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- Is a Russian model, philanthropist and accasional film actress.
- She is well known for her rags to riches life story and for her eigh-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein.
- In 2012, she came in third on the forbes top-earning model list, estimated to have earned $8.8 million in one year.
- Vodianova is currently ranked by models.com as one of the "New Supers" in the fashion industry.
- She is Founder of the "Naked Heart Foundation" a philanthropic organization.
Born in Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Vodianova grew up in a poor district of the city (Avtozavod) 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. 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.
In 2001, Vodianova made a brief appearance in Roman Coppola’s film CQ with Billy ZaneIn 2010, she portrayed Medusa in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans. In October 2010, she 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, which was released in 2013.
- Vodianova is the founder of the "Naked Heart Foundation", a philanthropic organization that strives to provide a safe environment in which to play for every child living in urban Russia and to help support families raising children with disabilities. She was inspired to found the charity after the Beslan tragedy. Her idea was to distract children who survived with play from their psychological trauma.
- Natalia also lends her support to a number of philanthropic causes, such as the RED campaing.
- She became in the ambassador for "Hear the World", a global campaing that seeks to raise awareness of hearing loss.
- Vodianova is also a spokesperson for the Tiger Trade Campaign, an alliance of 38 organizations united under the common aim "to bring back wild tigers by stopping trade in tiger parts and products for all sources.
The couple's first son, Maxim, was born on 2 May 2014. She welcomed her 5th child and her second son with partner Antoine Arnault, named Roman on 4 June 2016.
