Her parents remain in Russia ( her mother being a doctor) even as she works from New York requiring her to forge a kind of emotional independence that is shocking in someone her age. Girls far older than her have collapsed under the weight of less success than Anne has had. So what is the glue that hold Miss Vialitsina together?

Pure unadulterated ambition, the kind that made a Gisele or a Naomi or a Cindy Crawford, comes off Anne like heat waves off a desert road.

It's a little frightening in its intensity. especially in someone so young. When you ask Anne what drives her, her response is supremely honest.
"Why fail?" she says laughing, in her accented English. Just three months ago she was still harnessing the use of a translator. Now she is hopping her way through the language with no strain. With perfectly innocent clarity she continues "Why not try your best? Why not be your best? I want to be good at this job. I want to take beautiful pictures and make everybody here happy. That's what I'm supposed to do ".

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Britney Spears generation is upon us....