Heidi Klum Biography
Heidi Klum is a German-American model, TV host, producer, and businesswoman. She was born on June 1, 1973, and her name is pronounced [hadi klm]. She was the first German model to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel. In 1998, she was on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Klum had a successful career as a model before becoming the host and judge of Germany’s Next Topmodel and the reality show Project Runway. In 2008 and 2013, she won the Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program (shared with co-host Tim Gunn). Six Emmy Award nominations have been made for Klum. She has been a spokesmodel for Dannon and H&M, and she has been in ads for McDonald’s, Volkswagen, and other companies. Klum became Barbie’s official ambassador in 2009, which was Barbie’s 50th birthday. She was a bit player in movies like Blow Dry (2001) and Ella Enchanted (2004), and she had cameos in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Perfect Stranger (2007), and Ocean’s 8 (2008). (2018). She has also been a guest star on TV shows like Sex and the City, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, and Parks and Recreation. Klum has been a judge on the NBC show America’s Got Talent since 2013, except for 2019.
Forbes magazine said in May 2011 that Klum made a total of $20 million that year. Forbes’ list of the “World’s Top-Earning Models” put her at number two. Forbes said that Klum has become more of a businesswoman than a model since she stopped being a Victoria’s Secret Angel after 13 years. She became an American citizen in 2008, but she still kept her German citizenship.
Early life and discovery
Klum was born and raised in a city near Cologne, West Germany, called Bergisch Gladbach. She is the daughter of a hairdresser, Erna Klum (née Berger), and an executive at a cosmetics company, Günther Klum. A friend got her to sign up for “Model 92,” a national modeling contest. On April 29, 1992, Klum was chosen as the winner out of 25,000 contestants. Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York, gave her a $300,000 modeling contract. She went on the Gottschalk Late Night Show, a German TV show with host Thomas Gottschalk, after she won. She decided not to try to get a job as an apprentice at a fashion design school and signed the contract a few months after she graduated.
Career
Modeling and acting
Klum has been on the cover of French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish Vogue magazines, as well as Elle, InStyle, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Russian Harper’s Bazaar. She got a lot of attention when she was on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and when she worked as a “Angel” for Victoria’s Secret. Klum was the host of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. On October 1, 2010, the New York Post’s “Page Six” gossip column said that Klum would be leaving Victoria’s Secret. Klum later confirmed that she would be leaving the company.
In addition to working with well-known photographers on her first husband’s Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the subject and object of body paintings by Joanne Gair in several editions from 1997 to 2010. She wrote the introduction to Body Painting, Masterpieces, Gair’s book about body painting. GQ, Cosmopolitan, Photo, Glamour, Stuff, Joy, Esquire, Max, Men’s Journal, Time, and Shape are some other magazine covers.
Klum has been in ad campaigns for Pringle of Scotland, Liz Claiborne, and the New York jersey brand Kathleen Madden, along with German supermodels Nadja Auermann, Veruschka von Lehndorff, and Tatjana Patitz. There are beauty campaigns for Bobbi Brown and Astor makeup, as well as the Amarige scent by Givenchy. She also took part in special ad campaigns by designers like Marc Jacobs (Protect The Skin You’re In to raise awareness about skin cancer) and Jean-Paul Gaultier (Summer Tote with amfAR to benefit the organization). During New York Fashion Week, she walked the runway for designers and brands like Zac Posen (2004), Escada, Vera Wang, Structure, Victor Alfaro, and Imitation Of Christ. She also walked the runway for Philip Treacy at the Brown Thomas International Fashion Show in Dublin.
She worked as a photo model for clothing stores like H&M, Ann Taylor, and Peek & Cloppenburg. Since 2007, she has been a celebrity spokesmodel for Jordache.
Klum was asked to be a spokesperson for international tech, food, internet, and car companies. She made ads and TV commercials for Braun epilators, McDonald’s salad, Dannon, Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s (Jim Beam Bourbon Burger), the Wix website building program, and the Volkswagen SUV Tiguan with her then-husband Seal. She has also been in a number of TV shows, such as Spin City, Sex and the City, Yes, Dear, and How I Met Your Mother. In the movie Blow Dry, she played a bad-tempered hair model. In Ella Enchanted, she was a giantess, and in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, she was Ursula Andress. In the movies The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger, she had small roles.
She also does dance and makes video games. She is in the 2003 video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, where she plays the bad guy Dr. Katya Nadanova. She has been in a number of music videos, including “Love Foolosophy” by Jamiroquai from their album A Funk Odyssey, “Young, Fresh n’ New” by Kelis from her second album Wanderland, and, most recently, the second video for “Secret” by Seal, who was her husband at the time. In the second video, the married couple share intimate moments while naked in bed. Klum came up with the idea for the video. Forbes put Klum third on their list of the World’s 15 Highest-Paid Supermodels in July 2007. She had made $8 million in the 16 months before that.
Design and other business ventures
Klum made clothing lines, including one for men, that were sold in the German catalog “Otto.” She made shoes for Birkenstock, jewelry for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits that were in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of Victoria’s Secret’s “The Body” lingerie line, which was named after the nickname she got after her first appearance in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. On September 14, 2006, her Mouawad jewelry line made its debut on the shopping channel QVC. After 36 minutes, 14 of the 16 styles had sold out. On April 30, 2008, Klum’s clothing line for Jordache went on sale.
Heidi Klum and Me are the names of the two perfumes that Klum has. She made a line of makeup for Victoria’s Secret called “The Heidi Klum Collection,” which was part of their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection.” Fall 2007 was the start of the first run. In the fall of 2008, a second run came out. Klum helped create a rose with her name on it, called the Heidi Klum rose. which can be bought in Germany. Klum made a screen-printed T-shirt for the 2008 US Open that was sold at the US Open shop. It had butterfly pictures that were cute for kids. The money will go to a non-profit group that takes care of the park where the US Open is held. [49] Klum was named Barbie’s official ambassador for the 50th anniversary of the doll in 2009. She even made a doll of herself to celebrate. On April 1, that same year, she played a girl who worked at a pizza shop on the CBS TV show I Get That a Lot. [needs citation] She was in ads for Dannon’s Light & Fit brand that same year.
Klum and her husband Seal said in June 2010 that they would make a reality show for Lifetime called Love’s Divine, which was the name of one of Seal’s songs.
Klum came out with two lines of maternity clothes in January 2010. They were called Lavish by Heidi Klum for A Pea in the Pod and Loved by Heidi Klum for Motherhood Maternity. Klum said, “I faced fashion challenges during each of my four pregnancies. I used what I learned about what works in terms of style, comfort, and function to create these lines.” Klum and New Balance’s HKNB brand put out a line of clothes for active women on Amazon.com in October 2010. In January 2015, Klum launched her lingerie line “Heidi Klum Intimates” in Melbourne, Australia. ] In March 2015, she and Bendon released a line of intimates called “Intimates.”
Klum is a “Real Celebrity” on the website Stardoll, where she has a line of virtual jewelry and a line of virtual clothes called Jordache. Users can go to Klum’s suite and interact with her by doing interviews, sending requests, or dressing Klum’s doll. [57] In 2015, she was in the music video for “Fire Meet Gasoline” by Australian singer Sia to promote her lingerie line.
Klum’s Heidi & the City clothing line came out in 2017 and was sold only at Lidl grocery stores. It was shown for the first time at New York Fashion Week.
America’s Got Talent
In March 2013, it was announced that Klum would be joining America’s Got Talent, replacing Sharon Osbourne as a judge. She judged seasons 8 through 13 and the first season of America’s Got Talent: The Champions before her departure was announced in February 2019. In February 2020, it was announced she would be back on the panel for the fifteenth season of the main series.
Other work
Klum is an artist, and she had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On 27 September 2002, she dedicated a sculpture she painted called “Dog with Butterflies” to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of 11 September.In 2004, 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.
In November 2006, 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 album System, singing the duet “Wedding Day”, a song that Seal wrote for their wedding.
Personal life
Klum made clothing lines, including one for men, that were sold in the German catalog “Otto.” She made shoes for Birkenstock, jewelry for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits that were in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of Victoria’s Secret’s “The Body” lingerie line, which was named after the nickname she got after her first appearance in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. On September 14, 2006, her Mouawad jewelry line made its debut on the shopping channel QVC. After 36 minutes, 14 of the 16 styles had sold out. On April 30, 2008, Klum’s clothing line for Jordache went on sale.
Heidi Klum and Me are the names of the two perfumes that Klum has. She made a line of makeup for Victoria’s Secret called “The Heidi Klum Collection,” which was part of their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection.” Fall 2007 was the start of the first run. In the fall of 2008, a second run came out. Klum helped create a rose with her name on it, called the Heidi Klum rose. which can be bought in Germany. Klum made a screen-printed T-shirt for the 2008 US Open that was sold at the US Open shop. It had butterfly pictures that were cute for kids. The money will go to a non-profit group that takes care of the park where the US Open is held. [49] Klum was named Barbie’s official ambassador for the 50th anniversary of the doll in 2009. She even made a doll of herself to celebrate. On April 1, that same year, she played a girl who worked at a pizza shop on the CBS TV show I Get That a Lot. [needs citation] She was in ads for Dannon’s Light & Fit brand that same year.
Klum and her husband Seal said in June 2010 that they would make a reality show for Lifetime called Love’s Divine, which was the name of one of Seal’s songs.
Klum came out with two lines of maternity clothes in January 2010. They were called Lavish by Heidi Klum for A Pea in the Pod and Loved by Heidi Klum for Motherhood Maternity. Klum said, “I faced fashion challenges during each of my four pregnancies. I used what I learned about what works in terms of style, comfort, and function to create these lines.” Klum and New Balance’s HKNB brand put out a line of clothes for active women on Amazon.com in October 2010. In January 2015, Klum launched her lingerie line “Heidi Klum Intimates” in Melbourne, Australia. ] In March 2015, she and Bendon released a line of intimates called “Intimates.”
Klum is a “Real Celebrity” on the website Stardoll, where she has a line of virtual jewelry and a line of virtual clothes called Jordache. Users can go to Klum’s suite and interact with her by doing interviews, sending requests, or dressing Klum’s doll. In 2015, she was in the music video for “Fire Meet Gasoline” by Australian singer Sia to promote her lingerie line.
Klum’s Heidi & the City clothing line came out in 2017 and was sold only at Lidl grocery stores. It was shown for the first time at New York Fashion Week.
Bomb threat during GNTM live finale
At 9:07 p.m. on May 14, 2015, during the live finale of the 10th season of Germany’s Next Top Model at the Mannheim SAP Arena, a woman called and said that a bomb would go off during the live show. The person in charge of the event decided to get everyone out of the hall and then call the police. In the meantime, the live broadcast had been stopped, and a note was shown to TV viewers saying that technical problems had stopped the show. Later, a man was caught when he got close to Klum and made another bomb threat. After that, she, her daughter Leni, and two other judges were taken to safety. There was a strange suitcase found, but it turned out to be a fake.
Philanthropy
Klum led Walk for Kids on April 30, 2011, which was a 5K walk for the community to raise money for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. [96] Klum was given the Crystal Cross Award by the American Red Cross in May 2014 for all the charity work she has done, especially for helping the Red Cross after Hurricane Sandy.
