Just about a year ago, Real Housewives of Miami star Julia Lemigova and her wife Martina Navratilova adopted two young boys. The news came as a shock to Julia’s two older daughters, Victoria (“Vika”) and Emma.
“They haven’t met [the boys] yet. They’re upset with us for not communicating enough with them about what’s going to happen,” she told costar Stephanie Shojaee in Season 7, Episode 9. “So right now, unfortunately, we are not at the best place with them.”
However, the girls have since adjusted to having two new siblings, and the family is in a much better place.
Julia Lemigova’s daughters have “come around” after a brief relationship breakdown
“I knew it was just a matter of time,” Julia told Bravo’s Daily Dish. “And I know I was worried a lot, but I understand why they were feeling the way they were feeling.”
Though they no longer live with Martina and Julia, they’re still close to their mom. Emma, 17, lives with her dad Christian Courtin-Clarins, in Paris, where she’s learning about the family business. Clarins is a major luxury skincare brand in Europe.
“Emma is still in university,” she added. “She’s studying. She loves fashion and, of course, skincare … She wants to work with her dad in skincare, so her career will probably be at Clarins.”
Meanwhile, Julia’s older daughter Victoria works for PricewaterhouseCoopers. “She’s a little smart cookie,” her mom said proudly. “But she loves travel. She’s very creative. She’s on this self-searching path, and she told me she wants to move to New York.”
Now that her daughters have flown, Julia has two busy little boys to fill her previously empty nest. She and Martina adopted the boys in 2024, and now they’re flourishing on her Florida farm.
“They now speak sentences,” Julia shared. “We interact more. They learn new things.” Soon, we’ll see more of them in RHOM Season 7, she promised.
Then she added the biggest news of all, “They know how to milk the goat!”
The Real Housewives of Miami airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Bravo. It streams on Hayu in the UK and Ireland.
TELL US – DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY JULIA’S GIRLS WERE INITIALLY UPSET WHEN THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE ADOPTION? ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF THE BOYS ON RHOM?
