Heidi Klum has two appearances coming up:

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Thursday (21 February)

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Wednesday (27 February)

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In this hand out photo released by Disneyland showing Seal and Heidi Klum with painted cat faces ride on Dumbo The Flying Elephant ride at Disneyland on Monday Feb.18,2008 in Anaheim, Calif.

(Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland)

Mon Feb 18, 4:27 PM ET

Another TV appearance has been announced:

The Ellen Degeneres Show: Wednesday (27 February)

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This is regarding the appearance of Heidi on the Beckmann Show

Here is the link - The Show is online

http://www.daserste.de/beckmann/sendung_dy...jzrhwuoj~cm.asp

(copy and paste probably works best)

Then click on the little camera symbol next to Heidi's Picture.

Also on the show are Barbara Meier and Lena Gercke. I don't know if there is a transcript available. I did not watch the show yet, I can tell that is 1 Hour and 13 Minutes long. If anyone is interested I can do a summary on the weekend about what they were talking about.

This is regarding the appearance of Heidi on the Beckmann Show

Here is the link - The Show is online

http://www.daserste.de/beckmann/sendung_dy...jzrhwuoj~cm.asp

(copy and paste probably works best)

Then click on the little camera symbol next to Heidi's Picture.

Also on the show are Barbara Meier and Lena Gercke. I don't know if there is a transcript available. I did not watch the show yet, I can tell that is 1 Hour and 13 Minutes long. If anyone is interested I can do a summary on the weekend about what they were talking about.

This is regarding the appearance of Heidi on the Beckmann Show

Here is the link - The Show is online

http://www.daserste.de/beckmann/sendung_dy...jzrhwuoj~cm.asp

(copy and paste probably works best)

Then click on the little camera symbol next to Heidi's Picture.

Also on the show are Barbara Meier and Lena Gercke. I don't know if there is a transcript available. I did not watch the show yet, I can tell that is 1 Hour and 13 Minutes long. If anyone is interested I can do a summary on the weekend about what they were talking about.

Thanks for the link stefkay!

I know some German, but a more detailed transcript would really help me out. It sounds like a great interview!

I also have to add that I love the style of the show. In America you typically have a 5 minute interview of nothing but fluff questions (How's it going? Tell us about your kids... How fun was shooting this scene in the movie? etc) before they cut you off for a commercial break, but Beckmann actually sits you down for an hour with some really probing questions (politics, parenting styles, differences in cultures, etc).

Correct me if I'm wrong stefkay, but it seems like Beckmann treats Heidi like an expert in everything she does, whereas the typical American talk show would view her as just a pretty face on a magazine. It's like in Germany they ask "What can we learn from her?" and in America they ask "How can she entertain us?"

Exactly right. Beckmann treated her and Lena and Barbara with the utmost respect. He is also well informed and very polite. He does not ask dumb questions or reduce her to her looks. You can tell he likes her very much and that he respects her. He also addresses Lena and Barbara with "Sie", which is the polite version of saying you (like "vous" in French). This is typical in Germany when you don't know someone personally and you want to show respect you address them with "Sie".

I have to say though, that in Germany Heidi is generally more respected for being such a great business woman. In magazines and interviews she is always introduced as the super Business Woman and super mom and then as a topmodel.

People really look up to her.

This is the first part of the interview. I wrote down what she said. You can tell by reading what she says what Beckmann's questions were. I did not write it like an interview. The part that I wrote so far covers the first 53 minutes, so I have about another half hour of the interview left, which I will write tomorrow night.

Enjoy reading: it's really great!

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She tells that she is currently in Germany (for GNTM) and says she always travels with her complete family. She is living in Bergisch-Gladbach where her parents added another story to their house so they would all have enough space. She lives there when she is working in Germany and goes home every night (and still shops for chicken at her favourite place Hähnchen (Chicken) Ewald).

They talk about the appearance of models, why especially the Paris look is so horrible and the girls are so thin. Heidi agrees that it has gotten worse and says it is hard for the girls because the fashion is made by the designers and the clothes get smaller and smaller and many models try to fit this image. She says neither her nor Lena or Barbara would fit into this kind of fashion, that they are more curvy and unfortunately this is dictated by the designers who create the fashion. She says there are designers however, like Roberto Cavalli or Victorias Secret or Valentino, who want curvy and sexy models. She likes the feminine look much better and says that you just look the way you look and shouldn’t change too much. It is most important to be fit and healthy. She says Lena and Barbara are too pretty for the Paris model scene, they are too healthy and gorgeous looking (Lena said when she was in Paris she stood out from the other models, because they were all pale and skinny).

Heidi says she went to New York after trying castings in Hamburg, Munich, Paris, Milano and did not get any jobs. She insisted on going to New York because her contract was with the agency in NYC. She also went to a casting with Karl Lagerfeld and he said: Thank you and good bye, because she was too curvy.

She says despite her many projects and her work-load her family is the most important thing for her and her husband. But the job is also very important for her and her husband. She says she could not be home all day cooking and playing with the kids which she absolutely loves, but sometimes she just has to do something for herself (and Seal for himself), because it makes her happy too. She denies the fact that she is constantly travelling and says “hardly ever”. She says they are travelling twice a year (all together) - they go to NYC for five weeks for Project Runway (they pack up the whole house in 14 suit-cases) and then to Germany for a few weeks for GNTM. The children are going to a German Kindergarten while she is here.

She is her own boss, answers her own emails (sometimes her dad or an assistant in NY) but she says she is a little stubborn that way, always wants to know what comes up and plan vacations and organise her work effectively since they are five people in the house.

For the upcoming Oscars she has her dress custom made by John Galliano this year (probably in red). She hasn’t seen it yet and does not know yet, what design it will be. She does not have to pay for it and will later put it up for auction and donate the money.

When she travels she always has two nannies, because the kids are still too small. She could do it on her own, but it is just too hard. They are all running into different directions, have to have their diaper changed etc. She says when they are boarding a plane with the kids people are looking like: Oh no! (she rolls her eyes and laughs). Leni always runs down the aisle.

When she works she has Helena for her hair and Linda for her make-up with her, because it is easier.

Beckmann says last time Heidi was on the show Seal was there too and slept backstage in the lounge. Heidi laughs and says she didn’t bring him this time, but since he is so creative and works hard he sometimes just falls asleep like when she talks to him and looks over he is snoozing. She says sometimes in the middle of the night he wakes up and starts writing a song or when they are sitting in a restaurant or go out he always brings his tape recorder with him and suddenly pulls it out and starts singing when he gets an idea for a song. She says its very funny with him and people are always confused when he suddenly sinks into his own creative world.

Beckmann asks her if she ever gets to the point where she would like to give it all up. She says she is very happy and if that would happen she would hire more people to help her. They are very spontaneous and if it gets too much they just go on holiday or prolong their vacation and do nothing all day.

She says she has never been as happy as she is now. She has met many people and done many things, but now she has found the love of her life and her children are all so different and great that if her job were over tomorrow she would be ok, because her happiness about her family is so overwhelming and she just feels complete.

She says she does not really think about how people perceive her, she does not analyse herself very much. She decides everything straight from the heart. She says at the moment everybody wants her to bring her children into the media, she is offered a lot of money for her children to advertise with them, but it is absolutely not what they want or feels like the right thing to do and this is how she decides what she does. The feeling has to be right and it has to suit her and fit into her life and be right for her as a person. In the beginning of her career she had publicity advisors and they told her to do more for a younger audience and she did MTV fashionably loud, which she only did, because it was recommended to her. Now, she is best friends with her publicist and still gets her advise, but decides alone. She also does not think about “media overkill” (some people accuse her of being too present in the media, of doing too much and that it gets on people’s nerves) she just does what she likes. Many people in Germany think (about 47%) that Heidi is not a good role model, but that she is very natural. She says she can only do what she can do and has no influence on whether people like her or not.

On her show she says she has become louder and more direct when talking to people. She does not hide so much of what she really wants to say, she just says is now and is more open and honest. She wants the girls to know that this business is not easy and that they don’t have a clue when they argue with her what it’s really like. They show Heidi a clip of two women who run model agencies in Germany who are saying that the show does not portray real life and that it is untrue and fake. Heidi laughs and says if she would have taken their advice she would still be in Bergisch-Gladbach and never seen the world. She wants the girls to know that they have to move their butt if they want something to happen and be active and strong-willed. She tells how in Las Vegas a photographer once made her cry, because he yelled at her for not smiling the right way and how in Paris she never fitted into any clothes and everyone refused to work with her and how she went to a casting and it took her half and hour and then she waited and waited and they called her in, looked at her book for 3 seconds and said: Out! and never looked her in the face. She says the only way to learn how to deal with rejection is to do it over and over again and to get a thicker skin. She is now “immune” to this kind of talk and it was a learning process.

She says she would be happy to help a girl if she asked her for help, because she has an eating disorder, but this does not happen. She says the girls don’t talk to her about this. She refused to take on certain girls for the show, because they were too thin and she sent them home and recommended them to eat more and become healthier. She knows that the media promotes this image and that some women are naturally thin and don’t gain wait, but she always says: Be healthy instead of Be thin. This year on GNTM she does the runway training with the girls (they are wearing tights and fitted shirts) and she can tell that some girls are just not toned and fit, their skin isn’t firm and they just need to work out more. She thinks that working out is a good thing and your body and health benefits from it. She doesn’t agree when people say, the girls watch her show and then stop eating, because they want to look like the models. She never says that the girls should starve, but that they should eat the right things and work out. She also watches what her children eat and thinks it’s not wrong to pay attention to nutrition. She watches their intake of sweets and they cook fresh food. She thinks the audience decides what body image they want to believe in and what look or figure they think they should have. It’s their own standards they set for themselves which neither she nor anyone can control and that she does not know many people who are extremely thin and who starve all the time. It’s not how an average person looks like and in the media the images are all photoshopped and enhanced or altered.

They think that the opposite will be the case in the future, that people will get fatter and bigger, because the eating habits are getting worse and even children are having weight problems now. She says it also depends on the family and what kind of role model you are for your children.

She says that many of her images are altered on the computer, for instance after the birth of her child after the photoshoot for Jordache Jeans they erased the “additional weight” around her waist and hips to make her look thinner. She says she often did not recognise herself when she saw her pictures. For Givenchy Perfume she had to dye her hair blonde and get blue contacts so they would work with her.

She says her home is Germany, she is not an American, she feels at home here and even in America people tell her that she is very German. She does not have dual citizenship, but the children do have German and American citizenship.

Thank you so very much!! You Rock!!! :)

Great stefkay! I look forward to seeing the rest!

But, the guy in me is really interested to know exactly what she says around 36 minutes in. They talk about her "whole package" comment on Oprah and the Victoria's Secret commercial where she plays with her breasts. Reinhold asks something about being sexy in the commercial but I don't understand her response. Then they talk about the reaction to her "whole package" comment. Could you translate that part for us?

Thanks again for your efforts!

Thank you so much for Stefkay for the write up. This is awesome. Since, I don't speak German this makes me day. I can't wait for the rest of the interview are you going to add more details over the weekend?

http://www.02202.com/

Video Heidi Klum for her Town

Great stefkay! I look forward to seeing the rest!

But, the guy in me is really interested to know exactly what she says around 36 minutes in. They talk about her "whole package" comment on Oprah and the Victoria's Secret commercial where she plays with her breasts. Reinhold asks something about being sexy in the commercial but I don't understand her response. Then they talk about the reaction to her "whole package" comment. Could you translate that part for us?

Thanks again for your efforts!