Lithuanian woman who became a Turkish TV star: “My husband asked me to accept Islam and I agreed” | Names

“When I first saw Serdar when I entered his office, I thought, wow, he’s the most handsome man I’ve ever met,” Karolina said in the show “Bus Visko”, which will be released on Tuesday.

A beauty from Lithuania and Serdar, a former model and co-owner of one of the largest modeling agencies, immediately became a couple. Just a year later, twenty-year-old Karolina and thirteen-year-old Serdar legalized their relationship by getting married. Although the husband is not a practicing Muslim and does not pray five times a week, Karolina admitted on the show that before the marriage, the husband asked her to convert to Islam.

“My husband asked me if I could do this so that the family would not be divided and the children would have one path. If you love a person and it’s important to him, I don’t see anything wrong with that. “Marriage is that unity, where in one situation I adapt to him, in another he adapts to it,” Karolina said in Istanbul.

In the show, Karolina revealed what the ceremony of accepting Islam looked like, what traditions are followed in Turkey instead of a bachelorette party, and what a wedding, which lasts for two days, looked like.

Caroline soon became pregnant and gave birth to her first son, followed by a second pregnancy and a second son. In Turkey, women go to childbirth dressed up, with makeup and hair done. Because it is very popular there to invite a professional photographer to the birth, who captures all the moments both during the contractions and during the birth. The tears of the parents and the first moments of the newborn after coming into the world.

Before leaving to live in Turkey, Karolina had many fears that her husband would lock her in the house, put on an abaya and prevent her from working, but the woman reveals that everything was the opposite. The man not only supported, but also encouraged the woman to pursue an amazing career. Six days a week, Karolina was photographed in advertising photo shoots and still found time to establish a new model agency “Ice Management” with her husband, which today is one of the largest and leading in all of Istanbul. Eager to try her hand at acting, Karolina got a role in a popular TV series, where she played the role of Alex, a neighbor of the main characters, for two years and became known throughout Turkey.

“It was a series that ran for many years. His characters grew up with the actors. Even though my role was not the main one, it was difficult to pass the crowds of fans on the street who wanted to take pictures”, recalled Karolina.

Stop shot of the show “Bus visko”/Karolina Demirci

Since Karolina’s name was too long for the Turks, the woman was introduced in the press under the name of Beautiful Kerry. After the end of the series, the Lithuanian received an offer to continue her acting career and play a role in the series “The Great Age”, but she refused it.

“I realized that the life of a star is not for me, I like privacy, and in Turkey people are just crazy about celebrities, they will do anything to get a picture with you and an autograph.” You can’t even try to explain that you’re in a hurry somewhere or have some business,” said the Lithuanian woman and revealed that if she agreed to act in the series, she would have had to not only devote all her time, but also perform many intimate scenes, which were unacceptable neither to her nor to her husband.

Although Istanbul, a city of millions, is not one of the strongest fashion capitals in the world, it is a great place for young models to start their careers. If in New York or Paris, after photo sessions with luxurious jewelry or clothes, the beauties return to their apartments, where cockroaches often run around and have to live in bunk beds, here the models live in exclusive apartments with the most beautiful views of Istanbul.

Personal archive photo/Karolina and Serdar Demirci with their children

The woman revealed that the main uniqueness of her and her husband’s agency is not only that they have a lot of experience, but also that they are former models and are like parents to the models they represent, who share all the subtleties of the modeling world and what they have learned over many years. lessons that opened the door to the wide world of fashion.

What Karolina and Serdar’s wedding looked like, what is the secret of the relationship of the couple celebrating their twelfth year of marriage and why Serdar didn’t propose to Karolina – on Tuesday evening in the show “Bus visko” at 20:00. through LNK.