Kidnapped when she was ten, Austria's Natascha Kampusch escaped eight-and-a-half years later. During her captivity she thought carefully about how she wanted to live once free. Now she's a media star and keeping to her script, surrounded by a team of eager advisors. She had a plan. She came up with it during those long years she spent in the silence of a basement. When she left the basement and found herself in the noisy world outside, she knew exactly what she needed to do. She knew it the day she escaped from her kidnapper, through the garage and over the fence - when she was finally on the road to freedom after eight-and-a-half years of captivity. She knew which office she needed to talk to when she called the police, and when the police came, she pulled a blanket over her head by herself. She thought of everything. No one was going to take a picture of her and sell it expensively. She knew who she wanted to look after her. She knew she was going to give interviews. She knew she wanted to help other people - victims of famine in Africa, for example. And she knew Wolfgang Priklopil would soon be dead. Natascha Kampusch - the girl who was dragged into a white delivery van when she was 10 and on her way to school; the girl who was held by her kidnapper for eight-and-a-half years, locked inside a dungeon two meters (6.6 feet) long and three meters (10 feet) wide; the girl who finally managed to escape at age 18 - Natascha Kampusch didn't break down in captivity, but grew strong instead. She had to become stronger than her kidnapper. That was what she swore herself: It was her survival strategy. Her body isn't strong. Eight-and-a-half years in the basement have left her with an awkward walk: People who see her every day compare it to that of a wooden puppet. Her skin is white as chalk, almost like tissue paper. Her eyes are so light-sensitive she has to keep shutting them for long periods of time. She suffers from a heart condition, and the first thing she wanted following her escape was to visit a dentist. When she left the basement, she weighed about as much as a 12-year-old girl. Some reports talk about kidnapped people doing push-ups every day in order to keep in shape. Natascha Kampusch didn't spend her years in captivity steeling her body: She trained her mind instead. And in some strange way, it developed more quickly and fully than her body.