Russian supermodel: who is Natalia Vodianova?
At the age of six her father left home. She had to move to her grandfather's house with her mother. As a result of harassment by her mother's boyfriends and financial difficulties, Natalia left home at the age of 15.
Natalia Vodianova is a Russian supermodel, born on February 28, 1982, in Gorky. The name of the city of Gorky became Nizhny Novgorod after 1990. Natalia Vodianova's childhood days passed with difficulties. At the age of six her father left home. She had to move to her grandfather's house with her mother. As a result of the harassment of her mother's boyfriends and financial difficulties, Natalia leaves her home at the age of 15 and buys an apartment with her boyfriend Oksana Marchukevich, sells fruit at the counter, makes a living, and also takes care of her siblings.
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova (born 28 February 1982), nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, actress, and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
Oksana convinces 15-year-old Natalia that she will be a good model and sends her to a model agency. The authorities like Natalia very much. They find only one flaw: "Not knowing the language". She starts working with a modeling agency in Moscow. Then they send it to Paris. As a result, at the age of 17, Natalia moved to Paris and signed with Viva agency. Natalia Vodianova adapted very quickly to her life in Paris. She improves her English in two months. Meanwhile, communication with her boyfriend begins to break down. A year after she leaves for Paris, she meets Justin Portman, who would later become her husband, at a party. Justin Portman is one of the Portmans' three sons, who is ranked twenty-second among Britain's wealthiest families. They see each other at that party and fall in love before the night is over.
Then she becomes the advertising face of Gucci's new perfume line. At the age of 19, she managed to get a small role with Billy Zane in the 2001 Roman Coppola movie CQ. After appearing on some forty fashion shows, she is recruited for the spring show of Calvin Klein's 2003 spring season. In 2004, she poses breathtakingly for the Pirelli calendar.
She works with Natalia Vodianova, Louis Vuitton, L'Oreal, Marc Jacobs, Versace, Chanel, Etam, Miss Sixty, Yves Saint Laurent, and Pepe Jeans, and appears in advertisements for Calvin Klein's perfume "Euphoria". She pet appears in the music video for Shop Boys' song I Get Along. She appears on the cover of British Vogue 7 times.
In the spring of 2009, Natalia Vodianova signed a three-year deal for the French lingerie company Etam as a brand ambassador, face and body.
She presented the semi-finals of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.
Natalia Vodianova is ranked 16th in the World's Best Supermodels ranking by Channel 5. Natalia's nickname is SuperNova.
Natalia Vodianova now appears on the catwalk only for charity fashion shows.
Marriage: Natalia Vodianova married Justin Tremor Berkeley Portman, British aristocrat Viscount Portman, on September 1, 2002, in Saint Petersburg. The couple's first child, Lucas Alexander, was born on December 22, 2001. Their second child Neva was born on March 24, 2006, and their third child, Viktor, was born on September 13, 2007.
Natalia Vodianova and Justin Portman divorced in June 2011. Then she was with Antoine Arnault, son of Bernard Arnault, President of “Christian Dior” and Communications Manager of the French fashion house named “Louis Vuitton”.