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

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

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

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.

After pregnancy, the important thing is rebuilding your back muscles.

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