The Untold Tragedy Of Most Famous Slavic Supermodel — Vlada Roslyakova

She was born Elena Roslyakova in Omsk, Siberia, in 1987 — a working-class daughter of the Soviet collapse. At 15 she was scouted at a modeling test in her hometown. At 16 she was in Tokyo. At 17 she debuted for Giorgio Armani in Milan. By her second season she had walked 78 shows. By her third she had walked 91 in a single season — a record that has never been touched. Vogue Paris named her one of the top 30 models of the entire decade. But behind the record-breaking numbers was a girl the tabloids called anorexic on every runway she walked, whose closest friend in the industry — Ruslana Korshunova — jumped from a New York balcony in 2008 while Vlada was in Paris and couldn't answer her final message. This is the story of the Siberian teenager who became one of the most photographed women on earth, and the silence she has carried ever since.