When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.