Nikolina Kovac: I Would Not Trade Nikolaj for Any Tour
Nikolina Kovac described how her parents reacted when she got pregnant at 21, during her third year of college. Her son Nikolaj, born from that pregnancy, is now 11 years old.
Singer Nikolina Kovac told Grand about the moment she found out she was pregnant at 21. She was in her third year of college at the time, just starting out in show business. Her parents, she says, did not take the news of the pregnancy without resistance.
They backed her decision to go into show business, but attached a condition she still remembers more than a decade later. They told her she had to be wise and smart. Their reaction to the news of the baby was different from that support.
What she said about her parents’ reaction
Here is the full passage in which she describes that period:
When I was in my third year of college and decided to go into public work, my parents supported me, like they did with everything, but they told me I had to be wise and smart. There was distrust when I told my parents I was pregnant at 21, but I have always been someone who does things the way she feels. Maybe those choices were wrong at the time, but now I would not give up my Nikolaj for anything in the world, not for any tours or albums. I think a healthy family is the most important unit, and without it we are very vulnerable. That is something priceless.
The word she uses is distrust, not argument or prohibition. In the same statement she also says some of the decisions she made back then may have been wrong at the time, yet she does not take them back.
Nikolaj is now 11
Her son Nikolaj, born from that pregnancy, is now 11 years old. Nikolina Kovac is married to singer Sasa Kapor, whom she was already dating when she got pregnant. At the time, their relationship was the subject of comments and doubts about whether it would last.
That math turned out to be wrong. The couple stayed together, work on the same stage, and today are considered one of the more stable marriages in Serbian show business.
How many children do Nikolina Kovac and Sasa Kapor have?
Three. Nikolaj is the oldest, and the youngest is son Simeon, born in late February 2026. In the eleven years since their first child was born, the family has grown to five members.
The number matters for the context of her statement. When she talks about a healthy family as the most important unit, she is not speaking abstractly. She means a household with three children and two parents who share the same job and the same schedule.
From distrust to speaking openly about depression
What has changed the most in this story is not her decision, but how much she now talks about it. At 21, she says, she did things the way she felt and did not explain much, either to her family or to the public.
After Simeon was born in early 2026, she spoke publicly about postpartum depression. It is a topic Serbian show business mostly avoids, since it clashes with the picture of the perfect family photo posted from the maternity ward.
That is why her statement about her parents and her pregnancy at 21 sounds different today than when she first made it. What she once explained with a single sentence, that she does things the way she feels, she now describes in detail herself.
What stands out from the interview
Four things stand out from her conversation:
- the pregnancy came at 21, during her third year of college
- her parents supported her career but asked her to be wise
- news of the baby was met with distrust in the family
- Nikolaj is now 11 and she does not question the decision
Nikolina Kovac talks about that period without blaming her parents. She describes their distrust as a reaction, not an injustice, and that is the difference from the usual tone of celebrity confessions in which the family typically ends up cast as the villain.
