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Happy birthday, baby Maxim, and congratulations to his parents!

I think that's what one of the interview said.. Meloni, the new image of young Natalia is breathtaking and absolutely made my day. Such a great find!

Oh I love the dress - so elegant and flowey...

do you think this is Natalia? if so, when is this image from? Thank you.

thank you for this post. I just love how straight on these shots are - unphotoshopped... She looks gorgeous, of course.

School run (you can see a backpack by the door) I love how Neva has a rope of "boobliki" on herself, very cute

Can you write your question in your native language and just put it through a Google translator?

So this flock of young women at at Louis Vuitton F/W 2013 must be the winners of Natalia's/Centuro photo competition.

Hi Parislights and welcome to the discussion. I think you definitely have a point. I sometimes ponder too of what is easier/more difficult to do - to live Natalia's intense life with constant flights, meetings, shows, designing, running the charity, ect or spending one's constant time with the little ones, for example. I also have two little kids (4 and 2 yo) and being with them on daily basis could be sometimes really traumatizing for anyone's mental health, to be honest. So yes, I am 100% with you that it is perhaps much harder to return after a grueling marathon exercise to the mundane household duties that most of those women at the race probably had to do, while Natalia needed to make every effort to look savvy and ready to catwalk with the help of assistants/relatives/children caretakers... I am not sure whether she is completely responsible for the portrait of some sort of an alien marvel amongst us - media, loving fans probably contribute to it The one thing I personally admire Natalia for is not this wondrous "toughness" but her determination of another kind: The fact that she does not use her achieved laurels to just sit on them or make more money out of them; her very humane desire to help others - I think empathy like that is very rare, even if it requires much help from her assistants with daily trifles. To constantly push herself to work harder towards her real goal - making children's lives in Russia better... however she does it, with the help of many or without it, I don't care... I know it is still commendable because most of us, let's be honest, lack this sedulous drive to devote themselves to abstract others.

Happy Birthday to Natalia! you inspire me to be better.

Simply sublime. Fantastic shoot!

The W cover is simply divine - Natalia back to her sultry self The net-a-porter images are great, expressive a s usual, except her damaged-looking hair

Wow, I love the second picture, with the headpiece. So chic.

I am all for Natalia reaching to the sky as she fully deserves it. I merely point to the seeming discrepancy in her attitude: what she attributed to be part of the reasons of her split with Justin (being given much from early age) seems to be there again with her current boyfriend. I never said that I thought Natalia and AA should not be together or that Natalia should stay in "misery" (btw, not all poor people are miserable and not all rich people are happy).