Tennis Star Martina Navratilova and RHOM’s Julia Lemigova’s Relationship Timeline

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Martina Navratilova and Julia Lemigova’s love story was years in the making.The tennis star and the model met for the first time in 2000.“I looked at her and gave her a look across the bar [the said], ‘You have to come and talk to me.’ It was a second and I turned away.

She received the message,” Lemigova recalled on the season 4 premiere of The Real Housewives of Miami, which aired in December 2021. “She came to talk to me and introduced herself.

But unfortunately, that was the end of our moment. Something could have happened but it didn’t.”Lemigova went on to welcome daughters Victoria and Emma with two other partners.“Exactly eight years later, on the day … deja vu, during the French Open, I bump into Martina and I said, ‘How about a breakfast?’” Lemigova continued on the first episode of Peacock’s RHOM revival. “We had a breakfast the next day, and then the next day, and then the third day.

And then she moved in.”While the pair fell fast, the Russian native was nervous to come out with the popular sports figure. The reality star later explained to NBC News that her daughters gave her the courage to go public with Navratilova.“When I saw my two girls standing up to their friends and saying, ‘Yeah, we have two moms,’ and I saw them, and it’s like, ‘Oh my God.