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

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

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

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

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.

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