Just a week ago, Heidi Klum, in a spectacular yellow Zuhair Murad design, kept flapping her arms up and down to make the cape-shaped sleeves come to life. Her movements caused some carelessness in her daring cleavage, but she didn't seem to care. With her flight, the German model had gone to conquer the Cannes festival and boast that on the verge of turning half a century old and after four pregnancies she is still the owner of an enviable body (thanks to genetics and surgery). . Almost the same body with which she touched the sky in 1998 with the angel wings of Victoria's secret and with the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.
This June 1, 50 years ago, Heidi Klum, one of the most powerful women in the fashion industry, was born in the German city of Bergisch Gladbach. She, well, in addition to a brilliant career as a model, she is a businesswoman, designer, presenter and television producer.
Since she was little, she dreamed of being a model and at the age of 19 she won the Model 92 contest, to which 25,000 young people participated. The prize was a contract with the US agency Metropolitan for $300,000. Thus began her brilliant career, posing for fashion magazines around the world and parading on the best catwalks.
In 1997, she married her stylist Ric Pipino. The marriage broke up in 2002, but in those 5 years she got Victoria's secret angel wings, and became one of the lingerie brand's reference models by parading for 13 years, from 1997 to 2009. She also managed to appear in various issues of Sports Illustrated, from 1997 to 2010.
On May 4, 2004 Heidi became a mother for the first time. Her daughter, Leni, wants to follow in her parent's footsteps as a model. Her father is Flavio Briatore, with whom she had a relationship that broke off when she got pregnant. The then director of the Renault Formula 1 team never recognized the girl, who was adopted by the British singer Seal when he married the model on May 10, 2005. In the 7 years of marriage, the couple had three children: Henry (2005), Johan (2006) and Lou (2009).
After breaking up with Seal, Heidi dated her bodyguard and young artist Vito Schnabel, while rumors spread about Klum's possible sex addiction. In 2019, she married Tom Kaulitz (33), guitarist for the German band Tokio Hotel.
In 2004, in addition to making her debut as a mother, Heidi Klum also began her television career with Project Runaway, a reality show for fashion designers, with which she won several Emmys, and which she stopped presenting in 2018. Before, in 2013, He joined the American's Got Talent jury, a role he continues to perform.
In 2006, the media covered a legal battle, which did not prosper. Klum was baptized as The Body by wearing a Victoria's secret bra with that name, which is the nickname that has always been attributed to the model Elle Macpherson. But if there is a nickname that does not admit of discussion, it is that of the Queen of Disguise. On Halloween, Heidi Klum hogs all the hype with her terrifying transformations, achieved after hours of painstaking make-up sessions.
