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.

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.

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.'

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

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

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

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.