Heidi Klum Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

A woman is a woman!

And I've been overseas to Bali, the Maldives, Hong Kong, Australia, which are all major long flights, all in one year. And then I go to Europe a lot.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

I actually eat a lot.

I always try to make my things happen.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

I find actually that most guys are intimidated. And I don't understand why, because I don't think I'm a very cold person.

I go and train with a personal trainer.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

I have to say that there are a lot of models that I work with that are very good friends of mine. And that it's sometimes like a little family.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

I love painting.

I love Rollerblading in the park.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school.

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

I went to school for 13 years in Germany. And I finished my degree to go to study.

I'm always multitasking. Eating, on the phone, interview, everything all at once.

It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

It wasn't on a Victoria's Secret shoot, but when I was hosting a show for E, Wild On in Belize, I swam with 20 sharks.

Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world.

My career has developed where I get to do an interesting range - television commercials, campaigns for big companies such as Victoria's Secret, designing shoes, jewellery, even my own candy, and I'm working on a television show that debuts this fall, so I get to do a lot of different projects.

People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

Sitting in a plane going to Australia, for example, for 20 hours, is not so much fun.

So everyone has that problem, models have that problem, too.

So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

Sometimes I travel twice a week by plane.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

There's all different types of models, and there're also plus models as well. But the majority is skinny. And it's controlled by the fashion industry.

There's many more things I want to do.

We start early in the morning with hair and makeup. It depends what time of the year it is. In the summertime we start at 5:30 in the morning.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

Well, people always think that models are very comfortable with themselves, very open and have no problems with anything.

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

Trivia

Heidi has the honor of a rose being named after her name, Heidi Klum Rose.

Heidi's nickname is The Body.

Heidi's last name, Klum, is pronounced as "Kloom".

Heidi gave birth to a baby boy, weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces (3.9kg), on the 22nd November 2006. Heidi and her husband, singer Seal, have named him Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel.

When Heidi was on the Ellen show, Ellen gave her a bike that seats two and pulls three car seats.

In June 2006, Heidi and husband, Seal, announced they are expecting their second child together.

Heidi is named #57 on Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 of 2005 list.

Heidi's daughter, Leni, is named after Klum's grandmother.

Heidi is from Germany.

Heidi is 5 feet 9.5 inches (1.77 metres) tall.

In December of 2004, Heidi became the host of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo.

Heidi has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City and Sex and the City.

Heidi's father, Gunther, worked for a cosmetics company and her mother, Erna, was a hairdresser.

In 2003, Heidi was chosen as "Woman of the year" by GQ Magazine UK.

Heidi raised eyebrows among media types and mothers alike when she commented that caring for newborns was a simple chore since, "babies take care of themselves - they know how to poop on their own." (April 16, 2005).

Heidi has designed swimsuits, which were featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue -they were available for sale through her personal website.

Heidi has designed shoes for 'Birkenstock'.

Heidi had a role as an ill-tempered hair model in the movie Blow Dry, played a giantess in the movie version of Ella Enchanted and was cast as Ursula Andress in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

Heidi released a book called Heidi Klum's Body of Knowledge in 2004.

Heidi appeared in the 2002 Jamiroquai video of the single "Love Foolosophy."

Heidi was one of the most powerful celebrities in the world according to 2003 Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List. She ranked in at number 82.

Heidi gave Tyra Banks a $5,000 pair of earrings when Banks quit modeling.

Heidi once said she is not an 80 pound skinny model, she is the way women should look.

Heidi has insured her legs for two million dollars.

Heidi was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001.

Heidi's last name is pronounced "Kloom."

Heidi has provided her voice for the video game "007 Everything or Nothing."

Heidi is a model for clothes branch H&M.