'90 Day Fiancé's Loren Says It's Been 'Scary' for Alexei During Ukraine Crisis (Exclusive)
etonline.comstar Loren is opening up about how the Ukraine crisis is affecting her family. ET's Melicia Johnson sat down with Loren on Monday and she talked about her and her husband Alexei's personal connection to the crisis, given that Alexei grew up in Ukraine.Alexei lived in Ukraine before moving to Israel, which is where he met Loren, who was there on a Birthright Israel program trip.
Alexei was the medic for the trip and the two fell in love and Alexei moved to the United States to marry Loren. The couple tied the knot in 2015 and now have two sons, Shai and Asher.«He has family there still [in Ukraine] and he even said, I didn't think it was going to affect me as much as it did and it's still affecting him,» Loren tells ET. «I don't want to say our tone in our house has been depressing, it's been sad, it's scary.»«Because this is real, I mean, he grew up in Ukraine and then grew up in Israel and those are two spotlight countries and it's hard, but we do talk about it and it's very important to talk about and instead of bottling it up,» she adds.Alexei isn't the only star that has personal ties to Ukraine.
Natalie Mordovtseva, who hails from Ukraine, recently shared with her Instagram followers that her mother is safe amid the ongoing crisis in her home country.Natalie moved from Ukraine to the United States to marry her now estranged husband, Mike, and a big part of her story was her extremely close relationship with her mother, Nelia.
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