Some of these pictures are not new, BUT I have comments from Natalia's grandmother to each one of them! So look and read
1985 The picture was taken in Skadovsk (Kherson region). Natalia (3) and her mother lived there for a year, but then decided to come back to Nizhnii Novgorod. Viktor Filippovich, my husband and Natalia's grandfather, came there to help them to move. My brother lives is Skadovsk, so we had a vacation there almost every summer.
1987 Natalia has "graduated" from the kinder garden. We didn't have that much money and I made almost every dress for my grand daughter myself, sometimes I had to remake some old clothes. Natalia loved to dress up nicely since she was a little girl, and my dresses we "exclusive" as you say now. When her daughter Neva was born Natalia asked me about her dresses, what happened to them - but can you find something since so many years?
1996 Natalia is 14, this is her passport picture. Natalia faces the problems of an adult life very early. She used to work a lot, sold fruits on the market, helped her mother to raise sisters. She used to get extremely tired, so her high school education was not so important to her.
1997 When Natalia studied in hight school she grew up a lot and became much taller then her friends. Some used to call her "Stick", but she was never angry with her appearence. I think that is because boys had always liked her.
1999 Natalia came from Paris to see me on my birthday. It's been only a year since she was living in France, she used to rent an apartment with a few girls, also models. She didn't make much money then, but she always brought presents to her many-many relatives. She is a very kind a generous girl: she bought apartments for her mother and me, takes to the doctors in Paris, gives us presents.
2002 Natalia and lord Portman's wedding was held in St. Petersburg in Alexandro-Nevskaya laurel. And a few days before the ceremony they christened their 9-month-old son Lucas. Natalia was taken to the altar by her grandfather. The reporters got it all wrong and the next morning they wrote in the papers that a young beauty got married to a rich old man. Natalia is together with her husband in happiness and in sadness. On September 11th Justin carried pregnant Natalia on his hands from their apartment in Manhatten.
2003 Natalia (with son Lucas here) loves her sisters. The youngest Kristina (on the picture with Natalia) has a character a lot like Natalia's. Her middle sister, Oksana, is now 20 years old. She has cerebral palsy, she can't talk and hardly moves. Natasha has always looked after her, took her for a walk. Oksana has her sister's full attention today as well.
2006 Neva's birth was a huge event for Portmans' family: girls are rarely born in their clan. The christened her in London with evangelical ceremony. After the ceremony everyone went to the Portman's family house, where Neva spent time with her grandmother, baroness Penelope. Natasha is a loving mother, but also a strickt one. Her kids know very well what "no" and "you can't" mean.
2009 Kristina, Natalia's youngest sister, is studying in London for a second year now. Natalia looks after her grades, talks to her teachers and gets very happy when they tell her she is doing good. Of course Kristina feels great in England, but she misses her mom a lot, and also her friend in Nizhnii Novgorod. And she (like her eldest sister) never misses a chance to go to her home town - especially on my birthday.