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

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

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.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

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

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.