Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

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.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

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.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.