Julia Porozov

Julia Vladislavovna Porozov (née Kuznetsova; x|Russian: Юлия Владиславовна Порозова; x|Latvian: Jūlija Vladislavsovna Porozova; born 12 February 1986) is a Russian-American television personality, best known for starring in the x|VH1 reality series Russian Girls.

Early life
Porozov was born in x|Riga, Latvia to Vladislav Kuznetsov and Daria Petrova. Her father worked at a shipyard, while her mother was an elementary school teacher. Porozov's native language is x|Russian and she comes from a family of ethnic x|Russians. Her family has resided in Latvia since the 1800s, although originally they come from x|Saint Petersburg. She learned to speak x|Latvian while in school.

Porozov grew up in a working class family with a younger sister: Regina. When she was eleven years old, the family moved from Latvia to the United States, and settled in the x|Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of x|Brooklyn, New York. Porozov attended public school and graduated from high school in 2004. She subsequently studied business at x|State University of New York, Albany, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2008. She worked in marketing up until beginning a career as a television personality.

Career
Porozov began a career as a television personality after she was cast on the x|VH1 reality series Russian Girls. Following her casting, she left her career in marketing.

Personal life
Porozov married Russian-American businessman Boris Porozov in 2012. They began dating in 2003, and are high school sweethearts. They reside in the x|Jamaica Estates neighborhood of x|Queens, New York. Together, they have one child: Veronika Daria Porozov (born March 8, 2014).

Porozov speaks x|Russian, x|Latvian, and x|English fluently. She also has a moderate degree of fluency in x|Ukrainian, x|Belarusian, and x|Lithuanian, but is not conversational. Porozov became an American citizen in 2002, and additionally holds citizenship to Russia and Latvia. She has identified herself as "x|Russian-American", not "x|Latvian-American".