She accepted the contract a few months later, after graduating from school, and decided not to try for an apprentice position at a fashion design school. After winning, she appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show, a German television show with host Thomas Gottschalk. Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner on 29 April 1992, and she was offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. A friend convinced her to enroll in a national modeling contest called "Model 92". She is the daughter of Erna Klum (née Berger), a hairdresser, and Günther Klum, a cosmetics company executive. Klum was born and raised in Bergisch Gladbach, a city near Cologne, West Germany. In 2008, she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship. Forbes noted that since ending her 13-year run as a Victoria's Secret Angel, Klum has become more of a businesswoman than a model. She was ranked second on Forbes ' list of the "World's Top-Earning Models". In May 2011, Forbes magazine estimated Klum's total earnings for that year as US$20 million. From 2013, with the exception of 2019, Klum has been a judge on NBC reality show America's Got Talent.
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She has also made guest appearances on TV shows including Sex and the City, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives and Parks and Recreation. As an occasional actress, she had supporting roles in movies including Blow Dry (2001), Ella Enchanted (2004), and made cameo appearances in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Perfect Stranger (2007) and Ocean's 8 (2018). In 2009, Klum became Barbie's official ambassador on Barbie's 50th anniversary. She has worked as a spokesmodel for Dannon and H&M and has appeared in numerous commercials for McDonald's, Volkswagen and others. Klum has been nominated for six Emmy Awards. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998 and was the first German model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel.įollowing a successful modeling career, Klum became the host and a judge of Germany's Next Topmodel and the reality show Project Runway, which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2008 and a win in 2013 for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program (shared with co-host Tim Gunn). Heidi Klum ( pronounced born 1 June 1973) is a German and American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman.
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