Heidi Klum is the very epitome of a supermodel — a tall, beautiful blonde with a stellar modeling career, a hit TV show and a successful jewelry line. But she’s also a loving wife to pop singer Seal and mom to three young children.
Thrown into the modeling spotlight at age 18, the now 34-year-old top fashion model is surprisingly down to earth. Growing up in Bergisch Gladbach, a small city near Cologne, Germany, her dad, Gunther, worked for a cosmetics company and her mother, Erna, was a hairdresser.