Seal (2005 - present)

Heidi Klum (IPA /klÊŠm/) (born June 1, 1973[1]) is a German supermodel as well as an actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer hailing from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

• 1 Modeling and acting
• 2 Project Runway
• 3 Designing and perfume
• 4 Germany's Next Topmodel
• 5 Other
• 6 Personal life
• 7 See also
• 8 Footnotes
• 9 External links

Klum has been on the cover of most of the well-known fashion magazines including Vogue Magazine, ELLE and Marie Claire. She became widely known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria's Secret. She has been a spokesmodel for McDonald's, Braun, H & M, and Liz Claiborne, among others. She is currently the latest celebrity spokesmodel for Jordache[2]. In addition to modeling, she has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City, Sex and the City, and Yes, Dear. 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 also had a small cameo appearance in The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger.

In July 2007, earning an estimated total of $8 million in the past 12 months Forbes named her third in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.[3]

In December of 2004, she became the host and judge of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, 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 also received an Emmy Awards nomination for the show for each of the first three seasons[4].

Klum has designed her own clothing lines (including one for infants) that were featured in the German mail-order catalog "Otto." She also has designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewellery for Mouawad, and swimsuits â€" featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue â€" that, for a limited time, were available for sale through her personal website. She was one of the designers of the Victoria's Secret lingerie line "The Body", which was 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 September 14, 2006, and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after only 36 minutes.[5] A second line of her jewellery collection debuted on QVC on April 14, 2007, with similar success.[6]

She has produced two fragrances, called "Heidi Klum" and "Me", which are currently available for sale through her official website.

She was also involved in the development of a namesake rose, the Heidi Klum rose,[7] which is available in Germany.

Germany's Next Topmodel is a German reality television show which pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract with IMG. Heidi Klum is the host and co-producer of the show along with model Tyra Banks. The first season or "cycle" of the show was won by Lena Gercke and the second cycle was won by Barbara Meier.

Heidi Klum is also an artist and has had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On September 27, 2002 she dedicated a sculpture she painted called "Dog with Butterflies" to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of September 11.[8]

Her other projects have included music and video games. She is featured in the 2004 James Bond video game Everything or Nothing, where she plays a villain Dr. Katya Nadanova.[9] She has appeared in several music videos, including Jamiroquai's video "Love Foolosophy" from their album A Funk Odyssey, and Kelis's "Young, Fresh N' New," off her second album Wanderland.

In November 2006 Klum released her debut single "Wonderland," which was written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer "Douglas." Proceeds from the single were given to a children's charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach.[10]

Klum married celebrity hairstylist Ric Pipino on September 6, 1997. The couple divorced in November 2002. Following the divorce she had brief relationships with Red Hot Chili Peppers lead singer Anthony Kiedis and Formula One manager Flavio Briatore.

In the Autumn of 2003 she became pregnant with Flavio Briatore's child. On the day Klum announced the pregnancy, Briatore was photographed kissing Fiona Swarovski, a jewelery heiress[11]. Klum and Briatore split up shortly thereafter. On May 4, 2004, she gave birth to a daughter, Helene "Leni" Klum, who was named after Klum's grandmother.[12]

Around the same time of the birth, Heidi began a relationship with musician Seal.[13] Klum and Seal married May 10, 2005, on a beach in Mexico. They have had two children together, both sons: Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, born September 12, 2005[14] and Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel born November 22, 2006.[15]

• List of Supermodels

• Official Website
• Heidi Klum at the Internet Movie Database
• Heidi Klum in the Fashion Model Directory
• Heidi Klum at People.com
• Interview with Der Spiegel, February 12, 2006
• Heidi Klum Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Photo Gallery at SI.com
• AOL Books Interview about the book Body of Knowledge
• Express.de article (in German)