Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum is one of those rare people who was never content just being the most beautiful woman in the room — she had to own the room entirely. Growing up in a small city near Cologne, she shot to global fame after landing on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1998 and becoming the first German model to join the Victoria's Secret Angels, which is genuinely a wild achievement when you think about how fiercely competitive that world is. But what I actually respect is that she pivoted hard into television, created and hosted Project Runway for over a decade, and won a Primetime Emmy for it in 2013 — proving she had real taste and real hustle, not just good bone structure.

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Name (English)

Heidi Klum

Name (Japanese)

ハイディ・クルム

Reading

はいでぃ・くるむ

Born

June 1, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

Origin

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Height

177 cm

Occupation

model / television presenter / entrepreneur / film actor / television producer

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
• 2009 Great Immigrants Award
• 2024 Bavarian TV Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.heidiklum.de
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/heidiklum/
• Xhttps://x.com/heidiklum
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi%20Klum
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60036

Tags

• North Rhine-Westphalia
• model
• television presenter
• entrepreneur

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.