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==Philanthropy==
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[[File:Natalia Vodianova.jpg|thumb|220px|Vodianova in Russia in 2008 at a press-conference for the Naked Heart Foundation]]
[[File:Natalia Vodianova.jpg|thumb|220px|Vodianova in Russia in 2008 at a press-conference for the Naked Heart Foundation]]
Vodianova is a founder and the president of the [[Naked Heart Foundation]], a philanthropic organisation that strives to provide a safe and inspiring environment in which to play for every child living in urban Russia.<ref name=founders /><ref name=trustees>{{cite web |title=About Us - Trustees |url=http://www.nakedheart.org/about-us/trustees.php |publisher=Naked Heart Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-01}}</ref><ref name=mission>{{cite web |title=About Us - Our Mission |url=http://www.nakedheart.org/about-us/index.php |publisher=Naked Heart Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-01}}</ref> She was inspired to found the charity after visiting Russia with her son Lucas and finding there were no suitable places for children to play.<ref name=HowIGetDressed/> The organisation built its first play park in 2006 in [[Nizhny Novgorod]]. It has since built nearly 38 more.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nakedheart.org/what-we-do/map.php |title=What We Do - Map |publisher=Naked Heart Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-01}}</ref>
Vodianova is a founder of the [[Naked Heart Foundation]], a philanthropic organisation that strives to provide a safe and inspiring environment in which to play for every child living in urban Russia as well as to give support families raising kids with special needs.<ref name=founders /><ref name=trustees>{{cite web |title=About Us - Trustees |url=http://www.nakedheart.org/about-us/trustees.php |publisher=Naked Heart Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-01}}</ref><ref name=mission>{{cite web |title=About Us - Our Mission |url=http://www.nakedheart.org/about-us/index.php |publisher=Naked Heart Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-01}}</ref> She was inspired to found the charity after visiting Russia with her son Lucas and finding there were no suitable places for children to play.<ref name=HowIGetDressed/> The organisation built its first play park in 2006 in [[Nizhny Novgorod]]. It has since built nearly 90 more.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nakedheart.org/what-we-do/map.php |title=What We Do - Map |publisher=Naked Heart Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-01}}</ref>


Vodianova also lends her support to a number of philanthropic causes, such as the ''(Bugaboo)RED'' campaign, an initiative to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/100512-natalia-vodianova-naked-for-bugaboo.aspx |title=Natalia Vodianova naked for Bugaboo (Red) |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref> That same year, Vodianova became an ambassador for [http://www.hear-the-world.com/exhibition/ ''Hear the World''], a global campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the topic of hearing and hearing loss and to promote good hearing all over the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hear-the-world.com/en/the-initiative/the-ambassadors.html |title=The ambassadors - Hear the World|publisher=Hear the World |accessdate=2010-04-28}}</ref>
Vodianova also lends her support to a number of philanthropic causes, such as the ''(Bugaboo)RED'' campaign, an initiative to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/100512-natalia-vodianova-naked-for-bugaboo.aspx |title=Natalia Vodianova naked for Bugaboo (Red) |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref> That same year, Vodianova became an ambassador for [http://www.hear-the-world.com/exhibition/ ''Hear the World''], a global campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the topic of hearing and hearing loss and to promote good hearing all over the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hear-the-world.com/en/the-initiative/the-ambassadors.html |title=The ambassadors - Hear the World|publisher=Hear the World |accessdate=2010-04-28}}</ref>

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Natalia Vodianova
Vodianova in Paris in 2008 at the launch of her lingerie collection by Etam
Born
Наталья Михайловна Водянова

(1982-02-28) 28 February 1982 (age 42)
Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union
Spouse
Justin Portman
​
(m. 2001)​
Children3
Modeling information
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Hair colorLight brown[1]
Eye colorBlue[1]
AgencyDNA Models

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova ([Наталья Михайловна Водянова, pronunciation Nataľja Mikhajlovna Vodjanova] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); born 28 February 1982)[2] is a Russian model, actress, philanthropist and social media evangelist who resided in England from 2001 until 2012, and currently lives in Paris.[3] In 2012, she came in 3rd on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8.6 million in one year.[4]

Early life

Born in Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Natalia Vodianova grew up in a poor district of the city with her mother, and two half sisters Kristina and Oksana, one of whom has cerebral palsy. As a teenager, Vodianova helped her mother sell fruit on the street and later set up her own fruit stand with a friend to help her family out of poverty.[5] Vodianova's father walked out on the family when she was a toddler, and she did not have any further contact with him until after she had become famous.[6][7]

Career

Modeling

At the age of 15, Vodianova enrolled in a modelling academy.[8] By the age of 17, Vodianova had moved to Paris, and signed with Viva Models.[8]

Vodianova has achieved considerable success as a runway, editorial and advertising campaign model. To date, Vodianova has walked in more than 175 runway shows for U.S. and European based designers' ready-to-wear and haute couture collections, has appeared in editorial spreads in fashion magazines worldwide and has completed advertising campaigns for Guerlain, Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, L'Oréal, David Yurman, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Versace, Diane von Fürstenberg, Chanel, Guerlain, Etam and others.[9]

Photographed by Steven Meisel, she was presented on the September 2004 cover of American Vogue as one of the "Models of the Moment".[10] As of May 2009, Vodianova has appeared on the cover of British Vogue seven times; the first was the September 2003 issue.[11] She made her first appearance on the cover of the U.S. Vogue in the September 2004 edition alongside eight other models, then appeared as the solo cover subject of the July 2007 edition of the magazine.[12] During this time period, other covers of the American Vogue have all featured non-model celebrities with only three other exceptions: models Linda Evangelista, Liya Kebede and Gisele Bündchen.

In Spring 2009, Vodianova entered into a three-year agreement to be a brand ambassador for the French lingerie company Etam and will design a lingerie collection each season during the term of the agreement. The collections will be marketed under the brand Natalia pour Etam.[13]

Vodianova was ranked 14th in the UK channel Five's 2005 television programme World's Greatest Supermodel. Forbes magazine estimates Vodianova earned $4.5 million (USD) between August 2006 and July 2007, $4.8 million (USD) between May 2007 and April 2008 and $5.5 million (USD) between June 2008 and June 2009, making her the seventh highest earning model worldwide during all three time periods.[14][15][16]

In May 2009, Vodianova co-hosted the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.[17]

On 12 December 2009, she was designated an ambassador of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, becoming a ‘face’ and key advocate of Russia’s first Winter Games.[18] In 2010, she appeared at the Vancouver Olympic Closing Ceremony within that role.

In 2010, she was named in Tatler’s top 10 best-dressed list. [19]

Acting

In 2001, Vodianova made a brief appearance in Roman Coppola’s film CQ with Billy Zane.[20] In 2010, she portrayed Medusa in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans. In October 2010, Vodianova landed her first leading acting role in a film adaptation of Albert Cohen's 1968 novel Belle du Seigneur, directed by Glenio Bonder and co-starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It is scheduled for release in 2012.

Philanthropy

Vodianova in Russia in 2008 at a press-conference for the Naked Heart Foundation

Vodianova is a founder of the Naked Heart Foundation, a philanthropic organisation that strives to provide a safe and inspiring environment in which to play for every child living in urban Russia as well as to give support families raising kids with special needs.[5][21][22] She was inspired to found the charity after visiting Russia with her son Lucas and finding there were no suitable places for children to play.[6] The organisation built its first play park in 2006 in Nizhny Novgorod. It has since built nearly 90 more.[23]

Vodianova also lends her support to a number of philanthropic causes, such as the (Bugaboo)RED campaign, an initiative to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.[24] That same year, Vodianova became an ambassador for Hear the World, a global campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the topic of hearing and hearing loss and to promote good hearing all over the world.[25]

She is also a spokeperson for the Tiger Trade Campaign, an alliance of 38 organisations united under the common aim "to bring back wild tigers by stopping trade in tiger parts and products from all sources." In an interview supporting the campaign, Vodianova said: "I'm proud that Russia, my country, is home to the most magnicifent of animals, the wild Siberian tiger. Today it is up to us to protect the tiger and its home, fewer than 350 Siberian tigers remain in the wild and no more than 3,400 tigers survive anywhere in the world. Unless we act now we will see the extinction of the wild tiger within our lifetime."[26][27]

In honour of her philanthropic achievements, Harper's Bazaar awarded Vodianova the award for Inspiration of the Year in November 2010.[28]

Personal life

Vodianova met Justin Portman (b. 1969),[29] half-brother of the 10th Viscount Portman, a British property heir, former artist and chess organizer[30][31] at a Paris dinner in 2001. They married in November 2001 when she was 8 months pregnant. In September 2002, over nine months after registering the marriage in the UK, they had a wedding ceremony in St. Petersburg, where Vodianova wore a dress designed by Tom Ford.[32][33] The couple have three children: son Lucas Alexander (born 22 December 2001), daughter Neva (born 24 March 2006) and son Viktor (born 13 September 2007). Viktor is named after Vodianova's grandfather, who had helped raise her after her father's departure.[34] Neva is named after the Russian river Neva.[35]

Separated from February 2010, Vodianova and Portman announced their final separation in June 2011.[36] She is currently in a relationship with Antoine Arnault, son of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and the CEO of luxury brand Berluti. [37] The couple live together in Paris with her three children.[38]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Profile of fashion model Natalia Vodianova". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 6 November 2009. Cite error: The named reference "fmd" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Natalia Vodianova - Fashion Model - Profile". NYMag.com. New York Media LLC. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  3. ^ "On the school run with Natalia Vodianova". Telegraph.co.uk. 10 October 2012.
  4. ^ Solomon, Brian (14 June 2012). "The World's Highest Paid Models". Forbes.com. Forbes.com LLC. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  5. ^ a b "About Us - Our Founders". Naked Heart Foundation. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  6. ^ a b Natalia Vodianova (13 January 2008). "How I get dressed". London: The Observer. Retrieved 26 May 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Camilla Long (3 February 2008). "Supernova Heights; the Sussex home of Natalia Vodianova". London: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 26 May 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ a b "Horoscopes - Celebs - Pisces - Natalia Vodianova". Elle (UK) website. Hachette Filipacchi (UK) Ltd. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  9. ^ "Profile of Fashion Model Natalia Vodianova". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  10. ^ September 2004 American Vogue
  11. ^ "Vogue Magazine Archive (Vogue.com UK)". Vogue (UK) website. CondéNetUK Limited. Retrieved 26 May 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  12. ^ "Vogue's July Model Cover". Miss Stylologist blog. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  13. ^ Jessica Bumpus (9 February 2009). "Model Designs". Vogue (UK) website. CondéNetUK Limited. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
  14. ^ Blakeley, Kiri (16 July 2007). "In Pictures: The World's Top-Earning Models". Forbes.com. Forbes.com LLC. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  15. ^ Blakeley, Kiri (30 April 2008). "In Pictures: The World's 15 Top-Earning Models". Forbes.com. Forbes.com LLC. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  16. ^ Streib, Lauren (27 May 2009). "In Pictures: The World's Top-Earning Models". Forbes.com. Forbes.com LLC. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  17. ^ "Channel 1 Russia press conference - News - Eurovision Song Contest - Moscow 2009". Eurovision Song Contest Official Website. EBU. 11 May 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
  18. ^ "Sochi 2014 Launches New Paralympic Games Emblem on Russia's First Ever International Paralympic Winter Day". Sochi 2014 Official Website. Sochi.ru. 12 December 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  19. ^ Daily Mail 30 January 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1247415/Whos-new-Tatler-girl-Unknowns-make-mark-style-bibles-best-dressed-Top-10--including-girl-loves-Harrods-doughnuts.html
  20. ^ "Natalia Vodianova Filmography". Internet Movie Database. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  21. ^ "About Us - Trustees". Naked Heart Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  22. ^ "About Us - Our Mission". Naked Heart Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  23. ^ "What We Do - Map". Naked Heart Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  24. ^ "Natalia Vodianova naked for Bugaboo (Red)". Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  25. ^ "The ambassadors - Hear the World". Hear the World. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  26. ^ "End Tiger Trade: International Tiger Coalition". Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  27. ^ "Natalia Vodianova supports Asian tigers". Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  28. ^ "Natalia Vodianova an inspiration at Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards". Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  29. ^ http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal57618
  30. ^ http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2767
  31. ^ http://www.chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=494
  32. ^ "Afterwards: congratulations Nati!". Models Blog. 3 April 2006. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
  33. ^ "Monday's Muse: Natalia Vodianova". Amour Amour Blog. 5 October 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  34. ^ Kay, Richard (6 November 2007). "Beeb gets its tutus in a twist". London: Daily Mail. Retrieved 26 May 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  35. ^ Dolly Jones (29 March 2006). "Natalia's Girl Arrives". Vogue (UK). Retrieved 26 May 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  36. ^ "Putting Fairy Tales and Fashion in Play " The New York Times (2011)
  37. ^ "Natalia Vodianova’s new lover is LVMH boss Bernard Arnault’s son Antoine " Telegraph.co.uk (2011) ; http://www.purepeople.com/article/natalia-vodianova-amoureuse-berenice-bejo-stylee-belles-pour-louis-vuitton_a107947/3#3, 2012
  38. ^ Luke Leitch (10 October 2012). "On the school run with Natalia Vodianova". Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
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