A mother of many children and a supermodel who has become the embodiment of the fairy tale about Cinderella, Natalia Vodianova treats her body with reverence and care. For her, it is a tool in achieving a dream, presented by her parents and marked with the seal of Good Luck.
Therefore, the parameters of a 36-year-old native of Nizhny Novgorod have remained constant for two decades:
- With a height of 176 cm, the Vodianova model invariably weighs 48-50 kg. In the English metric system, this is 5 feet 8 inches and 106-110 pounds, respectively.
- The light blond hair of the Russian star of the world fashion industry is surprisingly harmoniously combined with clean fair skin and pale blue eyes.
- With parameters of 87-60-87, the mother of five children has a standard 38 foot size, which is attractive for shoe designers: a decent height combined with a miniature foot makes Vodianova childishly fragile.
In an interview about her own body, Vodianova expresses a categorical opinion about overeating:
- “If you eat like a pig, then in the end you will feel the same way!”
- "My body is my temple, so I treat it carefully and with respect."
- “Which is more beautiful: being fat or being skinny? I think the answer is obvious!”
Such a philosophy in everyday life has borne fruit. In numerous photos, the top model looks the same age as her eldest son Lucas.
The childhood of Natalia Vodianova
The future wife of an English hereditary aristocrat was born in a small village near Nizhny Novgorod on February 28, 1982. Until the age of three, Natasha was an ordinary happy child in a complete family. Mom and dad lived with their grandparents in a large rural house.
Cardinally, the biography of Vodianova changed after the divorce of her parents. When dad left the family, mom decided to remarry. Soon, one after another, Natasha had younger sisters - Oksana and Christina. The new chosen one of Larisa Gavrilovna did not pass the test of strength and soon left the family. The fact is that the middle daughter was born with cerebral palsy and a severe form of autism. All worries about children fell on the shoulders of a single mother.
The grandmother of the top model on the maternal side has a pretty cool character and steel willpower. At that difficult time, she suggested that her daughter move to the city in order to provide proper medical care to her sick child. So the family was left practically without a livelihood. After graduating from the 5th grade, 11-year-old Vodianova had to help her mother sell vegetables and fruits in an ordinary street stall. Along the way, she had to take care of Christina, who turned out to be absolutely helpless and could not remain unattended.
As Natalya recalls, sometimes in the process of work she froze so much that upon returning home she simply screamed in pain, trying to pull her old shoes off her stiff legs. There was no question of decent clothes or teenage entertainment at that time. The only dream of the girl was the desire to earn more money in order to escape from hopeless poverty.
In some unthinkable way, Natasha managed to save some money and buy a fashionable white cloak made of Chinese leatherette. Proudly defiling in a new dress through the streets of the city, she listened with pleasant awe to the compliments of passers-by. It was then that the girl realized that she had a non-standard beauty that attracts glances. Natalia was flattered by the attention of older men. Peers considered a tall, thin classmate in old, worn clothes from someone else's shoulder to be an ugly duckling. The feeling of wealth and self-worth against the background of expensive things played an important role in the formation of the character of the future celebrity.
Family
About the father of the model, Mikhail Stepanovich Vodyanov (emphasis on the third syllable), most open sources of information contain unflattering reviews from the relatives of his ex-wife. Anna tried to dispel the myth about a man who left his first wife with a little daughter in his arms.
According to the young woman, the true state of affairs in the story of Vodianov's departure from the family is somewhat different than is commonly believed. Allegedly, he was forced to leave home due to the infidelity of his wife, which was confirmed after his return from the army. At the time of the end of the service of the father of the family, Larisa Viktorovna was already expecting a child from another and did not succumb to the persuasion of her first husband to restore the family.
The man is now happily married. In his second marriage, he raised his stepdaughter and successfully brings up a joint child with his wife. As Anna said, Mikhail Stepanovich always played the piano well and taught his youngest daughter.
Dad never forgot about Natasha, regularly paid alimony and tried to improve relations after the divorce. But the former mother-in-law and wife deleted the man from Vodianova's life completely. The girl even asked to give the invitation to her mother, but her father did not receive it. In a roundabout way, the rumor about the celebration in Peterhof reached Nizhny Novgorod, and Mikhail Stepanovich immediately went to St. Petersburg, wanting to please his daughter. His efforts were unsuccessful. According to the official version, he simply could not find the place of the ceremony.
As for Vodianov's unwillingness to participate in the life of a supermodel, these accusations, according to Anna, are completely groundless. He himself comes from large family. His sister and brother are raising 14 and 8 kids respectively. All relatives are in a religious movement, which categorically prohibits abortion, promotes the responsibility of every adult for their child.
In 2004, a man had a heart attack at his workplace. For many years, Vodianova's dad has been supplying the car factory, so a heart attack occurred in one of the shops. Relatives claim that the disease was provoked by unfair press reports about his cruel attitude towards Natasha. On the pages of several well-known online publications, the Russian supermodel was given assurances from her father of love for her daughter and a request to come to her father more often. At the same time, Mikhail's family asks journalists to leave him alone and not to feed the layman with tales of a villainous parent who left an unfortunate single mother to the mercy of fate.
Mum
Larisa Viktorovna Kusakina devoted her whole life to children. It was incredibly difficult, because immediately after the birth of a problem child, the doctors did not explain anything to the woman. And she herself, due to her own inexperience in medical matters, noticed the problem with the development of the girl only when Oksana was 3 months old. In Nizhny Novgorod at the time Soviet Union there was little information about children with similar diagnoses. Often a woman simply did not understand the reasons for the tantrums of a sick child.
As the mother of the supermodel said in an interview with reporters, she had to leave the newborn baby in the care of her eldest daughter when Natasha was barely 6 years old. At night, the woman reproached herself for her strict attitude towards her older child, who at such a young age was forced to wash diapers and cook porridge for her sick sister. But there was no way out. Day after day, life circumstances shortened the childhood years of the future model.
At present, the troubles of the hungry years have receded into the background. Vodianova's mother does not hesitate to publicly thank her eldest daughter for the incredibly generous help that a celebrity provides to her family:
- Gave Christina a brilliant education.
- Oksana got a job at the Center for the Development of Special Children.
- Relatives provided decent housing.
Don't even think about financial support. Every month, the account of the sick sister and mother receives an amount that fully satisfies all the needs of this suffering family. According to the woman, she had so much free time that she took up cooking. In hairdressing and beauty salons in her district in Nizhny Novgorod, a woman regularly appears with a basket of fresh pastries.
Sister Oksana
The girl is 6 years younger than her famous relative. Only at thirty she was able to learn to serve herself a little and picked up a pencil. Sister Vodianova is absolutely helpless and exists in this world only thanks to her relatives.
Sister Christina
A girl from the age of 11 has been studying abroad, which she owes to Natalia. She first entered a boarding school for gifted children in London. Then she continued her studies in the USA at a prestigious university. Like Natalya, Christina doesn't care about Barbie dolls and other children's joys. The girl dreams of becoming a specialist of the highest category in her profession. He spends all his free time from studies reading books on the history of art and foreign languages.
Thanks to the efforts of Vodianova, Christina celebrated her eighteenth birthday at a prestigious dance evening, spinning in a luxurious dress to the sounds of a Viennese waltz. This is perhaps the only mention of the youngest representative of the illustrious family in the press.
Healthy perfectionism and practicality are in Christina's blood, as her mother assured journalists.
Career
Natalia Vodianova owes her success to chance and her own desire to achieve something more. The girl received her first lessons in makeup and proper behavior on the catwalk back in her native Nizhny Novgorod. The young man with whom they rented an apartment together advised her to try her hand at the fashion industry because of her tall stature and natural thinness.
Vodianova never had an inflated opinion about her appearance. Therefore, I did not stake on my own future in this area. Everything changed when a group of representatives of fashion agencies came to the city in search of non-standard faces for the covers of famous magazines.
As the supermodel later recalled in an interview, the eminent photographer Alexander Vasiliev noticed a clumsy teenager in shabby clothes. Outwardly, the girl looked like the cult actress Romy Schneider. The angular movements of the professionals did not frighten.
A scout from Viva Model Management offered Vodyanova an internship in Paris, making it a condition to study in English as soon as possible. And since Natalia's studies faded into the background due to family problems in high school, the task was not an easy one. The girl shared her own feelings about this with her relatives. Mom and grandmother unanimously declared that Natasha should not miss such a chance. The women insisted on Vodianova's trip, first to Moscow and then to France.
Contrary to the claims of most sites that the provincial became famous on the same day after the legendary casting, the first steps of the fashion model in the fashion field were not easy. In Paris, she was placed in a modeling school with a measly $100 stipend and left to sail on her own in the raging sea of the fashion industry. Here, the long-term habit of saving and Natalya's amazing ability to work came in handy. During the first year of her stay in the French capital, she ran through dozens of castings a day, leaving her photos in an endless number of agencies.
And again, luck turned to the purposeful Cinderella, who wants to break through to the top of a rich life by any means. The re-casting in the company of Jean Paul Gaultier made an indelible impression on the Master, and the career of the Russian fashion model went up sharply. As Vodianova said in an interview, the brand’s modeling assistant was even fired due to the fact that in the first show she did not notice a unique girl with an angelic look.
By 2002, Natalia became the most popular Russian model in the world. In the "track record" of the beauty, there are all well-known brands without exception:
- Calvin Klein;
- Ives Saint-Laurent;
- Pirelli;
- Chanel and an infinite number of other high-profile brands.
Now Vodianova has the right to choose and the opportunity to get everything that she has dreamed of for so long. Hundreds of agents cut off her phone, seeking permission to shoot or participate in prestigious photo shoots. The useless banana seller suddenly got the opportunity to influence fashion trends in show business, donate millions to help disabled children, and participate in social events on an equal footing with the most influential people on the planet.
In 2009, Vodianova decided to end her professional career and devote herself to a new relationship, raising her own children. However, from time to time, a young woman with teenage forms allows herself to accept the most interesting offers from famous brands. Naturally, such services are paid incredibly expensive. Natalia does not lower the bar of her value.
On the wave of popularity, the model was able to participate in the grandiose Russian television shows:
- In 2009, she was the host of the semi-finals of Eurovision along with Andrey Malakhov.
- In 2013, she hosted the Voice. Children" paired with Dmitry Nagiyev.
- In the period from 2010 to 2014, she regularly appeared at all events related to the Sochi Olympics, as she was chosen as the face of this international project.
As part of the latest event, Vodianova had the honor of representing Russia during the transfer of the Olympic flame from Vancouver to Crimea.
Personal life
The first husband of the Russian beauty was an English aristocrat. Young people met at one of the parties about a successful fashion show. Then the youngest offspring of the oldest English family had fun in the company of fashion models, fashion designers and accidentally entered into a skirmish with an obstinate Russian girl. spoiled female attention Lord Justin Portman by the age of 33 had a reputation as a womanizer and free artist. His main occupation for a long time there was a burning of life at various social events.
A new acquaintance was for Portman something unusual, non-standard. Vodianova's behavior did not fit into his ideas about the availability of Russian fashion models, ready to agree to anything for the sake of going to a restaurant. Justin tracked down the disputer's phone number and the next day asked for an apology for his behavior. By this time, Natalya had already received a complete dossier on the offender, including all the data, up to the number of accounts in foreign banks.
Vodianova herself does not deny that big influence Justin's initial benevolence to courtship was rendered by his high position in society and a hefty wallet. Love came a little later. By 2002, the couple returned from a joint trip to Africa, the three of them.
The lord was in no hurry to marry, and the wise Natalya did not rush him with a choice. A few months later, the man made a marriage proposal, but Natalya categorically refused to marry in the last stages of pregnancy. She wanted a rich ceremony, as if she wanted to prove to herself and to the whole world that she would never again return to the miserable existence of a half-starved childhood.
The ceremony took place a few months after the birth of the first child. The celebration stood out for its wasteful luxury and was accompanied by numerous publications in the press. Peterhof was rented for the event. For three days guests could enjoy not only the company famous couple but also local beauties. For the sake of this, they even turned on the fountains on purpose, which work only on holidays.
Married to Portman, the model had three adorable kids:
- Lucas Alexander (b. 2001);
- Neva (born in 2006);
- Victor (born in 2007).
The children of Natalia Vodianova did not save the marriage of the Nizhny Novgorod beauty and the English lord. By 2011, the supermodel finally broke off relations with Justin. The woman herself did not comment on the gap in any way, saying in an interview that the father of her children does an excellent job of parenting, and she will always respect him.
Some open sources of information began to intensively look for the reasons for the high-profile divorce in the misbehavior of a large model. So, Vodianova different time attributed novels with several famous men:
- actor Justin Myers;
- war photographer Scott Douglas;
- financier Alexander Peshko.
In 2013, another prince appeared in the personal life of Natalia Vodianova. The model was published with businessman Antoine Arnault. The French billionaire has known the blue-eyed beauty since 2007, when he ran into a Russian model while working on the cover of a fashion magazine. As the man said in an interview, he fell in love with a girl at first sight. Then the Frenchman refused to take decisive action because of the presence of a husband in Vodianova's life.
The news of the upcoming divorce untied Arno's hands. He began to actively care for the chosen one. The presence of children and numerous relatives of Natalia did not stop the ardent lover. Soon the whole family settled in a large Parisian apartment of a billionaire.
To please her common-law husband, Natalya gave birth to two sons one after another:
- Maxima (born 2014);
- Romana (born 2016).
So the most expensive Russian model became the mother of five children. She is more proud of this than her own dizzying career and fabulous fees.
Style, makeup, diet
V Everyday life Vodianova prefers loose-fitting sportswear. Numerous family photos on Instagram demonstrate the absolute absence of eminent dresses or suits on the model on vacation and at home. The same goes for makeup. A large number of decorative cosmetics in the process of working on glossy shots incredibly tire the skin, so for going to the store or walking with children in the park, Vodianova always uses:
- semi-solid eyeliner;
- ink;
- lip balm;
- eyebrow gel.
The last accessory is a must in a supermodel's arsenal. It was her thick eyebrows that became her calling card for many years.
Once in her youth, Natalia was going to make them more sophisticated, trying to attract the attention of her peers. The granddaughter was dissuaded from such a rash step by her grandmother, who assured the girl that this stroke makes her face special.
For many years, a former banana seller from Nizhny Novgorod has been using a blood type diet to maintain girlish forms. She is allowed many protein products, except for red meat, and favorite buckwheat is prohibited. Gradually, the star got used to such a rigid diet. Now the absence of individual products seems familiar to her.
Vodianova hates fitness and Pilates, because of which her muscles instantly become embossed. Instead of tiring classes on the simulators, Natalia spends several hours doing contemporary in her favorite dance class on the outskirts of Paris. According to the model, this allows her to feel feminine and tender.
Filmography
By tradition, almost all celebrities from the world of the fashion industry from time to time test their strength in the cinema. Vodianova did not remain aloof from the exciting lesson. So, in the portfolio of the model there are several films with her participation:
- "Agent" Dragonfly ";
- "Cork";
- "Clash of the Titans";
- "Lovers".
In the latest film, supermodels were offered to play a major role, which, however, affects the quality of the relationship story. married woman with a lover did not affect. The picture did not receive awards at prestigious film festivals. Apparently, therefore, Vodianova ceased to actively participate in the cinema and switched to another field of activity. A pragmatic top model of Russian origin does not like to participate in little-known projects.
Naked Heart Foundation
Back in 2005, Natalia Vodianova, together with her first husband, set about creating an organization whose goal is to help disabled children adapt to society. Due to her own popularity and recognition, the model successfully participates in numerous social events designed to collect donations. According to the Foundation's reports, through the joint efforts of its trustees, more than a hundred specialized playgrounds for children have been built in Russia.
At the same time, the woman actively promotes tolerance for sick babies, talking about her own sad experience.
In 2015, the activities of the Foundation were under threat due to conflicting information in the media about the scandal that happened to Vodianova's sister in a local cafe. Then the sick girl suddenly had a terrible seizure, which dispersed the visitors and brought the attendants to a stupor. According to eyewitnesses, Oksana's nanny was unable to bring the situation under control. Larisa Viktorovna had to come to the rescue.
The enraged mother of a disabled person threatened the owner of the establishment with all sorts of sanctions from the famous daughter, and it was quite difficult for Natalya to hush up the scandal. The model urged journalists to leave the cafe owner alone and stop exaggerating the situation.
Natalia Vodianova now
Now the model continues to actively participate in the life of the Naked Heart Foundation. To attract new investors, a woman from time to time performs at fashion shows, releases her own capsule lines of clothes and shoes, devotes a lot of time to promoting tolerance towards special children.
In 2015, fans of the model were alarmed by the state of her health. Vodianova, on the air on the program “Evening Urgant”, admitted that she had partial facial paralysis due to the unsuccessful work of the dentist. Fortunately, the problem turned out to be solvable. In the latest pictures on Instagram, the star smiles broadly, demonstrating the proportional work of the facial muscles and her own excellent health.
Natalia Vodianova is the muse of a huge number of popular designers around the world, a wonderful actress and, most importantly, a popular top model. Born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on February 28, 1982. Full 35 years. Height 176 cm, and weight about 50 kg.
Little Natasha's childhood
The family of a popular girl has never been famous for its huge wealth, on the contrary, they lived very modestly. Unfortunately, when Natasha was still very young, her parents divorced and the mother alone had to raise three daughters, one of whom had health problems - cerebral palsy. Natalya was the eldest among the sisters.
In the literal sense, the girls wore clothes after strangers who helped their family in these difficult years. Due to the fact that there was never enough money, at the age of 11 the girl went to work - she helped her mother sell fruits and vegetables at the market.
Naturally, because of this, the child had absolutely no time to study, so the grades in her diary were always not the best, very often little Natasha was forced to come to class with unprepared homework.
In the market, a girl could carry a huge number of boxes a day, the weight of which sometimes reached 30 kg. Unfortunately, the girl failed to achieve at least some respect in society in this way. And already at the age of 15, young Natalya, together with her boyfriend, decided to start an independent adult life, moving to live in a rented apartment.
After Natasha barely graduated from school, she managed to enter a pedagogical college, and the girl never even had any thoughts of a modeling career. Thanks to her friend, who once brought her to the casting of the French modeling agency Viva, and the girl passed it with success, the girl was almost immediately sent to the competition of the Madison agency, which was held in Paris.
The beginning of a girl's career as a model
At the competition in Paris, which took place in 1999, the girl was awarded second place. The jury at that time included Jean-Paul Gaultier, who noticed the young lady in order to offer her a decent job in the future, which the girl simply could not refuse.
Of course, the girl at the beginning of her modeling career was very hard, as there was always serious competition. The model was very limited in everything, since renting a house cost quite a lot of money. But, fortunately, young Natalya received a good offer to shoot for the German Elle magazine almost immediately, and after the girl took part in New York Fashion Week, a huge number of other offers rained down on her.
In addition to the model, the girl also took part in the filming of films. For example, in 2010, her face was chosen as the face of the Gorgon in the movie Clash of the Titans. And two years later, the girl herself starred in a film called "Lovers" in leading role.
Personal life
In the personal life of the popular model, fortunately, now everything is fine. Once, in Paris, she met at one of the closed parties with a very interesting young art collector and artist Justin Portman. As the girl herself admits, initially she did not even plan to go to this party.
Plus, Justin himself also did not pay attention to the girl, but flirted with her friend. In fact, when Justin decided to approach her, Natalya, because she was under the influence of alcohol, answered him with rudeness, from which the young man decided to respond in kind. As Vodianova recalls: “We just stood for about two hours and shouted at each other. Then, my husband's friends said that it seems that he found a wife for himself.
The couple had their first child, named Lucas, in 2001. The wedding was played by the young after the birth of their son in St. Petersburg. The second child of the couple was a girl, Neva, who was born in 2006. And a year later, the couple also had another son, Victor. In mid-2011, the girl announced to everyone that she and her husband were divorcing.
Already in the summer of the same year, the girl began a new relationship with Antoine Arnault, and two years later the couple had a child, Maxim. In 2016, the woman again became the mother of a boy, whom they decided to call Roman. While the couple is in no hurry to legalize their relationship officially.
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Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova. She was born on February 28, 1982 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). Russian supermodel, actress and philanthropist.
Father - Mikhail Vodyanov.
Mother - Larisa Viktorovna Kusakina.
She has two younger sisters - Oksana (disabled since childhood, born with severe autism and cerebral palsy) and Kristina (born in 1997).
Real surname- Vodianova (with an emphasis on the penultimate syllable), but for work she changed it to Vodianova.
Natalya hardly remembers her father. The mother raised her daughters alone. Since childhood, Natalya had to help her sell fruits at the market, it happened that she also dragged heavy boxes of goods.
At the age of 15, she entered the Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical College, but did not study there for long.
From the age of 16 she was enrolled in modeling agency Evgenia Chkalova "Evgenia" (Nizhny Novgorod), where she was recommended to learn English.
Worked on the catwalk for Gucci, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Chloe, Valentino, Givenchy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Miu Miu, Hermès, Kenzo, Viktor & Rolf , Dolce&Gabbana, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent and many other fashion houses.
Appeared on numerous covers of the most famous fashion magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, ELLE.
She was the face of the cosmetic brand L'Oreal Paris, also took part in advertising campaigns for such brands as Louis Vuitton, David Yurman, Marc Jacobs, Miss Sixty, Pepe Jeans, Diane von Fürstenberg, Chanel, Gucci, Guerlain.
Photographed for the Pirelli calendar.
The dominance of Russian fashion models on world catwalks since the early 2000s has been called the era of three Vs (according to the initial letters of the names of the most successful and sought-after ones - Natalia Vodianova, Anna Vyalitsyna and Evgenia Volodina).
In 2003, she became the official face and body of Calvin Klein.
According to the Sunday Times, Natalia Vodianova is one of the third hundred richest people in the UK (she earned £3.6 million in 2003).
In 2007, after the birth of her son Victor, she decided to partially leave her modeling career and devote herself to her family and charitable foundation.
However, Natalia, like some of the world's ex-supermodels, still agrees to go on the podium or take part in a photo shoot for high fees.
In 2009, she was approved as the co-host of the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Moscow, together with Andrey Malakhov.
In 2013, together with Dmitry Nagiyev, she became the host of the TV show “Voice. Children".
She took part in the presentation of Sochi-2014 in Vancouver, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi in February 2014, was the host of the draw ceremony for the qualifying tournament of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
In 2017, Natalia Vodianova became the face of the ecological collection of the H&M brand.
Vodianova is actively involved in charity work. In 2004, she founded her own foundation, The Naked Heart Foundation, to build playgrounds in Russia and abroad. In total, the foundation has built more than 100 playgrounds and parks in 68 Russian cities, as well as the first unique playground for children with mental disabilities.
Since 2011, the foundation has been involved in the program "Every Child Deserves a Family", aimed at breaking the tradition existing in Russia of refusing children with special needs. As part of this program, the Family Support Center was built in Nizhny Novgorod, as well as Lekoteka in the Tula Region.
Natalia Vodianova talks about herself
The growth of Natalia Vodianova: 176 centimeters.
Personal life of Natalia Vodianova:
Ex-husband- British aristocrat, Justin Trevor Berkeley Portman, younger half-brother of billionaire Viscount Christopher Portman.
As belonging to a family of peers, but themselves without a title, Vodianova (during her marriage) and her husband have the prefix "Honourable" (Eng. Honourable) in the name.
There were many rumors in the press about Vodianova's betrayals. That she had an affair with actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, that the top model was dating former war photographer Scott Douglas. The tabloids also reported that she could be with financier Alexander Peshko.
In 2010, there were reports in the media about the upcoming divorce of Vodianova and Portman, and in June 2011 Vodianova announced that the couple no longer lived together.
Natalia Vodianova is a world famous model, the face of several legendary fashion houses. V Lately Natalia is better known as a philanthropist. The girl actively supports children with physical and mental disabilities and fights for their rights.
The biography of Natalia Vodianova, a Cinderella from Nizhny Novgorod, really looks like a fairy tale. This is the story of a rapid rise to transcendental heights from the very, as they say, bottom.
Natalia Vodianova was born in a more than modest family. The girl does not remember Father Mikhail Vodianov. Natasha's mother, Larisa Viktorovna Gromova, raised three daughters herself. One of the girls was disabled since childhood - Vodianova's sister Oksana was born with a severe form of autism and cerebral palsy.
This caused not only numerous material, but also psychological problems: at that time, such diagnoses were not made public; how to educate and communicate with special children, families had to find out practically by experience. But also such a life greatly influenced the future philanthropist. It was communication with her sister that taught Natalya to appreciate life and inspired her to help those in need.
Natalya was not a saint, years later she admitted to the press that in childhood, not knowing anything about Oksana's diagnosis, she naively envied her sister, who got all the care and attention. Natalya herself was forced to grow up quickly in order to help her family, and to fully experience what responsibility is, looking after her sick sister.
Mother had a very hard time, and Natalia helped her sell fruit at the market, carrying 30-kilogram boxes of goods. At that time, Natalya did not even dream of new clothes: she had to wear the old one. At the age of 15, the schoolgirl entered the Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical College, and at 16 Vodianova was enrolled in the Evgenia modeling agency. When Natalia thinks about her childhood, she admits that it was not easy. As the model admitted in an interview, she began to really smile only at the age of 17.
At one of the views, the girl was noticed by a scout of the Viva Model Management agency and invited to the casting of the French agency in Moscow. The appearance of the Slavic beauty conquered the French, and further events developed according to the scenario of a real fairy tale. After a few months, the girl went to Paris, where the modeling biography of Natalia Vodianova began.
catwalks of the world
In 1999, in Paris, at one of the competitions, Vodianova was noticed by Jean-Paul Gaultier himself. Immediately after the competition, the famous couturier offered the novice model of Russian nationality a job. The beginning of a career was not easy. The competition was incredible, and all the money earned went to food and rent.
The Russian Cinderella also had her own Fairy Godmother. A wealthy Frenchman, a doctor by profession, helped the Russian beauty. He sheltered her and solved many household problems. And also, he helped Natalya to focus on learning English and work. He still remained a friend and later even became the godfather of Vodianova's child.
After the participation of the Russian model in the New York Fashion Week, offers rained down on Natalia Vodianova. And soon she took part in the shows of Gucci, Ives Saint-Laurent, Calvin Klein. The model starred for the famous editions of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
In 2001, Natalia first tried herself in cinema. She played in the film "Agent" Dragonfly ". Later, the filmography of the model was replenished with four more films, but Natalya did not have really memorable roles. The podium brought her much more popularity than films.
In 2002, Vodianova became the most in-demand model at New York Fashion Week. There she performed immediately for nineteen designers. At the same time, Natalia becomes the "face and body" of Calvin Klein, who signed a contract with the Russian model. In the same year, the girl opened and closed shows of Ives Saint-Laurent collections, which are considered the most prestigious in the fashion world.
But the real triumph for the girl from the hinterland was shooting for the 2004 Pirelli calendar. Such an honor falls only to the most beautiful women in the world. Natalia Vodianova, according to the Sunday Times, entered the third hundred of the wealthiest people in the UK. So, in 2003, the model earned more than 3.6 million pounds.
In 2007, it became known that Vodianova became the official face of the legendary French house Chanel. She attended collection shows in Paris, but it is noteworthy that he fashion house did not comment on his choice. Natalia became the face of the autumn collection of cosmetics.
At the beginning of 2008, already in the status mother of many children, Natalia Vodianova announced her retirement from the modeling business. She decided to devote herself to family, children and charity. The appearance of Natalia at the show of the Haute Couture Valentino collection was the last in the official career of a fashion model.
However, Natalia returns to the catwalks from time to time and participates in some fashion shows as a guest star for very large fees.
In 2009, Natalia got a place as a co-host of the semi-finals of the Eurovision international music contest, held in Moscow. He became the second leader.
Natalia Vodianova in the show "Voice. Children" Love for children affected all of Natalia's activities. In 2013, she became the new TV presenter of the popular children's show Voice. Children ”and admitted to the press that she came to the program only because she loves children very much. He acted as a co-host of the model.
Natalia is an active participant in various major sporting events. So, in 2014, she took part in the presentation of Sochi-2014, held in Vancouver, and later became a participant in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi. Natalia Vodianova also hosted the draw ceremony for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying tournament.
Charity
Popularity and large incomes allowed Natalia to think about the well-being of not only her own family, but also the world around her. Vodianova became an active philanthropist. Soon, charity has become an integral and rather large part of the life of the model.
A poor and problematic childhood, the illness of her sister Oksana forever etched into the memory of Vodianova. When fame and wealth brought her to the very top of Olympus, Natalya did not harden. In 2004, a successful model with world fame founded her own Naked Heart Foundation to build playgrounds in Russia and abroad.
Natalia Vodianova at the press conference of the Naked Heart Foundation The Foundation is engaged not only in construction, it also carries out information and educational functions. Natalya recalls the informational vacuum her family had to live in and does not want other families who are already having a hard time due to their child's illness to also have to go through this.
The press linked the foundation to Natalya's sick sister, but Vodianova said it was not sympathy that inspired her to work with playgrounds, but her own past. The sister, due to autism, did not feel as much isolation as little Natasha, who always walked with Oksana and felt a strong distance from other children. According to Vodianova, in childhood no one wants to stand out, this is the prerogative of teenagers and adults, and in childhood everyone wants to be together and the same, which is why Natalya started building places where all children can play together.
The logo for the foundation was designed and drawn by Natalia Vodianova's first husband, Justin Portman. In a short period of time, the foundation has built more than a hundred playgrounds and parks in 68 Russian cities.
In 2011, Natalia opened another charity program, Every Child Deserves a Family, which deals with the problems of children with special needs, and whose main activity is aimed at changing the system that has developed in Russia, in which more and more families refuse children with special needs.
Scandal
In 2015, a scandal erupted. The sister of a famous model was insulted and. Because of her diagnosis, the girl has a specific appearance and behavior, which, according to the cafe management, frightened other visitors. An unpleasant conflict broke out. Oksana's mother even called the police to punish the offenders. A case of insulting honor and dignity was even opened against representatives of the cafe. Various stars and world media became interested in the conflict, speaking in support of Vodianova and her sister.
According to representatives of the cafe, everything looked completely different. As the press writes, the girl wanted to drink and went behind the bar, and when they tried not to let her into the office and send her to a place intended for visitors, she began to beat her head against the walls. After that, Oksana was offered to call an ambulance and offered to leave the cafe. The girl allegedly continued to beat her head, and then sat on the floor. Her attendants did not explain the situation in any way, and the waiters did not know how to react.
According to the cafe employees, no one insulted Oksana, they suggested calling an ambulance, as the girl behaved in a strange way, and no one was sure that she had not received injuries, no one tried to expose her by force either.
The scandal caused a public outcry. Stars and journalists began to speak openly about the problems and difficulties of people with disabilities. Vodianova, as an activist and philanthropist, admitted that there were advantages to the unpleasant situation with her sister.
The country was literally divided into two camps in this matter, and each had its own arguments and reasons. On the one hand, many people supported Vodianova, they believe that people with disabilities should receive the same services and the same treatment as the rest of the population. But there were also those who asked a reasonable question about the danger. After all, the behavior of the girl, which caused a scandal, was dangerous, at least for herself, and no one in the cafe knew if a child with mental disorders would suddenly become dangerous for other visitors.
Such a resonance unbalanced all the participants in the conflict. When asked by journalists, the mother of Oksana and Natalia asked to leave her and the child alone. Employees of cafes and neighboring entertainment outlets and food outlets began to avoid the press, and the scandalous institution itself was closed. After a high-profile story, numerous checks were carried out in the cafe, which revealed a huge number of violations. The management stated that they had no more violations than neighboring cafes, they simply fell under the distribution and became hostages of the situation.
Natalya herself urged the press not to demonize the cafe's bosses. She met with her sister's abusers and tried to calmly talk about the situation. The parties understood each other. As the model stated to the press, these were not bad or cruel people, they acted in this way simply out of surprise and unaccustomed, because the entire Russian society is not adapted to communicate with disabled people and special people.
Personal life
As befits a true Cinderella, a prince appeared in the personal life of Natalia Vodianova. In Paris, at one of the private parties, Natalia met art collector and freelance artist Justin Portman. The 33-year-old English aristocrat and the Russian model did not immediately like each other. Their acquaintance was marked by a loud quarrel. But on the second day, Portman called Vodianova, apologized and offered to meet. Since then, the couple has not parted.
In early 2001, the model went to a photo shoot in Africa. Traveled with his Russian chosen one and an English aristocrat. Natalia returned to Europe pregnant. Justin Portman at the time of the birth of his son was next to Natasha.
Their first child, Lucas, was born in London, and six weeks after his birth, Vodianova returned to the catwalk. Motherhood did not affect the appearance of the supermodel. The young mother continued to work hard, but now Justin and Lucas were with her everywhere.
The wedding of Natalia Vodianova and Justin Portman played after the birth of their son. The marriage was fixed on September 1, 2002 in St. Petersburg. The celebration was a success. They walked widely, in Russian, for three days, and a banquet for guests of honor was organized in Peterhof. The Throne Room of the Grand Palace was rented for the newlyweds and their guests and even the fountains were turned on. The guests were entertained by the ballet dancers of the Mariinsky Theatre. Soon the couple had a daughter, Neva, and in 2007, a son, Victor.
But every fairy tale has an end. The personal life of Natalia Vodianova and Justin Portman ended in divorce. Journalists believe that the reason for the divorce was that Natalia met a new love. The French billionaire, son of the owner of the LVMH concern Antoine Arnault and Natalia Vodianova met in 2007, but the romantic relationship between them developed only in 2011. For the first time, Natalia appeared with Arno, while still married to Portman.
In August 2013, Natalia Vodianova's personal life went according to a new scenario: she accepted Antoine's offer to move from London to bustling Paris. On May 2, 2014, Natalia Vodianova and Antoine Arnault had a son, Maxim. And in June 2016, the son Roman was born in the family, who became the fifth child of Vodianova.
Natalia Vodianova now
Vodianova constantly adheres to a diet and even put her children on it. With a height of 176 centimeters, she weighs from 45 to 50 kg, but Natalya does not require compliance with model standards from her own children. The mother chose diets for them that are soft and aimed at improving the body.
In an interview for British publications, Natalia explained her upbringing methods by saying that it is important to monitor weight and eating habits with young age, because the habit of what, how and when to eat will remain with children for life. Vodianova does not require children to follow complex diets and does not starve them, she simply asks them to stick to a diet that excludes various harmful foods and reduces the amount of sweets.
Now Natalia continues to work. She began to take part in the activities of the foundation, returned to the podium just three months after the birth of her youngest child and showed a magnificent figure. Natalya wrote about her decision to end her maternity leave ahead of schedule on her Instagram.
In 2017, Natalia Vodianova discovered a new direction of activism, she became the face of the ecological collection of the H&M brand. The girl posed in a light flying dress made of pleated fabric. But it wasn't special at all. appearance clothes, and its material. The dress, like the rest of the collection, is made from the new Bionic material, or, in other words, from recycled waste found in the oceans and in the coastal zone.
The world-famous Russian top model, actress, face of the L "Oreal Paris brand and the muse of hundreds of designers - her path to the top was thorny and difficult. The simplest Russian girl from the outback was able to achieve world fame and become a prestigious modelChildhood
Natalia Vodianova was born in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) on February 28, 1982. As a child, Natasha's family lived more than modestly. Mom single-handedly raised three daughters - Natasha and her two younger sisters, Oksana and Kristina, one of whom was a disabled child due to cerebral palsy. Natalya hardly knew her father. Parents divorced early.The girls had to wear things from someone else's shoulder, and in order to somehow make ends meet, Natalya Vodianova, as the eldest of the sisters, went to work. From the age of 11, she helped her mother sell fruit in the market. Since she had to work a lot, the girl did not shine with fives in the school diary and studied very badly, there was no time left for education.
On the market every day, the future model dragged dozens of boxes weighing more than 30 kilograms. Exhausting work did not help to achieve at least some position in society. Things were going badly, and at the age of 15, Natalya decided to start an independent life with her friend, the couple moved to a rented apartment.
After school, Natalia Vodianova entered the Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical College and did not even dream of a modeling career. At the age of 16, her friend brought the girl to a modeling agency, and there she was invited to the casting of the French agency Viva in Moscow. Natasha passed the test with dignity and almost immediately went to Paris for the competition of the Madison agency.
At first, the girl reacted lightly to unexpected luck. However, a little later I realized that it is worth betting on appearance. “I realized that there is something in me. After all, men pay attention to me. Then intuition began to suggest that something unusual in my life would be connected with my appearance, ”says Natalia Vodianova.
Modeling career
In 1999 in Paris, the competition included Jean-Paul Gaultier on the jury. He, in particular, saw a zest in Natalya, and the girl was awarded second place, after which the fashion designer offered her a job. 
The beginning of a career was not easy, because the girl had to withstand great competition. The model lived in conditions of austerity, all the money earned went only to pay for the apartment and food.
Almost immediately, the first invitation was received to appear in a photo shoot for the German magazine Elle. And after participating in the New York Fashion Week, tempting offers rained down on Natalia from all sides. She took part in the shows of Gucci, Ives Saint-Laurent, Calvin Klein, in addition, she was filmed for the famous editions of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
In 2003, Natalia Vodianova became the "face and body" of Calvin Klein, who signed a contract with the Russian model. By the way, Brooke Shields and Kate Moss glorified similar contracts. The aspiring model became the highest paid face of the CK label in the history of the brand.
In the same year, Vodianova opened and closed the shows of the Ives Saint-Laurent collections. This fashion house is considered the most prestigious in the fashion world. A real triumph for the model was shooting for the Pirelli calendar for 2004. Such an honor fell only to the most famous and beautiful women in the world.
By the way, in 2002, Vodianova became the most sought-after model at New York Fashion Week. There she performed immediately for nineteen designers. According to the Sunday Times, Natalia Vodianova entered the third hundred of the wealthiest people in the UK (in 2003, for example, the model earned more than 3.6 million pounds).
However, the Russian woman shone not only abroad. The girl smiled at her compatriots from TV screens and from the pages of glossy magazines, offering products from L "Oreal Paris", whose face she was also for a long time.
In 2008, Natalia Vodianova announced that she was leaving the modeling business. The girl decided to devote herself to raising children and charity. The show of the Haute Couture Valentino collection was the last in the fashion model's career.
However, Vodianova is still featured on the covers of the world's leading fashion magazines as a guest star. For a high fee, a supermodel is ready to go on the catwalk or star in a fashion photo shoot.
And 2008 showed that Vodianova was not going to completely leave the modeling business. The girl became the face of the French underwear company Etam. She simply prioritized her family and her favorite work - helping sick children.
In the spring of 2009, Natalia Vodianova, together with Andrey Malakhov, led the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Moscow. The rest of the time the model devotes to family and charity.
In 2009, Natalia Vodianova became the face of Guerlain and advertises the cosmetic line of the fashion house.
In 2010, the film Clash of the Titans was released with Sam Worthington in the lead role, and the director of the film, Louis Leterrier, took the face of fashion model Natalia Vodianova as the basis for the face of the Gorgon. And in 2012, she already starred in the film "In Love" with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. She played the role of a married woman, Ariana, who leaves her husband for an ardent lover. Roman tender Natalia Vodianova and fatal Jonathan Rhys Meyers, full of passion and tears, develops against the backdrop of the outbreak of World War II.
Film with Natalia Vodianova "Lovers"
In October 2011, Natalia Vodianova, together with Gisele Bundchen, took part in the show new collection Givenchy as part of the Paris pret-a-porter week. And in 2012, she appeared on the runway in Stella McCartney at Paris Fashion Week.
Natalia Vodianova was chosen as the Ambassador of Sochi 2014, and in this status she took part in the Paralympic torch relay in London in the summer of 2012. And in 2010, our Natasha opened the Flag Transfer Ceremony from Vancouver to Sochi. After 4 years, she participated in the opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
In 2013, she became a co-host of Dmitry Nagiyev on the TV show “Voice. Children" on Channel One.
Charity
In 2005, Natalia Vodianova, together with her husband, established the Naked Heart Charitable Non-Profit Foundation (by the way, Justin designed and drew the logo for it). I raised two sisters, one of whom is disabled. And I know what it is like to have a sick child in our state, and what suffering it is connected with. But I will try to do my best to help not only disabled children, but also homeless and talented kids, ”the model and philanthropist said then.The model collected money for him at a special evening in New York, sponsored by L "Oreal Paris. At the event, Mick Jagger's guitar with his autograph was auctioned off, as well as "Dinner with a Supermodel", the author of which was Natalya's friend and fashion model Helena Christensen.In addition, tickets for shows of clothing collections were sold at the evening.In total, they managed to collect about 400 thousand dollars, Natasha herself invested another 70 thousand of her personal money.
The organization builds children's play complexes throughout Russia. In her hometown, by the way, the girl built a playground for children almost immediately after the foundation appeared.
In February 2008, the foundation organized a charity ball "Love Ball", and two years later it was held in London. A year later, as part of the Haute Couture Week, the ball was held in Paris. Especially for him, Natalia Vodianova asked 40 designers to create dresses that were sold at auction.
Vodianova Natalia and children
Since 2011, the Foundation has organized the program "Every Child Deserves a Family", which is aimed at supporting families with children with developmental disabilities. Part of the money is transferred to families, and part goes to the construction of centers, which provide social, psychological and legal support to such families. Thanks to the fund and the program, the Family Support Center was built in Nizhny Novgorod, as well as the Lekoteka in the Tula region.
In the spring of 2011, the model participated in a charity run in Paris, which was held to raise funds for charity. Spectators of the marathon donated over $20,000 to the Naked Heart Foundation. A year later, she repeated the race, raising several thousand euros for her foundation. And every year it has become a traditional run to raise funds in support of their foundation. In 2014, Natasha made an exception and did not take part in the marathon due to her fourth pregnancy.
On June 30, 2012, Natalia Vodianova's Naked Heart Foundation, together with Harper's Bazaar magazine, organized the Bazaar Heart Concert charity auction, which sold sixteen unique Harper's Bazaar covers, which were created by world designers in the fall. This event raised 539 thousand euros. The special guest of the evening was Bryan Adams, singer, photographer and founder of The Bryan Adams Foundation.
In the autumn of 2012, a collection of shoes by Natalia Vodyanova went on sale in Centro stores, part of the proceeds from the sale of which went to the Naked Heart Foundation. Shoe sketches were developed over several months. Natalia personally supervised the creative process.
Natalia Vodianova in the Evening Urgant program
In the spring of 2015, Natalia Vodianova created a capsule collection for the Zarina chain of stores, which went on sale in April of this year. It is interesting that the drawings of "special" children were used as prints for clothes. So the model presented her new charity project "Fashion with Meaning"
Personal life of Natalia Vodianova
The history of the Nizhny Novgorod Cinderella would be incomplete if a handsome prince had not appeared in her life. In Paris, at one of the private parties, Natalia Vodianova met art collector and freelance artist Justin Portman. As Natalya herself clarifies, she got to the evening quite by accident, although she did not plan to go there at all. 
33-year-old English aristocrat and the second son of Viscount Edward Portman, Justin Portman, did not even suspect that he would meet his future wife at a reception hosted by Russian nouveau riches.
Natalya recalls: “Justin flirted with my girlfriend at the other end of the table, and when he came up to me, I answered him rather rudely. In fact, I was drunk, but so was he, so for two hours we just yelled at each other. The audience laughed. Friends made fun of Justin, allegedly, he finally found his wife.
The next day after the party, the young man called Natalya, apologized for his behavior and invited her on a date. Soon Natalia and Justin realized that they were in love with each other, and since then the couple has hardly parted.
In early 2001, Natasha went to a photo shoot in Africa. Justin went along with his Russian chosen one. Natalya returned to Europe already pregnant. By the way, her model suffered very hard, and she decided to give birth without anesthesia. As told future mom, she wanted to feel and experience all the pain with her baby.
Justin, at the time of the birth of his first child, was next to Natalia and did not let go of her hand from his. Lucas was born in London, and six weeks after giving birth, Natalia Vodianova returned to the podium.
Motherhood did not affect the appearance of the supermodel. After giving birth, she again began to look like a teenage girl. The young mother continues to work hard, but now not only her lover, but also her little son travels with her.
The wedding of Natalia Vodianova and Justin played after the birth of Lucas. The couple admits that they officially registered their relationship only so that their son would become the legitimate heir to the Portmans. The marriage was fixed on September 1, 2002 in St. Petersburg. The celebration passed in a big way. They walked for three days, a banquet was organized for honored guests in Peterhof, and for the newlyweds and their guests they rented the Throne Room of the Grand Palace and even turned on the fountains. The guests were entertained by the ballet dancers of the Mariinsky Theatre. The bride was dressed in a pearl gray dress, which was sewn for her by Tom Ford himself, the designer and at that time the creative director of the House of Gucci.
Daughter Neva was born to a couple on March 24, 2006, and her name was chosen in honor of the river, only the emphasis is on the first syllable. A year later, already in September, their youngest son Victor appeared, who was already named after his grandfather.
Clothing collection by Natalia Vodianova for ZARINA
At the end of 2010, rumors appeared that family relationships were no longer ideal, information about the supermodel's infidelity slipped through the media. And already in mid-2011, Natalia Vodianova announced that she and her husband were living separately. In the same year, the couple filed for divorce.
The press wrote that the top model was dating Channel One director Andrei Boltenko, who was the director of the Moscow Eurovision 2009. One of the hosts of that ceremony was Natasha.
In the summer of 2011, Natalia Vodianova began dating Antoine Arnault, although by that time they had known each other for 4 years. And on May 2, 2014, she gave birth to his son Maxim. But the couple is in no hurry to officially formalize their relationship.
June 4, 2016 Natalia Vodianova became a mother for the fifth time. A baby was born who received beautiful name Novel. This is the second common child of Vodianova and Antoine Arnault.
Natalia Vodianova now
Despite the status of a mother of many children, in 2016 Natalia Vodianova continued to conduct modeling and charitable activities, but she tried to spend every free minute with her family. Even evil tongues could not fail to note that the birth of the fifth child did not in any way affect Natalya's appearance - she is still charming and beautiful. 
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