“I was 18 years old when I got married. I met my future husband at a vocational college: I was studying sewing, and he was studying welding. Our acquaintance started with correspondence, and it was in the letters that he first confessed his love to me,” Kunduz recalls.
The couple got married when she was 18 and he was 19. Because I started receiving marriage proposals from other places, my future husband sent his relatives to my parents to conduct the traditional ceremony of "söykö saluu." A year later, we had our wedding. At that time, our parents had gone to Russia for work, and we were left to take care of my younger brother and sister. At first, we just dated, but after a year, he brought me to his home. My husband’s name is Azamat Osmonov, and he was born in 1991. We have been together for 14 years,” Kunduz shares her memories.
She notes that after the wedding, their life was full of interesting events.
“Azamat had a stomach ulcer that we didn’t know about. One day he took a pill for a toothache, and not feeling relief, he took another 2-3, ending up with 10 pills. This caused a gastric hemorrhage. Not knowing about the problem, he continued like this for several days. One day he said he felt unwell, and I noticed he had turned pale. We went to the hospital, where they told him that his stomach had 'burst.' The next day I noticed that even his eyes had turned pale, and I insisted that we go to another clinic. After a long wait for examination, the doctors discovered internal bleeding and urgently hospitalized him. He lost consciousness and ended up in intensive care. His hemoglobin level was only 30 (with a normal level above 120). The doctors said that if we had delayed any longer, he could have died, as the heart stops at a hemoglobin level of 20. So he miraculously survived,” she recounts.
After that, when they had their first daughter, they moved to Irkutsk, Russia. “Life there was not easy: our daughter often got sick, I had health problems due to the cold climate, I started having kidney-related attacks, and I was almost constantly in the hospital. Azamat worked, and there was no one to take care of the child. We faced difficulties without the support of our relatives,” Bakirova admits.
Soon after that, her husband had an accident. Two years later, it turned out that he had injured his leg. He was treated for a hernia for a long time, thinking he had back pain, but the doctors discovered a rotten hip bone. In the end, he had to undergo surgery, and now he will walk with a prosthesis for the rest of his life, unable to do heavy work.
“After these trials, we began to look for opportunities and found our niche in the online space. My husband has always supported me, and we started to achieve success. Currently, he works as a driver, helps me with office tasks, does repairs, and takes care of the livestock,” she says.
Kunduz has almost no free time, as she is constantly busy working online: she shoots and edits videos, reads books, takes courses, and strives for personal development.
“Through my work, I try to support other women who, like me, have faced difficulties. My goal is to help them change their lives for the better,” she emphasizes.
“In the future, I dream of traveling the world, renovating our house, building a new one, and raising children so that they have everything they need,” Kunduz adds.
She is the mother of four daughters.
