Heidi Klum: Supermodel
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Heidi Klum was born in Bergisch Gladbach, a little city near Cologne, Germany, in 1973. Her career as a top fashion model and bikini star began almost by accident when, on a lark, she submitted photos to a model contest hosted by Petra, a young woman’s magazine. Klum won the competition, and signed with Metropolitan, the German modeling group. After modeling in Europe for a few years to great success, she went to the United States to pursue modeling there, and met with more success, culminating in her relationship with Victoria’s Secret. This brought her to the pinnacle of modeling and, in 1998, the popular cover of Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue, cementing her status as one of the world’s top models. Along with that came lucrative marketing opportunities, plus her own signature lines of sandals, jewelry, and cologne.
Like many other models, most particularly Famke Janssen, Klum then sought to parlay her fame into a career in Hollywood. She has appeared regularly on TV in the US and in Germany, and has had several small parts in movies, including a cameo playing Swiss bombshell Ursula Andress in the Peter Sellers biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). Klum is married to British singer Seal and, as of June 2005, was expecting a child with him — she has a daughter, Leni, with a boyfriend from a previous relationship. While she is best known for her beauty and ideal figure (one of her nicknames being “The Body”), the tall and willowy Klum remains amazingly down-to-earth for a supermodel – a middle-class Westphalian girl from a small city – and has a delightfully goofy, charming sense of humor. She is famously close to her father, Gunther.
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