Heidi Klum and her stunning photos
The daughter of a cosmetics company employee and a hairdresser, Klum entered the world of mannequins in a doubly foreboding way.
At the age of 18, in 1992, she won a television modeling contest: years later she herself would present a program of this type in Germany.
The song with which that girl paraded before the cameras was 'Crazy', by the British singer Seal: who was going to tell her that she was going to marry her musical idol years after her?
A Victoria's Secret Angel
Winning a TV game show was the easy part. The hard part was staying in the profession during the years when the big break didn't come. Klum moved to New York, because the prototype of the woman that she represents, the blonde Amazon, could work better in that market. In 1997, she became an "angel" for Victoria's Secret lingerie firm. A year later she arrived on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated'.
Heidi, 25, took the huge media impact of that photo by the horns. Her German accent, her wit and her naturalness in her television interviews quickly placed her as a great favorite with the public, both male and female. From then on, she became a ubiquitous presence on the covers and advertisements of consumer firms: McDonald's, Braun, Volkswagen, H & M... She is one of the very few famous models who has carved out a career completely behind the scenes. luxury industry.
she got divorced pregnant
Klum's partner during this first stage was Ric Pipino, one of New York's favorite hairdressers for celebrities. He proposed to her on top of the Empire State Building and they were married in September 1997 in a traditional German wedding: they sawed a log together. They divorced in 2002.
A year later, Klum began a relationship with billionaire Fabio Briatore, 23 years older than her and owner of the Formula 1 Renault team, where Fernando Alonso was a member at the time. In February 2003, while she was pregnant, they announced their separation. Heidi gave birth to Leni in May in New York. Already present then was the next man in her life, Seal.
Heidi once again had a most romantic proposal. In December 2004, Seal took her by helicopter to a beautiful glacier in Canada. There, inside an igloo built for the occasion, he began to sing, got down on his knees and showed her the ring. They were married six months later on a beach in Costa Careyes, Mexico. She was six months pregnant with Henry, who came into the world in December 2005.
The model and the singer would expand the family with Johan (born in November 2006) and Lou (October 2009). Their separation announcement in January 2012 took everyone by surprise. But there was a reason: in August, while she was on vacation in Sardinia, she had been photographed in an affectionate attitude with her bodyguard of the last four years, Martin Kirsten, with whom she had a relationship until January 2014. Only a month later she began to dating art gallery owner Vito Schnabel, 13 years younger than her. Schnabel is the son of filmmaker Julian Schnabel and was the boyfriend of actress Demi Moore.
A great businesswoman
Klum was a Victoria's Secret angel for 13 years. She hung up her wings at 37, an age at which many lingerie models have been retired for years. Heidi has always been clear that being a model has an expiration date and she has embarked on other projects.
In 2004 she began producing and hosting a designer contest on American television, a job for which she was nominated for eight Emmy Awards. In 2006, she also began performing those tasks in a modeling contest for a German network. She created a children's clothing line to sell at Babies 'R' Us, a women's sportswear line with New Balance, five perfumes and in 2015 she launched her first lingerie line, through the same firm she signed. to Elle MacPherson. In 2011, she earned $15 million, according to Forbes magazine. She was the second model in the ranking of powerful models, behind Gisele Bündchen.
