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

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

Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes.

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.

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy - they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can't fake that if you're unhealthy.

But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'