Career
She represented the Soviet Union at the Mission Universe 1991 pageant, where she placed 2nd runner-up. After being crowned Mission Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Lemigova moved to Western Europe, eventually basing herself in Paris, where she set up a cosmetics firm, Russie Blanche (White Russia), and opened the Joiya spa. In 1997, Lemigova became romantically linked to wealthy French banker Édouard Stern.
In 1999 she gave birth to a baby son Maximilien, who became the subject of a paternity dispute between Lemigova and Stern, and who died of a brain injury before he was six months old.
The child had been in Stern"s care at the time. The nanny he had hired disappeared.
In 2005, Stern was found shot dead in his Geneva flat, having been murdered by a prostitute during a bondage session. Since 2009, Lemigova has been romantically linked to tennis player Martina Navratilova.
In September 2014, Navratilova proposed to Lemigova during the United States Open tournament in New York City.
Lemigova has two daughters.