Heidi Klum is a star of the fashion world and serves as Host and Executive Producer of Lifetime's Emmy-nominated series, Project Runway.
Having long established herself as a top model, Heidi's career has taken many new and exciting directions. Her numerous ventures include self-designed collections for such prestigious companies as fine jeweler Mouawad and the popular shoe line Birkenstock. Heidi has also written a lifestyle guidebook titled, Body of Knowledge: 8 Rules of Model Behavior, which was released in 2004 through Crown Publishing. Other ventures include a best-selling European clothing line, accessories, fragrance and beauty lines and a candy line through Katjes (Europe) and Hillside Candy (US), available internationally. Most recently, Klum launched a clothing line for Jordache and also designed t-shirts for the 2008 US Open.
Her charity involvements include work on behalf of such organizations as the American Red Cross (as part of its Celebrity Cabinet) and the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Heidi made her acting debut appearing as Michael J. Fox's love interest in the ABC sitcom Spin City and has since appeared in the Miramax films Blow Dry and Ella Enchanted. She has appeared in cameo roles for a number of top programs, including HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Sex and the City, CBS's CSI:Miami, FOX's Malcolm in the Middle and The Larry Sanders Show amongst others. She has hosted MTV's Fashionably Loud Europe, The Laureus World Sport Awards as well as various other specials for CBS, TNT, VH-1 and MTV. She has hosted an episode of Discovery Channel's popular Shark Week (where she swam with sharks!) and is working with Discovery Networks on her own series of travel specials. She appears as villainess scientist Katya Nadanova in the best-selling James Bond 007 videogame, "Everything or Nothing".
Heidi's modeling career began in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach, Germany when she and a friend cut a modeling contest coupon out of Petra Magazine and mailed in a vacation snapshot of Heidi. She had no idea how far it would go, but Heidi eventually won the contest. From this win, Heidi was signed with an agency and her modeling career officially began. Heidi has since worked with such top photographers as Sante D'Orazio, Patrick Demarchelier, Gilles Bensimmon, Rankin, Matthew Ralston, Arthur Elgort, Walter Chin, Robert Erdmann, Marco Glaviano, Michael Thompson, Raymond Meier, Richard Burbridge, Mark Seliger, Wayne Mazur, Peter Lindbergh and Steven Meisel.
Heidi has been featured in top magazines from around the world, including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, ID, W, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Allure, Esquire, GQ, British GQ (for which she was named 'Woman of the Year' twice in a row, normally reserved for men) French, British & German Vogue, German Elle, Self, Fitness, New Woman and Grazia magazines.
In addition, Heidi has appeared in campaigns for H&M, Nike, American Express, Target, Liz Claiborne, Siemens, Givenchy, Finesse, Braun (for which her legs were insured for over $2 million!), Caress, Lancaster, INC, Nine West and the prestigious Pirelli calendar, amongst others. Heidi is also well-known for her work with Victoria's Secret. One of her first big breaks as a model was to walk in the Victoria's Secret widely-watched runway show. Since then, she has completed many campaigns for Victoria's Secret, being featured prominently in the company's world-famous catalogs and fashion shows. Heidi was chosen to wear the $10 million jeweled Millennium Bra, as well as the jeweled Fantasy Bra in 2001 and 2003 and has been featured on the cover of the Victoria's Secret Swim Book.
In her downtime, Heidi cultivates her creative talents, sketching ideas for her jewelry and shoe lines, as well as crafting unique home products and embroidered clothing & accessories. Her own paintings have even appeared in national magazines. Heidi's undeniable beauty, exuberance and natural charm are signals that her phenomenal success so far is only the beginning.
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