Top 10 Unbelievable facts about Heidi Klum

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Top Ten Unbelievable Facts about Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum was born on 1 Jue 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach. She also grew up in the city. She is the daughter of Erna Klum, a hairdresser, and Gunther Klum, a cosmetics company executive. Therefore, we can conclude that Heidi comes from a working-class family. Heidi is a German and American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman.

She became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship. She is 1.76 m tall, with blonde hair. Her eye colour is Hazel. Her total earnings according to the estimation of Forbes magazine in 2011 were US$20 million. In the article are the top ten unbelievable facts about Heidi Kulm.

1. A friend convinced her to enroll in Model 92

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How encouraging can be your friends? How happy can your friends be when you are successful? Well, Heidi must have good friends. Her friend convinced her to enroll in the national modeling contest “Model 92”.

Heid won the contest out of 25, 000 contestants. She was then offered a modeling contract of US$300, ooo by Thomas Zeumer. She appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show after the win.

2. She has appeared in many cover magazines

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Heidi has been featured on the cover of French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish Vogue magazines. She also appeared in Elle, InStyle, Marie, Claire, Glamour, and Russian Haper’s Bazaar magazines.

She became famous after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and her work with the Victoria’s Secret as an “Angel” Heidi though left Victoria Secret a few days later after a gossip on New Yokr Post on it’s “Page Six”

3. She is a celebrity spokesmodel

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Before Heidi became a celebrity spokesmodel, she was a photo model. She worked for retail clothing brands such as H & M, Ann Taylor, and Peek & Cloppenburg. After 2007 she became a spokesmodel for Jordache. International tech, food, and internet brands up to the automotive industry asked for Klum as their celebrity spokesmodel.

4. She described herself as a nudist

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Heid was often the one-woman-nude subject of Heidilicious, a photo book by photographer Rankin. In an interview with Ocean View, she described herself as a nudist. She added that it’s the way she grew up.

According to her, she grew up very free about herself or her body. She added, ” It’s a feeeling that I’ve had since being a small child growing up in Germanyu. I had parents that never hid from me when they changed clothing or when I walked into the room. When we would go to thbeach, my mom wouukd sunbathe topless.”

5. She has featured in dance and video games

Heid featured in the 2003 video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. She played the villain, Dr. Katya Nadanova, in the video game. She also has appeared in several music videos like Love Foolosophy by Jamiroquai, Young, Fresh and New by Keli, and Secret by her husband Seal.

6. She started featuring in Television shows in 2004

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In 2004, Heidi became the host, judge, and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway. The show was streamed by the U.S Cable television channel Bravo. The show focuses on fashion design. The contestants in the fahion design show would show their line at New York Fashion Week.

They also would 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, Heidi and the Project Runway received a Peabody Award. This was the first time a reality show won the award.

7. She is a designer of shoes and clothes

Heidi designed clothing lines (one for men) that were featured in the German mail-order catalog “Otto”. She was one of the designers of Victoria’s Secret lingerie line “The Body”. She designed makeup for Victoria’s Secret.

Also, she designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewelry for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits which were featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

8. She became a judge in America’s Got Talent

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In March 2013, it was announced that Heidi would be joining America’s Got Talent. She replaced Sharon Osbourne as a judge. Heidi became the judge for seasons 8 to 13. She also judged the first season of AGT: The Champions.

9. She is an artist

Klum had several of her paintings appear in various magazines in the U.S. She also on 27 September 2002 dedicated a sculpture that she painted. The sculpture is called “Dog with Butterflies”. Klum is a good essay writer. She wrote an essay for the German newspaper Die Zeit.

10. She has had a series of relationships in her lifetime

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Heidi married her first husband Ric Pipino in 1997. The couple divorced in 2002. In March 2003, Heidi started a relationship with Flavio Briatore, The Italian managing director of Renault’s Formula One team. Heidi announced her pregnancy but the two split soon after.

Klum gave birth to Leni in May 2004. She already was in a relationship with Seal, a musician and so Seal was present when Leni was being delivered. Heidi and Seal got engaged in 2004 o a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia. They married on 10 May 2005.

Heid and Seal were blessed with three children, one daughter, and two sons and the family had four kids whereby Leni adopted Seal’s name”Samuel”. Leni also adopted Seal’s name but when they broke up she regained her name. Heidi also dated Martin Kirstein and Tom Kaulitz.

Heidi Klum is an interesting supermodel who is open about herself and she has gained an international reputation, especially as a lover of lingerie. She is quite charming in her outfits, especially in the fashion shows that she is featured in.