Heidi Klum
Biography of Heidi Klum
In the dead of winter, the American sports calendar lightens up. The magazine 'Sports Illustrated', so that sales would not decline, devised in 1964 the number dedicated to swimsuits. Feminine, of course. There are many models whose careers were boosted after appearing on the cover: Elle McPherson, Judit Mascó, Valeria Mazza...
In the 1998 edition, that honor went to a German for the first time, Heidi Klum (June 1, 1973, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), who made it to the top to stay. Her career is one of the longest that a model has ever had and she has known how to branch it out into other areas beyond posing and parading.
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.
Klum moved to New York, because the prototype of the woman 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.
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.
In December 2004, Seal and Klum 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.
In 2014 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.
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. In 2011, she earned $15 million, according to Forbes magazine. She was the second model in the ranking of powerful models, behind Gisele Bündchen.
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