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Natalia Vodianova & Justin Portman separate. Natalia dating Antoine Arnault

those pictures... seriously, thats how my friends and i are when we go out to a club where it's loud. no compromising positions? no hand on her leg? no intimate kiss in a corner?

i don't think those pictures prove anything.
 
That article is confusing. Who's Natasha?
And I agree, there's nothing intimate about those photographs. I thought it was Heidi Klum at first :lol:
 
Natasha is a way in Russian to spell Natalia. and those articles aren't exactly translated well...
 
^ Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation. I think the article is too speculative t be taken seriously.
 
Natalia Vodianova aims to be model mother

Natalia Vodianova plans to expand her brood after denying divorce rumour

Natalia Vodianova, who dismissed rumours that her marriage was nearing its end as "rubbish", now wants to have more children with her husband, the property heir Justin Portman. "I want to have at least two more babies," the Russian model told Mandrake.

Vodianova, 28, already has three children with her husband, the half-brother of Viscount Portman. "The most important thing to me is being a mother," she told me. "Growing up, I never knew I was going to be famous, but I always knew I would be a good mother."
telegraph.co.uk
 
I've read through this entire thread and feel none the wiser! :0)

Is divorce on the cards? Or not?

I hope for the latter and that they go on to have many more beautiful (beautiful, beautiful!) little children.
 
right

Yes, isnt she cute and adorable and perfect?
Not everyone can be pretty, rich, famour and love children! (irony)
Sorry about that but i get a bit tired of the overpraise of a woman who has just been really lucky in life and, amazingly, also donates to charity.

I don't know if they are going to divorce, though i don't think so, it wouldnt be good for anything: her image, her children... and i think they can arrange a life where they are not together all the time like they used to be (which obviously wore off) but where they are a couple who each have their own lives and activities. That's one of the advantages of being rich.

I also get a little tired with people saying what a great mom she is just because we see pretty pictures of her with them once in a while.
I dont think she is with them a lot. She travels, she works, she now decided to be an actress, God knows why, she always has a lot on her schedule (she says it herself), is always looking for more attention, more money, more 'challenges'.
When does she really see the kids? What I do know is that she has a lot of nannies, who are with them day to day.
And that's what a mother is supposed to do.
I tell you, the day i call her a good mum is when she will take a year or two off work to be with her family. And not be back five days after giving birth, leaving her baby in the care of a nanny, just for everyone to gasp.
And then still say they're her priority.
 
uhm... i do believe she disappeared from the modeling scene for a while after she got her first kids....

unless i have early Alzheimer.
 
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Right, she took her time after Lucas....
I looked around on websites, some say six weeks but on many other pages she is quoted as saying two weeks after. You pick!
I remember her being very proud that just after his birth, although her measurements were slightly different, was the time when everybody wanted her and she "exploded" in the industry.
 
Just because her kids don't get photographed with her doesn't mean she doesn't spend time with them. :rolleyes: In addition, Natalia can't afford to just quit modeling full time as she relies on that income and the exposure to fund her charity work. Do you think the money just appears out of nowhere?

Also, did it ever occur to you that Natalia isn't one of those people that love doing nothing? To quote Natalia: "Hard work is my etiquette in life, I will never just sit around and do nothing." She likes to work, to feel productive, in my opinion, that's something that should be applauded rather than criticized.
 
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Of course loving hard work is a good thing it's obvious.
But are stay at home mums lazy people, hanging around all day doing nothing? If you have children you know that raising three is a full time job, exhausting and challenging. Hard work!
Of course some may think it's less interesting, less 'rewarding'.
I remember Natalia saying how much she liked people's attention. I think the true motivation is more there.

Her charity work is a different matter, it is compatible with raising a family, especially as she has so much people to help with that.
But the modelling, always being between two flights. (I'm not inventing that, she says it all the time in interviews) and now acting...
I don't think people would forget about her if she was away for one or two years, I don't think they wouldn't attend her fundraising events.

Anyway, my point is, it's tiring to read all the time what a perfect mum she is and a perfect angel in general.
She is a flesh and blood person, like everybody else, just prettier, richer, more successfull and more in view.
She wants a lot from life, and doesn't sacrifice it for her children.
 
Also, did it ever occur to you that Natalia isn't one of those people that love doing nothing? To quote Natalia: "Hard work is my etiquette in life, I will never just sit around and do nothing." She likes to work, to feel productive, in my opinion, that's something that should be applauded rather than criticized.

trust me, as a mom, being home with kids is WAY harder and more exhausting than almost any line of work. It's hard work and it's (in my opinion) very mind numbing day in and day out. I don't think it has anything to do with comparing being at home with kids being doing nothing vs. work as being hard and productive. they're both work, she just picked the one that made sense for her.

If I had to chose between staying home with 3 kids or working I'd have made the same choice but more out of laziness and desire for adult stimulation than because I love hard work.
 
The thing is, when she had her first kid, she was 19 when her career hadn't taken off. What other supermodel do we know of who decided to have a kid than focus on their career. What she did was unprecedented. Yes, so she got lucky and her career catapulted after she gave birth, ***please see tFS community rules http://www.thefashionspot.com/community ***. It was a gamble, it paid off, she got lucky and lapped up her luck as any person would've done. What other 19 year old would've chosen to sit at home with a kid if she'd had Natalia's height and looks and body and opportunities? If anyone bothers to have a gander at her earliest photographs, her kid has always been there in backstage pics and behind the scenes shots of editorial shoots. Besides, the children had (still have) a stay-at-home Dad, and calling Natalia an middling mum because she chose to work is synonymous to calling all working fathers bad ones because they chose to go to work than sit at home with their babies. All right so she had a nanny than stay up all night herself with a bawling baby, but what woman who can afford it wouldn't exercise this luxury? I certainly would, and so would most of my friends and people I know. Being privileged isn't something to be sneered at, and isn't something which she can help, and is something which, let's face it, all of use would rather be.

And as for magazine articles, most them contain an element of hyperbole and should be taken with a pinch of salt. Of course Natalia isn't going to say my career is my top priority, the way Angelina doesn't say her career is the most important thing to her. But it's clear as day Jolie isn't going to quit acting, even if she might go on record to state that she would quit acting for her kids. Read any article about Angelina and her motherhood is gloried to the point where it gets nauseatingly fulsome. Jolie too has as many nannies as children, she too in all probability wouldn't have lost sleep as us normal people do, and she too would've had others look after her kids when she filmed her movies. So does that make her any less a mum than a middle-class Midwestern female sitting at home all day with her brood. I don't think so. Same applies to all celebrity mums, except of course the glaringly bad ones who drop kids on their heads and wear their bad parenting skills on their sleeves a la Britney.
 
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If I had to chose between staying home with 3 kids or working I'd have made the same choice but more out of laziness and desire for adult stimulation than because I love hard work.

And not to mention, the money. :P
 
Actually Shane, I think that if she disapeared from the scene for 1 or 2 years, people wouldt forget about her. The time of supermodel is long time gone and apart from people like us, who are interested in fashion and maybe russian people, she is not that well known.
I see no reason why she should sacrifice her carrer for her children. And she is not a saint. Though I like her look and editorial, I find her relationship with her husband rather creepy (it has already been discussed here). I see her as a poor little girl who struggled to get away from her condition and married a rich guy.
 

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