Zitat des Tages von Natalia Vodianova:
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
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.
The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.
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.
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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.
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.