Top 30 Natalia Vodianova Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.”

— Natalia Vodianova

2. “It’s better to be skinny than to be fat.”

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3. “The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you’re not actually working.”

— Natalia Vodianova

4. “Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes.”

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5. “We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.”

— Natalia Vodianova

6. “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.”

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7. “I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.”

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

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9. “If you never know hardship, you can’t really support people around you.”

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10. “Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can’t get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I’m with – even with my children.”

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11. “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.”

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

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13. “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.”

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14. “I don’t mind being called ‘Supernova.’ If one nickname is going to stick, that’s not a bad one!”

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

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16. “You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “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.”

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19. “I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.”

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20. “I wear fragrance when I feel that just makeup is not enough. I’m not someone who uses it daily, but when I do, I feel so proud that I remembered and almost like I treated myself because I work really hard.”

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21. “I believe in reincarnation of the soul.”

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22. “Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.”

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23. “If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.”

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24. “As a child I really didn’t like men at all, in fact.”

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25. “My childhood gave me resilience – and there’s little that can surprise me in life.”

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26. “When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.”

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27. “When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on – it was just a natural thing over there. Why they do it, I guess, is because historically, there were twice as many women as there were men after the World War II.”

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28. “My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I’m really grateful for it.”

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29. “When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.”

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30. “I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.”

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

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32. “The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy – they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can’t fake that if you’re unhealthy.”

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33. “I know what it’s like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.”

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

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