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Thanks magic and capt. bob!

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I was just going to post those gracejambo but you beat me to it. :blah:

Thanks!

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Here's another one from the Us Weekly Style Maker's party:

Heidi with Eve

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This is an old interview with Heidi Klum from 2003 that appeared in a German newspaper. I finally got around to translating it.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3l1/kultur/a...0688/print.html

17.04.2003

Heidi Klum Interview - What is the message of your breasts?

100 Questions with Heidi Klum

Schlosshotel Lerbach in Bergisch Gladbach: it's entirely beautiful. Here is where the famous chef Dieter Müller cooks. This is the place for getting married, drinking a pot of coffee, traveling on gravel roads. Eleven o'clock in the morning. It is the day of Karneval and the sun has come out. Heidi Klum - Butter Flower, Sunshine, Miss Good Mood. She is a model by trade (Victoria's Secret, Katjes, H & M) and star of celebrity parties (recently in a photo with Steven Tyler, George Clooney, Nicholas Cage and the reigning mayor Klaus Wowereit). Labeled with "Made in Germany". Nobody presents themselves as famously as Heidi Klum in the USA - more famous than Claudia Schiffer, ten times more famous than Gerhard Schröder, a thousand times more famous than Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union. The 1998 cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (with Heidi the cover model) was seen by 20 million people, and since then she has appeared on Jay Leno five times and David Letterman ten times. She is a super model that really is no supermodel: too short and boobs that are too big. Her face is missing something - arrogance, neurosis, expression of deeper experience. Her trick: her boobs are never completely unpacked. Punctuality. Zero odd behavior. Normality. Rarely a star with so few diva qualities. Under all conceivable manners stands the chosen friendly effect. One expects her to give PR answers, and fake horror when asked certain things (marriage plans, money, intrigue). It is possible that she really is frightened. She comes with her father, manager of Heidi Klum GmbH [Heidi's business venture]. There she stands. She throws nothing around. Jeans, t-shirt that says "Bergisch Gladbach True Love", hair colored like Jon Bon Jovi. She looks very sympathetic and very much in her prime. One would like her to say something cheeky and pinch you in the arm - so fit and fresh and happy she seems. One proceeds, over all the babbling (true love, Karneval, Spring), to the Winter Garden, sitting on one side. She doesn't smoke. She asks whether 100 questions will last 100 hours. No, we can do it more quickly. Here. Now. Straight away. Immediately. She has character in her breasts. Tension because one underestimates beautiful people again - always.

1. Your costume [for Karneval]?

Clown.

2. Have you been disguised as Heidi before?

I have already. Halloween for two years. This year I was Betty Boop - red dress and appropriate curves. She is a cartoon character. Before that I was Lady Godiva, who rode naked through town on a horse so they didn't have to pay taxes.

3. Right, does one misunderstand Karneval when they show up as a sexy witch?

We are not like that. This isn't Rio.

4. What is your full name?

Heidi Klum.

5. Your nickname in elementary school?

No nickname. I was only ever called, "Heidi, where is the Almöhi? Heidi, where did you leave Peter?" [from the story Heidi]

6. Is it true you had bad acne as a teenager?

Yes.

7. Did you think that your pimples would effect how people see you today?

Not at all. Nonsense. Really, not.

8. You're last diet?

Regular vegetarian meals, but no diet. I like candy.

9. The last time you were high on drugs?

I don't take drugs. Never.

10. Is it impossible to find the man of your dreams on the carnival wagon?

I don't think it's likely. But I won't say it cannot happen.

11. Would you agree that your enormous success in America is due to your impudently good name Heidi Klum?

No. I worked for five years as a model when no one could connect my face with my name.

12. How much did it cost to buy your parents their great house?

I will not say.

13. Do you still have the wine-red leather sofas in the living room?

They were dark red plastic sofas before.

14. How about a Heidi Klum Calendar for the guest bathroom?

No. For you?

15. What's a typical food smell in the Klum house?

That's easy: browned onion and bacon.

16. Is there a spot in your parents' house where you are perfectly relaxed?

The corner bench in the dining room. My parents got that in Thailand.

17. Who must be present to make the coffee circle perfect?

My old friends Karin and Nina, Gerd, Paride, Elvis, Karen's friend. Karin is an editor for a television station, Nina has a sushi bar in Cologne. Make coffee, music and talk.

18. Girls, horses and adventure?

No. More cats. A hamster.

19. Did you have a Rocky poster on your wall?

No. Wham! And a Nena poster.

20. Your first kiss?

That was Oliver. He has since gotten married. I've seen him now and again.

21. Your first Kölsch? [beer made in Cologne]

Maybe when I was 18.

22. What was the café where you would meet around 1986 in Bergisch Gladbach?

It was called "Labyrinth".

23. What was the first movie you went to where you let a boy hold your hands?

The Name of the Rose

24. Which sport do you think is best for studying the male body?

God... I don't know. One can look at them all the time.

25. When and where did you see a naked man for the first time?

We went to nudist beaches when I was very young - four or five years old. In Italy, Yugoslavia. There were plenty of naked men.

26. Which hobby from your teenage years do you still do?

Painting. I also like to do handicrafts with my clothes.

27. Which grandmother gave you your appearance?

My slim nose comes from Grandma Leni.

28. Which bus line does your brother Michael drive daily?

It changes. He drives through Bergisch Gladbach. Too bad it isn't here.

29. Are you proud to give your father work?

You have it backwards. I am proud that he can make this work for me. I trust my father. He only wants what's best for me. Other people can work for one person, but the interest is automatic when it's another family member.

30. Is it not a problem for your father to continuously see you in your underwear?

Not at all. I am not how I look in the photos. My parents know how I really am.

31. Was it an argument with your friend Karin that persuaded you toward a modeling career?

Whoever wasn't there doesn't really know what went on. They will never learn. We sat in front of the TV. She said, "Come on. Send some photos in."

32. Did you have professional training in Jazz dance?

You can't really call it that.

33. Your present day salary?

No comment.

34. Do you have nice memories of your first shooting for Bäckerblume? [a German magazine]

So help me, I hadn't shaved my armpits at that time!

35. Can one say that you work entirely out of your bathrobe?

No. People think I only do underwear and swimwear modeling. A big part of my work is fashion editorials and cover shoots.

36. How does a Miracle Bra work, exactly?

It is a push-up bra. A padded brassiere.

37. What exactly should we imagine about "bra talk"?

That is one viewpoint. Discussions about models, half clothed, with make-up on, in folding chairs, waiting for orders from the photographer - I think that is what you mean.

38. What is the most guarded secret of underwear firm Victoria's Secret?

It's no secret, it's a cult: affordable underwear, good marketing.

39. Is is true that you designed the Birkenstock model "Topaz" using a garlic press?

It's really true. I did not have the right tool. I am not a shoemaker.

40. Is it true that you can't keep still during photo shoots?

Nonsense.

41. Is it true that - for a photo shoot - you climbed into a shark basin?

Sort of. It was for TV in the sea in Belize.

42. Which flower fits best in your hair?

Snow bells. No! Lily of the valley, my favorite flower. I used to go with my friends into the woods and we would pick lily of the valley.

43. When did you finally come up with the structure for a photo shoot for a Heidi Klum calendar?

When I finally looked about my apartment in New York. There was no shooting, though.

44. Your greeting to German fellows and master drivers?

Crumple your sleeves up!

45. Your message to Klaus Zwickel of IG Metall? [former head of the German Metalworkers Union]

What should I tell him? So much further!

46. What is the toughest part of your job?

Jet lag. Flying. Always traveling.

47. The most inspiring part of your work?

The life experiences.

48. The main difference between you and Nadja Auermann?

She is tall. I am short. I am much shorter than many other models.

49. The main difference between you and Naomi Campbell?

The color difference.

50. Model like Bo Derek?

No.

51. Would you agree that the Age of the Supermodels has past?

The times have changed a little. The hype over the supermodels of the early Nineties - Cindy, Christy, Naomi - has subsided. It was completely new for models to have names. The models were as well known as actresses.

52. What is there to permanently smiling?

Yeah, with me it's always going cheerfully!

53. Is it true that smiling brings good fortune?

I am simply satisfied. In this respect, I do look like that.

54. Is laughing necessarily the opposite of "Spießigkeit"? [no idea what this means and neither does Heidi]

I don't understand the question. If I smile at someone, already a lot of stupidity is gone. The whole getting-to-know-you rubbish. The people say, "Hello, how are you?"

55. What happened with that charming problem with one of your incisors?

One was longer. So it had to be ground down.

56. What is the secret of your body?

The secret of my body! There is no secret! What kind of secret?

57. What part of your body is still strange to you?

I have been photographed so much! I even know all the details of my back.

58. Do you like the title, "The Body"?

Yes. I think it's crazy!

59. Is it not charming that the Americans got forth extra for you the fifty-year-concept "Superwoman"?

Charming, of course.

60. Do you also like the title "sex bomb"?

That sounds a little outdated. I haven't heard people call me that.

61. Do you agree when people call you a pin-up?

That's fully okay.

62. What position do you sleep in?

On my side.

63. Do you have back pains?

No.

64. Eyes, boobs, butt - in what order do people look at you?

In that order.

65. How has the size of your breasts changed the way you tease with your eyes?

What? That's a crazy question. Next.

66. In words - what is the message of your breasts?

They just have to fit into the bra. That was known already.

67. Is it perfectly stupid to say that breasts can have character?

I don't think a breast can have character.

68. What is your definition of beautiful breast?

Round. Really round. The skin should look great.

69. Quick - give ten, twenty Heidi concepts for breasts.

Breasts, boobs...

70. What do you call breasts during photo shoots?

Boobs.

71. Is it completely clear to you why men are so fixated on breasts?

I think you already know that, yeah.

72. Who was the last to be comforted at your breast?

Sheila, my dog. I had stepped on its paw.

73. Do you sometimes get sad that men don't have breasts?

They don't belong there. A hairy boob - I find, I think, that would be not so good.

74. What does the perfume "Heidi Klum" smell like?

Sexy. Feminine. Vanilla. Much bergamot orange.

75. Your own body aroma?

That depends.

76. What do you do during the time that others have a cigarette "after [sex]"?

Lie, breathe, listen, watch.

77. Does sauerkraut give you power?

Not that I know.

78. Is it your invention that one should yodel after sex?

I didn't come up with that. I only did that once for Michael J. Fox when I was on Spin City.

79. How goes the clean sex that you are famous for?

I am famous for clean sex? You just made that up! I have no idea how that would go!

80. In principle - are you comfortable knowing that 50% of the United States of America would like to sleep with you?

Oh, God. I don't think about that. I am too busy to contemplate these questions.

81. Have you noticed that Americans say "sport" and mean "sex"?

In my ten years [in America] I have not noticed that.

82. Who is the smallest man you've kissed?

My nephews Bastian and Benjamin.

83. What do you say to that - that it takes pure sexiness to fall in love?

When is that enough? That's not enough for me.

84. Are you serious that women talk about men's butts?

Yes.

85. What did your mother teach you about men?

Be independent. We should not be dependent on men.

86. Is it true that you go for bad characters?

No.

87. How can a man tell that you've fallen in love?

I hear, I believe, a lot of nonsense. He will notice the style of how I kiss him.

88. Where is New York the most like New York?

In a taxi. On the streets. When everyone is in a hurry.

89. When did you feel intimidated by the whole, wide world?

At the Golden Globes? You constantly encounter people of another caliber. But, you're not really intimidated by it. I march through there smiling. I am a "go getter".

90. Did you have small-talk with Donald Trump?

Not quite. Recently, before Christmas, we did an appearance for the German TV network Ostereier. He asked me how things were going.

91. You recently were amused by George Clooney at a bar in Berlin?

He is a good drinker. Then we both had a few drinks. Like the fishes! We were naturally not in control of ourselves.

92. What's it like living with all the famous people?

I don't live with them. We share no life. We share our professional lives. To that extent we see ourselves.

93. What facial expression is the most evil?

Wild, staring eyes.

94. Which model measurements are the best?

Do you mean typical measurements? 34C-25-35. Those are in English units.

95. When was the last time - out of pure joy through the world - you screamed with hands covering your mouth?

Yesterday evening. We tried on all of our Karneval outfits, my father, mother, aunt, my assistant and I. We then ate all evening.

96. Your favorite wellness retreat on Earth?

"Brenner's Parkhotel" in Baden Baden.

97. Where would you like to retire?

So far, I haven't thought about it. I recently bought myself a house in Westchester, an hour's drive from New York. It has a garden and pool. That's a house I could have a family in.

98. What's your biggest winnings in Las Vegas?

I put in $300 and got out $1500. I immediately bought a purse.

99. What's your cell phone number?

No way!

100. What would you ask Markus Schenkenburg?

Markus Schenkenburg, 36, well known male model. I don't know.

Thank you for this awesome interview :) She's just adorable

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