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When he won in 2009 Martin Chodur the first series of the singing competition Czech Slovak SuperStar, his girlfriend was waiting for him at home. She even recorded messages of support for him during the competition. However, the youthful relationship could not withstand the growing fame and success, and the lives of the students began to go in different directions.
It didn’t take long and the native of Ostrava ended up in the arms of another woman. There would be nothing so strange about that – if they weren’t separated by a seventeen-year age difference and Ivona Selníková wasn’t even married at the time!
She filed for divorce because of him
It was 2010 and Martin was only twenty-one years old. It was no wonder that no one gave his relationship with businesswoman Ivona Selníková, who could be his mother, much chance of success. But the singer always took it with a smile. “Some people are bothered by age difference, some are bothered by height difference, in the past people were bothered by racial difference, status difference, same-sex relationships, cultural difference, religious difference, the fact that a beautiful woman married an ugly man. Most importantly, love conquers all. Anyone who thinks not is simply an old grumbler,” he said in an interview for iDnes.cz. The beauty proved to him that she was serious about him when she filed for divorce. She threw away all certainties and plunged headlong into a new love.
They are now complete as a family
When, after five years of dating, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, they took the wind out of the sails of all those who doubted them. On New Year 2016, a son was born to them, who was named after his father – Martin. It would be suggested that the wedding bells will be ringing soon, but nothing like that is coming, just like the second offspring. There are pragmatic reasons behind both. “I sang at a lot of weddings. Wedding as an institution, that ceremony, I don’t like it. As for getting married in a church, I’m not baptized. As far as a state wedding is concerned, it’s kind of like a state funeral. We did not deal with the second child because we were aware of the various complications that could arise. We are glad that Martínek is healthy. That everything turned out well,” the singer declared in the Extra Host program.
Both are dedicated to work and work together
Even if it would be suggested that after the birth of their son, both of them will slow down from their work pace, the opposite is true. Ivona works as Martin’s manager and, in addition, the CEO of a multinational cosmetics company. Martin, in turn, tours the entire republic with concerts. He performs with the most famous names in Czech show business. For this year, he set himself the goal of focusing on his own creative work. They fairly take turns in caring for their son. “We manage it ourselves and sometimes grandmas help,” the singer confided to Blesk. The old sayings prove that age is just a number. Even though the beginnings were not easy for the couple, because the parents of the singer and his much older partner understandably talked about it, they proved to everyone that they are a perfect match.
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