If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

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.'

If we're talking about being skinny or losing weight, I don't have that problem; it's genetics.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

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