Known for her role in the series 'The Village Burns, and Grandma Combs Her Hair,' she decided at the peak of her popularity to live a life far from the spotlight, dedicating herself to a farm.
Marija Petronijević, an actress beloved by audiences for her role in the series "The Village Burns, and Grandma Combs Her Hair," has been living a completely different life from that on television sets for years. At the height of her career, she made the decision to return to her hometown of Visibabe, where she started a family and devoted herself to running a farm, as reported by Kurir.rs.
Her daily routine today is filled with garden work, caring for livestock, and preparing food she grows herself. Instead of scripts, she faces the chores that country life entails. Recently, she shared on social media how she picks organic cherry tomatoes from her own garden and prepares them for sun-drying, a traditional preservation method that allows the vegetables to retain their flavor and remain available even after the season ends.
Growing vegetables is just one segment of her daily responsibilities. The actress tends to livestock, works in the fields, and participates in nearly all the tasks required by a rural household. Describing her life, Petronijević previously told Blic that her farm increasingly resembles traditional homes where almost everything the family needed was produced.
"My farm is slowly starting to resemble an average Serbian country house where there is enough of everything for happiness and satisfaction, with the obligatory round-the-clock work, that house that doesn't fear the days ahead, because there's no time for fear-the livestock need to be fed and watered, the fields need to be irrigated and weeded, the fruit needs to be pruned, picked, or gathered," the actress said.
Although she long kept her family's privacy, Marija revealed that it is her husband, with whom she has three children, who is the person she relies on most in difficult moments and when making important decisions. She considers his support crucial for the survival of the farm.
"If it weren't for him, there might not even be a farm, because whenever there's a crisis or a tough decision that requires rational handling, he's there. I read him the question, and here's what he says: it would be perfectly fine if you were some Jean-Paul Sartre and I were Simone de Beauvoir, then there'd be something to write about, even if it were a scandal," Kurir.rs quotes the actress.
Her husband, she notes, skeptically commented on the media's interest in their lives, emphasizing that writing would only make sense once they achieve concrete results in production.
"Everything written would have broader meaning, but as it is, what should be written about how many sheep I had to chase with you across the meadow today, or how much milk a sheep gave? Wait until we get to the point where the highest quality lanolin is extracted from the wool, and until we raise the level of immunoglobulins in colostrum and milk several times over, then maybe it'll be worth writing about-not about me, but about the process, so others can do it too," Kurir.rs quotes his words.
Having grown up in the countryside herself, this way of life was not entirely unfamiliar to Marija Petronijević, but running a farm requires a lot of work, organization, and daily presence, as the Kurir article concludes.
