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Old ads for Nine West with Heidi

Heidi is currently on these covers in Germany. I have them all at home, but no scanner. I will keep them until I figure something out. I have a lot to scan which hasn't been posted here. Maybe someone has them bigger.

Here is part 2 of the interview with Beckmann, the last 30 minutes. __________________________________________ Beckmann asks if Heidi feels accepted and included into American society and she says where she lives there are so many different people from all over the world it is hard to find out who is a true American. She is still considered very German by most people who know her. She says the current US pre-elections are very interesting to watch. Beckmann says in Hollywood there seems to be an Obama-mania, because many people see in him an advancement or a personification of a development in American culture and American life. Heidi says it is a very interesting process for the US whether it is about him or McCain. She says America has never been confronted with a woman or a black man in the elections before and if either of them would win it would be something new that has never happened before in the US and that’s why she finds it so interesting to watch. Beckmann asks how strongly this issue is discussed in the home of Heidi and Seal and Heidi says her husband is taking a lot of interest and watches it on TV. She does not really know whether he favours Obama or Hilary, but says that he finds McCain too old and that he always reads off the teleprompter [they laugh]. She thinks the great thing about Obama is that he speaks from the heart and people really understand him and what message he tries to bring across. She says she is torn between him and Hilary because she thinks it’s good to have a strong woman like Hilary there. She says people think Hilary is very cold and cool, but she feels it’s not too bad to have those qualities if things get heated. She thinks it would be a great thing if a woman like Hilary would be in charge. Beckmann asks Heidi if she would vote for the Vietnam veteran McCain. Heidi puts her head on the table and then throws her head back and says: No! She says she has met Bill Clinton once and talked to him for a while. She thought he was super! They talked about her mom and when they met a second time he asked her about her mom. She was impressed with how much he remembered about her and what they had talked about. His charismatic appeal is that he has a way with people, is very fair and seems trustworthy to her. She says she just believed him as opposed to some other people who she feels are just fake and cannot be trusted. Beckmann asks her how much she believed the current president Bush and Heidi says: Don’t ask me this kind of stuff, I don’t know! [You can tell she does not want to talk about his politics]. She says it is a difficult issue, because so many people are dying at the moment and he is the one in charge and so many people are dying under his laws and his leadership. She thinks it’s hard to make a statement about what he did and what he does and what he should be doing. She admits she does not really understand too much about it. She says he is just one person and has many others in the background behind him who are moving along with him, but she doesn’t really know enough to comment on it. She thinks the negative feelings about Bush are about the same in Hollywood now as they are in Germany. There is always someone who likes him and someone who doesn’t. She thinks Americans are ready for a new America, because at the moment the world is pointing the finger at them too often and they just want to be perceived in a more positive way again. Beckmann asks how big her interest in politics is and she says it depends on how the elections are going to end whether she will move back to Europe sooner than planned. Beckmann asks her what she means and she says depending on the impact the elections will have on the future politics of America she would be prepared to leave the country. She says they will see what happens and she has talked about it with Seal a few times who is also open for living in another country. Heidi then remarks that maybe it is not just politics, but also their curiosity to live somewhere completely different. They talk about the impact of paparazzi on her life and Beckmann wants to know how freely she can move outside with her husband. Heidi says it varies. There are days where there are about 8 paparazzi outside her house following her everywhere and then they quickly go back home. Then there are days where there is nobody there and people on the street just notice them and go: Hey Seal, what’s up! She says they can be quite provocative and once started to harrass her mother. Seal then tried to defend her mom and grabbed one of the photographers by the neck. They ended up taking his picture and he was in the news the next day as: aggressive Seal. Heidi says he is the sweetest man and could not harm anyone. He just tried to protect her mom and at that moment thought it was really horrible what the paparazzi did to them. Heidi says she totally believes they are sometimes provocative on purpose to get more interesting pictures. Beckmann asks why there are hardly any critical voices against the way the press is treating Britney Spears in the US, because they are basically forcing her into her worst situations and breaking her down. Heidi says she is all over the news, they are basically making a living off Britney. But Beckmann asks why nobody speaks up in America and says we have to protect this woman’s life. Heidi says “Britney is welcome to call me and she can come and hide in our house for a few months until I have fixed her up again.” She feels terribly sorry for a young person like her to become so desperate. She says she only knows from the papers herself what happens to her and she does not know her personally and she knows that you cannot believe everything you read in the papers. But she says it’s not very pleasant to watch her get out of a car without underwear or see her kids taken away from her. Heidi says if you do a lot of stupid stuff of course the press will print a lot of stupid stuff about you. She says her and Seal are rather boring compared to that. No one really cares what they are shopping for lunch. She says when she goes to the park with the kids and just wants to play in the sand pit with them, there is sometimes one paparazzi hiding somewhere and they phone each other and then there are more and more coming. She says she can live with one but there are other parents with their children too and once there are more reporters coming she packs up the kids and leaves. Beckmann says he knows how close Heidi is with her family and how much Seal values their tight family unit. Beckmann asks how close their relationship is to Seals family. Heidi talks about Seals very hard childhood and that is was not easy for him, he struggled a lot. She says she had it so much easier than him, she was always very loved and protected. Seal regards Heidi’s family as his own extended family now and she thinks that is why he is such a great father, because this love and closeness is what he wants for his own children, too. Then they are being funny: Beckmann says: “You have three children.” And Heidi says: “Come on, ask me.” Beckmann says: “Is a fourth, fifth, sixth coming?” They both laugh. Heidi says: “How many have you got?” Beckmann replies: “I quit at two.” And Heidi goes: “See, then I am one ahead of you.” Beckmann goes: “I know and you are younger than me that’s why I have to know this now, because you are my idol.” Heidi says: “Not at the moment.” She says she thinks children are so super and hers are all so different and she thinks having many kids is great. She always dreamt of a big family. She wants her children to be respectful and brought up well. Heidi says she thinks she was brought up well and that she is not a bad or mean person, that she has respect for people and does not judge people or look down on them. She says everybody has their place in life and she doesn’t go: I am up here and you are down there. And she wants her children to be this normal, especially since they live in Beverly Hills and everybody is so rich there and it is a place that is defined by superficialness and perfect appearance. There are big villas and everybody is privileged. It is not like back home where she comes from. That is why she wants them to be strong. She thinks that it is most important what happens at home, that you spend time with your children, explain things to them and show them how to be a good person. She likes to live there and says they are very private. She used to love New York and moved to L.A. for Seal, because he asked her and she did it for him. She says she knows that there are still racist feelings sometimes in other people, because she married a black man. People don’t show it, but she knows that it’s there. She says there are always people who envy you or who begrudge your life and success or who have strong religious beliefs and are of the opinion that black people should not mix with white people. But she just wants to live her life and be with the man she loves and her children. And she loves how they look. She says she could always tell her parents everything, they were always there for her and let her follow her dreams and do what she wanted. She says she had curfews, though. Beckmann asks her how important her father is for her – he manages her business and is considered very tough. She trusts him and gets his advice or he gets her advice. They complete each other and she totally trusts him. And she says he is usually right. Her mom is absolutely great and totally different from her dad. She says if it weren’t for her mom she would not be doing her job they way she is doing it now. Her mom helps her enormously and she could not leave the house and the children with someone else and feel so safe and certain that they are well cared for. Her greatest achievement apart from her family is her own success and having had the strength to continue even when people told her that she wouldn’t succeed. She found her strength and her own voice and didn’t give up and that makes her proud. Her greatest happiness is her family of course and if they are not there or she is away she says: It sucks!

For ez_c Here is the translation of the part you requested when Beckmann and Heidi talk about Seal's Package and her funny VS commercial where she plays with her boobs: ______________________________ Beckmann observes that Heidi always used to be kind and down-to-earth, but now she has changed her image a little bit and become more persistent and does not put up with everything anymore. She has changed her public appearance especially in the US and become more offensive and flirtatious and with regard to her erotic and sexual side a lot more straightforward in the media. [Heidi gasps joyfully] Beckmann says jokingly: “We finally have to analyse this!” [They are showing the Oprah sequence when she talks about “the whole package” of Seal when he came from a workout wearing bicycle shorts and she was like “Wow, I saw it all”! Then they show her VS commercial where she plays with her breasts in a black bra.] Heidi says in the VS commercial she was about 6 months pregnant and she goes: “I don’t know if you noticed, but my boobs were enormously huge and I was hiding my belly below.” She says the whole team just burst into laughter and they were having the most fun all day. The clip was then cut together with the funniest sequences. It was meant to be a commercial for the bra. Beckmann asks her if her way to present herself so open-heartedly and to play with her breasts like that in public was something she just felt like doing all of a sudden. Heidi smiles and says: “I would say sometimes the strangest things happen” [she laughs] She says it was simply so funny and she did not think of it as being very bad or upsetting because she wasn’t naked and did not show everything. She says it was a strange situation to be in, to make a commercial for Victorias Secret when she is six months pregnant and has the biggest boobs of her life and she has to sit there and do her thing. She says she did feel sexy, but it was still different from how she usually feels when she is doing sexy stuff for VS. She says it was a very charming ambiance and the team was great and it was just funny. Beckmann asks her if she would have done something like this a few years ago. She says: "I don’t know." Then Beckmann talks about her appearance on Oprah, he says it has really stirred the Americans and was in the news all over Europe, because she talked about Seals “whole package”. Heidi smiles and explains that the second she said “whole package” she realised that it was very ambiguous and could also mean that she was talking about a certain other package [She meant Seal as a whole person – it is what we sometimes say in German when everything about a person feels right and perfect, you say they have the whole package – like Americans would say: He/She is The Real Deal!] Heidi says it just slipped out. Beckmann asks how the Americans reacted to this. She says it did make the news for some time and laughs.

Exactly right. Beckmann treated her and Lena and Barbara with the utmost respect. He is also well informed and very polite. He does not ask dumb questions or reduce her to her looks. You can tell he likes her very much and that he respects her. He also addresses Lena and Barbara with "Sie", which is the polite version of saying you (like "vous" in French). This is typical in Germany when you don't know someone personally and you want to show respect you address them with "Sie". I have to say though, that in Germany Heidi is generally more respected for being such a great business woman. In magazines and interviews she is always introduced as the super Business Woman and super mom and then as a topmodel. People really look up to her. This is the first part of the interview. I wrote down what she said. You can tell by reading what she says what Beckmann's questions were. I did not write it like an interview. The part that I wrote so far covers the first 53 minutes, so I have about another half hour of the interview left, which I will write tomorrow night. Enjoy reading: it's really great! __________________________________________ She tells that she is currently in Germany (for GNTM) and says she always travels with her complete family. She is living in Bergisch-Gladbach where her parents added another story to their house so they would all have enough space. She lives there when she is working in Germany and goes home every night (and still shops for chicken at her favourite place Hähnchen (Chicken) Ewald). They talk about the appearance of models, why especially the Paris look is so horrible and the girls are so thin. Heidi agrees that it has gotten worse and says it is hard for the girls because the fashion is made by the designers and the clothes get smaller and smaller and many models try to fit this image. She says neither her nor Lena or Barbara would fit into this kind of fashion, that they are more curvy and unfortunately this is dictated by the designers who create the fashion. She says there are designers however, like Roberto Cavalli or Victorias Secret or Valentino, who want curvy and sexy models. She likes the feminine look much better and says that you just look the way you look and shouldn’t change too much. It is most important to be fit and healthy. She says Lena and Barbara are too pretty for the Paris model scene, they are too healthy and gorgeous looking (Lena said when she was in Paris she stood out from the other models, because they were all pale and skinny). Heidi says she went to New York after trying castings in Hamburg, Munich, Paris, Milano and did not get any jobs. She insisted on going to New York because her contract was with the agency in NYC. She also went to a casting with Karl Lagerfeld and he said: Thank you and good bye, because she was too curvy. She says despite her many projects and her work-load her family is the most important thing for her and her husband. But the job is also very important for her and her husband. She says she could not be home all day cooking and playing with the kids which she absolutely loves, but sometimes she just has to do something for herself (and Seal for himself), because it makes her happy too. She denies the fact that she is constantly travelling and says “hardly ever”. She says they are travelling twice a year (all together) - they go to NYC for five weeks for Project Runway (they pack up the whole house in 14 suit-cases) and then to Germany for a few weeks for GNTM. The children are going to a German Kindergarten while she is here. She is her own boss, answers her own emails (sometimes her dad or an assistant in NY) but she says she is a little stubborn that way, always wants to know what comes up and plan vacations and organise her work effectively since they are five people in the house. For the upcoming Oscars she has her dress custom made by John Galliano this year (probably in red). She hasn’t seen it yet and does not know yet, what design it will be. She does not have to pay for it and will later put it up for auction and donate the money. When she travels she always has two nannies, because the kids are still too small. She could do it on her own, but it is just too hard. They are all running into different directions, have to have their diaper changed etc. She says when they are boarding a plane with the kids people are looking like: Oh no! (she rolls her eyes and laughs). Leni always runs down the aisle. When she works she has Helena for her hair and Linda for her make-up with her, because it is easier. Beckmann says last time Heidi was on the show Seal was there too and slept backstage in the lounge. Heidi laughs and says she didn’t bring him this time, but since he is so creative and works hard he sometimes just falls asleep like when she talks to him and looks over he is snoozing. She says sometimes in the middle of the night he wakes up and starts writing a song or when they are sitting in a restaurant or go out he always brings his tape recorder with him and suddenly pulls it out and starts singing when he gets an idea for a song. She says its very funny with him and people are always confused when he suddenly sinks into his own creative world. Beckmann asks her if she ever gets to the point where she would like to give it all up. She says she is very happy and if that would happen she would hire more people to help her. They are very spontaneous and if it gets too much they just go on holiday or prolong their vacation and do nothing all day. She says she has never been as happy as she is now. She has met many people and done many things, but now she has found the love of her life and her children are all so different and great that if her job were over tomorrow she would be ok, because her happiness about her family is so overwhelming and she just feels complete. She says she does not really think about how people perceive her, she does not analyse herself very much. She decides everything straight from the heart. She says at the moment everybody wants her to bring her children into the media, she is offered a lot of money for her children to advertise with them, but it is absolutely not what they want or feels like the right thing to do and this is how she decides what she does. The feeling has to be right and it has to suit her and fit into her life and be right for her as a person. In the beginning of her career she had publicity advisors and they told her to do more for a younger audience and she did MTV fashionably loud, which she only did, because it was recommended to her. Now, she is best friends with her publicist and still gets her advise, but decides alone. She also does not think about “media overkill” (some people accuse her of being too present in the media, of doing too much and that it gets on people’s nerves) she just does what she likes. Many people in Germany think (about 47%) that Heidi is not a good role model, but that she is very natural. She says she can only do what she can do and has no influence on whether people like her or not. On her show she says she has become louder and more direct when talking to people. She does not hide so much of what she really wants to say, she just says is now and is more open and honest. She wants the girls to know that this business is not easy and that they don’t have a clue when they argue with her what it’s really like. They show Heidi a clip of two women who run model agencies in Germany who are saying that the show does not portray real life and that it is untrue and fake. Heidi laughs and says if she would have taken their advice she would still be in Bergisch-Gladbach and never seen the world. She wants the girls to know that they have to move their butt if they want something to happen and be active and strong-willed. She tells how in Las Vegas a photographer once made her cry, because he yelled at her for not smiling the right way and how in Paris she never fitted into any clothes and everyone refused to work with her and how she went to a casting and it took her half and hour and then she waited and waited and they called her in, looked at her book for 3 seconds and said: Out! and never looked her in the face. She says the only way to learn how to deal with rejection is to do it over and over again and to get a thicker skin. She is now “immune” to this kind of talk and it was a learning process. She says she would be happy to help a girl if she asked her for help, because she has an eating disorder, but this does not happen. She says the girls don’t talk to her about this. She refused to take on certain girls for the show, because they were too thin and she sent them home and recommended them to eat more and become healthier. She knows that the media promotes this image and that some women are naturally thin and don’t gain wait, but she always says: Be healthy instead of Be thin. This year on GNTM she does the runway training with the girls (they are wearing tights and fitted shirts) and she can tell that some girls are just not toned and fit, their skin isn’t firm and they just need to work out more. She thinks that working out is a good thing and your body and health benefits from it. She doesn’t agree when people say, the girls watch her show and then stop eating, because they want to look like the models. She never says that the girls should starve, but that they should eat the right things and work out. She also watches what her children eat and thinks it’s not wrong to pay attention to nutrition. She watches their intake of sweets and they cook fresh food. She thinks the audience decides what body image they want to believe in and what look or figure they think they should have. It’s their own standards they set for themselves which neither she nor anyone can control and that she does not know many people who are extremely thin and who starve all the time. It’s not how an average person looks like and in the media the images are all photoshopped and enhanced or altered. They think that the opposite will be the case in the future, that people will get fatter and bigger, because the eating habits are getting worse and even children are having weight problems now. She says it also depends on the family and what kind of role model you are for your children. She says that many of her images are altered on the computer, for instance after the birth of her child after the photoshoot for Jordache Jeans they erased the “additional weight” around her waist and hips to make her look thinner. She says she often did not recognise herself when she saw her pictures. For Givenchy Perfume she had to dye her hair blonde and get blue contacts so they would work with her. She says her home is Germany, she is not an American, she feels at home here and even in America people tell her that she is very German. She does not have dual citizenship, but the children do have German and American citizenship.

This is regarding the appearance of Heidi on the Beckmann Show Here is the link - The Show is online http://www.daserste.de/beckmann/sendung_dy...jzrhwuoj~cm.asp (copy and paste probably works best) Then click on the little camera symbol next to Heidi's Picture. Also on the show are Barbara Meier and Lena Gercke. I don't know if there is a transcript available. I did not watch the show yet, I can tell that is 1 Hour and 13 Minutes long. If anyone is interested I can do a summary on the weekend about what they were talking about.

Small but nice, and the one with Leni I just had to add - she is soo cute!

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More public - all HQ

Various public - again all in HQ

Hi guys, at the end of last year Heidi was featured in a magazine called Aspen Peak. I only have the images really small. Does anyone have scans of the cover and the pictures inside as bigger scans? I would love to have them. Thanks!!

Old editorial

Some in Black and White - various sizes and quality

I made that collage myself. I have the images bigger in a magazine, but no scanner. I will try to get them to you as soon as I figure out where to scan them.

Here's the video with thanks to sanja: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H7G3NDQ4

From VS Catalogue