Everything posted by ez_c
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Heidi Klum
Do you speak Russian? Could you translate the interview to English?
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Great stuff Colorado! And thanks lilso78.
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Original scans by me from Heidi's book Body of Knowledge: Mods break out your magnifying glasses to see if there is any hint of nipple there to bust me on. I don't think I see any.
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Heidi posted a behind the scenes video of the "Stars of America" commercial on her website: http://www.heidiklum.com/Making_Of_von_Stars_of_America.aspx
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Sara Nuru
Behind the scenes of a photoshoot in Mallorca (brief nudity warning):
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Coco Rocha
Coco interviewing Heidi Klum:
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Heidi on E! News with Coco Rocha:
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Which issue of Marie Claire is this?
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http://www.bellazon.com/main/index.php?s=&...t&p=1629883 "I’ll be 80 in crutches at the VS Fashion Show hopping down the runway, groaning for my grandkids to help me down."
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Orsi Kocsis
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That was from April of this year. (Y)
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I just found out that I have been mis-translating "Schießbudenbesitzer": it means the owner of the carnival game where you try to shoot at targets with a BB gun. Schieß is "to shoot", Scheiß is a swear word.
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Thanks Ksenia and MjAtaura
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Final part of the Stern article: The Executor Start asking about Gunther Klum and his business methods and many people become silent. Including directors, marketing bosses and producers. No one wants to risk annoying Klum, Heidi's executor, who would gladly threaten them with lawyers. Some whisper that you must be "very highly regarded" before you can speak your mind. Then they are no longer within reach. On vacation, at conferences they fall ill. It is a little bit like a mafia film. Silence also from Heidi's former "GNTM" co-judge Bruce Darnell, stylist Boris Entrup and other "Topmodel" colleagues, whenever they hear the name Klum. Even the record company Warner during an interview with Seal asked for a favor about his wife, which ended with the reply: you must ask Mr. Klum. Which we did gladly. Enter Gunther Klum himself. Klum has a powerful appearance, a mixture of Santa Claus and Schießbudenbesitzer [the owner of the carnival game where you shoot targets with a BB gun (I mis-translated this earlier)]. He connects with me quickly, which is supposed to be my area. Full beard, gel in his hair, glasses with gold rims and a gold bridge, the glasses darken on their own in the sunlight. He wears Birkenstock slippers from Heidi's collection printed with lines from "Kiss From A Rose", the biggest success of his singing son-in-law. Earlier in his life, Gunther Klum was a production leader for 4711: now he manages Product Heidi Klum, although he does not like the term manager. He is the manager of Heidi Klum, GMBH, whose seat is in Bergisch Gladbach. He leads the firm whether it is a plumber's store or a car workshop. Gruff, robust, patriarchal. Letters from Gunther usually begin beforehand as a fax and on the final day as a letter bearing a seal with a large red "H" for Heidi. He buys the wax for the seal in 5 kg sacks. "He forged the Heidi" Bergisch Gladbach: Klum Town. Where everyone comes, where everything began, where everyone is known to be rooted. Karl-Heinz Eil first checks with "Junther" before he speaks about him. Eil is a hairstylist. Erna Klum used to work in his salon. He is the man who cuts Gunther Klum's hair. Another close friend of the family is Fritz Roth, the undertaker. On a distant day, Gunther Klum would like to be buried by him. Roth certified that Klum has a "soft heart", nevertheless, "but he can be very hard edged and uncompromising. He really just wants to be acknowledged. He is the one that forged the Heidi. He believes in her. And in himself." Heidi's favorite restaurant is "Hähnchen Ewald [Ewald Chicken]" in Kürten, 20 minutes by car from her parents' house. On the wall hangs a picture of Heidi Klum with no make-up on, not very glamorous. The proprietor Reiner Herzoff makes it clear, "When she is not made up, the guests sometimes don't even recognize her." When the Klums come, everyone comes. With child and skittles. They make with Hähnchen Ewald just as if they were at an Escada gala. Except that at Hähnchen Ewald, no one whispers afterwards that's where "the German Flodders" would have sat in the front row. In Kürten, the regular guests have at times seen Flavio Briatore, and now Heidi comes with Seal. After all, they should stay to watch how he digests this culture shock. Heidi is there only with the whole package, the oblique Gunther belonging with the remaining foklore and the family's engagement in the Rhinelander Karneval. When the Klums are part of the Rose Monday procession, waving from the vehicle and throwing Kamelle [not sure what this is], Seal laughs courageously along with them - it must be love. The beauty is a bitch They also give gladly in Klum house. Such as Heidi and Gunther for years supporting the Bethanien Children's Village in Bergisch Gladbach. Heidi has visited there repeatedly, even baking gingerbread for the children. When she appeared on the special "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", her earnings went to the Children's Village, just as with the proceeds from her CD "Wonderland". Heinz Fischer nearly also became a donor. The Hartz-IV Program recipient [sort of like welfare] from Aue in Erzgebirge in October 2008 had surfed the web for a picture of a Marilyn Monroe look-alike and printed it out on fliers to be used to advertise a party. Fischer did not know that the blonde with the kissy-face in the picture that he used was Heidi Klum. He only learned it when Gunther Klum called. He calculated a cost of over 142,800 Euros - 100,000 Euros for using her likeness, plus 20,000 Euros to the modeling agency plus value-added tax, which Klum demanded on the spot. Since then, a court has decided that Fischer should pay 2300 Euros. But this was paid by Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen who read of Fischer's plight with the Klums and took him under her wing. Heinz Fischer sighs: "Heidi could have simply told her father, 'Just let the man go in peace!'" He firmly believes that there is a beauty in the Klums. And a bitch. And he knows that one cannot be without the other.
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Part II of the Stern article: The Art of Self-Irony Heidi is not a prude, she gladly jokes about her breasts "Hans" and "Franz", and about her image on a special stamp she says, "It doesn't do anything for me until it is licked." The Late Night Talker tears through the talk show circuit by startling the already half-asleep nation with her miniskirts and girly laughter and hopping on trampolines and comical confessions such as admitting that she buys things from housewife catalogues like long poles to use for changing light bulbs on high ceilings. The gap in the market that she herself created, she also filled on her own: the star that can laugh at herself. The stylish one that is no-nonsense. Flirting is part of her image. She flirts with everyone, with Jay Leno as much as with the lesbian Ellen Degeneres, with technicians on the set of advertising shoots, and with studio bosses who she negotiates with over million dollar salaries. When she enters into negotiations with all these men, she tells with twinkling eyes, she would already know that she only achieves this because she is a woman. Her sex appeal is more sweet than it is scary, more of a kitten than a man-eating tiger. It is telling that in this country more women than men find her "very sexy", according to a Forsa survey on behalf of Stern. The advertising expert Karen Heumann: "Heidi offers for German women a huge projection screen. [i think this means that German women see a part of themselves in her.] She is not as extraordinarily beautiful or unattainable as Claudia Schiffer. She looks very trustworthy to the average German." That doesn't sound particularly flattering for a "topmodel", but it describes the Klum brand exactly: not lascivious and mysterious, but rather clean and shiny like a freshly polished kitchen floor. So we see the two affairs that became talking points after Heidi's separation from a New York hairstylist in 2003 where she was more used than damaged: the flirtation with the rock musician Anthony Kiedis and the momentous liaison with the old Italian playboy Flavio Briatore, not only threw her from the fashion and society pages of the tabloids, but gave her - in failure - a certain depth whereby even models can't get enough. Useful Liaison On the day that she announced the pregnancy, the grey haired, presumed father was caught with another bird. Her boring private life up to that point had turned to the dramatic and then the romantic: the humbled young mother met the soul singer Seal, sparks flew, and within the hour Seal devoted himself to his Instant Family. Heidi wove him into the Klum Empire and he composed music for her walks on the runway, they appear in commercials together, but there is more: he makes her a really lucky Heidi with endless ideas as those close to them know. On 10 May, they will celebrate their fifth wedding with a large party at their Mexican beach house and in the autumn comes the birth of a fourth Klum-child. A happy ending in the Hollywood style: she gives him sex appeal, he gives her class. She is a firm component of the entertainment world, making appearances at galas, handing out awards, even herself nominated for the reknowned US TV-honor, the "Emmy". And to be sure it's right. In her American competition show for designers, "Project Runway", she is what she could or should be in Germany, but isn't: a complete host, quiet, charming, without all the gloating mockery. When she dismisses the respective loser of the week, she gives an air kiss and pipes in German "Auf Wiedersehen!", which has a long time cult following. Perhaps Heidi in America is more mild because she does not have to assess her own successors, but "only" young designers. Her neighbors in the mountains of Beverly Hills include the Stallones and the Cruises and the Beckhams. When she goes to a filming, along comes her German driver, a blonde giant that also functions as a bodyguard and holds back the admirers from her body. No doubt: over there, Heidi is a star. Because she is such a nice German. Here she has so much baggage. Because she acts so damned American. According to Forsa, 96 percent of Germans can identify Heidi Klum, more than most federal government ministers. 85 percent of people are convinced that she is a "clever businesswoman". But here it gets bad in this country: only 61 percent of people find Heidi Klum to be a sympathetic person "all in all". Talentless German Sausage The model agent John Casablancas, who called his protoge a "talentless German sausage" after Heidi Klum left Elite agency to its competitor IMG, once remarked: "Behind her smile, her blonde style, lurks the heart of a shark." Sharks, as you know, must always swim, they never get to rest. "I have always known her to be busy," says Karin Sistig, her best friend from childhood. "When I have visited her in L.A., she always woke up early and went to work." The designer and amateur photographer had encouraged Bergisch Gladbach's most famous daughter to participate in that model competition. It was there on Thomas Gottschalk's show that Heidi became "Model '92". The prize: 300,000 dollars and a contract for an American modeling agency. "There she had her first taste of blood. She wanted more. She tried her hand in Hamburg, to no avail. Then she joined 20 others in a modeling apartment in New York. She went from casting to casting, rattling off all the photographers, it was a hard way." Heidi's secret for success? "She has the diplomacy of her mother and the business sense of her father," says Karin Sistig. The cheerfulness and ferocity unite in the model's body. Heidi Klum's magic lies in the surprising union of such contrasts: playfully connecting Beverly Hills and Bergisch Gladbach, caviar and herb soup, the aroma of the whole wide world with Drei-Wetter-Taft. Another big Heidi in the modeling business, Heidi Gross, chief agent from Hamburg ("Model Management"), remembers exactly the call she got from Gunther Klum in 1998: "I need a respectable agency." Gross is the largest dame of model making, having looked after Germany's real topmodels like Claudia Schiffer, as well as Brazil's top beauty Gisele Bundchen, or "dat Gisela" according to Father Klum. Gross tells of the the thick contracts she negotiated for Heidi Klum in her first years in the country: the four year contract with McDonald's, or the business deal with beauty company LR that makes Heidi's perfumes and cosmetic products that the winners of "GNTM" market. The contract with Katjes. She even led the contract negotiations for "Germany's Next Topmodel". Nevertheless, Gunther Klum in 2005 ended the collaboration that had been so fruitful with Heidi Gross. Yes, Mr. Klum. Again and again one hears that as nice as Heidi is, her father is as bad. And how bad it is that Heidi lets her father do everything. She trusts only him. Gunther Klum knows how one can make editors insane with constant demands: one more flight for Seal, one for the children, first class at a minimum. The fact that this season of "Topmodel" spent a considerable amount of time in L.A. should tell you that it was more favorable for the production company to fly the girls and the rest of the team there than it was to send Heidi's entire entourage to Germany.
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My translation of this article from Stern: For those that didn't understand this, it's Heidi talking about the Stern Magazine article about her. She thinks the picture montage is sweet, but says that their level of journalism is no better than tabloids. She did a long interview for that issue, but they didn't print it. Instead they printed comments from people like the former modeling agency head Mr. Casablanca who had mean things to say about her and call her father a "Schießbudenbesitzer" which translates roughly as a person who sits in a toilet stall with sh*t. http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/:Heidi...idi/700770.html Hard, harder, Heidi by Christine Kruttschnitt She is a successful woman. A pain in the neck. A sex symbol. Dominatrix. A mother for the children. A witch for the next generation of models. Germany's best business model is a woman with many faces. But who is Heidi Klum really? A search for clues. The customer at "Joe's Pizza" in Los Angeles did not recognize the celebrity at all. She had sold him a slice of pizza and pranced around in tight jeans and a tight white t-shirt, stretching her flat belly in front of him. "People tell me I have a really good body," the celebrity chirped. "Do you think so, too?" - "Hmm, yes, of course," the man mumbled while munching on his pizza. "I could make a lot of money at a strip joint!" the blonde chattered further and spanked herself with a flat hand on her rear. "Dance around the pole like this, huuuiii!" - "You have to do a little more than that," the full-mouthed customer explained. "More boobs, for example." - "My friends tell me I look like Heidi Klum," the salesman pouted but the man replied only, "She is more curvy than you." Shortly after that, the joke was revealed. When a film crew revealed to the snack bar guest that he had landed on one of those hidden camera shows and the pizza girl with no make-up was actually Heidi Klum, he only twitched his shoulder. "She looked like one of those typical L.A.-girls that gets on your nerves."[This wasn't not a very accurate re-telling of I Get That A Lot, which you can see a portion of here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owxh4_bpUok] Los Angeles Girl About that, the inattentive pizza eater was totally wrong. And yet, somehow he managed to hit the bull's eye. Heidi Klum is clearly a typical L.A. girl. The brunette from Bergish Gladbach that became California golden blonde and became an american citizen right before the Obama election is full of the health and sun-filled, lively sex appeal that the West Coast with it's surfer chicks and Hollywood starlets is famous for. Also, she looked "totally normal" on TV - just like in most paparazzi shots: not glamorous, rather casual with an elastic band on her head and similarly elastic facial expression, making faces here, dreistöckiges laughing there [i have no idea what that means], a forehead for wrinkling, a nose to wrinkle - Botox, no thanks. And that Heidi Klum can brutally get on one's nerves is something that America's most famous German learned today once again in her old homeland. On 21 May in the finale of "Germany's Next Topmodel" that for the fourth time was determined to find another topmodel (that, if we are honest, neither Germany or the rest of the world really needs), the host of the show saw the prize-winning amount of anger and gloating mockery that has set in about her that in this country is only reserved for someone like her that is really big. For a good three years she was praised as a cheerful "anti-diva" - the homeland in her heart and Mom's sauerkraut soup in her stomach - now Klum counts as a sadistic destroyer that uses the tears of the "GNTM" students to polish up her own ego. That according to Karen Heumann, chief strategist for the Hamburg commercial agent Jung von Matt and Germany's leading market expert, earlier "the soul of the German people had their fingers crossed" for Heidi's global ascent - just as she has always engaged, the poor soul - now unloads an entirely different mood on the Internet and in the media. On the comedy show "Switch", for example, the model mom is parodied as a squealing commander of a horde of crying chickens and in live blogs for the successful show spectators mock Klum's cooly lectured memory of her own modeling days: "At that time, Heidi had to tramp 30 kilometers through 5-meter high snow without shoes for a bikini-shoot. 36 hours a day!" Another: "Muzzle it, Heidi!" The Casting Dominatrix In reports about the casting show, thanks to the perfidious "challenges" for the fresh modeling meat it resembles more of a jungle camp, terms like "Governess" and "Dominatrix" have fallen on our once so sweet "show-German". The TV nation has a bad feeling that now comes her "true character to light" namely "the leg-hard, egocentric business lady", the witch, whose adolescent competition is chewed out in a fit of blubbering. That's also the impression of fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, who at the time, gave the successful model Klum a slap across the face, and mocked her as a "commercial girl with a stupid grin". His collegue Karl Lagerfeld added this significant jab: "She is more bling-bling than current fashion!" And she outraged Alice Schwarzer: "Simply repulsive," she declared after examining an episode of "GNTM", citing "the cold and arrogance" with which the Rheinlander, the crude-natured Klum, "displays these naive, young girls", as if they had registered for a course on ikebana [the Japanese art of flower arrangement] and wound up in front the judges by mistake, the comments given about their appearance really mean. Heidi's Maiden-Revue achieves a 25 percent market share every week, providing for the celebratory ProSieben [TV network]. And there she can be the ratings queen - that the format produced - that is almost like wurscht [which can mean "sausage" or "dog poop"] whether she is praised or gejoopt [don't know this word]. "You are very popular here in America," said the US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to Heidi Klum. "But in Germany are you like a queen?" - "Of course," Heidi responded and laughed at least four stories [?]. "I ride on the float through the city and wave to all the people!" Do they wave back? At present, they would rather not. The people are vexed. To the one that expressed with lust a malice toward Heidi. Is it, as hobby-psychologists conjecture, that she treats her lasses so curtly because in her own beginnings in the business she had to compete against all the gazelles, world class beauties, and hear "Don't call us, we'll call you"? And now the nation must watch as the embarrassing psychological patterns repeat. That the once humbled gives further blows at her children. No, thanks. Burgers and Birkenstocks And then comes the weariness and frustration: Kimmel's "Queen of Germany" is in reality, an advertising queen to be admired on every streetcorner, in stamp books, on TV, everywhere. She shines and attracts for shavers, burgers, Birkenstock, and also for hair products, cars and clothes. She does everything, always trusting herself, posing and singing and painting and sketching and decorating. "My head," she purred recently, addressing her creativity, "is simply always thinking!" No doubt: Heidi Klum, who was discovered on camera almost 17 years ago, and chosen almost eleven years ago for the cover of "Sports Illustrated" as a sex symbol, is, as Mr. Joop and Mr. Lagerfeld rightly have it, a model no more. Heidi Klum is a brand. Over in America, they have known that for a long time. They view Heidi as "sunshine, everyone loves her," Elaine D'Farley explains. She looked after her as a stylist for the legendary "Sports Illustrated" issue in the Maldives, with sandy beauties in bikinis, that are not so easily discovered. The models of that time "were mostly the neglected child type", hollow-cheeked and melancholic. Not so of Heidi Klum from Germany: according to D'Farley, she was "positive and happy, with great skin, beautiful body and a good laughter." Everyone was enthused about the collaboration, the catalogue girl from Germany was so professional, uncomplicated, able to listen and follow orders, and tirelessly throw her chest into the surf with zest. She spoke when the Indian Ocean was barely able to dry on her luxurious body, "I need a publicist." That was when it became clear to Elaine D'Farley just how big Heidi would become. A "powerhouse" more like a power plant. A super mogul. A household name, well known to every child. These are all discriptions for Heidi - in the countries where this is meant to be a sign of respect (compared to this country where the Global Player is viewed rather suspiciously). Also she rose to the nobility class of the supermodels as never before: relentlessly cheerfully Heidi Klum built over there her own lifestyle empire: as an expert for fashionistas - she has the most seniority of the lingerie models on the runway of "Victoria's Secret", hosts a successful and highly praised competition show for the next generation designer, develops new TV-formats as a producer and brings her own jewelry to the market. The US magazine "Forbes" calculated that La Klum earned 14 million dollars in the last year. At the same time she has not changed at all, the Heidi. She still speaks like a sweet rubber ducky and giggles like a schoolgirl over every stupid joke. She is now at an age, the 35-year-old said recently, where she is now planning to spead into other beauty arenas. She, however - with the uncontrollable circular head - had come up with a skin care line that simply smooths away wrinkles. Swoop, she sat on the sofa with American talk show host Ellen Degeneres and touted her products. The host, who did not want to take it so seriously, licked a half sample of the cream. And Heidi, never one to pass on a gag, sucked lively on the tube - "And I have always been spreading this on my face, hmmm, delicious!"
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Heidi is in the July 2009 issue of Australian Madison magazine (although it looks like last year's InStyle photos reprinted):
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Marisa Miller
That list above don't make any sense. If you bought the FHM UK magazine that had the "100 Sexiest Women In The World 2009" booklet, they chose Cheryl Cole as #1. Yet this list has Megan Fox at the number 1 spot. Also, Marisa is on the UK list at #42 yet the list above places her at number 11. Are we missing something here? I know what yur thinkin'. Your thinkin' "Vamp, you're a tool, who the hell cares." First of all, I DO. Secondly, Am I right about this? Or am I right? Each country has their own vote. The list in the US is different than the list in the UK, which is different from the list in German FHM and that's different from the list in Russian FHM. It's based on a combination of internet voting and what the editors think, and they have different editors in different countries. And you're right. I am thinking "Who the hell cares?" Every single one of those lists gets it wrong unless you happen to like the one they put at #1. Getting angry about it :anger: is just silly . Just know going into it that they're all idiots and move on. :evil:
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Thanks Nefertiti and MjAtaura!
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Access Hollywood behind the scenes at Heidi designing her own Barbie doll to be released in September: http://www.accesshollywood.com/access-excl...d_video_1127199