hey Luca
the whole article from the mag is also online on their site here
i gave it a run through Google Translator so we get a sense of the article
Poly, Russian Poly: Supemodel Natasha Poly's childhood Perm and career in New York City
She made her debut on the runway in 2004 and all that remains of one of the most sought after models in the world. The portfolio - advertising contracts with leading brands, fifty covers Vogue, the title Icon on the site models.com and the title of the main Russian model of „New Wave". Natasha Poly recently celebrated the thirtieth birthday.
Natasha is arrives at the paris studio at nine o'clock, on point. She is accompanied by little daughter Alexandra. Little daughter Alexandra accompanies nameless plush mouse.
Why a two-year crumb called Alexandra, and an adult mother - Natasha? This set is known. Natalia Polevschikova early in her career, not to torment foreigners unpronounceable combination of letters -vschik, trimmed name to Poly and called diminutive Natasha.
How come to shoot supermodel? Certainly. In jeans Frame Denim and thin shirt under a black jacket. On her feet - running shoes Nike, on her arms - a gold Cartier bracelet and a steel Rolex, in the hands of the mouse instead of the `little funny Fendi handbag. "With Fur pompom - adds Natasha. - Easy thing: you can always give my daughter to play with a fluffy tail. "
It seems only yesterday that she published a instagram picture with barely rounded belly and the caption "Baby on board", and now Alexandra two years, and her age is no longer considered in months. "I always wanted it daughter. If I had a son, I would not know how to educate. With my daughter a lot easier. "
As we speak, the girl with the mouse is sent directly to the table with magazines and starts flipping usual glossy pages. Seeking the mother, of course. Favorite game.
"What has changed her appearance? - Asks me Natasha. - The whole life has changed. " If more - have left the old anxiety and fear, but wound up new ones. "I really try to mute them, and even before I was constantly tormented koshmariki. All I am doing so right there I'm a mother. " The birth of a daughter changed not only the present and the future but also the past. "In another way, the parents begin to understand, appreciate, as they had with me. They are brave men - I have so much courage was not found. "
Natasha was born in Perm in the family of a policeman and a housewife. There still live her parents: "In a typical residential area, apartment on the tenth floor. Very nice view of the courtyard. " I lived in the Soviet cam tenth with good views of the courtyard, so I ask: "Lift is always even work?" - "No, of course. And then I had to go on foot. " From her mother's thin bone, a broad forehead and a small nose, from the Pope - blond hair and tall. "I am eighty percent mom and twenty - Dad."
The next stop in her life became Milan. At fifteen, after a few model competitions she came here at the invitation of the agency, stretched her how lucky ticket to Italy. Where to Perm, and where Milan? "I previously did not understand what life abroad, she could not speak in English, did not know that there is some kind of kitchen, except Russian."
She says that she would not see her in Milan, as their ears, if not for my mother, Larisa Vladislavovna. Under its responsibility and with the help of Natasha, a girl from a strict family (she was not allowed to come home after nine in the evening), he left the contest in Moscow, with her permission to go to Milan. And she loved him still. "The city, I know I have it in full, I went around and traveled on foot, subway, tram."
Third, the city - Paris. "The most beloved of foreign, almost native place, I am here once a month for sure. I lived here for two years, until he had to go to New York. "
On moving to New York, she says, almost as a link - say, where you will get, chased career. "All photographers, stylists, model agencies said that it is necessary to live in New York." He told her at first did not like. "Slush, cold taxi. People rush town for me was like a factory. No beauty and charm. " His fascination she felt much later. "New York really inspires you, you can do whatever you want, all the time to learn: acting, tennis. I almost came to singing lessons. " But when her six years to get used to the city as it was necessary to move again - to Amsterdam, to her husband.
Dutchman Peter Bakker they met in 2011 in Paris on New Year's party and a year later married on the French Riviera. I ask whether Natasha is now going to be added to the English, French and Italian and even Dutch.
"I want to start, but it is very difficult in the pronunciation of the language. However, maybe this is my excuse. My daughter is easier with it and I will learn. " Natasha Alexander is preparing to read Russian poetry Chukovsky and Marshak, and while they watch cartoons about the national hero of the Netherlands Miffi rabbit.
Alexandra sits at mum in a lap and playing with soft as rabbit tail, a brush for makeup. Natasha takes a brush and makes some very professional passes.
Makeup she likes: "Make-up artists can do everything: to turn me into a vamp 1920s or 1950s film star. I myself can not put any make-up - knowingly work with L'Oréal. I love the bright lipstick. Now they even have a line of makeup lipstick named after me: Color Riche Natasha's Pure Red - not just red and red-cherry. "
Cosmetics, as well as sports and tidy (but without fanaticism) relationship with food to help her cope with congestion. "For me it is normal to get up at five in the morning shooting, but I came back to the previous two nights. All the time necessary to travel. Shooting shortened to one day, regular flights. Just jump from an airplane in flight. Changing time zones, accumulated stress. But modeling career promises a lot - it can develop and acting, and a designer. "
"Which one do you like better? Which is better? "" The best job in life ... - Natasha thinks. - The Best Job in life - to be a mom. "