Dado Polumenta: divorce in 2012 and a controversial 20‑kg weight loss

Montenegrin singer Dado Polumenta has long been a fixture of regional tabloid headlines because of turbulent relationships and dramatic turns in his private life, but today he is publicly presented as settled with his wife Ivona and their children.

Before that stability, Polumenta was briefly married to Selma Mekić, a religious-education teacher from Novi Pazar. Their wedding took place on 12 December 2012, but the union collapsed after only five months amid media coverage of Polumenta photographed with other women.

Old wounds and a public warning

Years after their split, Mekić issued a sharp public message to the singer, forbidding him from mentioning her name in the future and warning him to beware of "the wrath of a patient man." The episode remained one of the more memorable personal controversies in Polumenta’s early public life.

Polumenta later acknowledged making serious mistakes in the past, and eventually found stability with his current wife Ivona, who is from Novi Sad.

More recently, the singer attracted attention for a dramatic physical transformation: he reportedly lost 20 kilograms in three months. Polumenta admitted he had used a drug that at the time was still being experimented with; he said he obtained it from a friend in the United States.

Health professionals and trainers reacted with concern, stressing that experimental appetite blockers can lead to dangerously low calorie intake — sometimes below 1,000 calories per day — and carry serious health risks.

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