Katja Shchekina is a Russian supermodel born May 18, 1986 in Perm, Russia. She is of Somali and Russian parentage, she shares some features with a few other Russian and Ukrainian models. Katja possesses a unique kind of beauty that transcends traditional ethnic looks, making her internationally appealing in the world of fashion advertising. Katja sometimes is mistaken as being from a new wave of Brazilian models.