Although initially dreaming of a career as a doctor, Kudryavtseva enters the local cultural institute.

While her sister moves to Moscow, Kurdyavtseva stays in her hometown and starts working at the local House of Culture, organising concerts.

In 1995, Kudryavtseva passed a screen test to become the co-presenter of the programme Partiynaya zona on the small television station TV-6, alongside Igor Vernik.

[5] Kudryavtseva also became one of the most well-known presenters on the Russian commercial television station NTV with programmes as Zvyozdy soslish'.

Next to that, she started presenting the programme Secret for a million in 2016, in which famous celebrities answer controversial questions about their own life to earn money for charity.