Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum was born on 1st January 1973 at Berisch Gladbach, Germany to the couple of Gunther and Erna.

She used to live with her family at Bergisch Gladbach, a city within Cologne. As Heidi`s father worked for a cosmetics company and her mother Erna, was a hairdresser she always wanted to be a fashion model.

While Heidi was still in high school and 18 years old, she saw an ad in `Petra` magazine for a competition called `Model '92`. It was Heidi`s friend who encouraged her to tremendously to send some photos of her for the competition. Then Heidi traveled to Munich to compete for the competition. She went there just for fun but this later turned out to be a life changing event as she won that competition. She was hugely surprised as she never thought of winning.

This 5 feet 9 inches supermodel with tantalizing figure went on to sign a contract with the Metropolitan modeling agency, for a minimum of three years. But before leaving for America, she modeled in fashion capitals like Paris and Milan.

Heidi`s patience and hard efforts began to create magic and the modeling offers started to enter her life at a fast pace. As a result she appeared in many print advertisements that includes `Bonne Bell`, `Finesse`, `Gerry Weber`, `Givenchy`s Amerige`, `I-N-C`, and also for the `Victoria`s Secret` advertising campaign. The appearance in the Victoria`s Secret Angels advertising campaign, saw her rise from model to supermodel, thus sharing same stardom like Yasmeen Ghauri, Tyra Banks, Helena Christensen, and Stephanie Seymour.

Heidi then went on to appear on the covers of magazines such as Bride`s, Cosmopolitan, Self, Glamour, and Mademoiselle, but the recognition that Heidi received as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition`s 1998 cover girl was beyond all.

Heidi did not had to look back as she achieved super stardom after winning the cover spot on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine. After her appearances on the `Letterman Show` and `Spin City` her followers started to wonder whether she was moving towards a second career. She then got contracted with Elite Model Management, and continues pursuing her acting career.

Heidi is very much known all over for her down to earth personality accompanied by her great sense of humor. She dislikes staying in expensive hotels and also hates to fly.

As far her personal life goes Heidi is married to hairstylist Ric Pipino in September 1997, in Stone Ridge, New York and later separated in November 2002.