Aigul Japarova (Kyrgyz: Айгүл Жапарова, née Asanbaeva), as the wife of President Sadyr Japarov, is the incumbent First Lady of Kyrgyzstan and she is around five to six years his junior.

[2] She studied at a medical school, then received a higher education at the Arabaev Kyrgyz State University.

Asanbayeva lived with her children abroad for three years during her husband's exile, mainly in Poland and Russia.

In an interview, she claimed that she turned to President Almazbek Atambayev's wife, Raisa, for help, when her husband and son were detained by the security forces at the Kyrgyz border.

[4] In June 2021, she joined her husband on his official visit to Turkey in her first such foreign trip.