A: Playing with my dog, spending time with my family, working as a model, learning new languages, visiting new countries, meeting new people, playing sports, dancing, reading, and spending time with children.
Q: What is your career ambition?
A: My goal is to be successful in life. Whatever I choose to do, I want to do it well.
Q: Describe where you were raised and what your childhood was like.
A: I was raised in a small village, and when I was 10 my family moved to Kharkiv (the 2nd largest city in Ukraine). My childhood was very happy; I was surrounded by the love and care of my family. I would never want to change anything that happened to me from that time. I was a very happy child.
Q: What do you want the judges to know about you?
A: I want the judges to know that I've come so far in this contest and in my life because of the great support of my family. We had a very rough life in Ukraine. After the country became independent, the political situation became critical and people's lives became very hard. My father's business failed and my mom was a doctor earning $100 USD a month. My 70-year-old grandma was the main financial support in my family before I started making some money modeling in Asia. My parents sacrificed everything to give me and my sister a good education and a chance to be successful in this world. Maybe I was born in the wrong time for my country, but I was and am definitely in the right family.
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