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Being born in Russia, Karina has been wearing fur since she was a little girl. But at some point -- probably when PETA barged into her dressing room with a mini-DVD player -- she saw a program about how baby seals are killed. That caused her to have a few sleepless nights and turned her off fur forever.

In case you're unfamiliar with the PETA videos of hunters clubbing and then hooking the cute, defenseless seals, and then dragging them across the ice, leaving a vivid and ghastly trail of blood, just watch Karina's PETA video. Those brilliant marketers put the scenes of seal hunter mayhem on a split screen, while Karina describes them. No one's going to look away, in case we miss Karina showing us more Karina, if you know what I mean.

According to Karina, you can be warm and chic without fur. Which is true. And kudos to her for getting out the message. However, I did wonder about the carbon footprint of her photoshoot, since there were so many lights, and one would imagine the heat was turned way up. Of course, it was hard to tell if she was cold, because like I said, they blurred out a couple of tell-tale areas.

My other question: who's the lucky guy in her ad? And is he why Karina and Maks called off the wedding?