Natalia Vodianova

Natalia Vodianova's arc reads like a fairy tale I can't help admiring. A fruit-stall girl from Nizhny Novgorod who climbed to the very top of fashion, landing high on Forbes' top-earning models list, she has the rags-to-runway story everyone romanticizes. But what earns my real respect is what she did with that platform: shaped by raising a disabled sister, she poured herself into philanthropy and became a UN goodwill ambassador. Beauty opened the doors, but grit and generosity are what define her. I find her far more compelling as a humanitarian than as a supermodel, and that's rare.

Name (English)

Natalia Vodianova

Name (Japanese)

ナタリア・ヴォディアノヴァ

Reading

なたりあ・ゔぉでぃあのゔぁ

Born

February 28, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Height

173 cm

Occupation

model / actor / film actor / fashion model

Awards & achievements

• TEFI

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/natasupernova/
• Xhttps://x.com/NataSupernova
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia%20Vodianova
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232754

Tags

• Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
• model
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.