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Vogue China June 2011
Style File – Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova joins Freja Beha Erichsen and Lara Stone as one of the three cover stars on the first ever multi-cover issue of Vogue this month. She wears a Vivienne Westwood wedding dress for her ninth cover appearance.
The mother of three was born into poverty in Gorky, in the former USSR, in 1982 and sold fruit from a roadside stall – where she was famously discovered at the age of 15. “Sometimes we had no food,” she told the Times in 2008. “Most days, I was on the streets. We didn’t have anywhere to go – only deserted buildings and basements where teenagers were drinking. It wasn’t depressing then, but it is depressing to look back on.”
She married English aristo-artist Justin Portman in 2001 and together they have three children – Lucas Alexander (born November 22 2001), daughter Neva (born March 24 2006), and son Viktor (born September 13 2007). Her deprived childhood led her to set up the Naked Heart Foundation, which aims to provide safe and inspiring playgrounds for children in rural Russia.
Currently the face of Calvin Klein and Guerlain – and a designer for French brand Etam – Natalia has gone from poverty to the cover of Vogue with a marathon run and a cameo role in Hollywood blockbuster Clash of the Titans along the way. Here, we chart the rise and rise of the woman who Vanity Fair named “the first supermodel of the 21st Century”.
I could never be a vamp – I look too sweet, says Natalia Vodianova
Despite posing in just her underwear and a pair of bunny ears, model Natalia Vodianova insists that it is “almost impossible to make me look vampy”.
The rags-to-riches philanthropist, who was nicknamed Supernova by fashion photographer Mario Testino, posed as the Easter Bunny for Tatler magazine.
She signed her first modelling contract at 17 and has used her status to campaign for several good causes. She founded the Naked Heart Foundation for deprived Russian youngsters and will run the Paris marathon to raise money for it.
Vodianova, 29, who has three children with property heir husband Justin Portman, donned a bespoke pair of ears made by milliner Philip Treacy. She said: “I look so sweet, it’s almost impossible to make me look vampy.”
From the May issue of Tatler, out on Monday.
Elle France April 2011
Natalia is featured in the April 1 issue of Elle France. Here’s the stunning new editorial. Thanks to ANV for the scans.
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