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Heidi Klum (German pronunciation: [ˈklʊm]; born Jun. 1, 1973 (37 years ago)) is a German model, actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional singer. She is married to singer Seal.

Klum was the Emmy Award-nominated hostess of Project Runway and Germany's Next Topmodel, and is a Victoria's Secret (26 walls) Angel.

Early years

Klum was raised by her parents, Günther, a cosmetics company executive, and Erna, a hairdresser, in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany, a small city outside Cologne. Klum was persuaded by a friend to enroll in a national modeling contest called "Model 92". Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner on Apr. 29, 1992 (18 years ago) and offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. As the winner, she appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show, a top German television show with host Thomas Gottschalk. She accepted the contract a few months later after graduating from school and decided not to try for an apprentice position at a fashion design school.

Career

Acting and modeling

Klum has been on the cover of fashion magazines, including Vogue, ELLE and Marie Claire. She became known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria's Secret (26 walls) as an "Angel." In addition to working with world class photographers on her Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object and subject of Joanne Gair Body Painting (4 walls) works in several editions from 1999 (11 years ago) to 2006 (4 years ago). She wrote the foreword to Gair's most recent book of body paint work. She was a spokesmodel for McDonald's, Braun, H & M, and Liz Claiborne, among others. She is currently a celebrity spokesmodel for Jordache and Volkswagen. In addition to modeling, she has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City, Sex and the City, Yes, Dear, and How I Met Your Mother. She had a role as an ill-tempered hair model in the movie Blow Dry, played a giantess in the movie Ella Enchanted and was cast as Ursula Andress in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. She had cameo appearances in The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger.

In Jul. 2007 (3 years ago), having earned $8 million in the previous 12 months, Klum was named by Forbes as third on the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In 2008 (2 years ago), Forbes estimated her income at $14 million, putting Klum in second place. For 2009 (last year), Forbes estimated her income at $16 million. Klum is signed to IMG Models in New York City.

Project Runway

Project Runway season three finalist Laura Bennett interviews Klum and Seal at the 59th Emmy Awards. In Dec. 2004 (6 years ago), she became the host, judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, in which fashion designers compete for the opportunity to show their line at New York Fashion Week and receive money to launch their own fashion line. She received an Emmy Award nomination for the show for each of the first four seasons. In 2008 (2 years ago), Klum and Project Runway received a Peabody Award, the first time a reality show won the award. Klum was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 (2 years ago) for "outstanding host of a reality or reality-competition show" for Project Runway, the first year that category was recognized by the Emmys.

Designing and perfume

Klum designed clothing lines (one for men), featured in the German mail-order catalog "Otto." She designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewelery for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits – featured in the 2002 (8 years ago) Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of the Victoria's Secret (26 walls) lingerie line "The Body", named after the nickname she received following her first Victoria's Secret (26 walls) Fashion Show appearance. Her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on the cable shopping network QVC on Sep. 14, 2006 (4 years ago), and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after 36 minutes. A second line of her jewelry collection debuted on QVC on Apr. 14, 2007 (3 years ago), with similar success. Klum's clothing line for Jordache launched on Apr. 30, 2008 (2 years ago).

Klum has two fragrances, called "Heidi Klum" and "Me". She designed makeup for Victoria's Secret (26 walls) as part of their "Very Sexy Makeup Collection", titled "The Heidi Klum Collection". The first run debuted in Fall 2007 (3 years ago). A second run was released in Fall 2008 (2 years ago).

Klum was involved in the development of a namesake rose, the Heidi Klum rose, which is available in Germany.

For the 2008 (2 years ago) US Open, Klum designed a screen print t-shirt which was sold at the US Open shop. It featured child-like butterfly pictures. Proceeds will go to a non-profit organization which maintaining the park which is home to the US Open.

Germany's Next Topmodel

Germany's Next Topmodel is a German reality television show, which pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract with IMG. Klum is the host, a judge, and co-producer of the show (along with model Tyra Banks (3 walls)). Season winners are Lena Gercke (6 walls), Barbara Meier, Jennifer Hof and Sara Nuru. All four seasons aired on the German TV station ProSieben.

Other

Klum is an artist and had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On Sep. 27, 2002 (8 years ago) she dedicated a sculpture she painted called "Dog with Butterflies" to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of Sep. 11.

In 2004 (6 years ago), Klum co-authored Heidi Klum's Body of Knowledge with Elle magazine editor Alexandra Postman. The book gives Klum's biography as well as her advice on becoming successful. Prior to that, Klum had been an occasional guest columnist for the German television network RTL's website. She wrote an essay for the German newspaper Die Zeit.

Klum's other projects have included music and video games. She is featured in the 2004 (6 years ago) James Bond video game Everything or Nothing, where she plays the villain Dr. Katya Nadanova. She has appeared in several music videos, including Jamiroquai's video "Love Foolosophy" from their album A Funk Odyssey, and Kelis's "Young, Fresh n' New," off her second 2001 (9 years ago) album Wanderland.

In early 2009 (last year), Klum ventured into web-based videos, starring in "SPIKED HEEL: Supermodels Battle the Forces of Evil". The web-series starred model Coco Rocha and was directed by fashion documentarian Doug Keeve (Unzipped, Seamless). In the story, Klum aka 'The Kluminator,' and her stylish sidekick Coco “The Sassy Superhero” Rocha battle the evil Dr. Faux Pas who is plotting to destroy Fashion Week. The heroines employ everything from blow-dryer guns to fist fights, in order to thwart Dr. Faux Pas' dastardly plans. The Kluminator and Girl Wonder avoid a chain of fashion disasters to neutralize a death ray that threatens to vaporize the community of fashionistas gathered in Bryant Park.

In Nov. 2006 (4 years ago), Klum released her debut single "Wonderland," written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer "Douglas." Proceeds were given to a children's charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach. She contributed to her husband Seal's 2007 (3 years ago) album System, singing the duet "Wedding Day", a song that Seal wrote for their wedding.

In 2008 (2 years ago), Klum was a featured guest on an American Volkswagen commercial, where she was interviewed by a black Beetle. When she commented that German engineering is so sexy, she caused the Beetle to blush and turn red. She has been a part of several commercials for Volkswagen and McDonald's on German television.

In Nov. 2008 (2 years ago), Klum appeared in two versions of a Guitar Hero World Tour commercial, where she did a take on a Tom Cruise (12 walls) scene in Risky Business. In both versions, she lip-synced to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll" while dancing around the living room with the wireless guitar controller; the director's cut, however, had her strip to her underwear halfway through the commercial and was broadcast only after prime time.

Klum is a "Real Celebrity" on the website Stardoll. On Stardoll Klum has a line of virtual jewelry, and a virtual clothing line called Jordache. Users can go to Klum's suite and interact with her by doing interviews, sending pending requests or dressing Klum's doll.

In what some pundits saw as a heavy-handed approach by Klum's lawyers, an unemployed Chemnitz butcher, who used Klum's picture (wallpaper) in advertising for a local dance on a flyer and a web page, contested her subsequent takedown notice in court and lost, forcing him to pay court costs of 2300€. A German actress has pledged to pay on his behalf.

On Apr. 1, 2009 (last year), Klum appeared on the CBS television special, I Get That a Lot, as a girl working at a pizza shop.

Personal life

Klum married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997; the couple divorced in 2002 (8 years ago). Following the divorce, she dated Flavio Briatore. In the autumn of 2003 (7 years ago), Klum announced she was pregnant with Briatore's child. On the day she announced the pregnancy, Briatore was photographed kissing Fiona Swarovski, a jewelry heiress. Klum and Briatore split shortly thereafter. Klum gave birth to Briatore's daughter, Helene (Leni) Boshoven Klum in 2004 (6 years ago) in New York City, New York. According to Klum, Briatore, her first daughter's biological father, is not involved in the child's life, and she has stated emphatically that "Seal is Leni's father."

In early 2004 (6 years ago), while still pregnant, Klum began a relationship with musician Seal. Klum and Seal married on May 10, 2005 (5 years ago), on a beach in Mexico. They have two children together so far, both boys, 2005 (5 years ago) and 2006 (4 years ago). They are expecting another child together, a girl due in Oct. 2009 (last year). On hearing her family referred to as a "patchwork family", Klum said, "I'm not white, I'm a shade of brown," and added, "we're all different shades and we came together and we all love each other...it's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family'."

In 2008 (2 years ago), Klum became a naturalized American citizen.

Filmography

• 1998 - 54
• 2001 - Blow Dry
• 2004 - Ella Enchanted
• 2004 - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• 2003 - Blue Collar Comedy Tour
• 2006 - The Devil Wears Prada
• 2007 - Perfect Stranger

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