Natalia was born in Nizhny Novgorod, one of Russia's largest city, 300 miles east of Moscow. She liv

Natalia was born in Nizhny Novgorod, one of Russia's largest city, 300 miles east of Moscow. She lived in one of Nizhny's poorest districts with her mother and two half sisters, one of whom is an invalid. As a child, she worked with her mother selling fruits on the street. To help her family out of poverty, as a teenager she began her own fruit stand with a friend. When she was 17, she saved enough to enroll in a modeling academy in Paris.

Natalia Vodianova  --> http://nakedheart.org/



Naked Heart Foundation, my project to build 500 playgrounds throughout Russia (nakedheart.org).