The secret to applying my makeup is that I just put it where it's needed.

Sometimes I just need to switch off.

I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

After pregnancy, the important thing is rebuilding your back muscles.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.

When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing over there. Why they do it, I guess, is because historically, there were twice as many women as there were men after the World War II.