Heidi Klum Biography
Heidi Klum is a German career lady participating in diverse styles including model, television personality, businesswoman, fashion designer, singer, television producer, author, and actress. She has appeared on several magazines like on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1999, she became the first German model to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
Klum was later voted the winner on 29 April 1992 out of the 25,000 contestants. She was offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer who was the CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. Her wining came as a breakthrough in her career as just after her win, she was appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show which was a German television show with host Thomas Gottschalk.
After graduating from school, she accepted the contract and decided not to try for an apprentice position at a fashion design school.
Heidi Klum Age
She was born on 1 June 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. She is 45 years old as of 2018.
Heidi Klum Birthplace
Klum was born and raised in Bergisch Gladbach, a town outside Cologne, Germany.
Heidi Klum Height
She is 1.76 meters tall.
Heidi Klum Parents
She is the daughter of Erna an hairdresser, and Günther Klum, a cosmetics company executive. It is through her friend’s advice that she enrolled in a national modelling contest called “Model 92” .
Heidi Klum Married
In the year 1997, Klum married stylist Ric Pipino. The couple divorced in 2002. In March 2003, Klum began a relationship with Flavio Briatore, the Italian managing director of Renault’s Formula One team. In December, she announced her pregnancy. Soon after, the two split and Klum began dating the musician Seal.
Klum gave birth to Helene (Leni) Klum in May 2004 in New York City. Seal was present for Leni’s birth, and according to Klum, Briatore is not involved in Leni’s life; she has stated emphatically that “Seal is Leni’s father.”
Heidi Klum and Seal
Klum and Seal got engaged in December 2004 on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia and married on 10 May 2005 on a beach in Mexico. During their marriage, Klum and Seal renewed their vows to one another each year on their anniversary in front of family and friends.
On 22 January 2012, the couple announced that they were separating after almost seven years of marriage.
Heidi Klum Children
Heidi and Seal have three biological children together. They have two sons and one daughter. Their sons are: Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel who was born in 2005 and Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel who was born in 2006. Their daughter is called Lou Sulola Samuel and was born in 2009.
Klum legally adopted Seal’s surname and became was formally known as Heidi Samuel on November 21 2009. Later in December 2009, Seal officially adopted Leni, and her last name was changed to Samuel.
Heidi Klum Divorce
Heidi filed for divorce from Seal three months after separation on 6 April 2012. She also requested that her name be restored to her birth name of Heidi Klum. Their divorce was finalized on 14 October 2014.
Heidi Klum Boyfriend
Klum was in a relationship with her bodyguard Martin Kristen from September 2012 until early 2014. Currently she is dating rocker Tom Kaulitz.
Heidi Klum Engaged
Heidi got engaged to her boyfriend Tom Kaulitz on 25th December 2018. She made the news public when she posted a picture of the two together with the big rock on her finger and captione; “I said Yes.”
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Heidi Klum Career- Heidi Klum Model
Klum has been featured on the cover of French, German, Portuguese and Spanish Vogue magazines, as well as Elle, InStyle, Marie Claire, Glamour and Russian Harper’s Bazaar magazines. She became widely known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria’s Secret as an “Angel”.
Klum hosted the 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows. On 1 October 2010, the New York Post reported in its “Page Six” gossip column that Klum would be leaving Victoria’s Secret, which was later confirmed by Klum.
In addition to working with well-known photographers on her first husband’s Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object and subject of Joanne Gair body painting works in several editions from 1997 to 2010. She wrote the foreword to Gair’s book of body paint work, Body Painting, Masterpieces.
Klum was the face of Givenchy’s Amarige fragrance, and she also served as a spokesmodel for McDonald’s, Braun, Dannon, H & M, and Liz Claiborne. Since 2007, she has been 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 films The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger. Her other projects include dance and video games. She is featured in the 2003 video game James Bond 007: 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, Kelis’s “Young, Fresh n’ New”, off her second 2001 album Wanderland and, most recently, the second video for her then husband Seal’s song “Secret” off his 2010 album Seal 6: Commitment.
The latter video depicts the married couple sharing intimate moments while naked in bed; the concept was Klum’s idea. In July 2007, having earned US$8 million in the previous 16 months, Klum was named by Forbes as third on the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.
Forbes, in 2008, estimated her income at US$16 million, putting Klum in first place. For 2007, Forbes estimated her income at US$14 million. Klum is signed to IMG Models in New York City. In 2008, 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 November 2008, Klum appeared in two versions of a Guitar Hero World Tour commercial, wherein she did a take on Tom Cruise’s iconic underwear dancing 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. In October 2009, Klum was the often-nude one-woman subject of Heidilicious, a photo book by photographer Rankin.
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. 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 2010, Klum became the new face and creative advisor for European cosmetics brand Astor, for which she sets artistic direction and designs new products and fashion forward color collections. In October 2010, Klum parted ways with Victoria’s Secret after 13 years of working with the brand.
She provided a simple explanation in her official statement, stating: “All good things have to come to an end. I will always love Victoria and never tell her secret. It’s been an absolute amazing time!”
Heidi Klum Project Runway
In December 2004, Klum became the host, judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo (airing on Lifetime television beginning in 2009), 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, 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 for “outstanding host of a reality or reality-competition show” for Project Runway, the first year that category was recognized by the Emmys.
Klum has been the host, judge and co-producer of Germany’s Next Topmodel, the German version of the internationally successful reality television show, since 2006. All twelve seasons aired on the German TV station ProSieben. In 2013, Klum, along with her co-host Tim Gunn won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program.
Heidi Klum Clothing Line
Since ending her 13-year run as a Victoria’s Secret Angel, Klum has become more of a businesswoman than a model. She partnered with New Balance and Amazon.com to launch a clothing line and signed a 20-episode deal to host a new show on Lifetime, called Seriously Funny Kids.
In fact, some noted fashion designers have long been commenting on Klum’s limited role as a fashion model. Karl Lagerfeld, for example, in 2009 agreed with German designer Wolfgang Joop, who called Klum after she had posed naked on the cover of the German edition of GQ magazine, “no runway model. She is simply too heavy and has too big a bust”.
Lagerfeld observed that neither he nor Claudia Schiffer knew Klum, as she has never worked in Paris and was insignificant in the world of fashion, being “more bling bling and glamorous than current fashion.” Klum designed clothing lines (one for men), featured in the German mail-order catalog “Otto”.
She designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewelry for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits – featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie line “The Body”, named after the nickname she received following her first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show appearance.
Her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on the cable shopping network QVC on 14 September 2006, and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after 36 minutes. Klum’s clothing line for Jordache launched on 30 April 2008.
Heidi Klum America’s Got Talent
In March 2013, it was announced that Klum would be joining America’s Got Talent as the show’s new fourth judge. She judges the show alongside Howie Mandel, Mel B, and Simon Cowell.
Heidi Klum Halloween Costumes
Heidi Klum was only 27 years old when she hosted her first Halloween party, and in the 17 years since,the model has become the queen of Halloween costumes. Here is a collection of her costumes since 2000;
Heidi Klum Diet
Monday
Breakfast: 3 organic scrambled egg whites with spinach, green peppers, spring onions and parsley, a small bowl of fresh fruit and tea without milk.
Lunch: 170g of turkey with 90g basmati rice or 170g quinoa and stir-fried vegetables.
Dinner: 170g of salmon with lemon and garlic and a mixed green salad with broccoli florets and cucumber dressed with 1 tbsp of olive oil.
Dessert: Yogurt, fresh sorbet, or 70% cocoa dark chocolate.
One of Heidi’s secrets to staying in such great shape? She incorporates exercise into her daily routine. Heidi worked out with New York City trainer David Kirsch for years (he helped her drop the weight after she gave birth to each of her kids), but she no longer sticks to a structured workout plan.
“I have a treadmill that’s really great, but it just sits there unused. It looks nice, but I don’t have time to use it.”
To slip fitness into her jam-packed schedule, she makes family time double as exercise. She walks her dogs, rides her bike near the beach in Santa Monica while her kids ride along on their bikes, and jumps around with them on the trampoline.
Tuesday
Breakfast: 2 or 3 organic scrambled egg whites with spinach, green peppers, spring onions and parsley with added feta or mozzarella and tea with milk.
Lunch: 170g of chicken stir-fried and vegetables with 90g of basmati rice and a mixed-leaf salad with ½tbsp of olive oil.
Dinner: 170g grilled chicken marinated in lime juice and parsley with a rocket salad dressed with ½ a tablespoon of olive oil and a tea without milk.
Snack: 150g plain Greek yogurt.
She’s also a fan of cooking simple, healthy meals to stay in shape. Every week, Heidi whips up a big pot of soup, and the children help with the peeling and chopping.
“They see how things are done and what goes into it. Someone doesn’t just drop it off in a [delivery] bag.”
Wednesday
Breakfast: 2 runny eggs topped with ½ a tablespoon of homemade salsa and sprouted grain bread.
Lunch: 170g of scallops sautéed with spring onions, minced garlic, and fresh parsley, green beans and a rocket, chicory and radicchio salad with 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Dinner: 170g grilled chicken, pan-tossed zucchini, kale, onions, and tomatoes with a mixed baby green salad dressed with ½ a tablespoon of olive oil.
Snack: 1 organic pear with 8 raw cashew nuts.
Heidi’s busy lifestyle dictates that lunch is often eaten on set, and a trip to the catering table can mean navigating a minefield of refined carbs.
Of course, even Heidi Klum makes exceptions. And when she splurges, she makes sure it’s worth it. “[I was] out to dinner this weekend, and truffles are in season. I had to have the truffle pizza and the truffle pasta. It’s not like I don’t [indulge], but not all the time.”
Thursday
Breakfast: Superfood smoothie made with chia. maca or acaii powder, blueberries and whey protein
Lunch: 170g grilled tuna with 90g of brown rice and roasted vegetables
Dinner: A sushi roll with a large hijiki seaweed salad and edamame beans without soy sauce.
Snack: An organic hard-boiled egg.
The secret to such an envy-inducing body at 44? Heidi starts the day with a veggie- and fruit-packed breakfast as an insurance policy to guarantee she gets in her vitamins and fiber before the day becomes too hectic.
“One thing [the kids and I] do is have a smoothie every morning,” she says. She has cut-up produce in the fridge, ready to go at 6 a.m.—when her morning routine starts—so there are no excuses.
Friday
Breakfast: 2 or 3 egg whites scrambled with red and green peppers and onions.
Lunch: 70g of salmon with green beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes on a bed of greens, steamed cauliflower and Brussels sprouts dressed with 2 tbsp of olive oil.
Dinner: 170g of roasted duck with steamed or stir fried vegetables such as spinach or kale.
Snacks: A green juice with organic spinach, kale, cucumber, and ½ carrot or a fresh fruit salad with half a grapefruit, cherries, nectarines, blueberries and strawberries.
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