In 2009, she was the skating partner of Russian Olympic ice-skating champion Alexei Yagudin in "Lednikoviy period - 2", a Russian game show in which celebrities team with professional athletes and compete on the ice, similar to Canada's Stars on Ice (1976).
Her mother, Elena Maslenikova, is a famous Russian ice-skating choreographer.
She and her husband, Russian director, writer, and producer Stas Ivanov, have one son, Artemiy, who was born in Moscow, Russia, on September 3, 2015 (which, by the way, was only 6 months after Valeriya and Stas married).