Irina Terehova

Irina Terehova (Russian: Ирина Терехова; born 13 April 1989) is a Canadian actress and model.[1] She is also known as Irina Tee and founded the website of the same name.[2] Terehova immigrated from Moldova to Canada at the age of twelve.[3] From 2015 to 2016, she first gained notoriety as a writer for the Montreal news website MTL Blog.[4][5][6][7] In 2016, she married Lethwei World Champion fighter Dave Leduc[8] in a nationally televised wedding ceremony in Myanmar.[9][10]

Irina Terehova
Born (1989-04-13) 13 April 1989
Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
NationalityMoldovan Canadian
Other namesIrina Tee
Occupation
  • Writer
  • actor
  • fashion model
Years active2004–present
Spouse(s)Dave Leduc (m. 2016)
Modelling information
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair colourBlond
Eye colourHazel
Websiteirinatee.com

Early life

Born in Chișinău, in the Moldavian SSR, republic of the Soviet Union in 1989 to a modest family, Terehova immigrated in 2001 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada[6] at the age of twelve.[3][11]

Personal life

In 2016, Terehova met professional fighter Dave Leduc when she took a trip to Thailand.[12] The two had never met before, but after writing a story on him on MTL Blog,[13] Terehova decided to leave Canada and meet him in Phuket.[6][14] The trip was supposed to last two weeks, but Terehova decided to stay and live with Leduc.[15] Journal de Montreal and Huffington Post Quebec both covered her romantic exile, labeling it The Romance Story of the Year.[16][17]

In 2017, Terehova and her husband started getting involved with children at NLD AIDS center in Yangon, who are infected with HIV/AIDS virus, bringing them chocolate and treats, as well as giving undisclosed donations.[18]

Wedding

On October 12, 2016, she got engaged to Leduc on the Shwesandaw Pagoda in Bagan, Myanmar.[19]

On 13 December 2016,[20] the two got married in a traditional Burmese wedding ceremony[21] at the Central Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.[22][23] The ceremony was nationally televised on MRTV[10] with an approximate audience of 30 million viewers,[14] catapulting them to the status of celebrity in Myanmar.[24][9]

Terehova and her husband currently reside in Cyprus.[25]

Career

Writing

In 2015, Irina started her personal blog where she wrote a piece Things I Hate About Dating And Relationships in Canada that shocked the world.[26] It sparked various debates in worldwide media, especially in Russia and Canada.[27] She gained widespread attention because of her writing style and subjects. The same year she got approached to join the MTL Blog team.[28]

While at MTL Blog as Irina Tee, Terehova wrote multiple provocative articles about relationships and dating. She received criticism for allegedly supporting misogyny. Irina became the subject of requests from readers asking for her demission, thus making her even more popular.[29]

In 2017, Terehova became a guest writer at Jetli.com, a special community built by Jet Li, to share the philosophies about kung Fu and other martial arts.[30]

Modeling

Fashion

In 2004, at 15 years old, Terehova secretly entered a Montreal pageant in Miss Soyuz, reserved for adults and won 1st place.[31] She started her modeling career signing with NEXT Model Management in Montreal. Terehova executed modeling contracts for Loreal, La Senza, Escada and Rusk. She was featured in Canadian magazines such as Marie Claire and LOU LOU.

Video game

In 2009, Terehova was chosen to feature as the Race Queen in the EA and Ghost Games celebratory video[11] created for the Need for Speed series.[3][32]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2004 Naked Josh Hot blonde Naked Josh on IMDb
2013 In Faustian Fashion Russian vampire In Faustian Fashion on IMDb
2014 Too Tall Tall blond Too Tall on IMDb
2016 The Game Warden Redneck Girl The Game Warden on IMDb
2017 Fosse Aux Tigres Herself Fosse Aux tigres on IMDb
2019 The Amazing Race Canada Herself Season 7 Contestant
gollark: It's reasonably general purpose and is used happily by some people! You may not like it but it is good for some.
gollark: Lies!
gollark: Anyway, there may be HDMI→whatever weird connector the display uses converter boards on eBay or something.
gollark: Yes, the Raspberry Pi is very evil that way with display/camera support.
gollark: Given Disney's blatant hacking of the government, anything copyrighted in the US will quite possibly remain copyrighted until the heat death of the universe.

References
  1. Pierre-Paul Biron (27 May 2016). "Ils not changé de vie: il vend tout ici et devient une vedette en Asie". Journal de Montreal.
  2. Rebecca Perez (30 December 2015). "30 under 30". Goss Club.
  3. "Уроженка Молдовы стала героиней игры Need for Speed (Russian)". All Fun Moldova. 1 September 2017.
  4. Forster, Tim (24 May 2017). "La Queue de Cheval Gets in a Beef With TV Host Over Lunch Disaster". Eater.
  5. Veronique Beland (30 December 2015). "Les 10 personnalités québécoises féminines à surveiller en 2016". Narcity Montreal.
  6. Beland, Veronique. "Cette Québécoise va te donner envie de partir à l'aventure et de jamais revenir". Qc LifeStyle.
  7. "Irina Terehova MTL Blog Author". MTL Blog. 4 February 2015.
  8. Martin Comtois (13 December 2016). "Victoire à mains nues". La Presse.
  9. Anthony Da Silva-Casimiro (20 December 2016). "Tout sauf de la chance pour Dave Leduc". La Revue. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  10. Joe Henley (28 January 2018). "Burmese bare-knuckle kick-boxing goes mainstream as foreigners discover ancient combat sport". South China Morning Post.
  11. "(foto) Cine este modelul din Chișinău care a fost selectat pentru rolul de „Regină a drumurilor" în jocul Need for Speed - #diez" (in Romanian). Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  12. Draicchio, Emily (12 June 2017). "10 Montreal Couples on Instagram That Are Living The Life You Want". MTL Blog.
  13. Terehova, Irina (7 March 2016). "This Canadian Man Dropped Everything To Live His Dream Life In Thailand". MTL Blog.
  14. Sympatico (3 November 2017). "Un Québécois vend tout et devient une vedette en Asie". Sympatico.
  15. Orlick, Kim. "30 Canadian Power Couples". Narcity Canada.
  16. Beaudin, Marlie (16 June 2016). "Une Montréalaise quitte tout pour vivre le grand amour en Thaïlande". Journal de Montreal.
  17. "Cette Québécoise a tout abandonné pour aller rejoindre son grand amour en Thaïlande". Huffington Post. 16 June 2016.
  18. Myanmar New (5 October 2017). "ကေနဒါႏိုင္ငံသား ျမန္မာ့လက္ေ၀ွ႔ ကမၻာ့ခ်န္ပီယံ Dave ႏွင့္ဇနီး NLD AIDS Center သို႔ သြားေရာက္၍ ကေလးမ်ားအတြက္ မုန္႔မ်ားေပးေ၀". CantWait2Stay. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  19. Tee, Irina (16 January 2017). "How I Met My Husband Thanks To MTL Blog". MTL Blog.
  20. Myannbuzz (14 December 2017). "မန္မာဓေလ့ထံုးစံအတိုင္း မဂၤလာပြဲ က်င္းပခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာလက္ေဝွ႔ အလြတ္တန္း ကမၻာ့ခ်န္ပီယံ Dave Leduc တို႔စံုတြဲ". Buzzy.
  21. "Un Québécois vedette des arts martiaux en Asie". TVA Nouvelles. 16 February 2018.
  22. "Mikangte Kawlngeina Mopoai". Siyin News. 13 December 2016.
  23. "ျမန္မာ့လက္ေ၀ွ႔ အလြတ္တန္း ကမၻာ့ခ်န္ပီယံ Dave Leduc တို Irina Terehova ႔စံုတြဲ ျမန္မာ့ ထံုးတမ္းျဖင့္ လက္ထပ္ထိမ္းျမား". True News Myanmar. 13 December 2016.
  24. Biron, Pierre-Paul (19 February 2018). "Le combattant québécois qui veut développer le Myanmar". Journal de Québec.
  25. Vallieres, Kim (6 August 2019). "Dave Leduc, heureux de son 5e titre mondial de lethwei, espère être invité au parlement". ICI Radio Canada.
  26. Владимир Бучельников (19 June 2016). "Что раздражает в американских мужчинах русскую канадку". Vesti.lv Russia.
  27. "Dating: Russian vs Canadian". Time All News Russia. 30 June 2016.
  28. "Что раздражает в американских мужчинах русскую канадку". Creu Russia. 30 November 2016.
  29. Boisse, Meagan (3 December 2015). "An Open Letter to MTL Blog and Irina Terehova". The Link.
  30. "Author Jet Li : Irina Terehova". Jet Li. 15 May 2017.
  31. "Miss Soyuz 2004". Online-Montreal. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  32. "(Rus)Уроженка Молдовы стала героиней игры Need for Speed (Russian)". Actualiti. 30 August 2017.
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