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Another Astor photoshoot:

In case you missed the best part of The Tonight Show last night, here it is: Although she did also say that she could tell the difference in smell between her children's farts and her dog's farts.

Behind the scenes for Astor Cosmetics:

Czech Republic InStyle, February 2013:

Heidi is in the current issue of The Daily Front Row Berlin (17 January 2013): http://issuu.com/dailyfrontrow/docs/berlin01172013

Project Runway fans: Season 11 starts next week. Here's a sneak preview: (May contain spoilers, so don't watch if you want to be surprised by everything.)

Heidi is scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno next week Wednesday (23 January 2013).

From the red carpet of the 2013 Golden Globes:

Thanks for posting the article bigmax!

Heidi on Good Morning America 9 January 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/heidi-klums-fitness-routine-revealed-18168541

Heidi will be honored at this year's amFAR gala on 6 February 2013. You can go to it if you have $1,500 to donate: http://www.amfar.org/In_The_Spotlight/Event_Details/amfAR_New_York_Gala_2013/ DETAILS A black-tie gala benefit to honor individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the fight against AIDS. The gala, held on the eve of New York Fashion Week, will begin with cocktails, followed by dinner, a live auction of luxury items, and a special tribute to our honorees. HONORING Kenneth Cole Janet Jackson Heidi Klum DATE Wednesday, February 06, 2013 TIME 6:30 p.m Cocktails 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Entertainment, and Live Auction TABLES/TICKETS Grand Philanthropist table for 12- $75,000 Grand Benefactor table for 10- $50,000 Benefactor table for 10- $25,000 Host table for 10- $15,000 Benefactor Pair- $25,000 Patron ticket- $5,000 Friend ticket- $2,500 Supporter ticket- $1,500 Click here to purchase tickets by mail or fax Click here to purchase tickets online

[my translation from German] http://www.oberpfalznetz.de/magazin/200901011301039901563_xml-581-Tdpajunior-Shoerenundsehen,1,0.html Model Heidi Klum talks about her home How do celebrities actually live? And what is her favorite piece of furniture in the house? That is what we wanted know and have asked about. Today, Heidi Klum talks about her home in the USA. Many people know her as the host of "Germany's Next Topmodel". Where are you living now? I live with my family in a house in Brentwood, California. Which room would you say you spend the most time in? I mostly hang out in the kitchen. I love to cook for the whole family. One of the four children is always hungry. Otherwise, we're often in the children's playroom. We do everything from board games to playing the Wii. What is your favorite piece of furniture? My favorite piece of furniture is our big dining room table, which is made out of a single piece of wood. It is huge and beautiful. What do you see when you look out the window? From my house you can see the ocean and look far into the distance. The house is up a bit on a hill and has a great view. What was your own room like as a child? My room was always changing. When I was young, I had to share the room with my brother, who is 9 years older. When he left, I hung the walls full of Wham! and Nena posters. When that phase was over, I entered a black-and-white phase and bought a black leather couch for myself. Please finish this sentence: The greatest thing about my current house is... ...the life that is in it.

Here's the article from Ocean Drive (January 2013): Heidi Klum Talks Modeling, Miami & Motherhood http://oceandrive.com/personalities/articles/heidi-klum-talks-modeling-miami-and-motherhoodDuring a break in Germany earlier this winter, Heidi Klum—one of the world’s statuesque, quintessential supermodels—was napping. And we can’t blame her: She’s been busy. She had just arrived in Munich to meet the many aspiring belles for the casting of Germany’s Next Top Model, an offshoot of the American reality-TV series. The ones chosen would soon be challenged (by Klum herself) to bring their A-game for a chance to become a fashion star, guided by an archetypal figure whose 20-year career has made her a household name. But it’s not like she meticulously planned her reign on the runways. In 1992, a friend convinced her to send some photos of herself to a modeling contest in Germany. She was chosen out of 30,000 candidates and snagged a $300,000 contract with Worldwide Metropolitan Model Agency. A year later, she arrived in Miami like so many others at the time: young, ambitious, staying at the no-frills Beach Plaza hotel on Collins Avenue, and posing for test shoots with up-and-coming photographers. Eventually New York called, and the rest is history. In addition to gracing the covers of nearly every major beauty or fashion magazine—including six times in Ocean Drive—and appearing in countless commercial campaigns such as American Express, Givenchy, H&M, and Volkswagen, Klum has hosted the popular Project Runway series (the 11th season premieres this month). And of course we can’t forget her decade-plus gig as a Victoria’s Secret Angel (the first German model to hold that title). Presently, she just released a new line of activewear, Heidi Klum for New Balance; a fragrance called Surprise; and Truly Scrumptious by Heidi Klum, an assortment of apparel, bedding, furniture, and accessories for children, sold exclusively through Babies“R”Us. Now, at 39, the mother of four looks better than ever. We caught up with her to discuss her early days in Miami, her long-standing bond with renowned British photographer Rankin (who shot these photos for us), and her indefatigable sense of adventure. OCEAN DRIVE: You’ve been on the cover of Ocean Drive six times. Do you recall your first encounter with the magazine? HEIDI KLUM: I remember going to your first office on Ocean Drive itself. It was just two small little rooms with magazines all over the hallway. It’s obviously come so far now after 20 years, but I was really proud to do an Ocean Drive cover. That was the magazine to be in. Like Ocean Drive, this year marks just over two decades of your career. What are your most memorable moments? Definitely my work with Victoria’s Secret and being a VS Angel for 13 years—that was huge for me, especially in America. Also, my cover of Sports Illustrated. I mean, 59 million readers! And my cover of French Vogue, which is one of the hardest covers to get. I was lucky to have been able to mix high (sometimes risqué) fashion with more mainstream clients. Did you do any crazy shoots? I was up for anything, like riding a horse if I didn’t know how to, being underwater with dolphins (and I’m not the best swimmer), or in the ocean with sharks and fish guts—without a cage—for a “Shark Week” special on the Discovery Channel. What’s necessary for a productive relationship between a photographer and a model? Photographers do have to direct to bring a certain feeling out of you, especially when you’re young and new. They need to make you comfortable and explain what they want, even if it’s as simple as, “Move this arm or this foot,” or joking to make you laugh (instead of just telling you to smile). They need to extract the right emotions so that it becomes real. Later, when you’re more experienced, you can just push a button within yourself and make those emotions come alive [on your own], so it’s almost like acting. You’ve worked a lot with Rankin. Why has that been such a fruitful relationship? What I’ve always loved about him is that he makes everything fun. He’d always push me to do crazier, weirder shoots, or to do nudes because he’d love the lighting with my body. I trusted him, and that made me pose better. How do you feel about posing nude? When you have a good body, photographers will often be like, “Yeah, let’s take this off, and why don’t we lose this too,” and you can quickly end up not wearing much clothing. You have to be careful and strong at saying no, especially when you’re younger and on your own. Not everyone is cool and has your best interest [at heart]. But Rankin has always made sure, when some of my shoots would be more on the naked side, that they wouldn’t look raunchy. They were sexy, yes, but very classy. Speaking of sexy—your legs were insured for more than $2 million when you appeared in that campaign for Braun. Ha! Yes, the company wanted to do that. In London, I had to go to an insurance firm, and this person just checked out my legs. On one knee, I have a scar from when I fell and had to get stitches, so they made that leg less expensive than the other. But I went with it. And obviously, it’s all very flattering. This issue’s cover was actually shot by Rankin. How did that go? I liked it because it was very natural—not much makeup, and my hair’s simple, just parted in the middle and straight down. It was less about the clothes and more about getting a purer picture of me. The 11th season of Project Runway launches this month. What have you learned from that experience? I really saw how much work goes into it [fashion]—from the amount of passion to the attention to detail, all the way down to the color of the buttons on a shirt. And of course I’ve loved working with Michael Kors. It never gets old. You’ve also designed jewelry, sportswear, baby gear, and furniture. What challenges have you faced? Designing was never that challenging because I love coming up with new concepts and pushing the limits instead of keeping to the basics, even with my line for Babies“R”Us. The harder part is finding the right partners who will see eye-to- eye with what I like. I’ve had partners who weren’t on the same page, maybe because I was a bit too fashion-forward. But I’ve always been into designing, and it’s something I’ve wanted to do even before I started modeling. I’d hit up M&J Trimming, one of my favorite shops in New York, and admire the colorful ribbons and rhinestones, and bedazzle the bejesus out of my clothes. What has your career taught you? How to get along with so many different characters, for sure. I’ve learned to not be scared. When you’re young and pretty, you can’t be vulnerable. Not that I’d hurt anyone to get to the top, but you have to bring your hustle and watch your back. But it’s also important to find time for your personal life—you can’t lose sight of that.

New behind-the-scenes video from Astor:

No idea when this picture was taken, but it looks like it was a long time ago:

Heidi on Good Morning America (3 December 2012):

Here's the article: http://www.forbes.co...-over-her-life/ World's Most Famous Model Makes Over Her Life On the eve of Hurricane Sandy, as the rest of Manhattan quietly hunkers down, Milk Studios–the famed fashion-shoot joint in Chelsea–is hopping. Indie rock blares through hidden speakers. The New York Giants game–coming down to the wire–plays on the flat screen in the house bar. Katie Holmes, her made-up eyes as darkened as a raccoon’s, loudly scolds her daughter, Suri, for some unknown transgression as they wait for the elevator. And into an airy studio on the eighth floor of the building strides Heidi Klum. She’s wearing a white terry-cloth robe, slippers that clack noisily across the wooden floor, and a huge smile. The 39-year-old immediately makes the rounds on the set, greeting everyone–the stylists, the photographer and his assistants, and me–with pecks on each cheek and warm hellos in her mellifluous voice, tinted with just a trace of her native German accent. She’s coming off a nine-hour shoot, and her day is just getting started. Yet Klum waves off the offer of a break. “Let’s do this,” she says. She sits on a stool under a set of klieg lights. Her assistants spring into action, flitting about her like hummingbirds. One primps her blonde hair, blown out and dark at the roots. Another carefully paints her eyelashes. Klum looks relaxed, as if she’s at a spa. Then the photographer, Neil Francis Dawson, sees a shot and starts snapping off photos. Klum hears the familiar sound and, suddenly, she’s on, even with all of the commotion around her. Her focus–that incandescent smile–is totally on the camera now. It’s an object of affection, a recipient of warmth. This is a practiced art, honed over two decades, as impressively professional as Derek Jeter stepping into the batter’s box. “I love working with Neil,” Klum says of Dawson, a protégé of one of her favorite photographers, Rankin. “Neil is very good with light. When you’re pushing 40, light is very important.” Then it’s time for a wardrobe change. Everyone is in motion. Camera equipment is shuffled to the next spot. Klum walks over to a stand-up screen to change. Except she doesn’t really stand behind the screen. Rather, she stands out front, near the lighted mirror. She disrobes right there, in front of everyone, without a stitch of self-consciousness. I look around bashfully. “It’s no big deal,” she later tells me. “I am completely comfortable with my body.” And why not? That body, along with that smile, that face, and a heavy dose of confidence, has been her meal ticket, yielding one of the most impressive and long-lasting modeling careers in the profession’s history, from a 13-year stint with Victoria‘s Secret to the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. And now it’s given her a platform for her transition from body to brain. Just as her highly lucrative modeling career darkens on the near horizon, the sun is lifting on her business ventures, which include two hugely popular television shows, a kids’ clothing partnership with Babies “R” Us, a sportswear line with New Balance, and jewelry and perfume businesses, all of which ForbesLife estimates will earn her $20 million this year. Her career is not the only thing in transition. Her four kids are growing up, no longer babies. (They range in age from 3 to 8.) And after her recent, rancorous divorce from the singer Seal, Klum has moved on to a relationship with her former bodyguard. But rather than shrinking in the face of upheaval, Klum is relishing it. “I love what I’m doing,” she says, convincingly. “I love my life.” We head to one of Klum’s favorite New York City restaurants, Jack’s Wife Freda, a café in SoHo owned by a veteran of nearby Balthazar. The restaurant, normally boisterous, is nearly empty, thanks to Sandy’s imminent arrival. Inside, I meet a man who introduces himself in a South African accent as Martin. He is muscled and sports a two-day-old beard and Daniel Craig-like creases in his forehead. This is Martin Kirsten, Klum’s former bodyguard and current boyfriend. He, in turn, introduces me to Brandon, an Iraq war veteran who is maybe 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds. He is one of Klum’s new bodyguards. With the winds swirling outside, the mood turns festive, as if everyone is sneaking a night out that they shouldn’t have. Drinks are poured. Dean Jankelowitz, the owner, brings out plates of fried zucchini chips and french fries. “Isn’t this fun?” asks Klum. Then, with a mischievous glint in her eye, she demands that a beer-chugging contest take place between Brandon, her publicist SaraJane Lieb, and me. Kirsten heartily seconds the suggestion and begins filming the scene with his iPhone. The three of us stand in the middle of the restaurant and, after Klum counts to three, we begin to chug. Brandon gives us a four-second head start and still wins going away. Whether or not I beat Lieb remains a point of contention. Nearly an hour later, the tables are strewn with empty glasses and hors d’oeuvres plates bearing only crumbs. We all make the short walk to the New York headquarters of Heidi Klum Company, a skinny, one-room office space on Broadway, to check in. Dawson wants to shoot the room, and Klum changes into a red minidress. She shows me her back. The fabric is held together by a safety pin. “I ate too many fries,” she says. Dawson sets up the shot. Klum seems curious. She hops behind the photo equipment and grabs his camera, firing off a few shots. She looks at the images as they appear instantaneously on Dawson’s computer. “I like this angle best,” she says. Dawson agrees. He later tells me that he loves working with Klum because she’s never pouty, like so many other supermodels. “She always brings it,” he says. “She knows this is a business.” ** Klum asks me later what I thought of the shoot. I tell her that maybe modeling isn’t quite as glamorous as I thought. “Really?” she says. “I think it’s pretty glamorous to wear $10,000 gowns. I get paid to, like, frolic on beaches. I’ve eaten the most amazing meals, stayed in amazing hotels. I’ve seen the world because of this job. I’ve been so lucky, you know.” But luck is only part of the story. Klum grew up in Bergisch Gladbach, a town near Cologne. Her father worked for a cosmetics company. Her mother was a hairdresser. Klum says of her upbringing, “We weren’t poor, but we didn’t have a lot of stuff.” Klum says that while she was known as “the pretty girl” in school, she initially wanted to be a dancer, not a model, until she realized that “I wasn’t good enough to make it a career.” But in 1992 she came across a magazine advertisement for a televised modeling contest. On a whim, she sent in a few photos. Every week, she followed the show, in which viewers voted for the winner, and “laughed at how silly it all seemed with all of these dolled-up girls answering dumb questions.” Then the show called her. Klum would eventually win the contest, beating out 30,000 contestants. (In the finale, Klum–a gorgeous 18-year-old with long, wavy, Cindy Crawford-like hair–walked down the runway to the song “Crazy,” sung, of course, by her then future and now former husband, Seal.) Her prize was a $300,000 modeling contract. The catch was that she had to earn it all back. She initially tried to make a go of it in Europe but had little success. She went to Miami, where there was “an ocean of girls just like me,” she says. Nothing really stuck there. Then she moved to New York, living in a dingy apartment on the Lower East Side with some fellow models. She stayed in at night and went to any casting call she could during the day. “I cried a few nights a week,” she says. “But I didn’t want to go home a failure. ” Finally, she started getting some work. It wasn’t glamorous: She did shoots mainly for catalogs such as J.C. Penney. But the people who shot her saw something. “They told me I had great boobs and curves and that I should start doing Victoria’s Secret,” says Klum. “I nagged my booker until I got a call with them.” Victoria’s Secret signed her in 1997, the beginning of a contract that didn’t end until 2010. But she wasn’t in the spotlight right away. “I was a bench player. I didn’t have a name then,” says Klum. But that changed after the catalog came out and she was featured as an “angel” in Victoria’s Secret’s fashion show. She became the “new girl,” the heir to the first crop of big, brand-name supermodels like Crawford. “She had all the confidence in the world,” says Ed Razek, who has been the senior creative director at Victoria’s Secret since the mid-1990s. “She stared right into the camera and developed a relationship with the customer. Women loved her. She was beautiful and physically amazing but not intimidating.” Men loved her, too. She went on the David Letterman show after her first Victoria’s Secret shoot, wearing what she calls “an outrageous dress that made it look like I had nothing on.” She was flirty, witty, and totally comfortable on camera. That marketability caught the attention of Sports Illustrated. In 1998, at age 25, she shot what is perhaps her most memorable image, a breast-heavy cover for that magazine’s swimsuit issue. “I knew then that I’d just won the lottery,” she says. Her modeling career took off. She appeared on more than 150 magazine covers and became the spokesmodel for McDonald’s, Dannon, H&M, and Liz Claiborne. She acted in a handful of network television shows and had cameos in a few feature films. Off camera, she had a five-year marriage to the stylist Ric Pipino and a relationship with an Italian businessman, Flavio Briatore, with whom she had her first child in 2004. She married Seal in 2005 and had three more children, becoming one of the few models to actually pull off having a career and a family. But she realized, even during the white heat of her modeling career, that models are like athletes in that “they have a shelf life,” she says. For most models, there’s not much more there than meets the eye. That wasn’t the case for Klum. “I liked modeling, but if I’m just in front of the camera for 14 hours a day, I’m not doing much with my head,” she says. Says Razek, “Heidi’s like a great pool player. As she lines up one shot, she’s making sure she’s set up for the next one.” That setting up started at an early age. At 20, Klum designed a perfume with her father that was sold in Germany. In her early 30s, she did a 50-50 partnership with a company on a line of jewelry. She says that while that partnership was fruitful, she learned from the experience that she wanted to be more in charge of any future ventures. To a large degree, she’s accomplished that. She owns the line of kids’ clothing that’s sold through Babies “R” Us. She has a women’s apparel line with New Balance that’s currently sold on Amazon but will be featured in Lady Foot Locker stores next year. She designs jewelry sold on QVC. She’s created five perfumes for Coty and has an AOL website in which she and her staff dole out beauty tips. And, of course, she still models from time to time, most recently appearing in ads for Jordache. Klum is very hands-on with all of her businesses, poring over business reports and designs in her home office in her house in Los Angeles. She says she has purposely aimed for the midmarket with her ventures. “I make more money that way, and it’s really powerful to have an idea that can almost immediately go out to 260 Babies ‘R’ Us stores.” But her television work gets the most attention, for good reason. Project Runway, her designer reality contest show, is shown on Lifetime and is owned by the Weinstein Company. (Klum, who is the host and executive producer, owns a small piece that generates an estimated $2.5 million a year.) In January, the show will air its 11th season, and Klum has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards for her work on it. She’s also vertically integrated, smartly plugging her own fragrances on the show. “She’s the hardest-working woman in television,” says Nancy Dubuc, president of entertainment and media at A&E Networks. Klum also produces and hosts Germany’s Next Top Model, a consistent ratings winner in her native country, in which aspiring models compete for a contract. Both shows hark back to Klum’s own professional start, and that, according to Sara Rea, the executive producer of Project Runway, is one reason she’s found such success with them. “She’s been there herself and made the most of it,” says Rea. “She knows what’s at stake for these contestants.” On the day after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, I meet Klum at Nougatine, a Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant in the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Columbus Circle. She’d been staying at a hotel in SoHo when the power went out in Lower Manhattan. A friend offered to put her up here. When she went to find a cab, the concierge at the SoHo hotel told her there were none. Then, she says, she took off her knit cap, and as her blonde tresses fell around her world-famous face, the concierge stammered a bit before saying, “Oh, I’ll get you one.” Being a supermodel has its privileges. Now that Klum is off duty, her hair is no longer blown out and looks darker. She’s wearing a simple long-sleeve black T-shirt and has no makeup on. She’s still stunning but looks less like a supermodel than a beautiful woman you might spot at a hot Manhattan brunch spot. We talk about her ambitions for her career. She’ll still continue to dabble in modeling and run her television shows, of course. But what she really wants, it seems, is to somehow have her business career emulate her own life. She is an uber-mom, a hardworking single parent who wants to look good and wants her kids to look good, too. Dubuc, for one, thinks she’s already there. “She’s made the transition from a brand as a sex symbol to a mother figure,” she says. Klum’s push in the coming years will be on her kids’ clothing line. “I want to be one of the biggest brands in children’s clothes,” she says, while whipping out a spreadsheet that tracks how well her designs have done at Babies “R” Us. Halfway through lunch, Kirsten walks in. He sits at the table, checks his phone idly for a few minutes, then stands and gives Klum a kiss on the cheek. “I’ll be upstairs,” he says. Klum then starts to talk a little about her divorce from Seal earlier this year, clearly still a painful event. The tabloid scrutiny of her life, always present, was particularly hurtful then, and talking about it brings out a maternal ferocity. “I’m okay with people speculating about my job but not my family,” she says, her voice rising. “They said I left my children at home and went and lived at a hotel. I would never leave my children!” Her kids–and her Los Angeles home–are off-limits to the media, though everyone, including Oprah Winfrey, has asked for the home interview. (Guilty as charged.) She says she misses her kids when she travels. “It’s hard for me to balance work and family, just like it is for any parent,” she says. The kids are in L.A. with Seal. She’ll see them tomorrow. But, for now, there’s business to attend to. And she has one more night in New York. “I’ve been sitting here all day,” says Klum, stretching her arms over her head and attracting the attention of nearby diners. “I’m going to grab that hot guy upstairs and take him out.”

Heidi is on the cover of Forbes magazine (24 December 2012):

Heads up: Heidi will appear on "Good Morning America" on Monday (3 December 2012).

An old photoshoot with photographer Paula Kaynes. Click to see them only if you're old enough.

Here's the full photoshoot from Amica (Italy) December 2012:

Heidi is on the cover of Amica magazine December 2012. I think this is the Italian version.