(February 10, 2020) She is battling lung cancer for the last 12 years. As a result of the disease, one of her lungs was removed during a surgery in Germany.
Has two grandchildren - Aleksey Zakharov (b. 2000) and Varvara Zakharova (b. 2010) - through her daughter Zoya Kaydanovskaya and her husband Aleksey Zakharov.