Kristina Ruslanovna Pimenova (Russian: Кристина Руслановна Пименова; born 27 December 2005)[2][3] is a Russian fashion model.[4]
Life and career
Pimenova's parents are former footballer Ruslan Pimenov and former model Glikeriya Shirokova.[5] Pimenova has an elder sister, Natalia.[1] Kristina Pimenova spent the first few months of her life in France where her father played football for FC Metz.[6] Pimenova started working as a child model before her fourth birthday, after her mother sent photographs to the agency President Kids.[7] Pimenova has worked for brands including Armani, Benetton, Burberry, and Roberto Cavalli.[7][8]
In 2014, Women Daily magazine called her "the most beautiful girl in the world".[8]
In April 2015, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Kids.[9]
Later in 2015, Pimenova moved to California, USA with her mother. A documentary about Pimenova aired on RTL Television in October 2016.[10]
Acting
Pimenova played a post-production part as a singing child in the Italian fantasy film Creators: The Past.[11][12] In an interview for Posh Kids Magazine, she expressed her wish to become a professional actress and film director.[13] She was subsequently cast for the role of Dasha in Michael S. Ojeda's horror thriller The Russian Bride, co-starring with Corbin Bernsen and Oksana Orlan.[14]
Criticism
When Pimenova's mother managed her social media accounts, there was some criticism of the content as an example of sexualisation of an under-age model.[8][15] Her mother disagreed, maintaining that all the photos were perfectly innocent and "you must think like a pedophile in order to see something sexual in these pictures".[16]
^Samodelova, Svetlana (27 November 2014). "Самая красивая девочка мира ходит в обычную московскую школу" [=The most beautiful girl in the world goes to a regular school in Moscow] (in Russian). Moskovskij Komsomolets. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
^Luongo, Marika (22 April 2016). "Kristina: baby modella a soli 9 anni" [Kristina: baby model at only nine years] (in Italian). DireDonna. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
^ ab"Kristina Pimenova" (in Russian). Ragazza. 5 May 2015. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
^Kasyanova, Anna (24 January 2015). "О самой красивой девочкe мира Кристине Пименовой" [About the most beautiful girl in the world Kristina Pimenova] (in Russian). Hello! Russia. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
