Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress. She is well known for her rags to riches life story and for her eight-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein. In 2012, she came in third on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8.6 million in one year. Vodianova is currently ranked by models.com as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry. Vodianova is founder of the Naked Heart Foundation, a philanthropic...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth28 February 1982
CountryRussian Federation
You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.
I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.
I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
I wear fragrance when I feel that just makeup is not enough. I'm not someone who uses it daily, but when I do, I feel so proud that I remembered and almost like I treated myself because I work really hard.
My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.
When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'