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Interview with Gala, 15 March 2011, translated by me: http://www.gala.de/stars/interview/140560/...-ich-ueben.html Heidi Klum: "I had to learn how to smile" Heidi Klum on her long road to the top - and what she has to say about her prominent critics today A long day of shooting for "Germany's Next Top Model is behind her. But, Heidi Klum, 37, arrives at the Beverly Hills Hotel just after 8:00 in the evening directly from the set still fresh and energetic. Heidi told Gala in our interview who gives her this power and what the current candidates on "Germany's Next Top Model" can learn from her. Are you pleased with the new season? Super happy! The girls this year are beautiful, very diverse and they go right out of themselves. You've changed a few things - sometimes you kick someone out spontaneously. Did the show have to be revamped to remain competitive? I don't compare our shows with others. If a few things have changed here or there, it just comes from my gut feeling. Do you watch the show to work on your own performances? No. While I do watch the show, it's just to see whether the content is properly told. That's very important to me. I myself have naturally evolved over the years - I am not a trained TV show host. GNTM has its critics. Stephanie Guttenberg, for example, believes that the "excessive sexual emphasis on physical beauty" has a negative influence on children. And Jette Joop recently called the show, "inhuman". Harsh words, right? I can't change the fashion world. I have been shaped by it for the last 15 years, and it has its beautiful and glamorous sides, but also a lot of dark and hard sides. By that I mean, for example, the prescribed ideal physical dimensions for models. Or that you often have to travel around the world by yourself, and you always have to portray the desired emotions even if you don't feel like it. You are seen more as an object than a person, because it is almost always about the externals. A lot is demanded of a model - that's what we show in the show. It's not all about the glamor but also the difficulties that come with the job. I think that the profession is often underestimated. Mrs. Guttenberg or Mrs. Joop are not and never were models themselves and are, therefore, not in a good position to judge. Do you take the criticism to heart? The show is mostly criticized in relation to the "normal" life. But, the model life is not the "normal" life. It certainly does not have "normal" pay. That's why there are only a few at the top. Many people say that you are to strict. I don't make the show to come across as nice, but to show the girls what the job requires. From the outside, everything always looks great and easy, but behind the scenes it is a tough struggle. Personally, what were the most brutally honest words you heard in your career? That I am too fat and curvy for the runway and that I can't fit into the clothes. For being 176 cm tall and weighing 57 kilos, they cut me down. But that's the way this industry is: rock hard. Which is important to know. These things I tell the girls today are only hints and not thrown at their heads - which is different than what was done to me. What could you totally not do at first? Smile... But you are known for your smile! Yeah, funny, isn't it? Back then, I did a job where the photographer brought me to tears. He said that my smile wasn't good enough and it was only getting worse and worse. After that, I started practicing in front of a mirror. What advice would you give to your 18-year-old self? I would do everything again exactly as I did. Everything has gone really well for me. I have fun on the job, I have a great family - four healthy children, a wonderful husband and parents - who all support me.

What Heidi Klum is really like. New video from AOL: http://www.aol.com/?ncid=tweetlnkusaolp00000001&.

61st Emmy Awards Red Carpet (2009):

From Success Secrets of the Stars: http://blogs.forbes.com/kiriblakeley/2011/...s-of-the-stars/ I interviewed Heidi for a profile that appeared in the 2008 Forbes celebrity issue. In preparation, Heidi’s publicist sent me a book called Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge. From the look and sound of it, it was going to be a bit of fluff about her exercise, diet, and beauty routine. I leafed through it out of a sense of obligation. To my surprise, inside was a blueprint for success that the CEO of a multibillion company could have written. Here are some highlights: When Heidi arrived in New York as a young aspiring model, no one wanted to hire her, despite the fact that she’d just won a very big modeling contest in her home country. Everyone thought she was too “American looking”—which is ironic, since she’s German. This went on for about a year, and Heidi describes how she watched as her aspiring model roommates either gave into partying or gave up and went home. Not Heidi. After a bit of catalogue work, she began bugging her agency to send her to lingerie company Victoria’s Secret. Her agent assured her that she was not Victoria’s Secret’s type. She was too busty, too athletic, too this, too that. Her answer? “Let them tell me that, not you.” Of course, she eventually did get in to VS and became one of their biggest models. She got rid of that agent too. In fact, she got rid of any agent she felt didn’t dream as big as she was dreaming and who didn’t understand her vision. By the time I interviewed Heidi, she was a mega-success, with the longest-running VS contract, two TV shows, and a major business empire. But one thing Heidi didn’t have yet was a Forbes cover, and she wanted it. And when Heidi wants something—step back. Heidi hired her own photographer to do a photo shoot for the story. She also had her own designer (a Project Runway finalist) construct a dress for her made of dollar bills. When someone at the Forbes Video Network asked me if Heidi would film an online video for us, I had my doubts. At the time, we didn’t have many big names doing videos (that has since changed). Why, I wondered, would a supermodel like Heidi do an online video for us? When I called her, I got the same answer I’d gotten every other time I asked her to do something: I will do anything it takes to get that cover. Her work paid off. Heidi got her Forbes cover. Lessons: Let go of those who don’t share your vision. You’re never too big to work your butt off.

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Heidi Klum Pranks Around http://www.okmagazine.com/2011/03/heidi-kl...ng-for-decades/ Heidi Klum stars in Seriously Funny Kids, but making mischief is nothing new for the German supermodel. “I definitely had one friend who I always chatted with in high school,” she tells me at Diet Coke’s Capture the Flag game in support of The Heart Truth. “And a lot of the time, if we didn’t want to be in the classroom, we would talk even more and then they would make us sit outside, which we were aiming for [laughs], so we didn’t have to stay and we could do other things, so we were so loud they’d be like ‘Karen, Heidi … you guys can go outside.’” Still, she’s been the butt of jokes. “Well, I’ve been on Hidden Camera once before in Germany, actually, where I did a big press day in Germany, and it was like they have two or three rooms of cameras set up, so you go from room to room to room to room, and you do interviews with so many people. I had done probably five or six, and then I go into the next room, and they were all so strange. They were rude, and they were so slow, and I had a whole list of things that I still had to do.” She adds, “I had to sit behind this table, and every time I would start, they would interrupt me, so I would have to start again. And then they had these plants that they were moving around, and they’re like ‘hm, no-no, now this plant is in the way, so now we have to move this plant.’ I was like ‘what are you guys doing? Is this Hidden Camera or something?’ But when they start annoying you a little bit, they were clearly making it so long and people were waiting and they were like ‘we’ve gotta go, we’ve gotta go,’ and they were like ‘no, we have to do this interview.’ Every time I would start talking, they would interrupt me.” Lucky for Heidi, she was wise to their tricks. “It was funny, but I knew something was odd because no one is that rude and always interrupting you over and over and over again. I thought there was something fishy there.” Hm, how did she react when she found out for sure that it was all a joke? “I was laughing. I thought it was funny, but I smelled the stinking fish a little bit.” Heidi aims to bring awareness to Diet Coke’s Capture the Flag game in support of The Heart Truth. ““It’s a very important program to educate women – and men – but mainly women,” she says. “I’ve been involved with the Heart Truth campaign and Diet Coke since the very beginning – four years ago. Every year, I’ve been spreading the news and telling women about heart disease and what you can do to change and better your life and hopefully have a longer life. Heart disease is still the number one killer of women in America. It’s more than all cancers put together. When you see the statistic of one in four women that dies of heart disease, it’s a very big number. One in every four women. It’s close to my heart. That sounds funny. It’s about the heart. And, it’s about women. I’m a woman, I have a mom, I have two daughters, and I want to educate people on eating right, exercising and doing something good for themselves.” Pick up the OK! on newsstands now for more on Heidi. The cover line is “Introducing Melissa Rycroft’s Baby Girl!”

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I has a sad. http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/whiz_I0h7pMENnvjJxdVMZGupIO Heidi Klum insists she didn't go commando at Elton John's AIDS Foundation Oscar viewing party and only pretended to take off her underwear to give to Jay Leno. The model and "Project Runway" star was seen wriggling out of her G-string before pretending to drop it in a bag for "The Tonight Show" correspondent Ross Mathews. But sources say Klum kept her underwear on, and the red thong inside the bag was planted by producers. Klum told us: "I was just goofing around with Ross. I was the face of Victoria's Secret -- I would never give my underwear away."

I never saw all those pictures, either!

More of Heidi at last month's Astor product launch:

Heidi is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter and talking about her deal with AOL. I've kept the good parts here. You can read the full article here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ceo-...ffington-163535 On the new cover of The Hollywood Reporter magazine with Huffington and new AOL partner Heidi Klum, Armstrong says, “We have a plan and we're executing as quickly as almost any company in our space." On the set of a photo shoot at a Los Angeles studio, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong settles into salesman mode, explaining how a strategy laser-focused on content will turn around his troubled Internet giant. He adjusts his sturdy 6-foot-4 frame and begins rattling off traffic figures, audience metrics and potential cost savings without so much as flinching. He'd willingly go on, but Heidi Klum -- one of AOL's newest celebrity acquisitions -- has come bounding out of her dressing room in impossibly high YSL heels and is already critiquing his look as though he were a contestant on Project Runway. She persuades him to remove his suit jacket, unbutton his dress shirt and shed the powder-blue Hermes tie. "Come on, you can't be too stiff," she chirps in her endearing German accent. "It's Hollywood." Then she turns to the photographer shooting the pair with AOL's newest executive, Arianna Huffington, for the cover of this magazine, "Are we cute?" She puckers her lips. "Are we Charlie's Angels cute?" [...] During the past eight months, even before his $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post was announced Super Bowl Sunday, he has brokered content deals with everyone from Klum, Gisele Bundchen and the Jonas Brothers to Mark Burnett, Ben Silverman and Michael Eisner's Vuguru. AOL signed to cross-promote Ellen DeGeneres' site and will soon roll out a late-night video block featuring highlights from the podcasts of Kevin Smith, Adam Carolla and Kevin Pollak. Now, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report that the company will add Queen Latifah to its roster. Beginning in the spring, she will produce and star in Web series about sports, entertainment and entrepreneurialism. Huffington, co-founder of the Huffington Post, will oversee this and the site's content. [...] Thus far, the deals have varied greatly, both in budget and structure (Klum will offer an entire site, Planet Heidi, with videos, blog entries and slide shows; Eisner's Vuguru will license at least six scripted series). Clift admits that this is all a work in progress as her team -- and the brands helping to finance its Hollywood productions -- gets a better sense for what users connect with online. [...] So why would someone of [Queen] Latifah's celebrity status bother with an industry -- and a company -- that's still emerging, particularly when she can connect directly with fans on such social media sites as Facebook and Twitter? Her answer is simple: AOL offers immediate scale (say what you will, it gets 15 million visitors to its homepage every day) and a major marketing tool for all things Latifah. She also says it allows a flexibility and level of creativity not always attainable through traditional production channels in film and TV. "It's great having a company that's supportive of doing the same kinds of things and looking to the future, as opposed to trying to hold on to how things were in the past," she says after a long day on set in Atlanta, where she's shooting the Warner Bros. film Joyful Noise. Although she'll produce these shows with the team at her production company Flavor Unit, the rapper, actress and longtime face of Cover Girl insists she'll have a regular role in at least the first three projects. "I'm kind of the Barbara Walters," she laughs. "I'll definitely float in and out." She is particularly excited about a sports-themed talk show for women that she has planned. In TV land, a show like that could take years to get off the ground; at AOL, it will be ready by summer. Klum says she's on board for many of the same reasons, noting that AOL offers her the potential to reach a far bigger audience than she ever could on one of her cable shows. AOL's homepage alone draws more than three times the weekly audience for her Lifetime series Project Runway. What's more, Klum's site is a mix of her ideas, tips and friends (stylists, interior designers and chefs) without the interference of network and studio bosses. "Sometimes television shows think too much about their ratings," she says. "I want to just do something that's right, that's me." Like Latifah, Klum will have her Runway production company, Full Picture, helping to feed the site with fresh content daily.

Here's the first part of the interview:

Here's part 2 of Heidi on The Ellen Degeneres Show, 1 March 2011 (I can't find the interview in the studio):

Heidi Klum took off her underwear for Ross Matthews and Jay Leno at Elton John's Oscar party (with video): http://www.tvsquad.com/2011/03/01/heidi-kl...gift-bag-video/ Here's a few LQ screen shots:

Heidi Klum: I'm not a scale person http://www.parade.com/health/modern-mommy/...art-health.html Heidi Klum may be one of the world's most beautiful supermodels, but this German-native could very well coin the term, "supermom." As a mom of four, Klum wants to teach her kids the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. She recently joined forces with Diet Coke to raise awareness and funds for women's heart health education and research. For the fourth consecutive year, Diet Coke is partnering with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to support The Heart Truth® campaign. Heidi chats with us about her involvement. How she juggles work, charity efforts, and motherhood. "For important things, you just make time. I think that Diet Coke and the Heart Truth is very important because it's for women and when you see the numbers of how heart disease kills so many women and men in America. I wanted to help raise awareness. I get numbers that heart diseases is the number one killler for women, more than all cancers put together that is a huge number and is frightening. So when you break that down 1 in 4 women and that is huge. I'm a woman, I have a mom, I have two daughters. I think that when you have access to the press and public and can spread those numbers around and tell people what they can do by easy steps and tips so that they can better their lives and hopefully live longer. It doesn't take much time out of my life to help bring awareness to this cause and raise more money." Her heart healhty diet and exercise regimen. "I have to say that being a model I've been very lucky because that forced me to live a very healthy lifestyle because I have to fit into the clothes for my job. As a result, I naturally changed my eating habits when I came to America. Instead of eating how we Germans like to eat — the fattening meats, potatoes, pasta, and putting butter on everything, I changed to eat much leaner like chicken, vegetables, and fresh salads. I still eat steaks and other different foods, but not that much anymore. When people say you are what you eat, it's really true. When people ask, "'How do you bounce back after having 4 kids?' I always say, for me it's not that hard because I've always been very active. I would rather eat vegetables than sit on the couch eating potato chips." Do you share your healthy eating habits with your children? "I teach them at an early age what is healthy and what is not. I don't think it's good to sneak vegetables in by blending them into other things so that the kid won't know. It's important to educate them instead of sneaking it in. Yes, it's good that they're eating it, but they need to understand why it's important for their bodies to grow and their hearts to work. That's why we eat the vegetables, protein and a variety of healthy foods. We try to make it a game at the dinner table, 'Is this good for me or bad for me?' And the kids answer. However, I'm definitely not someone who doesn't let them they get their ice cream or gummy candies, but they have to eat proper, too. I think it's important to educate the next generation about healthy eating." Do you have any favorite exercises? "I wouldn't say that there's any particular exercise that I love. I don't thrive on exercise — I wish I did. I'm not one of those people who say, 'My head is so much clearer now and I love it!' I just love what it does. Especially since I'm about to be 38 in a few months. All the fat in your body goes through different changes. Before I could eat more or less of the things that I wanted. Now I move around more than before. For example, last summer I ran 120 miles in New York while we were shooting Project Runway. I set a goal of running for 7 weeks every morning. It was hard and it hurt, but all the other people made me keep going. I saw all of these other women running and moving forward. It's a hard thing to do, but you just have to find your inspiration. I get energized when I'm putting my jeans on and I can close the button without sucking in my stomach — then I'm happy! I'm not a scale person or someone who looks on the back of food packages. I know my body so when I can't fit into my jeans, that's my indicator." Have you ever had any regrettable red carpet moments? "I think I'm adventurous when it comes to clothes. I love fashion and I'm not someone who plays it safe. I like to push the envelop and have fun with fashion. It reflects my personality, which is outgoing. I'm not the quiet type and I think it reflects in my clothes. When people write about not liking my clothes, it doesn't stop me from next time doing something outrageous again because it's my personality. It would be boring if we all looked the same. We all come in different shapes and sizes. Everyone's an individual." What's a typical Sunday like for your family? "We try not to make plans on weekends. We just get up in the morning and ask everyone what they want to do. A lot of times we'll drive to the park or stay at home play in our garden. With three of my children in school, it's sometimes nice for them to just play in their rooms. School ends so late so by the time they get home the day's almost done. That's why a lot of the time we just enjoy being home."

Heidi and Seal went to Elton John's Oscar Viewing party (27 February 2011):

Chat with Heidi Klum on Twitter after Seriously Funny Kids http://www.skimbacolifestyle.com/2011/02/i...heidi-klum.html You have a chance to chat with Heidi Klum on Monday February 28, right after the show airs. what: follow @lifetimetv and chat with Heidi Klum! when: Monday Feb 28 @ 6:30pm ET

Thanks for the compliment, katchitup

Seriously Funny Kids moves to Mondays http://tv.broadwayworld.com/article/_Lifet...ondays_20110225 All New Day & Time: Lifetime's "Seriously Funny Kids" Hosted By Heidi Klum - Mondays at 6/5c! Lifetime's "Seriously Funny Kids," hosted by Heidi Klum, is moving to an all new day and time: Mondays at 6/5c!

Heidi interviewed by Good Housekeeping: http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/cel...-klum-interview Good Housekeeping: What's the best part of your day? Heidi Klum: When the kids [Leni, 6; Henry, 5; Johan, 4; and Lou, 1] say, "I love you." GH: What object do you treasure the most? HK: My family photo albums. I have tons. From all our beautiful "weddings" (my husband, Seal, and I do a vow renewal each year) to our children's birthday parties, all the photos are organized and bound in leather albums. It's so old-fashioned and nice. They are really special keepsakes. GH: In your home, what is there always time for? HK: Kisses, hugs, giggles, making a mess, 6 P.M. dinners. In other words, a full and affectionate family life. GH: What's on your nightstand right now? HK: Pictures of the kids, our wedding photo, and the book The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. On my husband's side is one of the first photos we took together when we met. GH: What's a date night for you and your husband like? HK: Snuggling in bed and watching a movie together, because I wind up falling asleep in the kids' rooms when I put them to bed. If we do go out, I like to dress up, do my makeup, and wear something sexy for him. GH: What would your husband say your best quality is? HK: I'm his best friend, I listen, and I'm by his side, no matter what. GH: And your worst? HK: I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket — I go a hundred miles per hour. GH: What's one beauty product you can't live without? HK: Does a toothbrush count? I like a clean mouth. GH: Any parenting rules you swear by? HK: Many, but "Listen to your parents" — that's an über-important one. GH: Any parenting rules you break? HK: Sometimes the kids can sit in the living room with plates on their laps to eat and watch TV, but that's very rare. GH: Do you want to have more kids? HK: Four is a lot of children. Now we're complete; we look around the table and feel like there's no one missing. Everyone who is supposed to be around the table is there. GH: What's the hardest part about having four kids? HK: Making sure you give each one the time, love, and attention he or she needs. We have to remember that even Johan, who goes through life so easily, still needs just as much attention as everyone else.

Heidi talks about her favorite places in LA and NY at the Diet Coke Heart Truth Campaign event: http://lxtv.com/1stlooknational/video/11034

Couple of videos from Access Hollywood of Heidi visiting Children's Hospital Los Angeles: http://www.accesshollywood.com/heidi-klum-...a_video_1298623 http://www.accesshollywood.com/heidi-klum-...y_video_1298734

Heidi will appear on The Ellen Degeneres Show next week Tuesday (1 March 2011). Do what you have to do to prepare!

What’s the Biggest Risk You Ever Took, and Did It Pay Off? http://www.mariashriver.com/blog/2011/01/w...-and-did-it-pay Heidi Klum, Host/Judge/Executive Producer 
I am not sure if you can call it a risk, as I didn't see it as such, but when I was pregnant with my first child, some people in my industry were convinced that it wasn't the "right" time to have a child, that once you are out of the loop for a few months, that somehow meant you might be out of the job forever. But you have to choose in life what is most important to you, and then I really believe it will all work itself out. You can make it work if you work hard. I was fine with possibly doing a different job if modeling would not work for me anymore. Seven years and 4 kids later, I feel like I have done what I was meant to do, and my life is so much richer than I ever could have imagined. Having a family has always been my dream. My job has slightly shifted, but all for the better, and I don't know if it would have all worked out this way if I wouldn't have gone with my gut instinct. It's important to listen to that inner voice always.

That outfit looks familiar. Is it a re-print of an earlier photoshoot? I realy don´t know, but possible is a reprint. Myself usualy used reprints! I think MjAtaura is right. She wore that outfit in Self last year.