‘Stane dolanc offered me a villa in dedinje just to be his!’ The story of the only Serbian woman to hold the title of miss world

My mother gave birth to me when she was very young. She went to give birth at her grandmother’s house. I was a love child. Back then, it was a big deal to have a baby and not be married. Vera was a radiologist by profession at The Narodni Front Hospital, and that’s why she went to her grandmother’s to give birth. I only spent a month in Pirot, just long enough for her to recover a little, and then she brought me to her mother in Obrenovac. I lived carefreely at my