Viktoria Modesta

Viktoria Modesta Moskalova (born Viktoria Moskalova Modesta in Daugavpils, Latvia on 25 February 1988) is a British alternative model, singer/songwriter, and stylist. Moskalova spent most of her childhood in hospitals following an accident at birth as a result of doctors negligence resulting in a lasting problem with her left leg.Although her early interest in music lead her to studying piano, sheet music, and vocals when she was six-years-old at a music school in Daugavpils, Moskalova moved to London with her parents in 1999 to escape life under a post-USSR regime. In 2007, she had a voluntary, below-the-knee leg amputation to improve her mobility and safeguard her future health.Her physicality has become known for challenging the modern perception of altered beauty.