

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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