From teenage fat girl to supermodel. How to lose 35 kg and walk the runway

Now Russian supermodel Ekaterina Peshkova walks the runway at Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli and Alberta Feretti shows and works with six top modeling agencies around the world. However, 10 years ago neither she nor her relatives could even imagine such a thing. Ekaterina was born in Perm, in an ordinary family with a small income. The girl was studying in high school when the arrow of the scale showed a critical mark for a 14-year-old teenager – 91 kg. At that time, Katya could eat fast food, sweets and drink sodas every day. Not surprisingly, the 30-meter race for speed in physical education classes seemed to the schoolgirl a severe test.

But suddenly everything changed, and the overweight girl managed to overcome herself to realize her dream.

Where to start healthy weight loss?

Naturally, to thin Ekaterina began long before she got into the modeling school. Having decided to get rid of dozens of extra kilograms, she relied only on enthusiasm, willpower and videos on the Internet. After all, the family had no money for nutritionists and a subscription to a fitness center.

The first thing that Ekaterina changed in her daily diet was to exclude from it all harmful products, which she loved so much before. After that, the schoolgirl began to try well-known diets: protein, buckwheat, kefir and even therapeutic fasting. At the same time, she began to pay attention to physical activity – she studied video lessons on the Internet and repeated exercises at home.

For three years, the girl gradually managed to get rid of 30 extra kilograms. Her figure was transformed before her eyes, and her skin became firm and taut. In this Ekaterina was helped by sports, fruit, drinking plenty of water every day, massage and weight loss at a measured pace.

Her first modeling experience

By the age of 17, Catherine weighed just over 60 kilograms at a height of 176 cm. It was then that she was accidentally noticed by Svetlana Motygina, the director of the Perm modeling agency. She was traveling with her husband in a car and, noticing her distinguished face, asked him to turn around.

I have a good eye for faces. As I saw Katya closer, I realized I wasn’t wrong. She had good potential, but needed to work on her weight.

Anticipating further prospects, the director of the agency worked with Ekaterina for free. At the modeling school the girl studied English, modeling theory, fashion show, photo training and acting. For a year of classes she stretched by three centimeters, lost another five kilograms, began to do yoga and completely gave up flour and fried food.

Progress was evident, but only a minor two centimeters in her hips prevented Ekaterina from reaching the international level and signing a contract abroad. Intensified physical activity helped her to cope with this task as well. After the first test photo shoots, the girl was invited to work in Tokyo to shoot for Asian Vogue.

A trip to Japan and a contract with the world’s leading agency.

At the same time, other life changes were coming up. As a first-year student of the Mechmat, she realized that her soul does not lie to the exact sciences. Ekaterina decided not to ignore her desires and transfer to the correspondence department of the journalism department. For this she had to pass a lot of exams. But already in the fall the girl flew to Japan.

On the way to Tokyo, Ekaterina had a funny incident that reminded her once again what a huge amount of work she had done on herself.

Before departure I was asked to show not only my foreign passport, but also my Russian passport. The customs officer, seeing me there, 90-kilograms, rounded his eyes: “Are you sure it’s you?!”. I had to pull out and show my portfolio to be allowed on the plane.

On her first trip abroad, the budding model did not earn a large fee, but she gained invaluable experience. On her return to Perm, Ekaterina received an offer from one of the world’s most prestigious agencies, the Italian Next. She decided not to refuse the fateful chance and signed a contract for five years. Thus began her professional path in modeling. Today the girl cooperates with agencies in Russia, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Greece.

Shows of leading designers and a frantic schedule

The life of a model may seem carefree and measured, but Ekaterina can dispel this myth. The girl’s morning begins with a small breakfast of yogurt and banana and constant castings. By the way, they can be announced on them 500 girls, and approve in the end only one. But everyone has to give a hundred percent.

After work, if you are lucky, the model has time to have lunch at home – in an apartment or hotel, where she can live with the rest of the girls abroad. If the schedule does not allow, she takes food with her. The girl usually has little time for rest, but sometimes there are free evenings when she reads books, listens to music and communicates with loved ones on Skype. But there are days when she has to leave the apartment in the early morning and return at midnight.

Thanks to her hard work and visible talent, Ekaterina has already managed to star in Russia for the cover of Aeroflot magazine and Wild Orchid brand, and abroad – in Wella ads and for L’Officiel magazine. Among the foreign shows in Ekaterina Peshkova’s portfolio are shows by Roberto Cavalli, Alberta Feretti, Giorgio Armani and other fashion designers. By the way, the last designer is especially admired by the girl, because he comes to the preparation of the show before all the stylists and makeup artists and carefully controls the process.

The story of Katya Peshkova, an ordinary girl from Perm, once again proves that you can start changing for the better at any moment. Sometimes a mere accident is the beginning of a new life. But in Ekaterina’s case, her acquaintance with modeling might not have happened at all, if not for the girl’s hard work on herself. The main thing in the first place do not forget to take care of health and lose weight gradually.