The beggining: when I was a baby

Both my parents were performers, street performers and circus performers. My mum was Swiss of Spanish origin, and Spanish is my native tongue. My dad is from Russian origin, from the Urals. He also speaks Spanish. He is very strong and athletic and a great circus performer. He was also one of the leaders of a group with a particular and open philosophy about live. I´ll talk about this later, it is quite interesting and had a big influence in my life and the way I live.

I was born in an unassisted birth, fully natural in the Urals, in my dad´s house. Only him was next to mum when I was born. He said that one of the first things he did when I was a baby to throw me into an ice hole for me to swim, although my mum was there to catch me in case. And yes I swam, under the freezing water with no lessons taken!

They say my dad wanted a boy, a super strong boy, to be better than him, and train him to became the strongest and more athletic man in the world and the best performer in the world to do the most dangerous acts. But he got a girl instead: me. That didn´t put him off. He did with me all the things he would have done with a boy. Plus he was so proud for me being pretty as well.

My training started when I was a baby. I learned to walk on broken glass and hot charcoals at the same time I was doing my first steps. These were regular things for all the people to do in the group my dad was leading. I also was thrown regularly in the ice hole, for longer and longer time. I also was left naked playing in the snow for long time to get acclimatized to cold weather (We were naturists as well as part of the group philosophy). He said at some point he put me down sitting on broken glasses so I could play with them, and I even, took some put them in mouth and ate them. That was my first time eating glass. Much more would come in the future. Playing and training was the same thing for me. And apparently I really enjoyed. Never had an injury or big cut and I was nearly never crying.

Being nearly still baby I already knew how to walk on broken glass, fire, ice-swimming and endure the most extreme cold.