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German blonde-haired, brown-eyed TV presenter, supermodel, actress and co-producer Heidi Klum was born on June 1, 1973, in the city of Bergisch Gladbach, which is located in the North Rhine.

Heidi Klum: biography

Since the late 90s, Heidi has been considered one of the most sought-after models in the world. Her modeling career began back in 1992, when she won her first and main prize on Thomas Gottschalk's popular entertainment talk show Late-Night-Show. Then the 18-year-old schoolgirl was able to become the best among 25 thousand of the same girls.

The prize for participating in this show was signing a contract with a modeling agency for a whopping $300,000. After graduating from school, Heidi abandoned her studies as a fashion designer in Düsseldorf and began developing her modeling career.

Heidi Klum: Victoria's Secret Angel

Since 1993, Heidi has lived in America. World fame came to her in 1998, after her photo shoot in a swimsuit, one of the photographs was printed on the cover of the American weekly sports magazine Sports Illustrated and sold 20 million copies. Klum was also able to become one of the leading models and an “angel” of Victorias Secret. The famous glossy magazines Vogue and ELLE released their issues with a photograph of Heidi on the cover. But, despite this, Klum never belonged to the elite models - those who have the honor of walking on the catwalk during luxury shows.

Klum participates in advertising campaigns for the “sweet” Katjes, and since 2005 she has been filming for the fast food chain McDonalds.
Klum advertises the Stiefelkönig, Taft, Birkenstock brands, the SPAR grocery store chain, and participates in the Douglas advertising campaign.

Heidi Klum: career

Klum uses her considerable popularity to increase sales of products that are produced under her name.
Klum, together with the New York jeweler Mouawad, creates a collection of bras with diamonds - the Very Sexy Fantasy Bra, which was presented at Victorias Secret shows, collaborates with the LR health & beauty system company, releasing its own lines of perfumes and body care products.

In December 2004, supermodel Klum's first book, entitled Klums Body of Knowledge: 8 Rules of Model Behavior, was published.
Klum is perhaps the only model whose name was given to a variety of beautiful flower - Rosa Heidi Klum Rose.
2008 was a very significant year for Heidi Klum - she entered the list of the fifteen richest models in the world, according to according to Forbes.
In 2009, the famous German edition of the influential fashion magazine Vogue completely dedicated its June issue to the model.
And in 2011, Klum was unable to take 39th place in the list called “The Most Influential Women.”
Heidi Klum has also successfully played several roles in films and TV series. She can be seen in “Spin City”, “The English Barber”, “Sex in big city", "How I Met Your Mother", " Desperate Housewives"and others.

Heidi Klum: Project Runway

In December 2004, an interesting show “Project Runway” was released on television, one of the producers of which was Klum. Also in this show she got the role of co-host and chairman of the jury.

In 2006, the reality show Germanys Next Topmodel started on ProSieben (German television), where beautiful girls competed for the main prize - signing a contract with the IMG Models agency. Since 2006, this show has been organized annually, and Heidi has an honorary place on the jury.

Also during her career, Heidi Klum was the host of the MTV Europe Music Awards 2012, which took place in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in early November 2012.

Heidi Klum: personal life

A stormy career did not stop Heidi from organizing her personal life. She has been married twice and has four children: Helen, born May 5, 2004, Henry, September 12, 2005, Johan, November 22, 2006, and Lou, October 9, 2009. Her first husband, from 1997 to 2002, was Rick Pipino, a hairdresser. The second husband, a musician and singer named Seal, was her husband from 2005-2014.

The biological father of Heidi-Helen's daughter is her ex-fiancé, Flavio Briatore, with whom Klum broke up during her pregnancy and even before the birth of her daughter, she began dating her future husband Seal. In December 2009, Seal officially adopted Helen. From September 2012 to January 2014, Klum dated her security guard, Martin Kristen.

Heidi Klum is the only model to have postage stamps issued in her honor. In 2002, Grenada Post decided to issue three stamps with a photo of the supermodel and the specific inscription “Discover the Beauty of Stamps.”

After a wave of confessions took over Hollywood famous women that men sexually harassed them, this phenomenon has reached the UK. Today it became known that a certain Tracy Birdsall filed a police report against 54-year-old British singer Seal, whom she accused of trying to forcefully take possession of her.

Incident at friends' house shocked Tracy

The statement that Birdsall provided to the police describes a rather unpleasant story. According to the 54-year-old actress, it is known that singer Seal took advantage of her distraction and attacked her. Tracy describes the incident that occurred in 2016:

“It was my good friend’s birthday. At a party at her house there was a gathering large number guests, among whom was Seal and, of course, me. It’s hard for me to say why Syl and I ended up in the kitchen, but we were alone. He asked me for a napkin and while I was turning away, looking for napkins, he attacked me. It was so unexpected that I was overcome with fear. It was only the realization that he was kissing me that made me act. I tried to fight back, but it was not easy. Seal not only kissed me, but also groped my breasts. When I finally ran out of the kitchen, freeing myself from Sil’s arms, I was shaking all over. I couldn’t even imagine that something like this could happen to me at my friend’s house. For about a month I tried to come to terms with the fact that Sil and I were neighbors, but every time I saw him, I became very scared. As a result, I had to change my place of residence so that I could continue to exist normally. I still can’t forget this terrible episode from my life.”

Despite such a heartfelt accusation, Seal categorically disagrees with him. The police had already spoken with the artist and began an investigation, but after interviewing him, they had not yet found any evidence of his involvement in Tracy Birdsall’s harassment.

Seal is the ex-husband of model Heidi Klum.

Despite the fact that Seal is a very titled singer, because he has 3 Grammy awards and the same number of Brit Awards, many people know him as the ex-husband of the famous German model Heidi Klum. He was married to her from 2005 to 2012. In their union, they gave birth to four children, although the first-born, a girl named Helen, is biological daughter Italian businessman and manager Flavio Briatore. In 2012, Klum spoke to the press, announcing that she had filed for divorce due to irreconcilable differences. Despite this, Sil still continues to wear wedding ring, explaining this behavior by the fact that he still loves Heidi.

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Today she will receive millions of congratulations, among which there will certainly be one from Him, because they had amazing story with "far-reaching consequences" ...

He did not back down when, during their acquaintance, he found out that She was “in interesting position", and later even officially adopted baby Helena...

They called each other a treasure and for a long time were an exemplary family, raising four children, but one fine day their paths diverged...

She...

Heidi born on June 1 in the German city of Bergisch Gladbach ( former territory Germany) in the family of the executive director of a cosmetics company and a hairdresser.

Friends persuaded Heidi to try her luck at modeling business, and luck smiled at her - beating 25 thousand competitors, the girl took 1st place in the competition Model 92 in April 1992. The main prize was a contract with Metropolitan Models New York for $300,000.

By this time, Heidi had already entered the university to study design, but the offer and possible prospects after winning the competition were one that could not be refused. And she left her studies, preferring to build her career as a model.

Over four years of constant filming, shows, glamorous parties and charity events, the beauty managed to become famous and gain a reputation as one of the most beautiful and desirable women on the planet. There was no end to the fans, but when one of them - stylist Rick Pipino - proposed to her on the roof of the Empire State Building in 1996, she said yes.

The wedding took place a year after the engagement, and Heidi remained as Mrs. Pipino for about five years. She initiated the divorce, but Rick agreed without any particular complaints.

Heidi continued to move in social circles, and now everyone around began to talk about her new marriage - the model officially announced that she was expecting a child from her partner - Flavio Briatore. However, things didn’t come to the rings - Heidi broke up with the unfaithful playboy and went nowhere while she was three months pregnant.

Her everyday life was again filled with work - filming, advertising campaigns clothing, cosmetics and perfumes, television, acting experience, social events, where she played the leading role. And on one of them in the hotel lobby she saw Him...

He...

Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel born on February 19, 1963 in the London area of Paddington. The future musician had a difficult childhood. Both of Henry's parents had strong African roots, but his father was born in Brazil. Mom was from Nigeria. Both ended up in London thanks to the desire to get an education. Therefore, a child for two working students was, to put it mildly, a burden. For some time, Henry was sheltered by a foster family, but when he turned four, his mother took him back... And raised him alone, because... By this time, the parents' student marriage had broken up.

But the idyll did not last long - my mother became very ill and had to return to Nigeria. Then the father took up raising his son. But he was not very zealous in this matter - Henry was more of a burden to him than a son.

He dropped out of school and ran away from home to go free. But by some miracle he was smart enough to get a diploma in architecture after completing a two-year course.

He took on any job, but most of all his soul was drawn to music. And it was there - in the nightclubs and bars of London - that his professional career as a singer and musician began.

Singles, albums, charts, video clips, music awards - his popularity grew, and along with it his media exposure increased: more and more often he began to be invited to various social events as a celebrity.

And at one of these events, his eye was attracted by She...

They...

The year was 2004 and GQ publishing house was preparing for its regular event- GQ Awards, which took place in London and where celebrities from all over the world were invited. She was bored in the hotel lobby, and he was returning from the gym.

She couldn’t take her eyes off the muscular giant, and he thought that “her man is the happiest on earth.” The acquaintance quickly grew into a whirlwind romance, but for the first month Heidi hid the fact that she was pregnant - she was afraid of Seal’s reaction to the news of pregnancy from another man. " But he treated me with such love, tenderness and understanding that I confessed, - the model later recalled. - And he not only didn’t turn away, didn’t flare up, on the contrary! - said that he would take care of the baby as if he were his own child..."

The singer chose a truly romantic place for the proposal: a glacier in Canada, where a bed strewn with rose petals was installed especially for this occasion. Could Heidi refuse? Of course not! Their wedding took place on May 10, 2005 in a close family circle. And after Helena was born, Seal officially adopted her.

A stately black man extended his hand to the blond beauty:

Dates and facts:

Heidi Klum was born on June 1, 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach (North Rhine), Germany.
Seal Henry Samuel was born on February 19, 1963 in Paddington, London.
The couple had their wedding at Villa Sila La Quebrada in Costa Careyes (Mexico).
In December 2009, Seal adopted Leni, Heidi's child with Flavio Briatore.
That same year, Heidi officially took her husband's last name, Samuel.
On the inside of Klum's left arm there is a tattoo with her husband's name and stars according to the number of children.

“The pilot is waiting, come with me.” She responded with her unsurpassed smile, which seemed to make everything around her brighter. The helicopter took them high into the mountains, where among the endless white snow there was... an Eskimo hut. Heidi knew that her lover was also a romantic and an inventor, but to build a hut?! Surprise turned to delight as Sil led her inside. Among the ice walls there was a bed strewn with rose petals. Candles were burning everywhere. In buckets - of course, champagne. “You are the most beautiful woman in the world, and I want you to become my wife,” the black giant smiled and handed her a 10-carat diamond ring. “Yes, I agree,” Heidi breathed.

“I APPRAISED THE WHOLE SET”

The year 2003 was coming to an end. Heidi and her agent were sitting on a sofa in the hotel lobby, solving work issues, when a tall dark-skinned man walked through the door. Her interlocutor called out to the newcomer, who approached them. “This is Seal, a musician,” her heart was already thundering so much that the model could barely make out the manager’s words. The man who approached embarrassedly but smiled sincerely. “Sorry, but I’m just from the gym, now I’ll quickly go up to the room, take a shower and come back to continue our acquaintance,” said Seal. “Okay, just don’t try to break your promise!” - Heidi laughed. He headed towards the elevator, and she looked after this luxurious man, so frightening and charming at the same time. “Seal was wearing bicycle shorts then,” Klum would later say on the Oprah Winfrey show. “So I was able to appreciate the whole set at once. I immediately lost my head!”

She didn’t know then that the famous musician had noticed her even earlier, when the model received the “Woman of the Year” award at the London 2003 GQ Awards ceremony, established by the publishers of the famous men’s magazine. “Heidi wore a stunning, slightly see-through black dress,” Seal recalled. “But what impressed me most was her smile.” I then thought that any man next to her would feel the happiest.”

And here it is, the moment when luck may smile on him. Sil quickly freshened up, changed his clothes and ran out into the hall. Heidi was still there! He, a popular performer who had not suffered from a lack of female attention for the last 15 years, nevertheless felt terribly embarrassed. How to behave so as not to scare away fortune?

While the black giant shifted from foot to foot, not knowing how to start a conversation, the girl showed much greater agility. “You know, this morning I’ve been dreaming about a juicy piece of pizza. Let’s look at the pizzeria, I saw there’s one nearby,” she suggested with amazing directness and sincerity. “Aren’t models supposed to be cutesy and always on diets?” - Syl only had time to be surprised when they were already eating pizza, washing it down orange juice, and chatted incessantly. Several hours passed, and during this time sparks of love scattered between them like fireworks. Seal asked for a date, Heidi agreed.

"An ANGEL CAME INTO MY LIFE"

... “Darling, are you in love?” - Her agent looked at the model suspiciously. “Looks like it,” Heidi winked back. How strange, because just a couple of days ago she couldn’t find any relief from melancholy.

She managed to contact Flavio Briatore! But Klum was warned that the head of the Renault department in Formula 1 is known as a “model collector.” That's what he was nicknamed for his excessive passion for catwalk stars.

Flavio, of course, was gallant and charming, he charmed and conquered, they recently informed the world about their engagement... But instead of the long-awaited ring, Klum received the front pages of newspapers with a photograph of the groom, passionately squeezing the 19-year-old beauty in his arms. The celebrity could not stand this, the engagement was terminated.

Heidi was left alone. More precisely, she was no longer completely alone: she was carrying a child from Briatore. And representatives of Victoria's Secret, indignant, threatened fines for violating the clause of the contract, according to which there should be no significant changes in Klum's figure.

The girl did not want to take extreme measures, because she had long dreamed of a family. But staying alone and risking your career? She had been working for too long for her name to destroy everything in one fell swoop. “Just a minute,” I remembered magic word Heidi.

She got it from her father. In 1992, when the girl heard that she had won first place in the national beauty contest in Munich - out of 25 thousand applicants! - she was ready to sign all the contracts that were handed to her. Moreover, they included an amount of 300 thousand dollars - the main prize for the winner. But dad, the sensible German Hunter, said: “Wait a minute. We don't understand any of this, so we should consult a lawyer." Since then, when she was overcome by strong emotions and she could no longer find a reasonable solution to the situation, Klum remembered this magic word. Now she also said to herself: “Just a minute,” and met Sil.

On the first date, Klum told a new acquaintance about her unsuccessful romance and interesting situation. Contrary to expectations of the worst, Sil was not afraid and did not turn away from the model; on the contrary, he began to take care of her in every possible way. Went shopping, helping to choose clothes for expectant mother and things for the baby who was about to be born, supported Heidi and constantly told her how her pregnancy was going. And when the time came for her to give birth in May 2004, the musician interrupted his tour and rushed to his beloved. Since then they have not parted, and for the newborn Leni Seal became a real father.

With humor about everything

They answer questions directly and wittily. A few of the couple’s most striking phrases:
Klum: “I never worked on a fashion show because I was too big. I couldn’t pull the outfits over my hips.”
: “I’m excited to see what they write about the scars on my face. The most original options: ritual markings and the consequences of a child’s fight with a bear.”
Klum: “My parents taught me not to be ashamed of my body. Our children see us naked, and that's normal."
: “My wife is damn beautiful. But during pregnancy she becomes even more beautiful! Why do you think we have so many children?”

A few months later, the performer proposed to his chosen one in a romantic setting among the snow-capped mountains. And five months later the couple got married on the Mexican coast. The touching atmosphere of the celebration, to which only the closest ones were invited - about forty people, no more - the wedding composition Wedding Day, written by Seal especially for this day... Heidi felt the happiest woman in the world, and the musician thought that luck had finally smiled on him.

After all, no one had ever loved him so selflessly. Baby Syl Henry Samuel has been a nuisance to his loved ones since birth. Father Francis, a Brazilian of African descent, and mother, Nigerian Adebishi, met in London. Young and ardent, they fell in love and got married right away. But both were students and simultaneously worked to make ends meet. The news of the addition upset them rather than made them happy. Therefore, the newborn Seal was placed in a foster family.

Divorcing Francis four years later, the mother took the boy to her place. The reunion did not last long: Adebishi soon became seriously ill and returned to her homeland, Nigeria, and placed her son in the care of her father. Samuel Sr.'s methods of education were extremely despotic. At the age of 15, when his father’s cruelty became unbearable, Sil ran away from home, returning there only once years later - to bury his father’s ashes.

The young man wandered around, working wherever he could, until one day he met musicians who invited him to go on a tour of Japan as part of a group. Then came Thailand, then Seal traveled alone to India and finally came back to England. A producer noticed him, and in 1991 the musician’s first album was released, which instantly made him famous. Fame came, and with it came a period of depression, a serious illness, a car accident, work on new albums, creative searches...

“By the time I met Heidi, I was 40 years old and had had a lot of fun. But in that moment. when I met her, I realized that an angel had come into my life,” summed up Sil’s long wanderings.

DATING IN THE ATTIC

By the wedding day, Heidi was already in her fourth month and could not hide her joy at her situation. She had a wonderful, loving fiancé who shared her dreams of big family and found the pregnant bride incredibly beautiful. She had successful career: by that time, Klum had become famous not only as one of the highest paid models in the world, but also founded her own line of perfumes and jewelry, played small roles in films and TV series, and also hosted and produced TV shows related to the modeling business.

She didn’t worry about the kilograms she gained during pregnancy, because she remembered that just a month after the birth of her first child, she managed to return to her previous shape. The secret was very simple: Klum spent five days a week for several hours in the gym and lost almost 20 kilograms. Of course, this required some effort, but it turned out to be easier than the model expected. In general, as soon as Sil appeared in her life, everything became easier. Kind and reliable, strong and romantic, he surrounded her with such love that Heidi no longer walked - she hovered above the ground.

“During pregnancy, I feel even better than usual. An unprecedented passion appears, a strong desire to do something, ideas arise,” she said in response to questions about how such a busy woman manages to easily go on maternity leave. “I think if you enjoy your position, there won’t be any problems.” And now I enjoy every moment.” In October 2005, the couple had a boy, who was named Henry. A year later, Heidi gave birth to her second son, Johan. At the same time, she never ceased to shine as a leading Victoria's Secret model and run her own business.

Few people believed that their life could be so perfect. This is understandable, love is an inexplicable thing, for some it lasts only three years, while for others, for many years in a row, at the sight of their loved ones, they flare up with passion and tenderness. “Do you know how I realized that this is the person who was given to me for the rest of my life? It’s not just that we are physically combined and that it is next to Sil that I want to grow old. It’s important that we dream about the same things and that we always have fun together,” that’s the secret perfect union discovered the model.

And indeed, they both wanted big family- and found their happiness in children. And when, at the end of 2008, Heidi said in an interview that she “missed the sensations that she experienced during pregnancy,” the appearance of another daughter, Lou Sulola, in their family in October 2009 was quite predictable.

Despite considerable marital experience, the couple managed to maintain a huge amount of romance in their relationship. When Heidi leaves for filming, she always sends her husband photos from the set with gentle notes. And he still... writes letters. Real paper letters and postcards follow the wife around the world. She admits that she keeps every single thing, collecting it in a specially designated box. It was Heidi and Seal who introduced the fashion among stars to remarry. Every year they arrange a wedding again and again, claiming that it gives great fuel to their love. And the ceremonies are carried out with their characteristic ingenuity and fun: sometimes stylized as retro, sometimes similar to a classic celebration, where guests are dressed as brides and grooms: men in black, women in white. “Sometimes they ask me if I could cheat on my beloved. Guys, I'm married to the most beautiful, smartest and funniest woman in the world - why would I run to the left?! And her gorgeous body - if anyone else has breasts like Heidi, you're extremely lucky. Hanz and Franz, as we call them, are great, I’m delighted with them.”

The story of a couple with their tender relationship, eroticism and endless love Now everyone can see: at the end of 2010, a black and white video for the new song Sila Secret was released. “This is a story about two people in love, about us. My husband is my ideal,” said the beauty.

But this is by no means a summing up, rather a new round of their history. Heidi announced that she is retiring from her modeling career. Of course, she will not become a housewife, because Klum’s business and television projects still remain, but now the main focus is one of the most beautiful women wants to devote peace to her husband and children. After all, from an early age, Heidi dreamed of having a big family, like on postcards, where spouses stand tenderly hugging each other, and their kids play around them. And her wish comes true one hundred percent. “The only difference between our life and that idealistic picture is that we didn’t have big dog“- Heidi laughs as carefree and sincerely as only a woman in love who is adored in return can afford. And her husband looks at her with delight and remembers the moment when he first saw her. After all, he turned out to be right then: the man who finds himself next to Heidi will feel the most happy man in the world. And Sil is extremely happy.

It seems that this couple managed to find the answer to the question of how to maintain a relationship between two people if both are busy with their careers, and at the same time three more children require attention. “We are in love with each other as if we had just met. Of course, kids don’t always leave the opportunity to maintain personal space, but when we put them to bed, we make dates for each other. Like, “Well, baby, in the attic at two in the morning?” - the model smiles radiantly. “For each of our three children, I am ready to give my life. But first of all, I am Heidi’s husband, she is my chosen one for all time,” Seal echoes her.

Heidi Klum and Seal for many were the standard of a couple's relationship in marriage. They never tired of repeating that marriage is not only pleasure, but permanent job over relationships and mutual understanding. Having lived together for almost 7 years, the couple, however, decided to separate, which was announced in 2012.

Dating and marriage of Heidi Klum and Strength

Model Heidi Klum met her future husband Seal in 2004 at the GQ Awards, held in London. Heidi was in a very difficult situation at that moment: she had recently broken up with her boyfriend Flavio Biatore, while she was pregnant. The reason for the separation was Flavio's infidelity. When Seal first saw Heidi in the hotel lobby, he thought that her man was the happiest on Earth, and the model drew attention to beautiful body singer, who was just returning from the gym.

Their romance developed rapidly, but Heidi Klum admitted to Seal that she was pregnant with another man only a month after they met, because she was afraid of his reaction to this news. However, the singer expressed a desire to accept the child and raise him as his own, and later even adopted Leni.

Seal proposed to his beloved on the top of a glacier in Canada. He had previously prepared a special igloo there, where a bed was installed, and everything around was strewn with rose petals. Heidi, of course, gave her consent. Their wedding took place on May 10, 2005 in a modest family atmosphere.

In the marriage of Heidi Klum and Sila, in addition to Leni, three more children appeared: two boys: Henry and Johan, and a girl, Lou. The family looked very happy, and Heidi and Seal even renewed their marriage vows every year.

Why did Heidi Klum and Seal divorce?

The announcement of Heidi Klum and Seal's divorce left the public in a bit of shock. After all, many perceived their couple as an example of love and careful attitude to each other. The couple had been married for 7 years, and nothing foreshadowed such a development of events.

The official reason that Heidi Klum and Seal are divorcing was “irreconcilable differences,” but this, of course, does not reveal at all why such a long and strong marriage ended.