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

I don't want to have strong arms, like you get from Pilates or yoga. But dancing arms become your best accessory. And it's great for your core muscles.

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

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

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

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.

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.