‘I’M CALM AND CONFIDENT’
IT’S not a job she would ever have chosen. In fact, just three years ago Olena Zelenska was totally overwhelmed by the prospect of becoming Ukraine’s first lady.
The man she’d married was a comedian and entertainer, not a politician, and to make matters worse he hadn’t even bothered to inform his wife he was entering the presidential race – she found out about it on social media.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Olena, a scriptwriter and trained architect, asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy (both 44).
“Oh, I forgot,” came the response.
Now she’s been thrust into the global
