I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

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.

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.

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.

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