Natalia Vodianova life and biography

Natalia Vodianova (Russian: Наталья Водянова, born 28 February 1982) is a Russian model and philanthropist who now permanently resides in the United Kingdom.


HEIGHT: 5′9″
MEASUREMENTS: 34.5-24.5-35
WEIGHT: 110 lbs
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Blue

DISCOVERED: At 15 Natalia left home to fend for herself by selling fruit in a market in the industrial town of Nizhniy Novgorod, 250 east of Moscow. At 17, she left Russia to try her luck as a model in Paris. At 19, she felt in love with the son of an English viscount, had his baby and three months later was starring in the YSL show. When they married, in a three-days extravaganza of a wedding, she was 20, he was 33.
“When I was 14 a boyfriend introduced me to a ‘modeling academy’ where we leaned things like how to say poetry, and never had any photographs taken. It was more like going for fun. When a scout from Paris came up, he told me, ‘you are going to Paris, and you will do well, but only if you learn English in three months’.” says Natalia.
AGENCY: NY-DNA, Milan-Why Not, London-Take 2.
RESUME: Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton, Versus and Marc Jacobs campaigns. The face of Gucci’s new perfume. Billboards for Swish Jeans (Italy) and ads for Miss Sixty and Moschino. Appears in film CQ.

KNOWN FOR: Her racy Calvin Klein ads.
HOME: New York City
SWEETIE: Aristrocrat, billionaire and contemporary artist Justin Berkley, with whom she had a one-night-stand that resulted in their son, Lucas.

Philanthropy

Vodianova is a founder and the president of the Naked Heart Foundation, a philanthropic organisation that strives to provide a safe and inspiring environment in which to play for every child living in urban Russia. She was inspired to found the charity after visiting Russia with her son Lucas and finding there were no suitable places for children to play. The organisation built its first play park in 2006 in Nizhny Novgorod. It has since built nearly 38 more.

In 2010, Vodianova became an ambassador for Hear the World, a global campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the topic of hearing and hearing loss and to promote good hearing all over the world.

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