“I was treated like a dog”: Russian nanny spoke about the horrors of work for an American millionaire

Chicago nanny Elena Mincheva is a 35-year-old native of Russia. For almost a year she worked for one of the richest families in the “second city” of the United States. Now she is married, expecting her children and writing the book “Nanny for Millionaires.” Elena compares herself to a modern Mary Poppins.

Mincheva says she worked in the Gold Coast area of ​​downtown Chicago. Relationships in a family of multimillionaires reminded her of hell. “I was usually used as a pawn in perverted relationships,” the girl says. The situation became most tense a year after Mincheva began working.

“In 2014, the family seemed “ideal” to me. The husband is a businessman, and the wife is a beautiful housewife who was once a model. I recently came to the United States from Moscow and was looking for a well-paid job caring for a child. The family lived in a luxurious 6-story townhouse, and my sleeping quarters were in the basement, near the children’s playroom,” says the ex-nanny. She was paid $150 in cash per day and was provided with room and board. Mincheva hoped for a long-term job, but already the first days in the family alarmed her.

The wife was somewhere between 30-45 years old. She may have had cosmetic surgery, the nanny notes. She remembers one day when her wife came into the giant kitchen and rudely asked why her son Cameron hadn't eaten anything. The child was already 7 years old. The nanny did not immediately understand what was meant. Then Cameron's mother walked over to Mincheva's pasta, angrily scooped it up with a spoon and put it in her son's mouth. He could hardly swallow them. “You have to feed him! “He won’t eat on his own,” the child’s mother remarked to the nanny.

At 6 a.m. on weekends, it was the nanny's job to make sure Cameron's brother, Jack, came into the couple's bedroom. He was an early riser and loved to cuddle in the morning. “If you want to play with my phone, come downstairs,” the nanny said and hugged the child, taking the opportunity. Jack was adamant. He shouted at the nanny: “I hate you! I want to go to my mom!” When Mincheva said that his mother was tired and resting, Jack suddenly began to sob: “I want to sleep with her! Why can’t I sleep with her?”

Cameron was a shy and very sensitive boy. He suffered most because of his family relationships. He felt uncomfortable in a school that cost $20 a year. The child simply did not have a social circle there. However, the most unpleasant incident happened to him at a summer camp for $100 a day. Cameron loved being taken to camp by his mother or nanny, but his parents wanted the boy to be more sociable and forced him to ride the bus. “I don’t want to go!” he insisted. “You won’t dare do this to me again! You need a doctor! You’re crazy!” his mother shouted at that moment.

“After a few weeks I was treated more like a dog than a nanny. I was on my feet for the entire 16 hours of my working day. I cleaned, cooked, did laundry, shopped, and listened to accusations. I had no right to a break. The only day off is one Sunday every 2 weeks. The parents were too busy to pay any attention to their children,” Mincheva shares her bitter experience. The children's only "friends" were toys, which were delivered daily from Amazon on $ 300.

After 10 months of working for a wealthy family, the nanny was regularly threatened with dismissal for trumped-up violations. “What took me so long? I loved to challenge myself and valued time with children too much,” shares Mincheva.

Parents used their relationships with their children as reasons for constant quarrels. “I wanted to take care of children so that they feel loved,” says Mincheva. She says she "acted as an instrument in the war between husband and wife." In 2015, Mincheva could not stand it and left: “From my experience, I realized that the love of parents for their children is the main thing for them. It cannot be replaced by anything material.”

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