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Yesterday, HELLO.RU was one of the first to discover and translate a new interview with Natalia Vodianova for the American Vogue magazine. Recall that the network ahead of time there were photos of the pages of the magazine, which printed an interview with the supermodel and her younger sister Jenna. The author of the photo shoot was Annie Leibovitz, and the famous journalist Hamish Bowles talked with the sisters.
We translated the first part of the text that was available at that time here, and now the remaining fragments of the text have appeared on the network. It follows from it that Natalya managed to see and get to know her sister after her birth, that it was she who insisted on giving the baby to foster parents. Natalia also describes their first meeting after 22 years and her emotions regarding the current situation. The editorial staff takes out the rumors circulating on the network that Jenna is not really a sister, but the daughter of Natalia Vodianova, since the model herself does not comment on this version in any way and there is no evidence for her in the public domain.
The most interesting quotes from the Vogue US interview are in the material HELLO.RU.
About how Natalia convinced her mother to give the child
Mom, you can’t raise another child in such a difficult life situation,” said 16-year-old Natalia Vodianova to her mother Larisa, who was 8 months pregnant at that time.
About the first meeting with a newborn sister in the maternity hospital
She caught my finger and held tight. Masha was already such a fighter. And at that emotional moment I promised her that we would see each other again.
The article says that shortly after this, Natalia received a contract in Paris for a large sum. As soon as the model had the opportunity, she came to Nizhny Novgorod to return her sister to the family, but Masha had already been adopted at that time.
About calls from the orphanage
When the newborn Masha was given up for adoption, Natalya recalls that they called from the orphanage (while the baby had not yet found a family) and asked again:
She is such a good child, beautiful, never cries. Maybe you can still take it?
Natalya’s mother, Larisa Kusakina, doubted all the time, but Natalya, who proposed this idea, insisted that she did not want the same fate for the little girl. In her youth, she traded in the market in her spare time from her studies, and also lived with her mother and two more sisters in a 20-meter room.
How Jenna found them
Jennifer Burns (that’s the name of Masha Kusakina) knew that her biological mother was from Russia and that she was adopted. A couple of years ago, she did a DNA test and subscribed to the news of a blood relative search service. After some time, she received a letter from Natalia Vodianova and Kristina Kusakina, Natasha’s half-sister).
We have always been looking for you, the message read.
After the sisters first phoned by zoom and chatted for about three hours.
About the first live meeting years later
A month later, Jenna flew to meet her sisters in Paris. By the way, Natalya lives there with her husband Antoine Arnault and children. The supermodel says she was amazed at how Masha (Jenna) looks like their mother Larisa.
Christina and Jenna are two nerds, they have a lot in common. And I never even went to university,” says Vodianova.
Larisa does not speak English, so she communicated with Jenna with the help of her daughters, Natasha and Christina. And despite the language barrier, the meeting between Jenna and mom was very emotional:
She just looked and hugged me. It was an intimate moment,” Jenna said.
About Jenna’s father
Vodianova says in an interview that she has never seen her mother as happy as when she met Jenna.
For most of her life, she was like a dark cloud, and now she has become sunlight.
They told their sister about her father – there was crazy love between him and Larisa, they lived together for six months, he was kind to the girls, asked them to call him dad, they considered him a gentleman. But it all ended badly – he forced Vodianova’s mother to turn to the local mafia to borrow money, and left.
About Natalia’s emotions
The photo shoot took place this summer when Jenna came to visit Natalia Vodianova and Antoine Arnault in a house in Connecticut. There, on the ocean, they were captured by the legendary Annie Leibovitz. At the end of the interview, Natalia says to the journalist:
Jenna has always been a part of my life, even when we didn’t know each other. I was always wondering if she was okay. We quickly catch up and feel like one family. There is something beautiful about genetics and our genes. Love comes very naturally. Thanks to technology, without them we would never have found each other.
Source: Hellomagazine
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