in Brentwood with her dad March 12 2011

filming GNT in Beverly Hills

March 9 2011

CP

Official GNTM-2011 Wallpaper

credit to pro7

Jimmy Kimmel Show, 14.03.2011

You can bid on a chance to meet Heidi Klum on the set of Project Runway:

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The proceeds for this item benefit Stephen Gaynor School

Terms: Includes: a set visit for 2 people to Project Runway in NYC plus a meet and greet with Heidi Klum. Experience is subject to scheduling and availability and will take place at a mutually agreed upon time, convenient to the production of Project Runway.

Bidding starts at $2900 and lasts until March 30

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.

61st Emmy Awards Red Carpet (2009):

Astor lipstik behind the scene photo

And two new video:

at The Grove in West Hollywood March 19, 2011 -HQ

otto

Thanx fashiondream ! She looks amazing!!

What Heidi Klum is really like. New video from AOL:

http://www.aol.com/?ncid=tweetlnkusaolp00000001&.

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.

Sports Illustraited 1998

old good times...

new A magazine cover

zinio.com

new A magazine cover

zinio.com

Thanks to FRANCY ITALY, I was able to get and translate the article from A Magazine. Here it is:

When I saw Seal, I wanted him: he was sweaty and sexy

But she was pregnant. Seven years and 4 children later, Heidi tells why she and her husband stay in bed a long time.

"You don't know how much laughter my husband and I have with the children. On Sunday all four are in our bed: with games, cuddles, and "squeezes", the morning passes. I have always loved to laugh and make others laugh."

And in the afternoon?

"There's no schedule. After breakfast, everyone says what they want to do, usually preferring not to go out: Leni is almost seven years old and goes to school, Henry and Johan, who are 5 and 4, go to nursery school. Lou, the last born, is only a year and a half old."

According to reports, if the Samuels are in the house, their neighbors are more pleased than if they are in the playground, where Los Angeles's famous supermodel and Seal take their children to play. The other mothers complain about the intrusiveness of the paparazzi. "I do not like my children to be photographed, and I am even more sorry if it happens to someone else's. But it's not our fault."

Heidi Klum is a supermodel, though she says, "Today I feel more like a supermom." At 37 years, she is still "The Body". According to her friend, Rankin, the photographer for Cool Britannia with whom Heidi has produced several photo books, she is simply unique. According to Forbes, she is the second richest model in the world (behind Gisele Bundchen). She was born in a German village, Bergisch-Gladbach, near Cologne. "I've always felt like the little girl who was organizing frog races, one of the funniest moments of my life. Fashion, photo shoots, being a Victoria's Secret Angel, working in TV: I do not have as much fun with, believe me."

We are in Los Angeles. It's cold. But the supermom Heidi is dazzling: she wears a soft red silk blouse with a V neck and some embroidery. The tight jeans have the cuffs rolled up. The turquoise closed-toe Christian Louboutins are the perfect accessory. The bracelets make a sound every time Heidi moves her hands. Her hair is loose. "They say, 'Never work with children and animals'. So I decided to give up the animals and devote myself only to children." Heidi is leading a new broadcast: Seriously Funny Kids, airing in the States, on the cable channel Lifetime.

Prefer children to adults?

"Sometimes. They are innocent, and very unpredictable, very funny. Adults are not always a pleasant company."

Your children make laughter?

"To die for ... We love to touch and hug each other, and play very physical: I do not want to have the feeling of living in a museum. Karnival and Halloween are my favorite holidays. My mother sewed beautiful costumes and I still love dressing up and dressing the children. Invite me to a costume party and you will make me happy. The last one? That was the birthday of my friend Eva Longoria."

And, in addition to dressing up?

"I play with fake boogers, which we also do on the show. I attach them under the nose to the children, most like the ones that are large and disgusting."

You never thought a supermodel should not do these things?

"No, because I want to be free. In my family and on TV. I have only one limitation: do not provide negative role models."

You were very happy as a little girl?

"I was always outdoors. I wanted to be a wild savage, no joke. I'm 37, I grew up in a world without video games. For my children it's different, but you know what? Henry especially complains that Seal and I spend too much time in front of the computer screen."

Shows with children are often criticized, that you are "using" them to do the show and consider it a form of violence.

"We do everything we can to not steal them from their everyday life. Sometimes there are children pushed out there from their mothers, who particularly anxious of getting them on TV. I feel that sometimes and I do not like it. I'm also attentive to personal histories: whether, for example, there is a pending divorce or some family problem, and I avoid touching the subject. "

Is it true that your seven-year-old daughter is a consultant?

"Only in the sense that, on TV, I try to be as natural as I am with her. Even then things happen that are surreal: a boy, while playing hide and seek during the show, asked me if I did the same at home with my husband. I replied that I play that only with my children."

In the English magazine Tatler, however, you said that you run around naked at home...

"I mean, if one of us is in the bathroom and someone opens the door, there is no horrified scream. I also have humor there. After the Oscars, at Elton John's party to raise money for AIDS, when I was asked on live TV to donate a garment, I spontaneously took off my panties. Seal and I both agree: our bodies should not make us feel embarrassed in any way - they are gifts from God."

You have also said that women should not be too thin: it sounds strange, coming from "The Body".

"But I've never been skinny. Jeans manufacturers and designers always insist on bringing in "size zero": how does a normal woman fit in? It's not a positive message. They told me to just lose weight, excavate your face, and they do not like me."

You decided to use Seal's surname...

"I think it's because I realized that he really is the man of my life ... Every year we say, on May 10 it will be the sixth "wedding ceremony." We look into each other's eyes and we kiss, surrounded by our children. So he was the right person. I immediately knew when I was with a friend at the Mercer Hotel in New York, 5 weeks pregnant with Leni. I saw this man walk in beautifully, in tight shorts, in a sweat because he had come from the gym: he presents himself, he speaks, he said he was going to take a shower and call me back. I thought that was really sexy and I wanted him...". And she laughs.

Yep... only candids... Heidi, pleaes, make some shoot or editorial!!!