"I Know I'm Pretty":Anne V On Body Confidence

MODEL Anne V may seem beautiful and confident, but she has admitted that even she has taken time to be comfortable in her own skin.

"For the young girls, it's an industry that makes you not very confident," she said."You'll hear things like, 'Not pretty enough', 'Too fat', 'Too skinny', 'Your nose is too big'.I learned how to deal with it, but I'm 27 years old and I know how hard it was when I was 18 years old to deal with those things.I was a child."

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Despite struggling to finally come to terms with the criticism that she has endured from some, she says there are still things she would change about herself.

"I've been modelling for 12 years and I can do it with my eyes closed.I know I'm pretty," Vyalitsyna told Miami magazine Ocean Drive."But there are a lot of things that I don't like about myself.I wish I wasn't this white.I never get a tan.I wish I could eat everything and not put on weight.Sometimes I wish I didn't have freckles."

And - having recently become an American citizen - the Vogue cover girl and Victoria's Secret model was happy to talk about her new home.

"Russia is amazing during the summer.It's warm and green, with so many fields and rivers.It's stunning," she said of her birthplace."But Russia during the winter is the most depressing place ever.Now I'm living an American dream.I just became an American citizen, and I feel like America is my home now."