ez_c

Russell James, "Heidi Misbehaved" (NUDITY) Possibly from his new "Angels 2018" book

Post of nude Heidi Klum painting may be a sign of things to come Vito Schnabel is well known as an art dealer on the rise — and a nude artwork he recently posted on his Instagram feed by famed artist Richard Prince has further set tongues wagging. We’re told the Prince painting is of Schnabel’s longtime girlfriend, supermodel Heidi Klum. In response to the Instagram image, she posted: “I recognize those boobies.” A source said Schnabel has the 2015 Prince artwork in his house. The art scion said in his post, “Love this painting.” Meanwhile, we hear that the post is also a hint at more revealing work coming from the former Victoria’s Secret stunner and “Project Runway” star. She has partnered with famed British fashion and portrait photographer Rankin on a nude photo book, “Heidi Klum by Rankin,” which exclusively features images of her in the buff and will be released this summer. The Prince artwork is styled after one of the Rankin photos that will appear in the book. A source said Klum and Rankin have been working on the book for five years, and, “She’s never released nude photos like this, ever.” http://pagesix.com/2017/03/30/post-of-nude-heidi-klum-painting-may-be-a-sign-of-things-to-come/ Nudity

Be on the lookout for the May 2015 issue of Woman: Madame Figaro:

Article in Success Magazine, April 2015: http://success.com/article/how-heidi-klum-created-her-multimillion-dollar-empire How Heidi Klum Created Her Multimillion-Dollar Empire The German-born supermodel believes a pleasant, professional attitude goes a long way in every career. (And being “super-super-smart,” as a colleague describes her, doesn’t hurt.) “Watch Heidi Klum on television,” says John Rankin Waddell, the internationally acclaimed fashion photographer, better known in that world by just his middle name. He has frequently worked with Klum—German-born supermodel/personality/executive/too-much-to-mention—for more than a decade. So, Rankin? “What you see is what you get.” The thing is that one sees so much. There is Klum’s obvious beauty, of course; at 41, she wows in any crowd. But there is also the Klum who sat on Piers Morgan Tonight and dismissed the idea of Botox with a flip “I’d rather age.” She is whip-smart, a veritable Dr. House when diagnosing the shortcomings of a garment that has been feverishly assembled by some aspiring designer on the reality hit Project Runway, and cognizant that the success of the show often depends on her ability to act like a point guard, setting up opportunities for her fellow panelists rather than scoring herself. She is playful, lowering herself to the floor on the stage of America’s Got Talent in order to kiss a pig; but what’s obvious, if never exactly seen, is all the steely seriousness undergirding her success: her discipline, her determination, her preparation, her professionalism, her drive to make everything she touches a victory for herself and her partners. So many parts, so many sides, so much motion. In 2011, Forbes said that Klum’s $20 million income made her the world’s second-highest-earning model (behind Gisele Bündchen) but observed that Klum was a work in progress, stating that she was continuing “her transformation from supermodel to business mogul.” By the following year, the evolution was complete. Klum had successfully parlayed her healthy good looks and playful appeal into a brand, a larger public image that encompasses model, TV personality, product spokeswoman, fashion designer, clothing entrepreneur, mom and humanitarian. On television, she is the Emmy-winning host and executive producer of Project Runway, which will start its 14th season in July; the executive producer and host of Germany’s Next Top Model, now in its 10th season; and a judge on America’s Got Talent, entering her third season on the show this summer. That would seem to be employment enough for anyone not named Ryan Seacrest, but evidently Klum has time for everything but idleness. In January she introduced Heidi Klum Intimates for the lingerie company Bendon, making it a stablemate for her own brand, Truly Scrumptious, a line of kids’ clothing and gear that she sells through Babies “R” Us. In partnering with Klum, the New Zealand-founded, Australia-based Bendon ended its 25-year licensing relationship with Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson. The decision reflected not a wish to make a generational change (Klum is nine years younger than Macpherson) as much as a desire to make a Q-rating leap. “She’s very active in the media today,” Bendon’s CEO Justin Davis-Rice told the newspaper The Australian. “We were looking for somebody who gave us a much larger international reach, and Heidi elevates that.” Klum’s appeal doesn’t just go beyond borders—it goes through walls. Klum can sell lacy bras and teeny corduroy overalls, flimsy thongs and durable diapers. She is a mom Jordache hired to sell jeans to teenagers, a fitness advocate Carl’s Jr. picked to cuddle with a double cheeseburger, a supermodel Macy’s selected to represent its commitment to high fashion, and Dr. Scholl’s chose to sell pads to cushion her Jimmy Choo’d-up feet. Klum is as global as UNICEF… which just happens to be one of the charities she supports. One might look at such a roster of clients and conclude that Klum simply says yes to everybody. But the opposite is the truth. “They say that when you are successful, you have to be pickier about what you get involved with,” Klum tells SUCCESS while relaxing at her home in Los Angeles. “I choose things I believe in. Many companies come to me, but I try to limit my involvement to the ones that fit what I stand for or that represent something that interests me.” In Bendon’s case, Klum says, it was her familiarity with the brand and the market segment. “I come from the lingerie world,” she says. “I have always been more associated with Victoria’s Secret and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue than the high-fashion world of Paris and Milan. I have always been opinionated about the clothes I’ve modeled, never been one to stand around with my mouth shut when I’ve had something to say about the material, or the cut, or whatever. So when Bendon, who I knew had done a good job with Elle Macpherson, offered me my own line, where I could make my ideas heard and have a home, I was very interested.” Most remarkable about this whirling-dervish level of activity is that it’s Klum herself who makes it all happen. She has a group of colleagues who support her, but it’s not as though she leaves her team of associates to juggle everything. It’s always Klum herself with the clients, Klum on the runway, Klum on the set. Sheer physical energy would seem to be the essential element to managing it all, but she says the true cornerstone is organization. “I’m a planner—quite German that way,” Klum says. “I can tell you everywhere I’m going to be for the next nine months.” She ticks off a series of bookings and commitments… 17 episodes of Germany’s Next Top Model, five days devoted to each, shot over the course of five months, followed by 2½ months spent shooting America’s Got Talent. “On Mondays, NBC books a private jet to fly Howie Mandel, Mel B. and me to New York. We shoot live on Tuesdays, then fly back Wednesday.” Summers are for Project Runway: six intense weeks in New York. Five or six design meetings climb onto the calendar every month, along with postproduction recording sessions for Germany’s Next Top Model, done from her home studio. “I do all my own voice-overs,” she says. “Just ‘all right’ is never good enough.” And the rest of the time? “When I’m not working,” Klum says brightly, “I drive the kids to school, catch up on email, and go to my home office and start designing.” (Klum has two boys and two girls to help keep her busy.) A detailed schedule, of course, is fairly useless without a commitment to sticking to it. Jennifer Love, vice president of the Heidi Klum Co., remembers a day a few years ago when Klum was supposed to leave at the end of a cosmetics shoot in Prague and grab a train for Munich, where she would be taken to a job in Salzburg, Austria. A sudden snowstorm bollixed up traffic, stopping Klum’s car short of the train station as departure time neared. “The next thing I knew, Heidi had jumped out of the car,” Love says. “She was running down the street to the terminal—running in high heels, mind you, until that got too dangerous, and then the rest of the way in her bare feet.” Such dedication deserves reward, but not in this case; the train had left, and no more were scheduled. At that point, many stars would have checked into a nice hotel and left their colleagues in Austria to sort out the damage. Not Klum. “She sat in the station working her phones, trying to rent a car, all the while trying to get the railroad to schedule a train,” Love says. “You might think that she would have been tense, or angry, but she was as calm and pleasant as can be. After a while, she got hungry, but there was nothing open, so she ate a cold hot dog from a vending machine.” Klum’s patience paid off: The snow stopped, the trains started rolling, and she got to Munich in time to make her connection, after all. *** Determination was characteristic of Klum from the very start of her career. Raised in a small town outside Cologne, she had no aspirations to model—“My passion was dancing; I wanted desperately to be a dancer”—until a friend persuaded her to enter Model ’92, a nationally televised competition. Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner. Only a few minutes of highlights from the series have been preserved on YouTube, and constitute some of the rare bits of footage in which Klum seems even slightly overwhelmed by her surroundings. And not everyone was impressed. Too short, the barons of high fashion sneered at the 5-foot-9-inch Klum. Too heavy. Too…bosomy. “She always grins so stupidly,” German designer Wolfgang Joop sniffed. Klum went from Paris to Milan to London without making much of an impression. Eventually she gave up high-fashion modeling to focus on lingerie and swimwear, where success had been attained by models like Cheryl Tiegs and Kathy Ireland, who were curvier and more personable than the runway walkers of haute couture. Finally she came to New York. “There was no guarantee that she was going to make it,” recalls Desiree Gruber. Now the producer of Project Runway, Gruber was then a young fashion publicist. “She had to move to a new country, had to learn English—it wasn’t easy for her. But you could see that she wanted to succeed, that she had a natural desire to do well. What was remarkable was that in a field where there is a lot of ambition, no one resented her. She was just so eager to learn. She would identify the people who had been where she wanted to be, and she would study them and ask them how they got there.” “What is this ‘publicist’ job?” Klum recalls once asking Gruber. “And can you do any publicizing around me?” In January 1998, she appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, crouching on a pristine white beach in the Maldives. She never looked back. From there it was on to a long and beneficial association with Victoria’s Secret, covers of Vogue and Elle and Marie Claire, and all the opportunities that superstardom allowed—provided that she put in the work required. “It’s amazing to me how often people are unprepared to perform in a professional environment,” Klum says. “You go on shoots—there are models: They’re late; they’re hungover; they’re asleep in the makeup chair; their armpits aren’t shaved. We have these girls on Germany’s Next Top Model. They’re 16 or 18 years old. I tell them modeling is a great job. You can make a lot of money. But treat it like a job. If you come in and you’re late, or you’re whiny or moody, you’re not going to be asked back. Be pleasant. Be nice to be with. Don’t be looking at the clock all day. Pay attention and do your part. This is not a kaffee-klatsch. They’re paying you a lot of money!” This is the attitude that Klum brings to all her endeavors. “Preparation is everything,” Klum says. “Making a soufflé is challenging, but the 20th one you make is easier than the first. Every year the finale of Germany’s Next Top Model is a three-hour live program, a huge affair, broadcast from a stadium in Cologne. And as the host, so much of it is on me. I introduce the contestants, I conduct the interviews, I bring on Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber. There were things in my career that came to me easily—looking cool, looking sexy. But not talking. Not working with a teleprompter. I had to work at it, and even now I don’t take it lightly. When the director says, ‘OK, the rehearsal tomorrow is at 11,’ I say, ‘Great, the teleprompter guy and I will be here at 7.’ ” When the finale wraps, Klum says, “It’s like the biggest rock has been lifted from my shoulders. People say, ‘Oh, you make it look easy,’ but they have no idea how I feel.” Rankin, the photographer, has frequently seen evidence of Klum’s work ethic. “She just doesn’t quit until the job is done,” he says. “But what’s special about Heidi is how much fun it is to work with her.” Among his collaborations with Klum, which include advertising and magazine work, is the 2009 book Rankin's Heidilicious, in which the model is caught snarling, pretending to be a cat, and getting drenched in chocolate, among other poses. “Heidi is super-super-smart,” Rankin says. “All of the great models understand how they look at every angle, but Heidi was one of the first models who looked at the pictures that had been taken on a monitor, the way photographers and art directors do. She understands that she is a figure that people are drawn to—it has to do with her eyes, I think—and she knows why, and how to use that to get people to respond to her.” This, Rankin says, makes her especially valuable to a client. “If you come in with a very specific idea about what you want, Heidi will go an extra mile and half to make sure that you are happy. But then she’ll bring something else—another idea, another look, something you didn’t expect. She’ll put on a record, she’ll start moving; she’ll change things up and give you something else. Maybe it’s something new and different. Maybe it’s the original idea with something extra. But it really comes from the fact that she understands fashion, advertising, marketing, the full range of the business, and most of all, herself.” In Melbourne in January to promote the introduction of Heidi Klum Intimates, Klum took the podium wearing a low-plunging, thigh-high black dress, and little more besides fire-engine red lipstick. Posing with a soccer star turned model named Kris Smith, Klum leaned over and planted a bouquet of kisses on her hunky associate, leaving a map of perfectly formed lipstick lips on his somewhat stupefied mug. The pics flooded gossip pages, and swamped Pinterest and Instagram. The media may be new, but in the hands of a master, the tricks are eternal. *** As the pivotal figure in her enterprises, there is no doubt that Klum’s voice carries tremendous authority, but she says she never considers herself the boss. “I just don’t,” she says. “The publicist, the girls in the office, we’re a team. If anything, I think of myself as a soldier. I’m out there in front working, and my team is behind me. And I report back on how things went and what we can do better. I owe a lot to my team, and I appreciate what each one does.” Part of Klum’s shtick at the end of each episode of Project Runway is to float twin air-kisses to the departing disappointed designer, but as it turns out, “I’ve never fired anyone [in real life],” she says. “I’m very loyal. Everyone who’s with me has been with me for eight or 10 years, and it’s important to me that they are comfortable and happy.” One reason that Klum can maintain a steady atmosphere is that she doesn’t allow problems to fester. “I never yell,” she says, “but I never let things go. If something goes wrong, we sit down, we talk about it, we brainstorm, we figure out how we can improve. Not everything works, but you can’t be unhappy about it if you’ve worked hard and tried your best. [still,] we should always try to do better.” Klum carries this attitude with her everywhere. “On a Heidi project,” producer Gruber says, “everybody has a part in the win—the client, the crew, the sponsor, everybody. She’s very good about bringing her various interests together for their mutual benefit, particularly her charities, like the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.” Klum’s penchant to network for good was never more apparent than in 2012, when Hurricane Sandy slammed into the New York-New Jersey area. Working with another favorite charitable group—God’s Love We Deliver, which takes hot meals to homebound people—Klum filled a truck with Truly Scrumptious clothes, diapers and other necessities and took them to the suddenly homeless in the region. “I’m a mom,” Klum says. “I know what families need, and right then, they needed a lot.” Her scheduling may be tight, but seldom does she allow business to break into family time. Her days often start early, but they end around 5, when she goes home to her four children. “I have dinner with them, bathe them, read to them—be a mom,” she says. “And during that time, the phone is off. Sometimes, things can wait.” She’s worth it, after all.

Another one:

Heidi talks about America's Got Talent Season 10 at Red Carpet Event in Hollywood, 8 Apr 2015 WARNING: spoilers!

Another old video. Heidi and Kelis team up for MTV's Fashion Extravaganza 2001:

What Does Heidi Klum Feel Sexiest Wearing? http://news.instyle.com/2015/03/27/heidi-klums-intimates-lingerie/ Supermodel Heidi Klum has been prancing around in her skivvies for over 20 years as a swimsuit and lingerie model, so it comes as no surprise that the bombshell beauty has enough experience to fuel the inspiration for her own sexy line of lingerie. Heidi Klum Intimates is a gorgeous collection of bras, corsets, bikinis, thongs, and pajamas in myriad of colors and patterns, from pretty pastels, to sultry hunter green (below) and what Klum describes as one of her favorites—a “Tweety Bird yellow.” Although the former Victoria’s Secret model is the ultimate pro at walking the catwalk, it turns out that a career in modeling wasn’t what she had in mind growing up—all the more reason why her career as a lingerie designer makes perfect sense. “Design is my passion,” she tells InStyle. “I’ve always had my finger in design. And before I won my modeling contest I was actually going to go to design school—that was my original plan.” But that plan was postponed for more than two decades. “Then when I won my modeling contest I did a little detour for 20 years and now [as a designer] I’m doing what I have always wanted to do. It’s weird, but it’s true!” As for what the star feels sexiest wearing, she answers without hesitation as the confident woman that she is: “A garter belt, stockings, and high heels,” she says. “I love lingerie. And I love anything super hot. That’s super hot.”

Heidi Klum Talks Body Confidence, Kim Kardashian And Her Life In Lingerie http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/fashion/548878/heidi-klum-on-body-confidence-kim-kardashian-and-lingerie-line-heidi-klum-intimates.html Heidi Klum knows a thing or two about good pants. She must have tried on every style available to womankind in her incredible 15 year career as a Victoria’s Secret angel (and looked pretty damn hot while doing so) and now she’s launching her own line, Heidi Klum Intimates, aiming to share her boudoir style and body confidence with us all. Here, she talks us through her lingerie wardrobe and tells us why she loves her own figure, as well as Kim Kardashian’s curves… ‘The key to feeling confident if you’re just wearing your lingerie is simply to find the style of lingerie that you feel confident in. Experiment with different bras to find a style that you know you look good in. It’s so important to try things on while you’re in the store and get measured regularly. So many women wear the wrong bra size, I always hear ‘I swear I’ve been a B forever’.‘ ‘I’ve been in the lingerie industry for over 15 years now and test-driven pretty much every style on the market. It was a long time to be intensely working with one of the biggest companies in the world [Victoria’s Secret] so that experience has definitely helped me to understand what makes for great underwear and what doesn’t sell.’ ‘I’m personally not a huge fan of the push up bra, but I know it’s one of the biggest selling styles in the world. I understand that a lot of women do want that high cleavage and so I want give it to them – I’m going to be constantly reviewing what styles are popular.' ‘I probably have more than 100 bras in my wardrobe right now. I always buy three pairs of panties for each so that I can wear the set more often. There was a time when I had maybe double that - I kept different sizes because I was pregnant so many times for so many years. It was quite complicated for a while because when I was breastfeeding my boobs were huge, then they shrank again and kept going up and down as I had more babies. Now sadly my bigger bras have gone, but I do have all gorgeous new ones.’ ‘Having body confidence kind of comes with the job. You just have to be confident and have your body ready, always. You never know what outfit you’ll be asked to wear on a shoot - they may say it’s a fashion story and then hand you a bikini. I always have to be ready to take off my clothes – imagine if I wasn’t prepared.’ ‘My biggest body prep task though is to pick a really good photographer. Honestly, it’s my best modelling tip - I pick someone who will actually tell me what I look like, if I need to suck my stomach in a little bit, change the angle or arch my back harder. Some people on a set are too afraid to say something, but I’d rather people were honest and told me what they thought as the results will always be better.' ‘I won’t ever leave the set until I have the shot. Especially with things that I control, like my brand or when I do New Balance. I become the art director for the day too. I get on the computer and look at all the film and we keep shooting until everyone’s happy. Sometimes they’ll take four pictures and I’ll be like ‘you’ve got it already, c’mon!’’ ‘You get excited when you are written about in the papers, period. It’s especially great when you’re just starting out and you cut out all the articles and my magazine covers. I keep folders in my office of all the things I’ve collected over the years. Although when people write bad things, you don’t cut those out…’ ‘I love pasta but I won’t have it all the time. I like to be on a thinner side, I feel fitter and it’s how I’ve always been. I like to be tight and firm and so in order to be my body weight, I don’t eat very many carbs and I do like to go on the running machine every once in a while. I think all women like to have a different body shape - I certainly don’t think everyone wants to be in my body shape.' ‘Kim Kardashian changed the look in the fashion industry, which is amazing and the media have totally backed her. I know that other women love to be more curvy - at the end of the day you have to live in a body that you feel comfortable in and that you love.’ ‘I’m probably not going to be a lingerie model when I’m 60, but who knows – there have been a lot of amazing campaigns this season featuring older women. However old I get though, I’ll always be body confident. It’s just the way I am, I’m happy in my skin.‘ Heidi Klum Intimates is available now at Selfridges and on www.selfridges.com

Video with Grazia Daily (UK). Heidi Klum Talks About Baring All And What Undies To Wear On A First Date: http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/2015/03/heidi-klum-underwear-lingerie-intimates-launch-interview-joshington-post

Video with ExtraTV (17 March 2015): http://extratv.com/2015/03/17/heidi-klum-talks-about-new-lingerie-line-heidi-klum-intimates/

Heidi Klum Strips Down at 41 to Sell Lingeriehttps://www.yahoo.com/style/heidi-klum-will-bare-all-to-sell-lingerie-113819426818.html German supermodel Heidi Klum is continuing to expand her business endeavors—from her Emmy-winning series Project Runway to various design collaborations with Jordache jeans, Babies R’ Us, and her very own line of Birkenstocks. But her newest collaboration with the lingerie company Bendon may be her favorite gig yet. “I really felt like I won the lottery,” Klum told Yahoo Style at the launch of her intimates line at Bloomingdales in NYC over the weekend. The Heidi Klum x Bendon line of bras and underwear is pretty simple—offering several iterations of basics—but made a little sexier. Of course this isn’t surprising for Klum, who’s not shy about her body and loves to wear garder belts and stockings. But what about those women who aren’t stick thin, and rarely like to flaunt their bare bodies? “We make bras from sizes A to GG,” Klum exclaimed. “You know, a lot of girls on social media come to me and say, ‘don’t forget about us’ or ‘I want to look sexy, too!’” And with this size range, Klum can really tout the versatility of her collection. It doesn’t matter if you’re short or tall, thin or curvy, young or old, there’s something for everyone. The mogul, who’s about to turn 42, even models in the campaign that was shot by her friend Rankin. “For me, things have not changed. I’ve never been shy about my body—I wasn’t then and I’m not now,” she says. Maybe this is why we’re always seeing her in gossip magazines, strolling the beach topless. “I don’t really care. I’m European. I’m German, and that’s how I was raised,” she responded, “I’m not going to change just because I’m older now. If you have a problem [being topless] then don’t print it or don’t look!” Well, Heidi, it’s hard not to look because you still look flawless! These sexy intimates are available at Bloomingdales from $22 to $155.

Entertainment Tonight (16 March 2015):

Promoting Heidi Klum Intimates at Selfridges in London (14 March 2015):

Heidi on Good Morning America (13 March 2015):

Not sure what this is for, but it has Heidi naked: http://f.vimeocdn.com/p/flash/moogaloop/6.0.37/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=118170233

Sports Illustrated 2002 behind-the-scenes:

Heidi Klum Gets Animated for 'Littlest Pet Shop' in Every Sense of the Word Video clips here: https://www.yahoo.com/tv/heidi-klum-littlest-pet-shop-season-3-finale-sneak-112908320690.html Animated gifs: Littlest Pet Shop is taking an unusual go-big-or-go-home approach to its Season 3 finale on Saturday, and they’ve enlisted quite the guest star in Heidi Klum. To say the leggy lady gets into her voiceover role is an equally big understatement. "My character is Heidi," the America’s Got Talent host explains in our exclusive clip. “She’s crazy, she likes to sing, and she has an idea of putting a band together. She yodels all the time and she’s REALLY HYPER AND SHE SCREAMS, WOOHOO!” "[Animated Heidi] is a little bit like me," Klum admits. "I like to yodel and I’m very enthusiastic and I’m very loud." She also notes, "I love being silly and putting my voice out there. Making the choice to go unseen in a recording studio was easy for the 41-year-old mother of four. “My 4-year-old daughter Lou, she has all the toys. She has hundreds of them at home. She has a little box with all the little compartments and she has them all organized. They’re just so cute,” she says. “I’m proud that I can be one of the pets and that she can watch me on TV.” The two-part Season 3 finale of Littlest Pet Shop airs Saturday at 12 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Discovery Family.

Drei Wetter Taft Ultimate from Schwarzkopf

Heidi Klum on Returning to the Set Two Decades Later, Embracing Her 40s, and Advice for Gigi Hadid http://www.style.com/trends/celebrity/2015/heidi-klum-inc-interview “I wish I had Instagram 20 years ago,” muses Heidi Klum, while on set in Los Angeles for INC’s next season. “I was just talking to my girlfriend the other day and saying how I would have taken so many great photos then and had a lot of things to post.” The 41-year-old and mother of four would certainly have been a compelling follow, taking fans along her career’s highlights, from behind-the-scenes shots of her now-iconic Sports Illustrated cover to her first campaign with INC 15 years ago (seen exclusively here on Style.com). “It’s OK, I’m making up for lost time,” she says, laughing. And that she is, avidly snapping photos in multitudes from the set of America’s Got Talent, the obligatory beach photos, and her many intrepid looks from the award show red carpets for her 1.5 million followers. Klum wrote a forward to INC’s new coffee-table book, celebrating its 30 years. In it are photos from INC’s archives that include supermodels like Alessandra Ambrosio, Molly Sims, Trish Goff, Helena Christensen, and others. Before going back to the set, Klum opened up about her revealing Versace gown at the Oscars (she went commando, for those wondering); her belly-dancing days of yesteryear; how 40 is the new 40; and the advice she’d give to new It girl Gigi Hadid. Tell me about that revealing Versace gown at the Oscars. It was quite a look. It was one of my favorite pieces from the show, and I requested it as soon as I saw it. I got really lucky because it only got flown in from Milan the day before and I did the fitting on Saturday. Thankfully it fit. We closed some of the gaps—I didn’t want to show too much. But it fit. 
 Did you have a backup dress? No. When you deal with Versace, they have these magical elves that make it all happen. They make the impossible possible. That has happened in the past and they have to work with a few hours. They work with a great seamstress. They hooked me up! Well, because of all the cutouts I could have worn something under, but since I was totally covered, I didn’t wear anything. So it was fine. It’s already been 15 years since you last worked with INC, but you’ve stayed relatively the same physically. What’s the secret? I wouldn’t say I look exactly the same. My hair was brown. I was much younger. I have four kids now. When I started 20 years ago, I had to change my eating habits from eating too many schnitzels and knödle and sauerkraut and sauces and all of that good stuff that my mom would cook. I changed when I started modeling. It’s competitive, and I would see how other girls were like and how they looked at what they ate. I had to change my lifestyle a little bit and eat healthier and exercise. I now each much, much healthier. So the secret to youth is what you eat. What do you cook and eat? I cook pretty much everything, but not too many carbs. I used to do bagel and cream cheese in the morning, but now it’s more eggs and vegetables or oatmeal. I love black bread with cold cuts. I eat salads with chicken and meats and a lot of soups and vegetable soups and chicken soups. I’m not on a major diet or anything, I just don’t eat a lot of carbs like pizzas and pastas and breads. And I exercise a lot. But I was always very active. You were very active in dancing. When did you start? I started dancing when I was 6 years old, where I would dance ballroom, jazz, tap dance, and belly dance. I was always into belly dance. It was a huge thing in Germany; my mom was really into belly dancing. We took big belly-dancing classes with my mom. I don’t belly dance now, but I had these great costumes with these long veils that are attached to your fingers, because belly dancing is all about your hands and fingers. You know, you have those beautiful harem pants that could look like a skirt and you have dingly things on your feet and hips. I loved it. The bra with jingle stuff was everything. What’s the Heidi Klum like now compared with your younger self? I don’t know, I’m still the same! The inside is still the same. I don’t think I’ve changed. I’ve learned so much in the last 20 years and I’ve had kids. Way back when, it was just me and my little suitcase traveling the world, doing jobs all over the globe. Now that has changed. I don’t travel as much anymore. But I still love this job as much as I did back then. Would you give any advice to your 20-year-old self? No, I wouldn’t change anything. I would do everything the same as I did. I always made the most of the day. I was always on time. I would stay until the very last minute until the job was done. I never looked at my watch and was like, “When is the job done?” I still do that now. I enjoy being on set. I remember when I first came to New York, I went to so many photographers and ad agencies. I went to studios and saw other girls working. I’d be like, “I want to get jobs, too!” So then when I started working, I was always happy remembering when I really wanted to get jobs. Are the 40s the new 30s? The new 20s? I hate saying the 40s are the new 30s. I’m in my 40s, and when I look in the mirror, I feel that I’m in my 40s. I don’t know if there’s a big difference between 30s and 40s. I feel super-energetic the same as when I was in my 30s. I hate these comparisons. Forties are 40s, 30s are 30s, and 20s are 20s. I’m happy in my skin. You’re included with so many other great models of the past. Has anyone given you good career advice or life advice? The only one I always looked up to was Tyra Banks. Tyra always wanted to do things other than just modeling. When she was creating America’s Next Top Model, I was creating Project Runway. We would go back and forth to see what each other’s shows were about. She’d ask me, and I’d ask her. We kind of took notes from each other. We kind of were driven to do more than just sit in front of the camera and model. We wanted to get into the television world and do products. We were both on that same path, so we’d exchange a lot. Now there are so many following in your footsteps, like current It girl Gigi Hadid. Any advice you’d give her? I don’t think she needs advice. I’ve known Gigi for a very long time. She’s always wanted to be a model. She’s a hard worker and a beautiful girl, supersweet. I’ve known her mom for a very long time. This is what she’s always wanted to do, be a model. I think she’s doing a fantastic job, and she deserves what she’s getting.

More from the Elton John Vanity Fair Oscar Party (22 February 2015). I apologize in advance for repeats.

2015 amfAR New York Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on February 11, 2015 in New York City (ADDS)

Rare early interview with Heidi on Die Harald Schmidt Show (1 April 1998): Heidi appears at about the 32 minute mark.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/date-with-kate-waterhouse-heidi-klum-20150207-133wfp.html Date with Kate Waterhouse: Heidi Klum Heidi Klum is not just a supermodel – the mother of four is the Emmy-winning host and executive producer of US reality show Project Runway and also hosts Germany's Next Top Model, as well as being a judge on America's Got Talent. During an Australian visit to spruik her Heidi Klum Intimates range of lingerie, the 41-year-old told Kate Waterhouse about the secrets to her success, what she thinks makes a woman feel sexy and how family comes first. What did you get up to during your time in Australia? The first day I arrived I went to the zoo – to see the koalas and kangaroos – and the Harbour Bridge. Then the next day we hit the ground running with all the promotion for Heidi Klum Intimates. Tell me about your intimates range. It is a mixture of everything from soft pastels to bright colours to the basics of black and grey. There is a lot of lace, all different styles: push-up, triangles, no-padding bras and garter belts. So a little bit of everything. Are you involved in the design? I've just started. I just started my first design meeting about six weeks ago. Everyone came from Hong Kong and we met in Los Angeles. We all sat around the table and I kind of brought all my favourite pieces that I've collected over the years. [but] I want to introduce more specialty bras to the line. I feel like we could have a little bit more super-sexy lingerie. There's not a lot of lingerie that you want to wear in the bedroom, and I want more of that. What do you think makes a woman feel sexy? For me it's high heels; definitely it's beautiful lingerie; always to be prepared because you don't know when clothes do come off! Are you a cotton-briefs or a lace-briefs type of girl? Lace! Even for everyday running around, I never really wear cotton. I always have pretty ones and I always like a matching set. You look amazing in the Heidi Klum Intimate ad campaign [which marked her return to lingerie after a five-year hiatus]. Did you do much fitness preparation for the shoot? I'm prepared all the time because I shoot all the time. I think most women get ready for the summer time, when they know it's bikini season. So a lot of girls, I guess, go on a diet and they start working out then, but it's been my business for the last 20 years. I've always had to be ready, and my lifestyle pretty much changed 20 years ago when I started this job: of eating different and exercising and staying away from too much meat and potatoes and carbs and just stuff that I would eat when I was young, when I was at home living with my mum and dad. What is your biggest indulgence? Burgers and fries. With your TV and modelling commitments, where do your priorities lie these days? My family comes first. It's always a juggle to keep the schedule on target, so that work doesn't all of a sudden take over like a monster. How do you juggle it all? It is a juggle. I always make sure that I have enough time for my family. When I'm home I make breakfast for the kids, drop them to school and then go to the [TV] studio. Or I start super early [in the studio] and then I get home at five and I can do dinner, bath and reading to them at night. My clients kind of have to work with it too but everyone who I've been working with over the years has been very easy going about that. It has been helpful. What has been your biggest career highlight? Well, I have many along the way. As I said, I've been in the industry for 20 years now. So even my first Vogue cover was amazing. But then I really became more of a household name in America from being on the cover of Sports Illustrated; 55 million readers see your face. And then all of a sudden things changed and then I did Victoria's Secret, and doing the show every year and being in the catalogue shifted everything, so all of a sudden things came up and suddenly television became more dominant. Then I created Project Runway and now, 13 years later, we're still on the air. And I've hosted Germany's Next Top Model for the last 10 years and for the last two years I've been doing America's Got Talent. So all those things are all important because they kind of help you climb the ladder. A model's career can sometimes be short-lived you but have had such long and successful career. What is your secret for this success? It is hard work. I think when you show up you have to put in the work. You can't constantly look at your clock and go, like, "I actually wanted to already be gone two hours ago." I've heard other girls be that way. And then you hear, like, "Oh, she's so difficult to work with." That's not good. If you're not pleasant to work with, then people won't hire you again. You have to be on time and you have to be professional and a lot of [models] aren't. You are known for your bubbly personality. Do you ever have a bad day? Sometimes, if you get up early and then you get on the set and then no one is there, that kind of bugs me. Or sometimes when I'm away from home too long and I miss my kids, then it's like, "Oh, I want to go home". But it's never really the work because I feel thankful for all the things that I've got over the years. I remember when I first started [my career] and I went to New York and I did castings everywhere and I was always like, "I wish I would get a job." So now that I'm working so much, I think back to those times and I feel happy and thankful for where I am today. BITE SIZE WE WENT TO David Jones Private Salon, Sydney CDB. WE ATE Sweets from the Panini Bar, David Jones Food Hall. WE DRANK Cappuccinos. HEIDI WORE A Rachel Gilbert dress and Gianvito Rossi heels.

More that I couldn't find on YouTube: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/heidi-klum-is-wrapped-in-her-latest-lingerie-but-two-diverse-aussie-icons-have-her-gobsmacked/story-e6frfmq9-1227200697878 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11393852 http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/heidi-klum-talks-fashion-modelling-and-motherhood-video-6226031 http://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/2015/01/30/heidi-klum-just-loves-undies/ http://www.roosters.com.au/news/2015/01/30/_2015_nrl_season_lau.html