Heidi Klum
Friday, June 20th, 2008
ALL ABOUT HEIDI KLUM
Full Name: Heidi Klum
Date of Birth:June 1, 1973
Place of Birth:Bergische Gladbach, Germany
Profession:Actress, model, perfume company owner
Spouse: (British; musician; born on February 19, 1963; engaged on December 23, 2004; married on May 10, 2005), Ric Pipino (hairstylist; married in September 1997, in Stone Ridge, New York; separated in November 2002)
Relationship:Flavio Briatore (Reanult F1 Team owner; born on April 12 1950, in Verzuolo, Italy)
Family: Father - Guenther (worked for a cosmetics company), Mother - Erna (hairdresser), Son - Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel (born on November 22, 2006 weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces), Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel (born in September 12, 2005 in Los Angeles, California; weighed 8.9 lbs; measured 21 inches), Daughter - Leni (born in May 2004, in New York; father: Flavio Briatore)
Bio:
Supermodel and actress, Heidi Klum was born on June 1, 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany .
Her height is about five feet nine inches. Her hair is in light brown color and her eyes are in Hazel color. She is the daughter of Gunther and Ema.
His father has worked in a Cosmetics company and her mother was a hairdresser. She and her family are staying in a small city Bergisch Gladbach in Cologne. Besides modeling, Heidi Klum has also done various TV Shows such as Sex and the City, Spin City etc. she played a role in the film Blow Dry as an ill-tempered hair model.
She has done the reality show Project Runway in 2004. She became a supermodel joining the ranks of Tyra Banks, Stephanie Seymour, Yasmeen Ghauri and Helena Christensen. And her appearances were excellent in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998. She won the cover spot on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine. After the appearances on Spin City and Letterman Show, youngsters become her fans. She continues her career as a model with acting.
Heidi Klum is married to Ric Pipino (famous hairstylist) in September 1997, but she has separated legally with her husband in November 2002. Flavio Briatore (Managing director of the Renault Formula One team) has become her spouse. She has one daughter and her name is Leni. She is famous for her sense of humor and down to earth nature.
Trivia:
Last name pronounced “Kloom.”
Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001.
Spokesmodel of Victoria’s Secret.
Measurements: 35-24-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Her first child, Leni, was born on May 5, 2004 at 3:21 a.m. in New York and weighed 8 lb 1 oz. Leni’s father is Italian Formula 1 MD Flavio Briatore, and Leni is Briatore’s only child.
Voted as 9 on the Top 100 Sexiest Women 2004 in FHM [DK]
She has insured her legs for two million dollars.
Longtime companion is singer Seal; he reportedly treats Heidi’s daughter, Leni, like his own child. Klum and Seal became engaged on December 23, 2004, at a mountain resort in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, and married on a beach in Mexico on May 10, 2005.
Wedding dress was designed by Vera Wang
Keeps a small bag full of the teeth she lost as a child as a good-luck charm.
Heidi and her husband Seal’s first son, Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 12, 2005. The baby weighed 8.9 lb and measured 21 inches.
Has designed collections for Mouawad jewelry and Birkenstock shoes.
Has her own lines of clothing and swimwear.
Has her own line of beauty products.
Named 57 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
Named 25 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005″ special supplement. (2005)
Has a rose named after her, known as the Heidi Klum rose.
Dedicated a sculpture she painted called “Dog With Butterflies” to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of 9/11.
Like many people in her hometown of Bergisch-Gladbach, she still enjoys participating at the annual carnival parade.
Named 41 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006″ supplement. (2006).
Gave birth to her third child Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, being 1 ft 7 inches and weighing 8 lbs 11 ounces, on 22 November 2006 at 17:01 in Los Angeles, California.
Quotes:
“A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.”
“A woman is a woman!”
“And I’ve been overseas to Bali, the Maldives, Hong Kong, Australia, which are all major long flights, all in one year. And then I go to Europe a lot.”
“Because I’m on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.”
“Being a Victoria’s Secret model, which was always my dream.”
“But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.”
“But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.”
“But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.”
“Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.”
“For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don’t want the public in my house.”
“I actually eat a lot.”
“I always try to make my things happen.”
“I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.”
“I don’t have my name on anything that I don’t really do.”
“I find actually that most guys are intimidated. And I don’t understand why, because I don’t think I’m a very cold person.”
“I go and train with a personal trainer.”
“I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.”
“I have to say that there are a lot of models that I work with that are very good friends of mine. And that it’s sometimes like a little family.”
“I like basketball, and I’ve been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.”
“I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.”
“I love painting.”
“I love Rollerblading in the park.”
“I never went to a modeling school, and I don’t suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school.”
Heidi Klum
“I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.”
“I went to school for 13 years in Germany. And I finished my degree to go to study.”
“I’m always multitasking. Eating, on the phone, interview, everything all at once.”
“It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it’s a lot of hard work, too, but it’s a lot of fun at the same time.”
“It wasn’t on a Victoria’s Secret shoot, but when I was hosting a show for E, Wild On in Belize, I swam with 20 sharks.”
“Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world.”
“My career has developed where I get to do an interesting range - television commercials, campaigns for big companies such as Victoria’s Secret, designing shoes, jewellery, even my own candy, and I’m working on a television show that debuts this fall, so I get to do a lot of different projects.”
“People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.”
“Sitting in a plane going to Australia, for example, for 20 hours, is not so much fun.”
“So everyone has that problem, models have that problem, too.”
“So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you’re on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.”
“Sometimes I travel twice a week by plane.”
“The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it’s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria’s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.”
“There’s all different types of models, and there’re also plus models as well. But the majority is skinny. And it’s controlled by the fashion industry.”
“There’s many more things I want to do.”
“We start early in the morning with hair and makeup. It depends what time of the year it is. In the summertime we start at 5:30 in the morning.”
“Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.”
“Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.”
“Well, people always think that models are very comfortable with themselves, very open and have no problems with anything.”
“You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn’t work. You have to feel sexy.”
Filmography:
Heidi Klum’s Filmography as an Actress:
2007 Project Runway: Season 04
2006 Project Runway: Season 03
2006 The Devil Wears Prada
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 Project Runway: Season 01
2002 Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
2000 Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2000
2000 Blow Dry
1999 Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1999
1998 The Secret World of… Supermodels
1998 The Larry Sanders Show: I Buried Sid
1998 Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1998
Heidi Klum’s Filmography as an Executive Producer:
2004 Project Runway: Season 01
