CNN featured Natalia Vodianova for two My City My Life segments where she shares her love for her home city Moscow. The 27 year-old model was born to a poor family in Russia, selling fruit on the streets to help her family to survive before her career took off. After having three children of her own and a successful modeling career she gives back to her native city and has even started her own charity, the Naked Heart Foundation, aiming to provide an inspiring and safe environment for children living in urban Russia.
An uncommon cover for Vogue UK focuses on a nude Natalia Vodianova for their June body issue. In the editor’s letter Alexandra Shulman explains “Vogue generally deals with how we choose to clothe our bodies, but for this special issue we have diversified and looked at how we feel about those bodies, whether clothed or naked.”
Natalia touches on her comeback after having children, “My agency thought that I might never do shows, because I was a bit shorter and not skinny enough. But, when I gave birth to my first son I was 19, so I lost a lot of weight. I guess the stress on the body was extreme and I suddenly just turned into this stick – just the way designers love models – and after Lucas was born that’s when my career took off. I opened a lot of shows on the runway and that’s where stars are made in my industry.”
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