Quotes from Natalia Vodianova

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.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes.

I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

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.

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.