Pikes Peak Reflections of the Colorado Balloon Classic on Prospect Lake, Memorial Park

The closest dipper, in front, is using his wicker basket as a boat to skim along the surface of the water, with the hot air balloon acting as the motor.

Stephanie Seymour Biography

Birth name Stephanie M. Seymour
Date of birth July 23, 1968 (1968-07-23) (age 41)
Place of birth San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Hair color Light Brown
Eye color Blue-Green
Measurements (US) 33-23-33
(EU) 85-58-85
Dress size (US) 4
(EU) 34
Shoe size (US) 9
(EU) 41
Spouse(s) Tommy Andrews (1989-1990) 1 child
Peter Brant (1995-Present) 3 children
Stephanie M. Seymour (born July 23, 1968) is an American model and actress. Seymour has modeled for many notable fashion magazines and designers, and has been photographed by several well-known photographers including Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, and Gilles Bensimon. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers.

==Career==
Born in San Diego, California, the middle child of a California real estate-developer father and hairstylist mother, Seymour started her modeling career working for local newspapers and department stores in her hometown at the age of 14. In 1983, she entered the Elite Model Management Look of the Year modeling contest (now called Elite Model Look), but lost.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Seymour appeared in numerous issues of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and appeared on the cover of Vogue. During the same period, Seymour was a primary lingerie and hosiery model for the relatively new Victoria’s Secret company in its mail-order catalogs and retail stores. In 1991 and again in 1994, Seymour posed for Playboy.

In 1998, she wrote Stephanie Seymour’s Beauty Secrets for Dummies. In 2000, Seymour was ranked #91 on the FHM 1000 Sexiest Women of 2000. In 2006, she appeared in a campaign for Gap with her children.

Salvatore Ferragamo’s creative campaign for his fall/winter 2007/2008 collection featured Seymour and Claudia Schiffer, shot on location in Italy with Mario Testino. In the promotional photos, the supermodels play film stars protected by bodyguards and pursued by the paparazzi.

==Acting==
In 2000, Seymour played Helen Frankenthaler in the movie Pollock. In 2002 she played the role of Sara Lindstrom in the “Crazy” episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

==Personal life==
At the age of 16, she began dating John Casablancas, the head of Elite Model Management, who was, at the time, married to model Jeanette Christjansen. The couple lived together before Seymour broke off the relationship.

From 1989 to 1990 she was married to guitarist Tommy Andrews. The marriage failed, but resulted in the birth of her first son, Dylan Thomas Andrews in 1990.

By mid 1991, she became involved with Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N’ Roses. She appeared in two music videos by Guns N’ Roses: “Don’t Cry” and “November Rain”. The couple broke up in February 1993 after Rose accused Seymour of being unfaithful. In August 1994, Rose sued Seymour for assaulting him during a 1992 Christmas party, mental and emotional abuse, and for withholding $100,000 worth of jewelry. Rose claimed he and Seymour were engaged. In turn, Seymour countersued Rose for assaulting her and denied they were ever engaged.

Shortly after her break up with Rose, Seymour began dating Peter Brant, a married publisher and real estate developer. She gave birth to the couple’s first son (her second) Peter Jr. in December 1993. Seymour and Brant married in 1995 in France. Seymour gave birth to their second son Harry in 1996 and to their third child, daughter Lily Margaret, in 2004. In March 2009, Seymour filed for divorce from Brant after 14 years of marriage.

==Filmography==
Film
Year Film Role Notes
2000 Pollock Helen Frankenthaler
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2002 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Sara Lindstrom Episode: “Crazy”

Gisele Bündchen

BornGisele Caroline Bündchen 20 July 1980 (age 31) Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair colorLight Brown
Eye colorBlue
Measurements35-23-35.5 (89-59-90)
Weight57 kg (130 lb; 9.0 st)
Dress size38 EU/6 US
Shoe size37 EU/6 US/4 UK
AgencyIMG Models
SpouseTom Brady (2009–present)
Website www.giselebundchen.com.br

==Gisele Bundchen Biography==
Gisele Caroline Bundchen ( born July 20, 1980 in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program. According to Forbes, she is the highest-paid model in the world and also the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment world, with an estimated $150 million fortune.

==Family and early life==
Bundchen was born in the Brazilian town of Tres de Maio and grew up in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, to Vania Nonnenmacher, a bank clerk pensioner, and Valdir Bundchen, a university teacher and writer. She has five sisters – Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her fraternal twin Patrícia, Gisele’s junior by five minutes. Bundchen is Roman Catholic and speaks Portuguese as her native language. She also speaks Spanish and English.

- I was born in Horizontina, a town in the backcountry of (Brazilian) state Rio Grande do Sul. The town was once mainly colonized by Germans. In the school which I attended, learning German was actually obligatory from third grade on. But being out of touch with the language for such a long time, I unfortunately forgot it. I belong to the sixth generation of my family in Brazil.

==Modeling career==
Originally, Bundchen wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian team, Sogipa. While in school, Bundchen was so thin that her friends used to call her “Olivia Palito” (Portuguese for Olive Oyl, Popeye’s skinny girlfriend) and “Saracura” (a type of Brazilian shorebird).

In 1993, a then-13-year-old Bundchen joined a modeling course with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela at her mother’s insistence.The following year, Bundchen went to Sao Paulo on a school excursion to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city. In a shopping mall, while eating at McDonald’s with her friends, Bundchen was discovered by a modeling agency. She was subsequently selected for a national contest, Elite Look of the Year, in which she placed second Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, took first place. Bundchen placed fourth in the world contest, held in Ibiza, Spain. In 1996, Bundchen moved to New York City usa to begin her modeling career, debuting at Fashion Week.

Gisele Bundchen on the Fashion Rio Inverno 2006, January 30, 2006. Her debut on the cover of the July 1999 issue of Vogue magazine, and the accompanying editorial entitled “The Return of the Sexy Model”, is widely viewed as marking the end of the fashion’s “heroin chic” era. She graced the cover again in November and December of that year. She won the VH1/Vogue Model of the Year for 1999, and a January 2000 cover gave her the rare honor of three consecutive Vogue covers. In 2000, she became the fourth model to appear on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone, when she was named “the most beautiful girl in the world.” Bundchen has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including W, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Allure, international editions of Vogue, as well as style and lifestyle publications such as i-D, The Face, Arena, Citizen K, Flair, GQ, Esquire, and Marie Claire. She has been featured both in the Pirelli Calendar 2001 and 2006 and in broader market publications such as Time, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Newsweek and Veja, more than 500 magazine covers throughout the world.

Bundchen consistently works with acclaimed photographers such as Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mert and Marcus, Rankin, Annie Leibovitz, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Lindbergh, David LaChapelle, Mario Sorrenti, Nino Munoz and Patrick Demarchelier, and with renowned directors such as Jean Baptiste Mondino and Bruno Aveillan.

Claudia Schiffer said: “Supermodels, like we once were, don’t exist any more” and reckoned that Gisele Bundchen was the only one close to earning the supermodel title.

Naomi Campbell said: “Models need to earn their stripes – I just think the term is used a little too loosely. Kate Moss is obviously a supermodel but, after Gisele, I don’t think there’s been one.”

On August 26, 2008, the New York Daily News, in a list, named Bundchen the fourth-most-powerful person in the fashion world.

On May 12, 2009, The Independent, called her the biggest star in fashion history.

==Endorsements and earnings==
Since her debut, Bundchen has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including several seasons of Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Mervyn’s, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Versace, Givenchy, Bvlgari, Lanvin, Guerlain, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Earl Jean, Zara, Chloé, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton and Victoria’s Secret. She has appeared in advertisements for Nivea lotion and is the face of several Brazilian brands including Vivo, Multiplan (Shopping Malls), Colcci, Credicard (Citibank) and Volkswagen do Brasil. After C&A Brazil hired Bundchen as a spokesmodel and began airing television commercials, sales increased by 30%.

At the Fashion Rio Inverno 2006In May 2006, Bundchen signed another multi-million dollar deal, this time with American giant Apple Inc.. She starred in an advertising campaign to promote the new Macintosh line through the Get a Mac advertisements. Also in 2006, Bundchen became the new face of Swiss luxury watchmaker Ebel.

She has her own line of sandals with footwear company Grendene called Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. Forbes puts her 53rd on their list of the most powerful celebrities of 2007 because of the international success of her shoe line, making the brand Ipanema the most sold Brazilian flip-flop in the world, surpassing the legendary Havaianas. Custom Ipanema flip-flops sell for as much as $230 a pair. She is also the owner of a hotel in the south of Brazil, the Palladium Executive.

On May 1, 2007, it was announced that Bundchen had ended her contract with Victoria’s Secret.

In July 2007, having earned an estimated total of $33 million in the past 12 months, Forbes magazine named her the world’s top-earning model in the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.

An American economist named Fred Fuld developed a stock index to measure the profit performance improvement of companies represented by Bundchen compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. According to Fuld, the Gisele Bundchen Stock Index was up 15% between May and July 2007, substantially surpassing the Dow Jones Industrial Average which was up just 8.2%.

==Charity activities==
Bundchen lends her support and image to a number of charities and humanitarian causes, such as the I am African campaign, in which she painted her face to protest the lack of attention given to Africa’s HIV/AIDS victims. Without receiving payment, Bundchen was, in 2006, the face of American Express Red Card, an initiative launched by U2 front man Bono and Bobby Shriver to send a percentage of monies earned from the financial transactions of this credit card to Africa’s HIV/AIDS victims.

In 2009, she appeared almost simultaneously in more than 20 covers of the international issues of Elle magazines wearing (Product) Red clothing and posing with products from companies who support the same cause. (RED)’s primary objective is to engage the private sector in increasing assistance for the Global Fund, to help defeat AIDS in Africa. Companies whose products take on the mark contribute a percentage of the sales or portion of the profits from that product to the Global Fund to finance AIDS programs in Africa, with special attention on the health of women and children.

At the Fashion Rio Inverno 2006In 2003, Bundchen designed an exclusive and limited edition of platinum hearts, working with Platinum Guild International and Harper’s Bazaar, crafted by jewelers Gumuchian Fils. These platinum hearts were sold to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital which specializes in cancer treatment. She served as the spokesperson and campaign model for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. Bundchen already gave a Sao Paulo Fashion Week’s payment check for Zero Hunger (in Portuguese: Fome Zero), a Brazilian-government program introduced by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also in 2003.

She was, in 2009, one of the celebrities to sign up for the auction fundraiser of celebrities autographed iPods to raise cash for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, organised by Tonic.com., alongside former U.S.A.’s president Bill Clinton, Cher, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Ellen DeGeneres and others. The money is for the Music Rising institution which aims to recover and invest in the musical culture of the destroyed areas.

She promotes protecting the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Amazon Rainforest water sources, donating to this cause a percentage of profits from her line of sandals named Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. Also, Bundchen helps projects such as Nascentes do Brasil, ISA, Y Ikatu Xingu and De Olho nos Mananciais.

Bundchen and Grendene, the company that produces and disseminates her line of sandals, also joined the Florestas do Futuro project for the reforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The project was created by the NGO named SOS Atlantic Forest in 2004. The new forest, named for Gisele Bundchen Sementes, started with 25,500 shoots of 100 different species, enough to revitalize an area of 15 hectares.

On 20 September, 2009, she was designated Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

==Acting career==
In 2004, Bundchen entered the film industry, playing the bank robbers’ leader, Vanessa, in the 2004 remake Taxi. In 2006, she played a minor character in The Devil Wears Prada.

Personal life and Relationships:
On Thursday, February 26, 2009, Bundchen married New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in a small Catholic ceremony in Los Angeles ( la ). On April 5, 2009, the couple remarried in Costa Rica with Brady’s son, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, present. For the ceremony, Gisele wore a dress and veil designed by famed fashion designer John Galliano. Bundchen’s three dogs were also present at the ceremony. Bundchen and Brady had been dating since late 2006. Before marrying him, she dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio and professional surfer Kelly Slater. On Friday, June 19 2009, People magazine reported that Gisele was pregnant with her first child with husband Tom Brady. The baby is due on December 14, 2009.

==Music tribute==
As an homage to Bundchen, Brazilian singer and songwriter Gabriel Guerra, along with musician Pedro Cezar, wrote the song Tributo a Gisele (Tribute to Gisele in English), which is currently the theme of the model’s official website. In January 2008, Bundchen met Gabriel Guerra at Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro.
There’s another music called “Coisa Linda” ( Pretty Woman ) dedicated to Gisele Bundchen by Nelio Guerson and Carlos Guerson. More info on Palco MP3, Last FM and Garagem MP3.

==One reason to love New York==
In the December 2005 issue, New York magazine chose and publicized a list of 123 reasons to love New York City with reason number 43 being that Gisele Bundchen lives there.

==Nude photography==
On April 11, 2008, a black-and-white photo of Bundchen, shot by Irving Penn, was auctioned for US$193,000 (£96,000). The picture was one of dozens from the collection of Gert Elfering that were sold at Christie’s International in New York. In all, the auction tallied US$4.27 million and included pictures of Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Carla Bruni. Bundchen’s picture reached the highest price in comparison with the others. Bardot was the second with US$181,000 (£90,000).

In 2009, Gisele featured, on artistic nude picture, the cover of the work retrospective book of Australian photographer Russell James.

==Image inspiration==
In 2006, Elle magazine bosses surveyed the American leading stylists and asked them to name the star whose hair is a favourite for their clients. More than 50 per cent gave Gisele the title of best hair in Hollywood, followed by Sienna Miller in at second place and Nicole Richie in at third position.

In February 2008, a result of research was publicized by The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) to reveal how world celebrity images, which overwhelm popular media, influence people’s choices and decisions to undergo plastic surgery. The question asked was “What influences do celebrities have on the decisions patients make?”. The survey was sent to more than 20,000 plastic surgeons in 84 countries. Gisele Bundchen, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Sophia Loren, Brad Pitt and George Clooney were the most frequently mentioned celebrities. Gisele won the abdomen and hair categories and took second place in the breasts category.

==Controversies==
PETA anti-fur target
In 2002, during the taping of the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Bundchen was the target of a protest made by four members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because she was signed to be the new face of Blackglama, a trademark of a fur-farming cooperative. When Bundchen was on stage, four women jumped onto the runway holding posters that read “Gisele: Fur Scum” and included the logo for PETA. Bundchen tried to ignore them while several security guards detained the protesters. Bundchen told CNN that the protest was “unwarranted” because the fashion show featured only faux fur. After the incident, the producers decided to stop the music and redid Bundchen’s segment once the protesters were removed.

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==Molly Sims Biography==
Molly Sims (born May 25, 1973) is an American model and actress. Sims is best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues and her role as Delinda Deline in the NBC drama Las Vegas.

==Early life==

Sims was born in Murray, Kentucky, the daughter of Dottie and Jim Sims. She was raised in Murray and enrolled in Vanderbilt University for two years, but dropped out in 1993 to pursue a career in modeling. While at Vanderbilt, she was a member of Delta Delta Delta.

==Career==
Sims was an official spokesmodel for Old Navy ads known for using the tag line “You gotta get this look!” She appeared in the Sports Illustrated “Swimsuit Issue” in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006 as well as MTV’s House of Style. In the 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue she appeared in a photo wearing a bikini designed by Susan Rosen worth $30 million that was made of diamonds. She is a CoverGirl model and is signed to Next Models Management in New York City.

She appeared as Delinda Deline for all five seasons of the series Las Vegas.

She has appeared in several comedy films, such as The Benchwarmers, Yes Man, The Pink Panther 2 and Fired Up.

On December 6, 2008 Sims appeared in the video for The Lonely Island’s “Jizz in My Pants” as the girl with Andy Samberg in the beginning of the skit.

==Personal life==
Sims is a supporter of “Friends of El Faro”, a grassroots non-profit that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. She has hosted the organization’s last two fundraisers and visits the orphanage regularly.

She recently left a six-year relationship with actor Enrique Murciano, who plays Danny Taylor on Without a Trace.

She was recently linked to Aaron Eckhart. The two were recently seen together in Louisiana. Eckhart was taking pictures of Sims for her new jewelry line. The two avoided being pictured together.

==Filmography==
* House of Style – Host/Herself (2000)
* Starsky & Hutch – Mrs. Feldman (2004)
* The Benchwarmers – Liz (2006)
* Venus & Vegas – Angie (2007)
* Las Vegas – Delinda Deline (2003-2008)
* Yes Man – Stephanie (2008)
* Jizz in My Pants – (2008)
* The Pink Panther 2 – Marguerite (2009)
* Fired Up – Diora (2009)

Marisa Miller

Birth name Marisa Lee Bertetta
Date of birth August 6, 1978 (1978-08-06) (age 31)
Place of birth Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Hair color Blonde
Eye color Hazel
Measurements 34D-23-35 (US)
86.5-58-89 (EU)[1]
Weight 110 lb (50 kg; 7.9 st)
Dress size 2 (US), 32 (EU), 6 (UK)
Shoe size 7 (US), 37½ (EU), 4½ (UK)
Agency Cartel Management
Spouse(s) Jim Miller (2000 – 2002)
Griffin Guess (2006 – present)

==Biography==
Marisa Lee Miller (born August 6, 1978) is an American model best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, and her work for lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret. After a stint shooting with photographer Mario Testino for fashion magazines like Vogue, Miller began working for both companies in 2002. As of late 2007, she is a Victoria’s Secret Angel, and graced the cover of the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue to record-setting numbers, accomplishments that have led to her being dubbed the “return of the great American supermodel.”

She is also known for contracts with companies like Harley-Davidson and for ranking #1 on Maxim magazine’s 2008 “Hot 100″ list. Aside from modeling, she is an ambassador for the American Cancer Society.

==Early life==
Born Marisa Lee Bertetta in Santa Cruz, California, Miller attended high school at Aptos High and Monte Vista Christian School. She considered herself a tomboy growing up, with mostly male friends and little awareness of anything girly. Out of shyness, she often wore large t-shirts to hide her body and would get fully dressed just to go to the trash can while at the beach.

Miller was first “discovered” at age sixteen walking through a San Francisco café by two Italian modeling agents. After talking to her mother Krista Bertetta, she was on a plane to Italy with her mother a few months later, despite her “shy and conservative” personality. Miller gained attention when she appeared in a 1997 issue of Perfect 10 magazine. Although she came in third behind Ashley Degenford and Monica Hansen in Perfect 10 magazine’s first annual model search, she was repeatedly showcased in following issues, including the covers of the Winter 1998, Aug/Sept 1999, and Fall 2004 editions.

==Career==
Miller in a bikini, the top a striped design with a variety of different brown patterns.
Miller backstage during Fashion for Relief benefiting victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Miller moved from a start as an amateur magazine model to high profile mainstream work after an acquaintance showed a picture of her to famed fashion photographer Mario Testino in 2001. Testino asked to meet Miller, who was running a surf school at the time, and was invited to Manhattan Beach, California, where she would be surfing.

Noticing her, Testino snapped pictures of her and approached her for a job offer that turned out to be editorials for both the American and Italian editions of Vogue. Within six months, Miller was working for Victoria’s Secret and the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, in which she appeared in every issue from 2002 to 2008. In particular, she famously posed wearing only an iPod in the 2007 issue. She has also appeared in a diverse range of magazines, many of them international editions, such as GQ, Maxim, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle, and Vanity Fair, as well as working on campaigns/advertisements for Nordstrom, J.Crew, Tommy Hilfiger, Pepsi, Panasonic, Bath & Body Works, True Religion jeans, and motorcycle company Harley-Davidson, with whom she first partnered to launch the VRSCF V-Rod Muscle motorcycle in 2008 and rejoined in November 2009 to act as the face/spokesmodel of the company’s first “Military Appreciation Month” campaign, featuring Miller as a classic pin-up in military-themed advertisements and online content. In July 2008, Miller took her first step beyond modeling when her shoe line with skateboarder/surfer-oriented company Vans launched.

Miller’s TV spots include the short-lived reality series Manhunt: The Search for America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model (2004), Puddle of Mudd’s “Spin You Around” music video (2004), the pilot episode and finale of VH1′s reality show The Shot (2007), cameos in HBO’s Entourage and the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother (both 2007), the latter with her fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels, and a guest judge role on an episode of America’s Next Top Model (2009). It wasn’t until 2007 that she filmed her first television commercial for Victoria’s Secret, appearing alongside Heidi Klum for the It bra. Miller starred in a 2008 viral video on YouTube with All Star baseball player Ryan Braun for Remington’s ShortCut clippers and also appeared in commercials for the NFL Network and the California Travel and Tourism Commission’s “Visit California” campaign.
Marisa Miller wearing a black bra studded with small diamonds in a harlequin pattern, with a larger heart shaped champagne diamond hanging.
Miller modeling the 2009 Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra.

On December 4, 2007, Miller made her debut in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and opened a segment in the following year’s edition. Other runway credits of Miller’s include 2007′s Fashion for Relief show, benefiting victims of Hurricane Katrina, as well as MTV’s Fashionably Loud, Imitation of Christ, Inca, and Amir Slama’s Rosa Cha, for which she was one of the most anticipated models.

On the February 12, 2008 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, it was announced via a three-story billboard in New York City that Miller would grace the cover of that year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. The tandem online launch of the issue drew record page views to the SI website: 228 million, a 41% increase over 2007. In September 2008, Sports Illustrated released a “Best of Marisa Miller” swimsuit calendar for the 2009 year.

Victoria’s Secret also put her to work in 2008, with a five-city tour to promote the 2008 Swim collection’s release in stores; the April-May tour included stops in New York City, Miami, Chicago (where she threw the opening pitch at a Chicago Cubs baseball game), Boston, and Minneapolis. The relaunch of Victoria Secret’s sports line, VSX, soon followed, along with her first official campaign as an Angel: promoting the company’s fragrance Very Sexy Dare.

For the 2009 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Miller was chosen to wear the year’s “Fantasy Bra,” a harlequin design featuring 2,300 white, champagne, and cognac diamonds, and a 16-carat heart-shaped brown-yellow diamond pendant for a $3-million value and 150 total carats.

==Media recognition==
The swell in publicity resulting from her 2008 work served to land Miller in the number one spot on Maxim magazine’s “Hot 100″ rankings for 2008, beating out list regulars such as Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, and Eva Longoria-Parker. This marked the first time anyone has debuted on the list in the number one position. In her subsequent cover story for the July issue, Maxim proclaimed her as the “return of the great American supermodel.” Of such acclaim, Miller admits, “I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It’s modeling I didn’t find the cure for cancer.”

She also finished first place in The Best Damn Sports Show Period “Smokin’ Sixteen” competition in 2008, repeating her 2007 win over competitors such as Gisele Bündchen and Adriana Lima. Miller ranked third in Askmen.com’s “Top 99″ for 2009, after ranking ninth in 2008, twelfth in 2007, and fourteenth in 2006. She added to her popular accolades with the “Hot N’ Fresh” award at the second annual Spike Guys’ Choice Awards.

==Personal life==
She married Jim Miller, a Los Angeles surfing contest promoter and lifeguard from California in 2000, and separated from him in 2002. They divorced soon after. She married music producer Griffin Guess on April 15, 2006. From an early age she loved surfing; in 2004, she placed second in the celebrity division of the Kelly Slater Surf Invitational and says of the sport, “I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I’m surfing every day.” She was a standout volleyball player in high school and has taken up boxing. She has said that she would like to be a sportscaster.

As of 2009, Miller is an ambassador for the American Cancer Society, to which proceeds from her online store are donated. She also supports the Young Survival Coalition, which raises awareness of breast cancer in women under 40, as well as environmental organization The Surfrider Foundation, which aims to preserve the world’s oceans and beaches. In October 2009, Miller hosted the “Monte Foundation MusicFest and Fireworks Extravaganza,” an annual fundraiser for schools in the Aptos area, where she and Guess own a home.

Karolina Kurkova Biography
Karolina Kurkova
Birth name Karolina Isela Kurkova
Date of birth February 28, 1984 (1984-02-28) (age 25)
Place of birth Decín, Czech Republic
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Hair color Blonde
Eye color Green
Measurements 34.5B-25-35 (US)
87-64-89 (EU)[2]
Weight 59 kg (130 lb; 9.3 st)
Dress size 4 (US); 34 (EU)
Shoe size 9 (US); 41 (EU)
Agency IMG Model Management Viva Model Management
Other name(s) KK
Karolína Isela Kurková (born February 28, 1984) is a Czech model, best known as a former Victoria’s Secret Angel, and an aspiring actress. Mario Testino said of Kurková, “The proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level, make her a model who could fit almost into any moment.” Vogue editor Anna Wintour called her the “next supermodel”.
==Early life and career==
Karolína Kurková was born in Decín, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Kurka, a Czech basketball player, and a Slovak mother. While Kurková was young, she was made fun of for her height. But after a friend sent photos of Kurková to an agency in Prague, she – at 15 – landed a runway appearance, as well as a commercial and print advertising.[citation needed] She later traveled to Milan to gain more experience and signed a modeling contract with Miuccia Prada.
In September 1999, Kurková appeared in the American edition of fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue, and after moving to New York City at the age of 17, graced the cover of the February 2001 edition, becoming one of the youngest models ever to appear on the magazine’s cover.
==Modeling career==
Following her Vogue cover, Kurková became recognized at haute couture fashion shows. Additionally, the lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret chose her to be a part of 2000′s televised fashion show special, though she was only 16 at the time. Prominent fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent signed Kurková to contracts, while print campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, John Galliano,Chanel, Christian Dior, Hugo Boss, Versace, H&M, and others helped expose her even more. In the 2002 Victoria’s Secret fashion show, she wore the multi-million dollar fantasy bra, worth almost $10 million and designed by Hearts on Fire. Other runway credits of hers include Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Karl Lagerfeld, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney, and Vera Wang.
Kurková was named “Model of the Year” at the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, in part for her work ethic, having worked twenty-three weeks straight.
Kurková has appeared in almost twenty Vogue magazine covers internationally, including the French, Italian, UK, German, Russian, Greek, and Korean editions, and has also appeared in international editions of Elle, Vanity Fair, and The Face. She has worked with noted fashion photographers like Steven Klein, Mario Sorrenti, and Mario Testino.
After being contracted as a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2005, she was featured in the 2006 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, showcasing the $6.5 million fantasy bra decked with almost 2000 diamonds weighing 800 carats and a centerpiece diamond brooch weighing 10 carats. She is the only Angel besides Heidi Klum to model the fantasy bra twice. As an Angel, she received a star on the Hollywood “Walk of Fame” prior to the 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, appeared on the February 2008 cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover for the magazine’s 75th anniversary, and was chosen as part of People magazine’s 100 most beautiful people in the world.
In December 2007, she could be seen in print ads for Dell.
Model.com featured her at number five on the list of the hottest models today.
In the last Cía Marítima fashion show, Kurková’s unexpectedly heavier physique brought criticism from the Brazilian press as having “too much back fat, love handles and cellulite”.
Kurková is among the world’s top-earning models, having earned an estimated $5 million in the year 2007. She was placed 6th in the Forbes annual list of the highest earning models.
Kurková has a smooth indentation in place of a navel, and photographs are often altered by the addition of an image of a navel to hide this.
Kurková is represented by Viva Models Paris.
In November 2008, E! Entertainment Television voted her the world’s sexiest woman, beating the likes of Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Gisele Bündchen, and her fellow Angels Heidi Klum and Adriana Lima.
==Television/movie career==
Kurková made her film debut alongside Frankie Muniz, Harvey Keitel, and Amber Valletta in Howard Himelstein’s coming-of-age dramedy, My Sexiest Year. She played Courtney A. Kreiger / Cover Girl in the live action 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra film.
She appeared on the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards along with Dwight Yoakam in presenting the “Top Female Vocalist” award to Carrie Underwood.
==Personal life==
Kurková announced in July 2009 that she was pregnant.She lives in New York City’s TriBeCa district and enjoys courtside basketball games at Madison Square Garden.
Kurkova revealed that she has suffered from hypothyroidism, which caused her to gain weight.
In July 2009, she announced she is expecting a child with her fiancé, Archie Drury. On October 29th, Kurkova gave birth. The baby boy, Tobin Jack Drury, weighed in at 6 lbs. 3 oz., and is the first child for the couple.
==Charity==
In March 2006, Kurková received an award from the non-profit organization, Women Together, for her humanitarian work. Kurková was honored for working for the welfare of children through organizations such as “The Beautiful Life Fund”, “Free Arts” and “Global Youth Action Network”.[20] Karolina Kurkova Received the Atmosphere Magazine Award at the Madrid Planet Hollywood on December 18, 2003.

Adriana Lima Hot Biography

Adriana Lima, April 30, 2007
Birth name Adriana Francesca Lima
Date of birth June 12, 1981 (1981-06-12) (age 28)
Place of birth Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Hair color Brown
Eye color Blue
Measurements 86-61-89 (34-24-35)
Dress size 4 (US)
Shoe size 9 (US)
Agency Marilyn Agency
Spouse(s) Marko Jaric (2009-present)

Adriana Francesca Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria’s Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At age 15, Lima finished first place in Ford’s “Supermodel of Brazil” competition and took second place the following year in the Ford “Supermodel of the World” competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City.

Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school. However, she had a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and didn’t want to enter alone, so Lima entered with her. Both sent in pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition. Soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Ford’s “Supermodel of Brazil” model search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford “Supermodel of the World” contest and finished in second place. Three years later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Lima’s modeling portfolio quickly began to expand, and she appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As a runway model, she has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Valentino, among others. Lima became a guess girl in 2000, appearing in that year’s fall ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess? Images.

Lima continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from 2003 until 2009, the same year she appeared in the company’s first calendar, a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl, Jessica White, Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. She also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of other fashion magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year, while her April 2008 cover brought a record number of hits to the magazine’s website. She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar and became the face of Italy’s cell phone carrier, Telecom Italia Mobile, a move that earned her the nickname, “the Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy.”

In 2006, Sao Paulo Fashion Week released a calendar featuring twenty-five Brazilian models, including Lima. The calendar was accompanied by a movie containing interviews with the models, which was broadcasted at GNT in Brazil and then hit the shelves as a DVD.

In February 2008, she was featured on the cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire’s 75th anniversary along with fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. She appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. In February 2008, she was chosen to be the face of Mexico’s Liverpool department store chain and launched the partnership with a press conference, runway show, and summer campaign. Lima returned to the high fashion runway in 2009, walking for Givenchy. That same year, after visiting Turkey, Lima signed a contract with Doritos to appear in print campaigns and commercials which began airing in Turkey in April. She is also one of the faces of Givenchy for the Fall/Winter 2009 season, alongside Mariacarla Boscono and Iris Strubegger.

In 2006, Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel. In 2007 and 2008, she ranked as the world’s fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine.

==Victoria’s Secret==
Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret. Her first fashion show for the company came in 1999, and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on subsequent shows ever since, opening the show in 2003, 2007, and 2008, in which she also closed the opening segment. Lima has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized “Angel in Venice” commercial of 2003 with Bob Dylan and her solo Victoria’s Secret’s Super Bowl XLII ad, the single most-seen ad of the game, watched by 103.7 million viewers. 2008 continued for Lima with hosting the What Is Sexy? program for the E! Entertainment Network and a July tour for the BioFit Uplift Bra launch, with stops in Long Island, Boston, and Miami Beach. She was also featured in November’s Miracle Bra relaunch. Topping the year off, Lima wore the “Fantasy Bra” for the 2008 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. In 2009, Lima launched the company’s new makeup line, “Christian Siriano for VS Makeup.”

==Acting==
Lima’s first acting role was the wife, alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker, in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW’s series The Hire, starring Clive Owen. She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007.

In 2008, Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series’ title character, played by America Ferrera. According to her publicist, Liza Anderson, “Adriana has always been a huge fan of Ugly Betty and is thrilled for the opportunity to make a guest star appearance.”

==Reception==
Since her rise to fame, Lima is often cited by popular media as one of the world’s sexiest women. Lima was listed in the 2005 Forbes’ edition of The World’s Best-Paid Celebrities Under 25. Also, she ranked No.99th in the 2006 Forbes’ edition of The Celebrity 100 (Forbes’ Highest Paid and Powerful Celebrities in the World). Lima was chosen to be a part of People magazine’s 100 most beautiful people in the world list, sharing that space with the Angels, with whom she also received a star on the Hollywood “Walk of Fame” prior to the 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. That same year, she ranked 7th on FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women 2007″ list and was awarded as the “Hottest Girl on the Planet” at the first Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards, although the category was not mentioned in the actual broadcast. Lima was also voted on the Maxim “Hot 100″ 2007 at the #53 spot. She was voted #1 as the Most Desirable Woman in 2005 by visitors of the men’s lifestyle website, Askmen.com (she placed 4th in 2006 and 2007, 10th in 2008, and 19th in 2009). Lima is also listed in the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest model on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 List. As of November 2008, Models.com featured her at No.1 on the list of the Sexiest Models today. In 2009, she was voted sixth in “FHM’s Sexiest Women In The World”.

==Public image and Personal life==
Victoria’s Secret Angels Adriana Lima (left), Marisa Miller and Selita Ebanks ride in the Guantanamo Bay Christmas Parade Dec. 1, 2007

In addition to her native Portuguese, Lima speaks English, French, and a bit of Italian. Lima was shy around boys when she was younger, not receiving her first kiss until she was 17 years old. Afterward, the boy went directly to her mother to ask if he could marry her. She is a devout Catholic who attends church every Sunday. In April 2006, she told GQ that she was a virgin. “Sex is for after marriage,” she explained. “They have to respect that this is my choice. If there’s no respect, that means they don’t want me.” Staying true to her religious roots, she is known for taking a Bible backstage to read.

She has been romantically linked to musician/singer Lenny Kravitz and Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein. In 2009 she married Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric’; they wed in a private civil ceremony in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Valentines Day. The couple originally planned on a large wedding in Salvador in June 2009, but the couple decided to opt for a wedding in each of their hometowns; both are scheduled to take place at the end of 2009.

Lima and Jaric’ are reportedly expecting their first child together in December 2009. Lima’s representative told People magazine: “Adriana and Marko are overjoyed that they are expecting their first child together and are excited to share the happy news and start their family together.” She has also recently applied for Serbian citizenship in order to promote a positive image of Serbia abroad.

==Charity==
Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage, “Caminhos da Luz” (Ways of Light), located in her hometown. She helps with construction to expand the orphanage, and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador, Bahia. She appeared on Var Yok musun, the Turkish version of Deal or No Deal, where her prize money went to a hospital in Istanbul for children fighting leukemia.

Bar Refaeli
Birth name Bar Refaeli
Date of birth June 4, 1985 (1985-06-04) (age 24)
Place of birth Hod HaSharon, Israel
Height 1.74 m (5 feet 8.5 inches)
Hair color Light brown
Eye color Blue
Measurements 89-60-89 (EU) (35-24-35)
Dress size 6 (US); 36 (EU)
Shoe size 40 (EU); 9 (US)

Bar Refaeli , born June 4, 1985) is an Israeli model and occasional actress, most known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She is the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

==Early life==
Bar Refaeli was born in 1985 to a Israeli Jewish family in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Her parents, Rafael and Tzipi, own a horse ranch. Her mother was a successful Israeli model in the 1970s, under her maiden name Tzipi Levine. Refaeli has three brothers. She began a modeling career at the age of eight months, appearing in commercials. She had to wear braces in her early years, postponing her modeling. At age 15, Refaeli returned to modeling with the representation of Irene Marie Models.

==Career / Modeling career==
Refaeli began her modeling career before the age of 8 months for a baby commercial. By age 15, she was featured in campaigns for the fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, also starring in a commercial for Milki. Refaeli won the title “Model of The Year” in a beauty contest in 2000 and 2001. She was also chosen to be the home model of Renuar fashion network and appeared in their summer 2002 and winter 2003 catalogs.

Refaeli appeared in ELLE (France), Maxim, and GQ (Italy). She debuted in the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, becoming the first Israeli model to appear in the magazine. In the issue, she posed with rock band Aerosmith.

She has been the spokesperson for fashion brand Luisa Cerano. She has modeled for Subaru, Accessorize, Brazilian clothing line, Besni, Italian jewelry line Marco Bicego, and Rampage.

In 2008, Refaeli became the face of clothing line Hurley, and the Diddy cologne, “I Am King.”

On February 9, 2009, it was announced that Refaeli is the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model. A photo from the shoot, featuring a bikini-clad Refaeli, was also painted on the side of a Boeing 737 in a promotional deal with Southwest Airlines, leading many passengers to criticize Southwest for using an image they regarded as inappropriately sexual and “offensive to families”.

She is signed to Storm Model Management in London, and 1/One Management in New York City.

On March 5, 2009, Refaeli received the “World Style Award,” presented by the Women’s World Awards, for her “natural elegance, sense of style and compassion.”

Refeali co-hosted Fashionable Istanbul’s press conference announcing the October 2009 fashion event, and also appeared in its advertising.

==Film and television career==
Refaeli co-starred the Israeli TV series Pick Up in 2005. In October 2008, she co-hosted the Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America, based on the book Ironic Iconic America written by George Lois. She returned as a program host in 2009, this time for MTV’s brief revival of House of Style.

In 2009, she will star in an English-language film, Session, directed by Israeli Haim Bouzaglo. The film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a manipulative psychiatrist, Josh Tellman, who becomes obsessed with a new young patient named “Jibbs.”

==Philanthropy==
Refaeli volunteers for Project Sunshine, a non-profit organization providing free services and programs for children facing life-threatening illnesses. She has also volunteered for organization Ahava, which has been caring for pets abandoned in Northern Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Bar Rafaeli and film director Shahar Segal have agreed to do a gratis campaign under the slogan “One Bag Less” to reduce the use of plastic bags.

==Personal life==
Previously linked to Baywatch actor David Charvet and Uri El-Natan, Refaeli began a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio in November 2005 after meeting him at a Las Vegas party thrown for members of U2. In the course of their trip to Israel in March 2007, the couple met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli’s hometown of Hod HaSharon. The relationship ended in June 2009.

In 2007, a controversy arose when it became widely known that Refaeli had married a family acquaintance and divorced him soon after in order to avoid military service in the Israel Defense Forces, which is mandatory for both men and women over the age of 18, with certain exemptions. As a result of the adverse publicity, the Israeli Forum for the Promotion of Equal Share in the Burden threatened to boycott the fashion chain Fox if they hired Refaeli, but the two sides reached a compromise in which the model agreed to visit injured IDF soldiers on visits to Israel and encourage enlistment in the army.

Doutzen Kroes (pronounced Dow-tzen Crew-s) (born January 23, 1985 in Eastermar, the Netherlands) is a Dutch-Frisian model and currently one of the Victoria’s Secret Angels.

==Early life==
Kroes was born in the town of Eastermar, in the province of Fryslân, the Netherlands. After graduating high school (HAVO), she sent snapshots to modeling agency Paparazzi in Amsterdam.

==Modeling career==
Kroes has made the covers of Time, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, W, Avantgarde, Dazed & Confused and Numéro. She also appears regularly in the Victoria’s Secret catalog and walked the runway of the company’s fashion show in 2005, 2006 and 2008. Kroes’ campaigns include Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Escada, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Versace, Hugo Boss, Guerlain, Bottega Veneta, De Beers, Escada, GAP, Gianfranco Ferre, and Neiman Marcus. In August 2005, she was named spokesmodel for the Calvin Klein “Eternity” fragrance campaign, replacing American actress Scarlett Johansson, and, in April 2006, she signed a three-year contract with L’Oréal Paris. Kroes can currently be seen in the company’s commercials alongside Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington.

In 2005, Kroes was selected as “Model of The Year” on Vogue.com by readers and was featured on the cover of the May 2007 issue with Hilary Rhoda, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha, Jessica Stam, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of “supermodels.” Along with several of these models, she appeared in the 2008 Pirelli Calendar.

In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $4.9 million in the past twelve months, Forbes named Kroes fourteenth in the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In April 2008, she soared to the fifth position, with an estimated income of $6 million.. In May 2009 Forbes named Kroes fifth again in the list of the World’s 15 Top- Earning Supermodels.

Kroes also is in the official Frisian provincial campaign for the West Frisian language which is her mother tongue.

In 2006, Omrop Fryslan made a documentary about Kroes. Piter Claus follows Kroes during the fashion week in Milan. The documentary won a NL-Award for best regional documentary.

Doutzen Kroes received the Lifetime Achievement Award, part of the Dutch Model Awards, that she has won in Amsterdam, on May 12, 2009. The jury praised her achievements at her age.

At the end of August 2008, Victoria’s Secret confirmed to People magazine that Kroes was to be the newest Victoria’s Secret Angel. Her first campaign as the brand’s newest Angel is “Supermodel Obsession”, alongside Adriana Lima. She was recently signed to be the new face for Swiss cashmere label Repeat for two years.

Currently, she is signed by DNA Model Management.

In the Amsterdam branch of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, there is a wax figure of Kroes.

Karen Mulder, (born June 1, 1968 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) is a Dutch former model.

==Career==
Raised in Den Haag and Voorburg, Mulder’s father, Ben, is a tax inspector and her mother, Marijke, is a secretary. Mulder has a younger sister, Saskia, who became an actress after a stint studying economics. In 1985, her family went on a camping trip in the south of France. She saw an ad for Elite Model Management’s “Look of the Year” contest in a newspaper. A friend took some photographs she had of her and sent them to Elite without her knowledge. She won the preliminary contest in Amsterdam, and was sent to the finals of the contest, placing second. She soon went to Paris for her first modeling shoot. She then left high school to travel to Italy with her mother for a formal photo shoot, and then to Paris for modeling school, where Elite took over her career.[citation needed]

By her second year on the runway, she was modeling for Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Versace, and Giorgio Armani. She appeared on the cover of Vogue and before long, landed a contract for Guess in 1991, when she was 21 years old. She soon appeared on the cover of British Vogue and in a Nivea advertising campaign.

Other campaigns she appeared in included Calvin Klein, Claude Montana, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint-Laurent’s Rive Gauche fragrance, as well as Guerlain, Chloé, Revlon, Jacques Fath, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Chanel and Hervé Léger. Karen has worked with some of the greatest fashion photographers, including Javier Vallhonrat, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton, Max Vadukul, Gilles Bensimon, Fabrizio Ferri, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Robert Erdmann, and Arthur Elgort.

One of the first issues of Top Model magazine was entirely devoted to Mulder along with an entire issue of Italian Vogue. Her two appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1997 and 1998 and her poses for the Victoria’s Secret catalogue increased Mulder’s profile.

Called “The Blonde With Class” by Vogue editors,[citation needed] she went on to share catwalks with models such as Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell. At one point in her career she was earning up to £10,000 a day. Mulder retired from modeling in 2000.

Afterwards, she tried other career paths. She branched out into acting, making her debut in the French short film A Theft, One Night in 2001. She also pursued a career in music but had limited success. Her first effort at establishing a music career was her cover version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Am What I Am”, which appeared on the French music charts for a time in the summer of 2002.

==Personal life==
In 1988, at the age of 18, Mulder married French photographer René Bosne. By 1993, her marriage had fallen apart and they divorced. Mulder says her life changed in 1993 when she was shuttling from airport to airport with almost no time at home. She then met real estate developer Jean-Yves Le Fur in the waiting area of a Paris airport. Soon they became engaged.

Le Fur began to manage Mulder’s off-the-runway career. In 1995, he collaborated with Hasbro on a Karen Mulder doll, which spurred development of an entire line of dolls modeled on the day’s supermodels. Le Fur and Mulder then did an infomercial and video. Mulder’s favorite project she worked on was a beauty and fashion CD-ROM, in which she gave makeup, beauty, and exercise tips. In 1995, she bought a château in France and set up a scheme to provide holidays there for underprivileged children.

Depression, breakdown, and suicide attempt
On October 31, 2001, Mulder claimed during a taping of the French channel France 2 show Tout le Monde en Parle (Everyone is Talking About It) hosted by Thierry Ardisson, and with a live audience in the studio, that various people, including top executives at her former agency, Elite, and Prince Albert of Monaco, had tried to rape her. Moreover, Mulder said that her own father had hypnotized her from the age of two and then raped her. The producers of the show deemed her emotionally unstable and did not broadcast the interview. Not only was the show never aired, but the entire recording was erased.

Days later, Mulder repeated her allegations, this time to a weekly magazine in an interview conducted in her Paris apartment. Within hours of the interview, her sister Saskia arrived and took her to Villa Montsouris, a psychiatric hospital specializing in such disorders as depression, anxiety, and delirium, where she stayed for five months. The stay reportedly was paid for by Elite models president Gerald Marie, an old friend of hers and one of the accused. (It came after the BBC caught Marie on hidden camera trying to give a 15-year-old model £300 for sex, and bragging Elite Model Look competitors he would sleep with that year.)

On December 11, 2002, after suffering for years from chronic depression, Mulder went into a coma after she overdosed on sleeping pills in an apparent suicide attempt.[3] She left no note. She was rushed to the American Hospital in Neuilly after neighbors found her passed out on the floor of the Paris apartment on exclusive Avenue Montaigne where she was staying with friends. Mulder’s parents flew from the Netherlands to be by her side along with former fiancé Jean-Yves Le Fur. Le Fur was reportedly one of the people who found Mulder unconscious after arriving at the apartment after Mulder had not answered several of his telephone calls. She awoke from her coma the next day.

==Rebound==
In the summer of 2004, Mulder decided to re-enter the music industry. She worked with Daniel Chenevez of the Niagara group to create the self titled CD Karen Mulder. She gave birth to a daughter, Anna, on October 30, 2006.

On July 1, 2007 she returned to the catwalk at the Dior Autumn/Winter 07/08 Couture Collection in Paris, modelling alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Helena Christensen, Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow and Stella Tennant.

On July 1, 2009, the Daily Mail reported that Mulder was arrested in Paris for threatening to attack her plastic surgeon.

Heidi Klum Biography

Birth name Heidi Klum
Date of birth June 1, 1973 (1973-06-01) (age 36)
Place of birth Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany
Height 5 ft 9.25 in (1.76 m)[1]
Measurements 91-69-94 (EU) / 36-28-37 (US & GB)
Weight 58 kg (130 lb) (formerly 54 kg (120 lb))
Spouse(s) Ric Pipino (1997 – 2002)
Seal (2005 – present)

Heidi Klum , born June 1, 1973) is a German model, actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional singer. She is married to singer Seal.

==Early life and discovery==
Heidi was raised by her parents: Günther, a cosmetics-company executive; and Erna, a hairdresser; in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany, a small city outside Cologne. A friend persuaded her to enroll in a national modeling contest called “Model 92″. Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner on April 29, 1992 and offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. As the winner, she appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show, a top German television show with host Thomas Gottschalk. 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.

==Acting and modeling==
Klum has been on the cover of fashion magazines, including Vogue, ELLE and Marie Claire. She became known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria’s Secret as an “Angel.” In addition to working with world class photographers on her Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object and subject of Joanne Gair body painting works in several editions from 1999 to 2006. She wrote the foreword to Gair’s book of body paint work. She was a spokesmodel for McDonald’s, Braun, H & M, and Liz Claiborne, among others. She is currently a celebrity spokesmodel for Jordache and Volkswagen. In addition to modeling, she has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City, Sex and the City, Yes, Dear, and How I Met Your Mother. She had a role as an ill-tempered hair model in the movie Blow Dry, played a giantess in the movie Ella Enchanted and was cast as Ursula Andress in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. She had cameo appearances in The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger.

In July 2007, having earned $8 million in the previous 12 months, Klum was named by Forbes as third on the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In 2008, Forbes estimated her income at $14 million, putting Klum in second place. For 2009, Forbes estimated her income at $16 million. Klum is signed to IMG Models in New York City.

==Project Runway==
Project Runway season three finalist Laura Bennett interviews Heidi and Seal at the 59th Emmy Awards.

In December 2004, she became the host, judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, in which fashion designers compete for the opportunity to show their line at New York Fashion Week and receive money to launch their own fashion line. She received an Emmy Award nomination for the show for each of the first four seasons. In 2008, Klum and Project Runway received a Peabody Award, the first time a reality show won the award. Klum was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 for “outstanding host of a reality or reality-competition show” for Project Runway, the first year that category was recognized by the Emmys.

==Designing and perfume==
Klum designed clothing lines (one for men), featured in the German mail-order catalog “Otto.” She designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewellery for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie line “The Body”, named after the nickname she received following her first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show appearance. Her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on the cable shopping network QVC on September 14, 2006, and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after 36 minutes. A second line of her jewelry collection debuted on QVC on April 14, 2007, with similar success.[citation needed]Klum’s clothing line for Jordache launched on April 30, 2008.

Klum has two fragrances, called “Heidi Klum” and “Me”. She designed makeup for Victoria’s Secret as part of their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection”, titled “The Heidi Klum Collection”. The first run debuted in Fall 2007. A second run was released in Fall 2008.

Klum was involved in the development of a namesake rose, the Heidi Klum rose, which is available in Germany.

For the 2008 US Open, Klum designed a screen print t-shirt which was sold at the US Open shop. It featured child-like butterfly pictures. Proceeds will go to a non-profit organization maintaining the park which is home to the US Open.

Germany’s Next Topmodel
Germany’s Next Topmodel is a German reality television show, which pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract with IMG. Klum is the host, a judge, and co-producer of the show (along with model Tyra Banks). Season winners are Lena Gercke, Barbara Meier, Jennifer Hof and Sara Nuru. All four seasons aired on the German TV station ProSieben.

Other
Klum is an artist and had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On September 27, 2002 she dedicated a sculpture she painted called “Dog with Butterflies” to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of September 11.

In 2004, Klum co-authored Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge with Elle magazine editor Alexandra Postman. The book gives Klum’s biography as well as her advice on becoming successful. Prior to that, Klum had been an occasional guest columnist for the German television network RTL’s website. She wrote an essay for the German newspaper Die Zeit.

Klum’s other projects have included music and video games. She is featured in the 2004 James Bond video game Everything or Nothing, where she plays the villain Dr. Katya Nadanova. She has appeared in several music videos, including Jamiroquai’s video “Love Foolosophy” from their album A Funk Odyssey, and Kelis’s “Young, Fresh n’ New,” off her second 2001 album Wanderland.

In early 2009, Klum ventured into web-based videos, starring in “SPIKED HEEL: Supermodels Battle the Forces of Evil”. The web-series starred model Coco Rocha and was directed by fashion documentarian Doug Keeve. In the story, Klum aka ‘The Kluminator,’ and her stylish sidekick Coco The Sassy Superhero Rocha battle the evil Dr. Faux Pas who is plotting to destroy Fashion Week. The heroines employ everything from blow-dryer guns to fist fights, in order to thwart Dr. Faux Pas’ dastardly plans. The Kluminator and Girl Wonder avoid a chain of fashion disasters to neutralize a death ray that threatens to vaporize the community of fashionistas gathered in Bryant Park.

In November 2006, Klum released her debut single “Wonderland,” written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer “Douglas.” Proceeds were given to a children’s charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach. She contributed to her husband Seal’s 2007 album System, singing the duet “Wedding Day”, a song that Seal wrote for their wedding.

In 2008, Klum was a featured guest on an American Volkswagen commercial, where she was interviewed by a black Beetle. When she commented that German engineering is so sexy, she caused the Beetle to blush and turn red. She has been a part of several commercials for Volkswagen and McDonald’s on German television.

In November 2008, Klum appeared in two versions of a Guitar Hero World Tour commercial, where she did a take on a Tom Cruise scene in Risky Business. In both versions, she lip-synced to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” while dancing around the living room with the wireless guitar controller; the director’s cut, however, had her strip to her underwear halfway through the commercial and was broadcast only after prime time.

Klum is a “Real Celebrity” on the website Stardoll. On Stardoll Klum has a line of virtual jewelry, and a virtual clothing line called Jordache. Users can go to Klum’s suite and interact with her by doing interviews, sending pending requests or dressing Klum’s doll.

In what some pundits saw as a heavy-handed approach by Klum’s lawyers, an unemployed Chemnitz butcher, who used Klum’s picture in advertising for a local dance on a flyer and a web page, contested her subsequent takedown notice in court and lost, forcing him to pay court costs of 2300. A German actress has pledged to pay on his behalf.

On April 1, 2009, Klum appeared on the CBS television special, I Get That a Lot, as a girl working at a pizza shop.

==Personal life==
Klum married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997; the couple divorced in 2002. Following the divorce, she dated Flavio Briatore. In the autumn of 2003, Klum announced she was pregnant by Briatore. The same day she made this announcement, Briatore was photographed kissing Fiona Swarovski, a jewelry heiress. Klum and Briatore split shortly thereafter.

Klum gave birth to her first child, Helene “Leni” Boshoven Klum on May 4, 2004 in New York City, New York. According to Klum, Briatore, Leni’s biological father, is not involved in the child’s life; she has stated emphatically that “Seal is Leni’s father.”

In early 2004, while still pregnant, Klum began a relationship with musician Seal. Klum and Seal married on May 10, 2005, on a beach in Mexico. They have three biological children together: sons Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel (born September 15, 2005) and Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel (born November 22, 2006) and daughter Lou Sulola Samuel (born October 9, 2009).

On hearing her family referred to as a “patchwork family,” Klum said, “I’m not white, I’m a shade of brown,” and added, “We’re all different shades and we came together and we all love each other…it’s actually kind of nice to have a ‘patchwork family’.” However, the phrase “patchwork family” does not refer to a multiracial family but is a german term to describe a modern stepfamily.

In 2008, Klum became a naturalized American citizen.

On October 5, 2009, Klum filed a petition to change her name to Heidi Samuel.

==Filmography==
Year Film Role
1998 54 VIP Patron
2001 Blow Dry Jasmine
2004 Ella Enchanted Brumhilda
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Ursula Andress
2003 Blue Collar Comedy Tour Victoria’s Secret Sales Girl
2006 The Devil Wears Prada Herself
2007 Perfect Stranger Victoria’s Secret Party Host

Heidi Klum appeared in episodes of TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle (as a toothless hockey player) and Cursed. She has also guest-starred as herself in I Get That a Lot, Spin City, Sex and the City, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother and Yes, Dear. Further, the character of Katya Nadanova in the video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is modeled after her and features her voice.

Heidi Klum Biography

Birth name Heidi Klum
Date of birth June 1, 1973 (1973-06-01) (age 36)
Place of birth Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany
Height 5 ft 9.25 in (1.76 m)[1]
Measurements 91-69-94 (EU) / 36-28-37 (US & GB)
Weight 58 kg (130 lb) (formerly 54 kg (120 lb))
Spouse(s) Ric Pipino (1997 – 2002)
Seal (2005 – present)

Heidi Klum , born June 1, 1973) is a German model, actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional singer. She is married to singer Seal.

==Early life and discovery==
Heidi was raised by her parents: Günther, a cosmetics-company executive; and Erna, a hairdresser; in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany, a small city outside Cologne. A friend persuaded her to enroll in a national modeling contest called “Model 92″. Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner on April 29, 1992 and offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. As the winner, she appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show, a top German television show with host Thomas Gottschalk. 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.

==Acting and modeling==
Klum has been on the cover of fashion magazines, including Vogue, ELLE and Marie Claire. She became known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria’s Secret as an “Angel.” In addition to working with world class photographers on her Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object and subject of Joanne Gair body painting works in several editions from 1999 to 2006. She wrote the foreword to Gair’s book of body paint work. She was a spokesmodel for McDonald’s, Braun, H & M, and Liz Claiborne, among others. She is currently a celebrity spokesmodel for Jordache and Volkswagen. In addition to modeling, she has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City, Sex and the City, Yes, Dear, and How I Met Your Mother. She had a role as an ill-tempered hair model in the movie Blow Dry, played a giantess in the movie Ella Enchanted and was cast as Ursula Andress in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. She had cameo appearances in The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger.

In July 2007, having earned $8 million in the previous 12 months, Klum was named by Forbes as third on the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In 2008, Forbes estimated her income at $14 million, putting Klum in second place. For 2009, Forbes estimated her income at $16 million. Klum is signed to IMG Models in New York City.

==Project Runway==
Project Runway season three finalist Laura Bennett interviews Heidi and Seal at the 59th Emmy Awards.

In December 2004, she became the host, judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, in which fashion designers compete for the opportunity to show their line at New York Fashion Week and receive money to launch their own fashion line. She received an Emmy Award nomination for the show for each of the first four seasons. In 2008, Klum and Project Runway received a Peabody Award, the first time a reality show won the award. Klum was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 for “outstanding host of a reality or reality-competition show” for Project Runway, the first year that category was recognized by the Emmys.

==Designing and perfume==
Klum designed clothing lines (one for men), featured in the German mail-order catalog “Otto.” She designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewellery for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie line “The Body”, named after the nickname she received following her first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show appearance. Her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on the cable shopping network QVC on September 14, 2006, and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after 36 minutes. A second line of her jewelry collection debuted on QVC on April 14, 2007, with similar success.[citation needed]Klum’s clothing line for Jordache launched on April 30, 2008.

Klum has two fragrances, called “Heidi Klum” and “Me”. She designed makeup for Victoria’s Secret as part of their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection”, titled “The Heidi Klum Collection”. The first run debuted in Fall 2007. A second run was released in Fall 2008.

Klum was involved in the development of a namesake rose, the Heidi Klum rose, which is available in Germany.

For the 2008 US Open, Klum designed a screen print t-shirt which was sold at the US Open shop. It featured child-like butterfly pictures. Proceeds will go to a non-profit organization maintaining the park which is home to the US Open.

Germany’s Next Topmodel
Germany’s Next Topmodel is a German reality television show, which pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract with IMG. Klum is the host, a judge, and co-producer of the show (along with model Tyra Banks). Season winners are Lena Gercke, Barbara Meier, Jennifer Hof and Sara Nuru. All four seasons aired on the German TV station ProSieben.

Other
Klum is an artist and had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On September 27, 2002 she dedicated a sculpture she painted called “Dog with Butterflies” to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of September 11.

In 2004, Klum co-authored Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge with Elle magazine editor Alexandra Postman. The book gives Klum’s biography as well as her advice on becoming successful. Prior to that, Klum had been an occasional guest columnist for the German television network RTL’s website. She wrote an essay for the German newspaper Die Zeit.

Klum’s other projects have included music and video games. She is featured in the 2004 James Bond video game Everything or Nothing, where she plays the villain Dr. Katya Nadanova. She has appeared in several music videos, including Jamiroquai’s video “Love Foolosophy” from their album A Funk Odyssey, and Kelis’s “Young, Fresh n’ New,” off her second 2001 album Wanderland.

In early 2009, Klum ventured into web-based videos, starring in “SPIKED HEEL: Supermodels Battle the Forces of Evil”. The web-series starred model Coco Rocha and was directed by fashion documentarian Doug Keeve. In the story, Klum aka ‘The Kluminator,’ and her stylish sidekick Coco The Sassy Superhero Rocha battle the evil Dr. Faux Pas who is plotting to destroy Fashion Week. The heroines employ everything from blow-dryer guns to fist fights, in order to thwart Dr. Faux Pas’ dastardly plans. The Kluminator and Girl Wonder avoid a chain of fashion disasters to neutralize a death ray that threatens to vaporize the community of fashionistas gathered in Bryant Park.

In November 2006, Klum released her debut single “Wonderland,” written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer “Douglas.” Proceeds were given to a children’s charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach. She contributed to her husband Seal’s 2007 album System, singing the duet “Wedding Day”, a song that Seal wrote for their wedding.

In 2008, Klum was a featured guest on an American Volkswagen commercial, where she was interviewed by a black Beetle. When she commented that German engineering is so sexy, she caused the Beetle to blush and turn red. She has been a part of several commercials for Volkswagen and McDonald’s on German television.

In November 2008, Klum appeared in two versions of a Guitar Hero World Tour commercial, where she did a take on a Tom Cruise scene in Risky Business. In both versions, she lip-synced to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” while dancing around the living room with the wireless guitar controller; the director’s cut, however, had her strip to her underwear halfway through the commercial and was broadcast only after prime time.

Klum is a “Real Celebrity” on the website Stardoll. On Stardoll Klum has a line of virtual jewelry, and a virtual clothing line called Jordache. Users can go to Klum’s suite and interact with her by doing interviews, sending pending requests or dressing Klum’s doll.

In what some pundits saw as a heavy-handed approach by Klum’s lawyers, an unemployed Chemnitz butcher, who used Klum’s picture in advertising for a local dance on a flyer and a web page, contested her subsequent takedown notice in court and lost, forcing him to pay court costs of 2300. A German actress has pledged to pay on his behalf.

On April 1, 2009, Klum appeared on the CBS television special, I Get That a Lot, as a girl working at a pizza shop.

==Personal life==
Klum married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997; the couple divorced in 2002. Following the divorce, she dated Flavio Briatore. In the autumn of 2003, Klum announced she was pregnant by Briatore. The same day she made this announcement, Briatore was photographed kissing Fiona Swarovski, a jewelry heiress. Klum and Briatore split shortly thereafter.

Klum gave birth to her first child, Helene “Leni” Boshoven Klum on May 4, 2004 in New York City, New York. According to Klum, Briatore, Leni’s biological father, is not involved in the child’s life; she has stated emphatically that “Seal is Leni’s father.”

In early 2004, while still pregnant, Klum began a relationship with musician Seal. Klum and Seal married on May 10, 2005, on a beach in Mexico. They have three biological children together: sons Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel (born September 15, 2005) and Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel (born November 22, 2006) and daughter Lou Sulola Samuel (born October 9, 2009).

On hearing her family referred to as a “patchwork family,” Klum said, “I’m not white, I’m a shade of brown,” and added, “We’re all different shades and we came together and we all love each other…it’s actually kind of nice to have a ‘patchwork family’.” However, the phrase “patchwork family” does not refer to a multiracial family but is a german term to describe a modern stepfamily.

In 2008, Klum became a naturalized American citizen.

On October 5, 2009, Klum filed a petition to change her name to Heidi Samuel.

==Filmography==
Year Film Role
1998 54 VIP Patron
2001 Blow Dry Jasmine
2004 Ella Enchanted Brumhilda
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Ursula Andress
2003 Blue Collar Comedy Tour Victoria’s Secret Sales Girl
2006 The Devil Wears Prada Herself
2007 Perfect Stranger Victoria’s Secret Party Host

Heidi Klum appeared in episodes of TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle (as a toothless hockey player) and Cursed. She has also guest-starred as herself in I Get That a Lot, Spin City, Sex and the City, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother and Yes, Dear. Further, the character of Katya Nadanova in the video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is modeled after her and features her voice.

Heidi Klum Biography

Birth name Heidi Klum
Date of birth June 1, 1973 (1973-06-01) (age 36)
Place of birth Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany
Height 5 ft 9.25 in (1.76 m)[1]
Measurements 91-69-94 (EU) / 36-28-37 (US & GB)
Weight 58 kg (130 lb) (formerly 54 kg (120 lb))
Spouse(s) Ric Pipino (1997 – 2002)
Seal (2005 – present)

Heidi Klum , born June 1, 1973) is a German model, actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional singer. She is married to singer Seal.

==Early life and discovery==
Heidi was raised by her parents: Günther, a cosmetics-company executive; and Erna, a hairdresser; in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany, a small city outside Cologne. A friend persuaded her to enroll in a national modeling contest called “Model 92″. Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum was voted the winner on April 29, 1992 and offered a modeling contract worth US$300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. As the winner, she appeared on the Gottschalk Late Night Show, a top German television show with host Thomas Gottschalk. 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.

==Acting and modeling==
Klum has been on the cover of fashion magazines, including Vogue, ELLE and Marie Claire. She became known after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and for her work with Victoria’s Secret as an “Angel.” In addition to working with world class photographers on her Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object and subject of Joanne Gair body painting works in several editions from 1999 to 2006. She wrote the foreword to Gair’s book of body paint work. She was a spokesmodel for McDonald’s, Braun, H & M, and Liz Claiborne, among others. She is currently a celebrity spokesmodel for Jordache and Volkswagen. In addition to modeling, she has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City, Sex and the City, Yes, Dear, and How I Met Your Mother. She had a role as an ill-tempered hair model in the movie Blow Dry, played a giantess in the movie Ella Enchanted and was cast as Ursula Andress in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. She had cameo appearances in The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger.

In July 2007, having earned $8 million in the previous 12 months, Klum was named by Forbes as third on the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. In 2008, Forbes estimated her income at $14 million, putting Klum in second place. For 2009, Forbes estimated her income at $16 million. Klum is signed to IMG Models in New York City.

==Project Runway==
Project Runway season three finalist Laura Bennett interviews Heidi and Seal at the 59th Emmy Awards.

In December 2004, she became the host, judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway on the U.S. cable television channel Bravo, in which fashion designers compete for the opportunity to show their line at New York Fashion Week and receive money to launch their own fashion line. She received an Emmy Award nomination for the show for each of the first four seasons. In 2008, Klum and Project Runway received a Peabody Award, the first time a reality show won the award. Klum was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 for “outstanding host of a reality or reality-competition show” for Project Runway, the first year that category was recognized by the Emmys.

==Designing and perfume==
Klum designed clothing lines (one for men), featured in the German mail-order catalog “Otto.” She designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewellery for Mouawad, a clothing line for Jordache, and swimsuits featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was one of the designers of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie line “The Body”, named after the nickname she received following her first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show appearance. Her Mouawad jewelry collection debuted on the cable shopping network QVC on September 14, 2006, and 14 of the 16 styles sold out after 36 minutes. A second line of her jewelry collection debuted on QVC on April 14, 2007, with similar success.[citation needed]Klum’s clothing line for Jordache launched on April 30, 2008.

Klum has two fragrances, called “Heidi Klum” and “Me”. She designed makeup for Victoria’s Secret as part of their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection”, titled “The Heidi Klum Collection”. The first run debuted in Fall 2007. A second run was released in Fall 2008.

Klum was involved in the development of a namesake rose, the Heidi Klum rose, which is available in Germany.

For the 2008 US Open, Klum designed a screen print t-shirt which was sold at the US Open shop. It featured child-like butterfly pictures. Proceeds will go to a non-profit organization maintaining the park which is home to the US Open.

Germany’s Next Topmodel
Germany’s Next Topmodel is a German reality television show, which pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract with IMG. Klum is the host, a judge, and co-producer of the show (along with model Tyra Banks). Season winners are Lena Gercke, Barbara Meier, Jennifer Hof and Sara Nuru. All four seasons aired on the German TV station ProSieben.

Other
Klum is an artist and had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S. On September 27, 2002 she dedicated a sculpture she painted called “Dog with Butterflies” to commemorate the role of rescue dogs in the aftermath of September 11.

In 2004, Klum co-authored Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge with Elle magazine editor Alexandra Postman. The book gives Klum’s biography as well as her advice on becoming successful. Prior to that, Klum had been an occasional guest columnist for the German television network RTL’s website. She wrote an essay for the German newspaper Die Zeit.

Klum’s other projects have included music and video games. She is featured in the 2004 James Bond video game Everything or Nothing, where she plays the villain Dr. Katya Nadanova. She has appeared in several music videos, including Jamiroquai’s video “Love Foolosophy” from their album A Funk Odyssey, and Kelis’s “Young, Fresh n’ New,” off her second 2001 album Wanderland.

In early 2009, Klum ventured into web-based videos, starring in “SPIKED HEEL: Supermodels Battle the Forces of Evil”. The web-series starred model Coco Rocha and was directed by fashion documentarian Doug Keeve. In the story, Klum aka ‘The Kluminator,’ and her stylish sidekick Coco The Sassy Superhero Rocha battle the evil Dr. Faux Pas who is plotting to destroy Fashion Week. The heroines employ everything from blow-dryer guns to fist fights, in order to thwart Dr. Faux Pas’ dastardly plans. The Kluminator and Girl Wonder avoid a chain of fashion disasters to neutralize a death ray that threatens to vaporize the community of fashionistas gathered in Bryant Park.

In November 2006, Klum released her debut single “Wonderland,” written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer “Douglas.” Proceeds were given to a children’s charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach. She contributed to her husband Seal’s 2007 album System, singing the duet “Wedding Day”, a song that Seal wrote for their wedding.

In 2008, Klum was a featured guest on an American Volkswagen commercial, where she was interviewed by a black Beetle. When she commented that German engineering is so sexy, she caused the Beetle to blush and turn red. She has been a part of several commercials for Volkswagen and McDonald’s on German television.

In November 2008, Klum appeared in two versions of a Guitar Hero World Tour commercial, where she did a take on a Tom Cruise scene in Risky Business. In both versions, she lip-synced to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” while dancing around the living room with the wireless guitar controller; the director’s cut, however, had her strip to her underwear halfway through the commercial and was broadcast only after prime time.

Klum is a “Real Celebrity” on the website Stardoll. On Stardoll Klum has a line of virtual jewelry, and a virtual clothing line called Jordache. Users can go to Klum’s suite and interact with her by doing interviews, sending pending requests or dressing Klum’s doll.

In what some pundits saw as a heavy-handed approach by Klum’s lawyers, an unemployed Chemnitz butcher, who used Klum’s picture in advertising for a local dance on a flyer and a web page, contested her subsequent takedown notice in court and lost, forcing him to pay court costs of 2300. A German actress has pledged to pay on his behalf.

On April 1, 2009, Klum appeared on the CBS television special, I Get That a Lot, as a girl working at a pizza shop.

==Personal life==
Klum married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997; the couple divorced in 2002. Following the divorce, she dated Flavio Briatore. In the autumn of 2003, Klum announced she was pregnant by Briatore. The same day she made this announcement, Briatore was photographed kissing Fiona Swarovski, a jewelry heiress. Klum and Briatore split shortly thereafter.

Klum gave birth to her first child, Helene “Leni” Boshoven Klum on May 4, 2004 in New York City, New York. According to Klum, Briatore, Leni’s biological father, is not involved in the child’s life; she has stated emphatically that “Seal is Leni’s father.”

In early 2004, while still pregnant, Klum began a relationship with musician Seal. Klum and Seal married on May 10, 2005, on a beach in Mexico. They have three biological children together: sons Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel (born September 15, 2005) and Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel (born November 22, 2006) and daughter Lou Sulola Samuel (born October 9, 2009).

On hearing her family referred to as a “patchwork family,” Klum said, “I’m not white, I’m a shade of brown,” and added, “We’re all different shades and we came together and we all love each other…it’s actually kind of nice to have a ‘patchwork family’.” However, the phrase “patchwork family” does not refer to a multiracial family but is a german term to describe a modern stepfamily.

In 2008, Klum became a naturalized American citizen.

On October 5, 2009, Klum filed a petition to change her name to Heidi Samuel.

==Filmography==
Year Film Role
1998 54 VIP Patron
2001 Blow Dry Jasmine
2004 Ella Enchanted Brumhilda
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Ursula Andress
2003 Blue Collar Comedy Tour Victoria’s Secret Sales Girl
2006 The Devil Wears Prada Herself
2007 Perfect Stranger Victoria’s Secret Party Host

Heidi Klum appeared in episodes of TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle (as a toothless hockey player) and Cursed. She has also guest-starred as herself in I Get That a Lot, Spin City, Sex and the City, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother and Yes, Dear. Further, the character of Katya Nadanova in the video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is modeled after her and features her voice.

Frederique van der Wal Biography

Date of birth August 30, 1967 (1967-08-30) (age 42)
Place of birth The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
Height 5’10″ (178 cm)
Hair color blonde
Eye color blue-green
Measurements 91 cm(36C)-62 cm(24.5 in)-91 cm(36 in)
Weight 125 lb (57 kg)
Dress size 8
This is a Dutch name; the family name is van der Wal, not Wal.
Frederique van der Wal (also Frédérique van der Wal) (born August 30, 1967) is a Dutch model, best known for her appearances in Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, and Victoria’s Secret. Van der Wal grew up in the city of the Hague. She attended college in The Netherlands and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics. She manages her own financial affairs and businesses.

==Career==
Van der Wal has appeared on many magazine covers and in many catalogs. She started her career with Victoria’s Secret in 1989. She now has her own line of clothing and fragrances. Van der Wal received the Lifetime Achievement Award, part of the Dutch Model Awards, on May 22, 2008 in Amsterdam. In 2005 Frederique had a lily named after her: Frederique’s Choice. Since then she has started the world’s first brand of flowers under the name Frederique’s Choice, which saw its official launch in 2008.

Van der Wal has also appeared in several movies and television shows, most notably on the Travel Channel. Film credits of hers include Wild Wild West starring Will Smith in which she played Amazonia, and Woody Allen’s Celebrity as a friend of the supermodel played by Charlize Theron. Van der Wal also had cameos in films such as 54 and The Million Dollar Hotel.

Van der Wal was a contestant on ABC’s Celebrity Mole: Hawaii, on which she was “the Mole” – the rogue player hired by the producers to sabotage the player’s money-earning efforts. She also hosted TLC’s make-over show Cover Shot.

Van der Wal has a daughter with screenwriter Nicholas Klein, called Scyler Pim Klein.

==Filmography==
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel as Diamond Woman (Cameo)

1999 The Venice Project as Alana/Lucrezia

1999 Wild Wild West as Amazonia

1998 Celebrity as Friend Of Supermodel

1998 54 as VIP Patron (Cameo)

1997 Two Girls and a Guy as Carol

1995 Burnzy’s Last Call as Gertrude

Marilyn Monroe Biography

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson
June 1, 1926(1926-06-01)
Los Angeles, California, United States
DiedAugust 5, 1962 (aged 36)
Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Other name(s)Norma Jeane Baker
Norma Jeane Dougherty
Norma Jeane DiMaggio
OccupationActress, model, film producer, singer
Years active 1947 – 1962
Spouse(s)James Dougherty (m. 1942 – 1946)
Joe DiMaggio (m. 1954 – 1954)
Arthur Miller (m. 1956 – 1961)
Marilyn Monroe(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane
Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer and
model. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a
career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film
appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About
Eve (both 1950) were well received. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to leading
roles. Her “dumb blonde” persona was used to comedic effect in such films as
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven
Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to
broaden her range, and her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by
critics. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince
and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination, and
she received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot
(1959).
The final years of Monroe’s life were marked by illness, personal problems, and
a reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances
of her death, from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of
conjecture. Though officially classified as a “probable suicide,” the
possibility of an accidental overdose, as well as the possibility of homicide,
have not been ruled out. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest female
star of all time by the American Film Institute.
In the years and decades following her death, Monroe has often been cited as a
pop and cultural icon.
Contents
1 Family and early life
2 Career
2.1 Modeling and early film work
2.1.1 20th Century Fox contract
2.1.2 Columbia Pictures contract
2.1.3 Other work
2.2 Career development
2.2.1 Film success
2.2.2 Niagara
2.3 Mainstream success
2.3.1 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
2.3.2 How to Marry a Millionaire
2.3.3 Acting ambitions
2.3.4 The Seven Year Itch
2.4 Acting career evolves
2.4.1 The Actors Studio
2.4.2 20th Century Fox return
2.4.3 Bus Stop
2.4.4 The Prince and the Showgirl
2.5 Later films
2.5.1 Some Like it Hot
2.5.2 Let’s Make Love
2.5.3 The Misfits
2.5.4 Something’s Got to Give
2.6 New directions
3 Death and aftermath
3.1 Administration of estate
4 Personal life
4.1 James Dougherty
4.2 Joe DiMaggio
4.3 Arthur Miller
4.4 The Kennedys
4.5 Psychoanalysis
5 Filmography
6 Songs
7 Awards and nominations

Family and early life
Main article: Early life of Marilyn Monroe
Monroe was born in the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1926, as Norma
Jeane Mortenson (soon after changed to Baker), the third child born to Gladys
Pearl Baker, Monroe (1902 – 1984).
Monroe’s birth certificate names the father as Martin Edward Mortensen with his
residence stated as “unknown”. The name Mortenson is listed as her surname on
the birth certificate, although Gladys immediately had it changed to Baker, the
surname of her first husband and which she still used. Martin’s surname was
misspelled on the birth certificate leading to more confusion on who her actual
father was. Gladys Baker had married a Martin E. Mortensen in 1924, but they had
separated before Gladys’ pregnancy. Several of Monroe’s biographers suggest
that Gladys Baker used his name to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy.
Mortensen died at the age of 85, and Monroe’s birth certificate, together with
her parents’ marriage and divorce documents, were discovered. The documents
showed that Mortensen filed for divorce from Gladys on March 5, 1927, and it was
finalized on October 15, 1928.
Throughout her life, Marilyn Monroe denied that Mortensen was her father. She
said that, when she was a child, she had been shown a photograph of a man that
Gladys identified as her father, Charles Stanley Gifford. She remembered that he
had a thin mustache and somewhat resembled Clark Gable, and that she had amused
herself by pretending that Gable was her father.
Gladys was mentally unstable and financially unable to care for the young Norma
Jeane, so she placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender of
Hawthorne, California, where she lived until she was seven.
While living with the Bolenders, an unusual incident occurred. One day, Gladys
came to the Bolenders and demanded that Norma Jeane be released back into her
care. Ida knew that Gladys was unstable at the time and insisted that this
situation would not benefit Norma Jeane. Unwilling to cooperate, Gladys managed
to pull Ida into the yard while she ran inside the house, locking the door
behind her. After several minutes, Gladys walked out of the front door with one
of Albert Bolender’s military duffel bags. To Ida’s horror, Gladys had stuffed
the now screaming Norma Jeane inside the bag, zipped it up, and proceeded to
leave the house. Ida charged towards Gladys and the quarrel resulted in the bag
splitting open. Norma Jeane fell out and began weeping loudly as Ida grabbed her
and pulled her back inside the house, away from Gladys. This was just one of the
many bizarre exchanges between young Norma Jeane and her disturbed mother.
In 1933, Gladys bought a house and brought Norma Jeane to live with her. A few
months after moving in, however, Gladys suffered a mental breakdown, beginning a
series of mental episodes that would plague her for the rest of her life. In My
Story, Monroe recalls her mother “screaming and laughing” as she was forcibly
removed to the State Hospital in Norwalk. Norma Jeane was declared a ward of the
state, and Gladys’ best friend, Grace McKee, became her guardian. It was Grace
who had told Monroe that someday she would become a movie star. Grace was
captivated by Jean Harlow, and would let Norma Jeane wear makeup and take her
out to get her hair curled. They would go to the movies together, forming the
basis for Norma Jeane’s fascination with the cinema and the stars on screen.
Grace McKee married Ervin Silliman (Doc) Goddard in 1935, and nine-year-old
Norma Jeane was sent to the Los Angeles Orphans Home (later renamed Hollygrove),
and then to a succession of foster homes. During the time at Hollygrove,
several families were interested in adopting her; however, reluctance on Gladys’
part to sign adoption papers thwarted those attempts. In 1937, Grace took Norma
Jeane back to live with her, Goddard, and one of Goddard’s daughters from a
previous marriage. This arrangement did not last for long, as Doc Goddard
attempted on several occasions to sexually assault her. Disturbed by this, Grace
sent her to live with her great-aunt, Olive Brunings in Compton, California.
This arrangement also did not last long, as 12-year-old Norma Jeane was
assaulted (some reports say sexually) by one of Olive’s sons. Biographers and
psychologists have questioned whether at least some of Norma Jeane’s later
behavior (i.e. hypersexuality, sleep disturbances, substance abuse, disturbed
interpersonal relationships), was a manifestation of the effects of childhood
sexual abuse in the context of her already problematic relationships with her
psychiatrically ill mother and subsequent caregivers. In early 1938,
Grace sent her to live with yet another one of her aunts, Ana Lower, who lived
in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles. The time with Lower provided the young
Norma Jeane with one of the few stable periods in her life. Years later, she
would reflect fondly about the time that she spent with Lower, whom she
affectionately called “Aunt Ana.” Unfortunately, by 1942, the elderly Lower
developed serious health problems, and thus Norma Jeane went back to live with
the Goddards. It was there where she met a neighbor’s son, James Dougherty, and
began a relationship with him.
Her time with the Goddards would once again prove to be short. At the end of
1942, Grace and Doc decided to relocate to Virginia, where Doc had received a
lucrative job offer. The Goddards decided not to take Norma Jeane with them (the
reasoning why was never made clear); thus Grace needed to find a home for her
before they moved. An offer from a neighborhood family to adopt Norma Jeane was
proposed but Gladys still would not allow it. With few options left, Grace
approached Dougherty’s mother and suggested that Jim marry her so that she would
not have to return to an orphanage or foster care. Dougherty was initially
reluctant because Norma Jeane was only sixteen years old, but he finally
relented and married her in a ceremony, arranged by Ana Lower, after graduating
from high school in June 1942. Monroe would state in her autobiography that she
did not feel like a wife; she enjoyed playing with the neighborhood children
until her husband would call her home. In 1943, with World War II raging,
Dougherty enlisted in the Merchant Marine and was shipped out to the Pacific.
Frightened that he might not come back alive, Norma Jeane begged him to try and
get her pregnant before he left. Dougherty disagreed, feeling that she was too
young to have a baby, but he promised that they would revisit the subject when
he returned home. After he shipped out, Norma Jeane moved in with Dougherty’s
mother.

Career
Modeling and early film work
Mrs. Norma Jeane Dougherty, Yank Magazine, 1945While Dougherty was in the
Merchant Marine, Norma Jeane found employment in the Radioplane Munitions
Factory. She sprayed airplane parts with fire retardant and inspected
parachutes. During this time, Army photographer David Conover snapped a
photograph of her for a Yank magazine article. He encouraged her to apply to The
Blue Book Modeling Agency. She signed with the agency and began researching the
work of Jean Harlow and Lana Turner. She was told that they were looking for
models with lighter hair, so Norma Jeane bleached her brunette hair to a golden
blonde.
Norma Jeane Dougherty became one of Blue Book’s most successful models,
appearing on dozens of magazine covers. Jim Dougherty was oblivious of his
wife’s new job and only became aware of it when he discovered a shipmate of his
admiring a photo of a sexy model in a magazine who turned out to be Norma Jeane.
Dougherty wrote her several letters telling her that once he returned from
service, she would have to give up her modeling. A dissatisfied Norma Jeane, who
now saw the possibilities of a modeling and acting career, decided then to
divorce Dougherty. The marriage ended when he returned from overseas in 1946.
20th Century Fox contract
Her successful modeling career brought her to the attention of Ben Lyon, a 20th
Century Fox executive, who arranged a screen test for her. Lyon was impressed
and commented, “It’s Jean Harlow all over again.” She was offered a standard
six-month contract with a starting salary of $125 per week. Lyon did not like
her name and chose “Carole Lind” as a stagename, after Carole Lombard and Jenny
Lind, but he soon decided it was not an appropriate choice. Norma Jeane was
invited to spend the weekend with Lyon and his wife Bebe Daniels at their home.
It was there that they decided to find her a new name. Following her idol Jean
Harlow, Norma Jeane decided to choose her mother’s maiden name of Monroe.
Several variations such as Norma Jeane Monroe and Norma Monroe were tried and
initially “Jeane Monroe” was chosen. Eventually Lyon decided that he wanted her
to have a new name as there were many actresses with the name Jean, or a
variation of it such as Jean Peters, Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, and Jean
Arthur. Wanting a more alliterative sounding name, Lyon suggested “Marilyn,”
commenting that she reminded him of Marilyn Miller, the sexy 1920′s Broadway
actress. Norma Jeane was initially hesitant due to the fact that Marilyn was the
contraction of the name Mary Lynn, a name she did not like. Lyon, however, felt
that the name “Marilyn Monroe” was sexy, had a “nice flow,” and would be “lucky”
due to the double “M” and thus Norma Jeane Baker took the name Marilyn
Monroe.
She appeared in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Dangerous Years (both 1947), but
when her contract was not renewed, she returned to modeling. She attempted to
find opportunities for film work, and while unemployed, she posed for nude
photographs. That year, she was also crowned the first “Miss California
Artichoke Queen” at the annual artichoke festival in Castroville.
Columbia Pictures contract
In 1948, Monroe signed a six-month contract with Columbia Pictures and was
introduced to the studio’s head drama coach Natasha Lytess, who became her
acting coach for several years. She starred in the low-budget musical Ladies
of the Chorus, but the film was not a success, and her contract was not
renewed. During her short stint at Columbia, studio head Harry Cohn softened
her appearance somewhat by correcting a slight overbite she had. In addition, he
had her golden brownish-blonde hair lightened to platinum blonde.

Other work
in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)She had a small role in the Marx Brothers film Love
Happy (1949). She impressed the producers, who sent her to New York to feature
in the film’s promotional campaign. Love Happy brought Monroe to the
attention of the talent agent, Johnny Hyde, who agreed to represent her. He
arranged for her to audition for John Huston, who cast her in the drama The
Asphalt Jungle as the young mistress of an aging criminal. Her performance
brought strong reviews, and was seen by the writer and director, Joseph
Mankiewicz. He accepted Hyde’s suggestion of Monroe for a small comedic role in
All About Eve as Miss Caswell, an aspiring actress, described by another
character as a student of “The Copacabana School of Dramatic Art”. Mankiewicz
later commented that he had seen an innocence in her that he found appealing,
and that this had confirmed his belief in her suitability for the role.
Following Monroe’s success in these roles, Hyde negotiated a seven-year contract
for her with 20th Century Fox, shortly before his death in December 1950. It
was at some time during this 1949 – 50 period that Hyde arranged for her to have a
slight bump of cartilage removed from her somewhat bulbous nose which further
softened her appearance and accounts for the slight variation in look she had in
films after 1950.
Monroe enrolled at UCLA in 1951 where she studied literature and art
appreciation, and appeared in several minor films playing opposite such
long-established performers as Mickey Rooney, Constance Bennett, June Allyson,
Dick Powell and Claudette Colbert. In March 1951, she appeared as a
presenter at the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony.
In 1952, Monroe appeared on the cover of Look magazine wearing a Georgia Tech
sweater as part of an article celebrating female enrollment to the school’s main
campus.
In the early 1950s, Monroe and Gregg Palmer both unsuccessfully auditioned for
roles as Daisy Mae and Abner in a proposed Li’l Abner television series based on
the Al Capp comic strip, but the effort never materialized.

Career development
First issue of PlayboyIn March 1952, Monroe faced a possible scandal when one of
her nude photos from a 1949 session with photographer Tom Kelley was featured in
a calendar. The press speculated about the identity of the anonymous model and
commented that she closely resembled Monroe. As the studio discussed how to deal
with the problem, Monroe suggested that she should simply admit that she had
posed for the photograph but that she should emphasize that she had done so only
because she had no money to pay her rent. She gave an interview in which she
discussed the circumstances that led to her posing for the photographs, and the
resulting publicity elicited a degree of sympathy for her plight as a struggling
actress.
She made her first appearance on the cover of Life magazine in April 1952, where
she was described as “The Talk of Hollywood”. Stories of her childhood and
upbringing portrayed her in a sympathetic light: a cover story for the May 1952
edition of True Experiences magazine showed a smiling and wholesome Monroe
beside a caption that read, “Do I look happy? I should — for I was a child
nobody wanted. A lonely girl with a dream who awakened to find that dream come
true. I am Marilyn Monroe. Read my Cinderella story.” It was also during
this time that she began dating baseball player Joe DiMaggio. A photograph of
DiMaggio visiting Monroe at the 20th Century Fox studio was printed in
newspapers throughout the United States, and reports of a developing romance
between them generated further interest in Monroe.

Film success
with Keith Andes in Clash by Night (1952)Over the following months, four films
in which Monroe featured were released. She had been lent to RKO Studios to
appear in a supporting role in Clash by Night, a Barbara Stanwyck drama,
directed by Fritz Lang. Released in June 1952, the film was popular with
audiences, with much of its success credited to curiosity about Monroe, who
received generally favorable reviews from critics.
This was followed by two films released in July, the comedy We’re Not Married,
and the drama Don’t Bother to Knock. We’re Not Married featured Monroe as a
beauty pageant contestant. Variety described the film as “lightweight”. Its
reviewer commented that Monroe was featured to full advantage in a bathing suit,
and that some of her scenes suggested a degree of exploitation. In Don’t
Bother to Knock she played the starring role of a babysitter who threatens
to attack the child in her care. The downbeat melodrama was poorly reviewed,
although Monroe commented that it contained some of her strongest dramatic
acting. Monkey Business, a comedy directed by Howard Hawks starring Cary
Grant and Ginger Rogers, was released in September. It achieved good ticket
sales despite weak reviews. In O. Henry’s Full House for 20th Century Fox,
released in August 1952, Monroe had a single one-minute scene with Charles
Laughton yet received top billing alongside him and the film’s other stars,
including Anne Baxter, Farley Granger, Jean Peters and Richard Widmark.

Niagara
As Rose in NiagaraDarryl F. Zanuck considered that Monroe’s film potential was
worth developing and cast her in Niagara, as a femme fatale scheming to murder
her husband, played by Joseph Cotten. During filming, Monroe’s make-up
artist Whitey Snyder noticed her stage fright (that would ultimately mark her
behavior on film sets throughout her career); the director assigned him to spend
hours gently coaxing and comforting Monroe as she prepared to film her
scenes.
Much of the critical commentary following the release of the film focused on
Monroe’s overtly sexual performance, and a scene which shows Monroe (from
the back) making a long walk toward Niagara Falls received frequent note in
reviews. After seeing the film, Constance Bennett reportedly quipped,
“There’s a broad with her future behind her.” Whitey Snyder also commented
that it was during preparation for this film, after much experimentation, that
Monroe achieved “the look, and we used that look for several pictures in a row
… the look was established.”
While the film was a success, and Monroe’s performance had positive reviews, her
conduct at promotional events sometimes drew negative comments. Her appearance
at the Photoplay awards dinner in a skin-tight gold lamé dress was criticized.
Louella Parsons’ newspaper column quoted Joan Crawford discussing Monroe’s
“vulgarity” and describing her behavior as “unbecoming an actress and a
lady”. Monroe had previously received criticism for wearing a dress with a
neckline cut almost to her navel when she acted as Grand Marshall at the Miss
America Parade in September 1952. A photograph from this event was used on
the cover of the first issue of Playboy in December 1953, with a nude photograph
of Monroe, taken in 1949, inside the magazine.

Mainstream success
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Performing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953)Her next film was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-starring Jane Russell
and directed by Howard Hawks. Her role as Lorelei Lee, a gold-digging showgirl,
required her to act, sing, and dance. The two stars became friends, with Russell
describing Monroe as “very shy and very sweet and far more intelligent than
people gave her credit for”. She later recalled that Monroe showed her
dedication by rehearsing her dance routines each evening after most of the crew
had left, but she arrived habitually late on set for filming. Realizing that
Monroe remained in her dressing room due to stage fright, and that Hawks was
growing impatient with her tardiness, Russell started escorting her to the
set.
At the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Monroe and Russell pressed their hand-
and footprints in the cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Monroe received positive reviews and the film grossed more than double its
production costs. Her rendition of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”
became associated with her. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes also marked one of the
earliest films in which William Travilla dressed Monroe. Travilla dressed Monroe
in eight of her films including Bus Stop, Don’t Bother to Knock, How to Marry a
Millionaire, River of No Return, There’s No Business Like Show Business, Monkey
Business, and The Seven Year Itch.

How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire was a comedy about three models scheming to attract a
wealthy husband. The film teamed Monroe with Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, and
was directed by Jean Negulesco. The producer and scriptwriter, Nunnally
Johnson, said that it was the first film in which audiences “liked Marilyn for
herself she diagnosed the reason very shrewdly. She said that it was
the only picture she’d been in, in which she had a measure of modesty… about
her own attractiveness.”
Monroe’s films of this period established her “dumb blonde” persona and
contributed to her popularity. In 1953 and 1954, she was listed in the annual
“Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars”, which was compiled from the
votes of movie exhibitors throughout the United States for the stars that had
generated the most revenue in their theaters over the previous year.

Acting ambitions
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell putting signatures, hand and foot prints in
cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on June 27, 1953During this time, Monroe
discussed her acting ambitions, telling the New York Times “I want to grow and
develop and play serious dramatic parts. My dramatic coach, Natasha Lytess,
tells everybody that I have a great soul, but so far nobody’s interested in
it.” She saw a possibility in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming film, The
Egyptian, but was rebuffed by Darryl F. Zanuck who refused to screen test
her.
Instead, she was assigned to the western River of No Return, opposite Robert
Mitchum. Director Otto Preminger resented Monroe’s reliance on Natasha Lytess,
who coached Monroe and announced her verdict at the end of each scene.
Eventually Monroe refused to speak to Preminger, and Mitchum had to mediate.
Of the finished product, she commented, “I think I deserve a better deal than a
grade Z cowboy movie in which the acting finished second to the scenery and the
CinemaScope process.” In late 1953 Monroe was scheduled to begin filming The
Girl in Pink Tights with Frank Sinatra. When she failed to appear for work, 20th
Century Fox suspended her.

Marilyn Monroe, appearing with the USO, poses for soldiers in Korea after a
performance at the 3rd U.S. Inf. Div. area, February 17, 1954.She and Joe
DiMaggio were married in San Francisco on January 14, 1954. They travelled to
Japan soon after, combining a honeymoon with a business trip previously arranged
by DiMaggio. For two weeks she took a secondary role to DiMaggio as he conducted
his business, telling a reporter, “Marriage is my main career from now on.”
Monroe then travelled alone to Korea where she performed for 13,000 American
Marines over a three-day period. She later commented that the experience had
helped her overcome a fear of performing in front of large crowds.
Returning to Hollywood in March 1954, Monroe settled her disagreement with 20th
Century Fox and appeared in the musical There’s No Business Like Show Business.
The film failed to recover its production costs and was poorly received. Ed
Sullivan described Monroe’s performance of the song “Heat Wave” as “one of the
most flagrant violations of good taste” he had witnessed. Time magazine
compared her unfavorably to co-star Ethel Merman, while Bosley Crowther for The
New York Times said that Mitzi Gaynor had surpassed Monroe’s “embarrassing to
behold” performance. The reviews echoed Monroe’s opinion of the film. She
had made it reluctantly, on the assurance that she would be given the starring
role in the film adaptation of the Broadway hit The Seven Year Itch.

The Seven Year Itch
in The Seven Year Itch (1955)In September 1954, Monroe filmed one of the key
scenes for The Seven Year Itch in New York City. In it, she stands with her
co-star, Tom Ewell, while the air from a subway grating blows her skirt up. A
large crowd watched as director Billy Wilder ordered the scene to be refilmed
many times. Among the crowd was Joe DiMaggio, who was reported to have been
infuriated by the spectacle. After a quarrel, witnessed by journalist Walter
Winchell, the couple returned to California where they avoided the press for two
weeks, until Monroe announced that they had separated. Their divorce was
granted in November 1954. The filming was completed in early 1955, and after
refusing what she considered to be inferior parts in The Girl in the Red Velvet
Swing and How to Be Very, Very Popular, Monroe decided to leave Hollywood on the
advice of Milton Greene.

Acting career evolves
Milton Greene had first met Monroe in 1953 when he was assigned to photograph
her for Look magazine. While many photographers tried to emphasize her sexy
image, Greene presented her in more modest poses, and she was pleased with his
work. As a friendship developed between them, she confided in him her
frustration with her 20th Century Fox contract and the roles she was offered.
Her salary for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes amounted to $18,000, while freelancer
Jane Russell was paid more than $100,000. Greene agreed that she could earn
more by breaking away from 20th Century Fox. He gave up his job in 1954,
mortgaged his home to finance Monroe, and allowed her to live with his family as
they determined the future course of her career.
On April 8, 1955, veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Greene and his
wife Amy, as well as Monroe, at the Greene’s home in Connecticut on a live
telecast of the CBS program Person to Person. The kinescope of the telecast has
been released on home video.

The Actors Studio
Truman Capote introduced Monroe to Constance Collier, who gave her acting
lessons. She felt that Monroe was not suited to stage acting, but possessed a
“lovely talent” that was “so fragile and subtle, it can only be caught by the
camera”. After only a few weeks of lessons, Collier died. Monroe had met
Paula Strasberg and her daughter Susan on the set of There’s No Business Like
Show Business, and had previously said that she would like to study with Lee
Strasberg at the Actors Studio. In March 1955, Monroe met with Cheryl Crawford,
one of the founders of the Actors Studio, and convinced her to introduce her to
Lee Strasberg, who interviewed her the following day and agreed to accept her as
a student.
In May 1955, Monroe started dating playwright Arthur Miller; they had met in
Hollywood in 1950 and when Miller discovered she was in New York, he arranged
for a mutual friend to reintroduce them. On June 1, 1955, Monroe’s birthday,
Joe DiMaggio accompanied Monroe to the premiere of The Seven Year Itch in New
York City. He later hosted a birthday party for her, but the evening ended with
a public quarrel, and Monroe left the party without him. A lengthy period of
estrangement followed.
Throughout 1955, Monroe studied with the Actors Studio, and found that one of
her biggest obstacles was her severe stage fright. She was befriended by the
actors Kevin McCarthy and Eli Wallach who each recalled her as studious and
sincere in her approach to her studies, and noted that she tried to avoid
attention by sitting quietly in the back of the class. When Strasberg felt
Monroe was ready to give a performance in front of her peers, Monroe and Maureen
Stapleton chose the opening scene from Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, and
although she had faltered during each rehearsal, she was able to complete the
performance without forgetting her lines. Kim Stanley later recalled that
students were discouraged from applauding, but that Monroe’s performance had
resulted in spontaneous applause from the audience. While Monroe was a
student, Lee Strasberg commented, “I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of
actors and actresses, and there are only two that stand out way above the rest.
Number one is Marlon Brando, and the second is Marilyn Monroe.”

20th Century Fox return
The Seven Year Itch was released and became a success, earning an estimated $8
million. Monroe received positive reviews for her performance and was in a
strong position to negotiate with 20th Century Fox. On New Year’s Eve 1955,
they signed a new contract which required Monroe to make four films over a
seven-year period. The newly formed Marilyn Monroe Productions would be paid
$100,000 plus a share of profits for each film. In addition to being able to
work for other studios, Monroe had the right to reject any script, director or
cinematographer she did not approve of.

Bus Stop
Monroe’s dramatic performance as Charie in Bus Stop, a saloon singer with little
talent, marked a departure from her earlier comedies.The first film to be made
under the contract and production company was Bus Stop directed by Joshua Logan.
Logan had studied under Konstantin Stanislavsky, approved of method acting, and
was supportive of Monroe. Monroe severed contact with her drama coach,
Natasha Lytess, replacing her with Paula Strasberg, who became a constant
presence during the filming of Monroe’s subsequent films.
In Bus Stop, Monroe played Charie, a saloon singer with little talent who falls
in love with a cowboy. Her costumes, make-up and hair reflected a character who
lacked sophistication, and Monroe provided deliberately mediocre singing and
dancing. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times proclaimed: “Hold on to your
chairs, everybody, and get set for a rattling surprise. Marilyn Monroe has
finally proved herself an actress.” In his autobiography, Movie Stars, Real
People and Me, director Logan wrote: “I found Marilyn to be one of the great
talents of all time… she struck me as being a much brighter person than I had
ever imagined, and I think that was the first time I learned that intelligence
and, yes, brilliance have nothing to do with education.” Logan championed Monroe
for an Academy Award nomination and complimented her professionalism until the
end of his life. Though not nominated for an Academy Award, she received
a Golden Globe nomination.
During this time, the relationship between Monroe and Miller had developed, and
although the couple were able to maintain their privacy for almost a year, the
press began to write about them as a couple, often referred to as “The
Egghead and The Hourglass”. The reports of their romance were soon overtaken
by news that Miller had been called to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee to explain his supposed communist affiliations. Called upon
to identify communists he was acquainted with, Miller refused and was charged
with contempt of Congress. He was acquitted on appeal. During the
investigation, Monroe was urged by film executives to abandon Miller, rather
than risk her career but she refused, later branding them as “born cowards”.
The press began to discuss an impending marriage, but Monroe and Miller refused
to confirm the rumor. In June 1956, a reporter was following them by car, and as
they attempted to elude him, the reporter’s car crashed, killing a female
passenger. Monroe became hysterical upon hearing the news, and their engagement
was announced, partly in the expectation that it would reduce the excessive
media interest they were being subjected to. They were married on June 29,
1956.

The Prince and the Showgirl
In The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), Monroe co-starred with Laurence Olivier,
who also directed the film.Bus Stop was followed by The Prince and the Showgirl
directed by Laurence Olivier, who also co-starred. Prior to filming, Olivier
praised Monroe as “a brilliant comedienne, which to me means she is also an
extremely skilled actress”. During filming in England he resented Monroe’s
dependence on her drama coach, Paula Strasberg, regarding Strasberg as a fraud
whose only talent was the ability to “butter Marilyn up”. He recalled his
attempts at explaining a scene to Monroe, only to hear Strasberg interject,
“Honey” just think of Coca-Cola and Frank Sinatra.”
Despite Monroe and Olivier clashing, Olivier later commented that in the film
“Marilyn was quite wonderful, the best of all.” Monroe’s performance was
hailed by critics, especially in Europe, where she won the David di Donatello,
the Italian equivalent of the Academy Award, as well as the French Crystal Star
Award. She was also nominated for a BAFTA.

Later films
It was more than a year before Monroe began her next film. During her hiatus,
she summered with Miller in Amagansett, Long Island. She suffered a miscarriage
on August 1, 1957.

Some Like it Hot
In Some Like It Hot (1959)With Miller’s encouragement she returned to Hollywood
in August 1958 to star in Some Like it Hot. The film was directed by Billy
Wilder and co-starred Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Wilder had experienced
Monroe’s tardiness, stage fright, and inability to remember lines during
production of The Seven Year Itch. However her behavior was now more hostile,
and was marked by refusals to participate in filming and occasional outbursts of
profanity. Monroe consistently refused to take direction from Wilder, or
insisted on numerous retakes of simple scenes until she was satisfied. She
developed a rapport with Lemmon, but she disliked Curtis after hearing that he
had described their love scenes as “like kissing Hitler”. Curtis later
stated that the comment was intended as a joke. During filming, Monroe
discovered that she was pregnant. She suffered another miscarriage in December
1958, as filming was completed.
Some Like it Hot became a resounding success, and was nominated for six Academy
Awards. Monroe was acclaimed for her performance and won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Wilder commented that the
film was the biggest success he had ever been associated with. He discussed
the problems he encountered during filming, saying “Marilyn was so difficult
because she was totally unpredictable. I never knew what kind of day we were
going to have… would she be cooperative or obstructive?” He had little
patience with her method acting technique and said that instead of going to the
Actors Studio “she should have gone to a train-engineer’s school … to learn
something about arriving on schedule.” Wilder had become ill during filming,
and explained, “We were in mid-flight“ and there was a nut on the plane.”
In hindsight, he discussed Monroe’s “certain indefinable magic” and “absolute
genius as a comic actress.”

Let’s Make Love
By this time, Monroe had only completed one film, Bus Stop, under her four
picture contract with 20th Century Fox. She agreed to appear in Let’s Make Love,
which was to be directed by George Cukor, but she was not satisfied with the
script, and Arthur Miller rewrote it. Gregory Peck was originally cast in
the male lead role, but he refused the role after Miller’s rewrite; Cary Grant,
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Rock Hudson also refused the role before it was
offered to Yves Montand. Monroe and Miller befriended Montand and his wife,
actress Simone Signoret, and filming progressed well until Miller was required
to travel to Europe on business. Monroe began to leave the film set early and on
several occasions failed to attend, but her attitude improved after Montand
confronted her. Signoret returned to Europe to make a film, and Monroe and
Montand began a brief affair that ended when Montand refused to leave
Signoret. The film was not a critical or commercial success.
Monroe’s health deteriorated during this period, and she began to see a Los
Angeles psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. He later recalled that during this
time she frequently complained of insomnia, and told Greenson that she visited
several medical doctors to obtain what Greenson considered an excessive variety
of drugs. He concluded that she was progressing to the point of addiction, but
also noted that she could give up the drugs for extended periods without
suffering any withdrawal symptoms. According to Greenson, the marriage
between Miller and Monroe was strained; he said that Miller appeared to
genuinely care for Monroe and was willing to help her, but that Monroe rebuffed
while also expressing resentment towards him for not doing more to help
her. Greenson stated that his main objective at the time was to enforce a
drastic reduction in Monroe’s drug intake.

The Misfits
Monroe in her final completed film, The Misfits (1961)In 1956 Arthur Miller had
lived briefly in Nevada and wrote a short story about some of the local people
he had become acquainted with, a divorced woman and some aging cowboys. By 1960
he had developed the short story into a screenplay, and envisaged it as
containing a suitable role for Monroe. It became her last completed film, The
Misfits, directed by John Huston and costarring Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift,
Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter. Shooting commenced in July 1960, with most taking
place in the hot Northern Nevada desert. Monroe was frequently ill and
unable to perform, and away from the influence of Dr. Greenson, she had resumed
her consumption of sleeping pills and alcohol. A visitor to the set, Susan
Strasberg, later described Monroe as “mortally injured in some way,” and in
August, Monroe was rushed to Los Angeles where she was hospitalized for ten
days. Newspapers reported that she had been near death, although the nature of
her illness was not disclosed. Louella Parsons wrote in her newspaper
column that Monroe was “a very sick girl, much sicker than at first believed,”
and disclosed that she was being treated by a psychiatrist.
Monroe returned to Nevada and completed the film, but she became hostile towards
Arthur Miller, and public arguments were reported by the press. Making the
film had proved to be an arduous experience for the actors; in addition to
Monroe’s distress, Montgomery Clift had frequently been unable to perform due to
illness, and by the final day of shooting, Thelma Ritter was in hospital
suffering from exhaustion. Gable, commenting that he felt unwell, left the set
without attending the wrap party. Monroe and Miller returned to New York on
separate flights.
Within ten days Monroe had announced her separation from Miller, and Gable had
died from a heart attack. Gable’s widow, Kay, commented to Louella Parsons
that it had been the “eternal waiting” on the set of The Misfits that had
contributed to his death, though she did not name Monroe. When reporters asked
Monroe if she felt guilty about Gable’s death, she refused to answer, but
the journalist Sidney Skolsky recalled that privately she expressed regret for
her poor treatment of Gable during filming and described her as being in “a dark
pit of despair.” Monroe later attended the christening of the Gables’ son,
at the invitation of Kay Gable.
The Misfits received mediocre reviews, and was not a commercial success, though
some praised the performances of Monroe and Gable. Huston later commented
that Monroe’s performance was not acting in the true sense, and that she had
drawn from her own experiences to show herself, rather than a character. “She
had no techniques. It was all the truth. It was only Marilyn.”
During the following months, Monroe’s dependence on alcohol and prescription
medications began to take a toll on her health, and friends such as Susan
Strasberg later spoke of her illness. Her divorce from Arthur Miller was
finalized in January 1961, with Monroe citing “incompatibility of
character,” and in February she voluntarily entered the Payne Whitney
Psychiatric Clinic. Monroe later described the experience as a “nightmare”.
She was able to phone Joe DiMaggio from the clinic, and he immediately traveled
from Florida to New York to facilitate her transfer to the Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center. She remained there for three weeks. Illness prevented her from
working for the remainder of the year; she underwent surgery to correct a
blockage in her Fallopian tubes in May, and the following month underwent gall
bladder surgery. She returned to California and lived in a rented apartment
as she convalesced.

Something’s Got to Give
In 1962 Monroe began filming Something’s Got to Give, which was to be the third
film of her four-film contract with 20th Century Fox. It was to be directed by
George Cukor, and co-starred Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. She was ill with a
virus as filming commenced, and suffered from high temperatures and recurrent
sinusitis. On one occasion she refused to perform with Martin as he had a cold,
and the producer Henry Weinstein recalled seeing her on several occasions being
physically ill as she prepared to film her scenes, and attributed it to her
dread of performing. He commented, “Very few people experience terror. We all
experience anxiety, unhappiness, heartbreaks, but that was sheer primal
terror.”
On May 19, 1962, she attended the birthday celebration of President John F.
Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, at the suggestion of Kennedy’s brother-in-law,
actor Peter Lawford. Monroe performed “Happy Birthday” along with a specially
written verse based on Bob Hope’s “Thanks for the Memory”. Kennedy responded to
her performance with the remark, “Thank you. I can now retire from politics
after having had ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome
way.”
Monroe returned to the set of Something’s Got to Give and filmed a sequence in
which she appeared nude in a swimming pool. Commenting that she wanted to “push
Liz Taylor off the magazine covers,” she gave permission for several partially
nude photographs to be published by Life. Having only reported for work on
twelve occasions out of a total of 35 days of production, Monroe was
dismissed. The studio 20th Century Fox filed a lawsuit against her for half a
million dollars, and the studio’s vice president, Peter Levathes, issued a
statement saying “The star system has gotten way out of hand. We’ve let the
inmates run the asylum, and they’ve practically destroyed it.” Monroe was
replaced by Lee Remick, and when Dean Martin refused to work with any other
actress, he was also threatened with a lawsuit.

New directions
Following her dismissal, Monroe engaged in several high-profile publicity
ventures. She gave an interview to Cosmopolitan and was photographed at Peter
Lawford’s beach house sipping champagne and walking on the beach. She next
posed for Bert Stern for Vogue in a series of photographs that included several
nudes. Published after her death, they became known as ‘The Last Sitting’.
Richard Meryman interviewed her for Life, in which Monroe reflected upon her
relationship with her fans and her uncertainties in identifying herself as a
“star” and a “sex symbol.” She referred to the events surrounding Arthur
Miller’s appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956,
and her studio’s warning that she would be “finished” if she showed public
support for him, and commented, “You have to start all over again. But I believe
you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few
relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and,
so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So
at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.”
In the final weeks of her life, Monroe engaged in discussions about future film
projects, and firm arrangements were made to continue negotiations. Among
the projects was a biography of Jean Harlow later filmed unsuccessfully with
Carroll Baker. Starring roles in Billy Wilder’s Irma La Douce and What a
Way to Go! were also discussed; Shirley MacLaine eventually played the roles in
both films. Kim Novak replaced her in Kiss Me, Stupid, a comedy in which she was
to star opposite Dean Martin. A film version of the Broadway musical, A Tree
Grows In Brooklyn, and an unnamed World War I “themed musical co-starring Gene
Kelly were also discussed, but the projects did not occur. Her dispute with
20th Century Fox was resolved, and her contract renewed into a $1 million
two-picture deal, and filming of Something’s Got to Give was scheduled to resume
in early fall 1962. Also on the table was an Italian film offer worth several
million giving her script, director and co-star approval. Allan “Whitey”
Snyder who saw her during the last week of her life, said Monroe was pleased by
the opportunities available to her, and that she “never looked better was
in great spirits.”

Death and aftermath
The crypt of Marilyn MonroeOn August 5, 1962, LAPD police sergeant Jack Clemmons
received a call at 4:25 a.m. from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe’s psychiatrist,
proclaiming that Monroe was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles,
California. She was 36 years old. At the subsequent autopsy, eight
milligram percent of Chloral Hydrate and 4.5 milligram percent of Nembutal were
found in her system, and Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County
Coroners office recorded cause of death as “acute barbiturate poisoning,”
resulting from a “probable suicide”. Many theories, including murder,
circulated about the circumstances of her death and the timeline after the body
was found. Some conspiracy theories involved John and Robert Kennedy, while
other theories suggested CIA or Mafia complicity.
On August 8, 1962, Monroe was interred in a crypt at Corridor of Memories #24,
at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles. Lee
Strasberg delivered the eulogy. The crypt space immediately to the left of
Monroe’s was bought and reserved by Hugh Hefner in 1992.
In August 2009, the crypt space directly above that of Monroe was placed for
auction on eBay. Elsie Poncher plans to exhume her husband and move him to
an adjacent plot. She advertised the crypt, hoping “to make enough money to pay
off the $1.6 million mortgage” on her Beverly Hills mansion. The winning
bid was placed by an anonymous Japanese man for $4.6 million, but the
winning bidder later backed out “because of the paying problem”.

Administration of estate
Monroe’s Brentwood home (1992)In her will, Monroe left Lee Strasberg her
personal effects, which amounted to just over half of her residuary estate,
expressing her desire that he “distribute among my friends,
colleagues and those to whom I am devoted.” Instead, Strasberg stored them
in a warehouse, and willed them to his widow, Anna. Mrs. Strasberg successfully
sued Los Angeles-based Odyssey Auctions in 1994 to prevent the sale of items
consigned by the nephew of Monroe’s business manager, Inez Melson. In October
1999, Christie’s auctioned the bulk of Monroe’s effects, including those
recovered from Melson’s nephew, netting US $13,405,785.
Mrs. Strasberg then sued the children of four photographers to determine rights
of publicity, which permits the licensing of images of deceased personages for
commercial purposes. The decision as to whether Monroe was a resident of
California, where she died and where her will was probated, or New York,
which she considered her primary residence, was worth millions.
On 4 May 2007, a New York judge ruled that Monroe’s rights of publicity ended at
her death. In October 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
signed Senate Bill 771. The legislation was supported by Anna Strasberg
and the Screen Actors Guild, and established that non-family members may
inherit rights of publicity through the residuary clause of the deceased’s will,
provided that the person was a resident of California at the time of death.

In March 2008, the United States District Court in Los Angeles ruled that Monroe
was a resident of New York at the time of her death, citing the statement of the
executor of her estate to California tax authorities, and a 1966 sworn affidavit
by her housekeeper. The decision was reaffirmed by the United States
District Court of New York in September 2008. In 2010, Monroe’s Brentwood
home was put up for sale by Prudential California Realty.

Personal life
Monroe had three marriages, first to James Dougherty, then to Joe DiMaggio, and
lastly Arthur Miller. It was also widely rumored that she had had an affair with
President John F. Kennedy, his brother Senator Robert Kennedy, or both. Marlon
Brando, in his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me, also claimed that he had
had a relationship with her.

James Dougherty
Monroe married James Dougherty on June 19, 1942, at the home of Chester Howell
in Los Angeles. In The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe and To Norma Jeane
with Love, Jimmie, he claimed they were in love, but dreams of stardom lured her
away. In 1953, he wrote a piece called “Marilyn Monroe Was My Wife” for
Photoplay, in which he claimed that she threatened to jump off the Santa Monica
Pier if he left her. In the 2004 documentary Marilyn’s Man, Dougherty made three
new claims: that he invented the “Marilyn Monroe” persona; studio executives
forced her to divorce him; and that he was her true love and her “dedicated
friend for life.”
Dougherty’s actions seem to contradict these claims: he remarried months after
Monroe divorced him; his sister told the December 1952 Modern Screen Magazine
that he left Monroe because she wanted to pursue modeling, after he initially
gave her permission to do so; he confirmed Monroe’s version of the beginning of
their relationship in an A&E Network Monroe documentary that his mother had
asked him to marry her so that she would not be returned to an orphanage. On
Monroe’s death, August 5, 1962, one of the responding officers who knew Jim
Dougherty phoned him at 4:00 a.m. with the news. Dougherty turned to his wife
and said, “Say a prayer for Norma Jean. She’s dead.” Most telling, on August 6,
The New York Times reported that, on being informed of her death, Dougherty
replied “I’m sorry” and continued his LAPD patrol. He did not attend Monroe’s
funeral.

Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe staying at Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on their
honeymoon.In 1951, Joe DiMaggio saw a picture of Monroe with Chicago White Sox
players Joe Dobson and Gus Zernial, but did not ask the man who arranged the
stunt to set up a date until 1952. Monroe wrote in My Story that she did not
want to meet him, fearing a stereotypical jock. They eloped at San Francisco
City Hall on January 14, 1954. During their honeymoon in Japan, she was asked to
visit Korea as part of the USO. She performed ten shows in four days for over
100,000 servicemen.
Maury Allen quoted New York Yankees PR man Arthur Richman that Joe told him that
the marriage went wrong from then. On September 14, 1954, Monroe filmed the
famed skirt-blowing scene for The Seven Year Itch in front of New York’s
Trans-Lux Theater. Bill Kobrin, then Fox’s east coast correspondent, told the
Palm Springs Desert Sun in 1956 that it was Billy Wilder’s idea to turn the
shoot into a media circus, and that the couple had a “yelling battle” in the
theater lobby. She filed for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty 274 days
after the wedding.
In February 1961, Monroe was admitted to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.
She contacted DiMaggio, who secured her release. She later joined him in
Florida, where he was serving as a batting coach at the New York Yankees’
training camp. Bob Hope jokingly dedicated Best Song nominee The Second Time
Around to them at the 1961 Academy Awards.
According to Allen, on August 1, 1962, DiMaggio“ alarmed by how Monroe had
fallen in with people he considered detrimental to her well-being“ quit his job
with a PX supplier to ask her to remarry him.
After Monroe’s death, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged her funeral. For 20
years, he had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week.
In 2006, DiMaggio’s adopted granddaughters auctioned the bulk of his estate,
which featured two letters Monroe penned to him and a photograph signed “I love
you, Joe, Marilyn.”

Arthur Miller
On June 29, 1956, Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller, whom she first met in
1950, in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York. City Court Judge Seymour D.
Robinowitz presided over the hushed ceremony in the law office of Sam Slavitt
(the wedding had been kept secret from both the press and the public). Monroe
and Miller wed again two days later in a Jewish ceremony before a small group of
guests. Rabbi Robert E. Goldburg, a Reform rabbi at Congregation Mishkan Israel,
presided over the ceremony. Their nuptials were celebrated at the home of
Miller’s literary agent, Kay Brown, in Westchester County, NY. Some 30 friends
and relatives attended the hastily arranged party. Less than two weeks after the
wedding, the Millers flew to London, where they were greeted at Parkside House
by Laurence Olivier and wife Vivien Leigh. Marilyn created chaos among the
normally staid British press. In reflecting on his courtship of Monroe, Miller
wrote, “She was a whirling light to me then, all paradox and enticing mystery,
street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity that
few retain past early adolescence.” Nominally raised as a Christian, she
converted to Judaism before marrying Miller. After she
finished shooting The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, the couple
returned to the United States from England and discovered she was pregnant. Tony
Curtis, her co-star from Some Like It Hot, claims he got Marilyn pregnant during
their on-off affair that was rekindled during the filming of Some Like It Hot in
1959, while she was still married to Arthur Miller.
Miller’s screenplay for The Misfits, a story about a despairing divorcée, was
meant to be a Valentine gift for his wife, but by the time filming started in
1960 their marriage was beyond repair. A Mexican divorce was granted on January
24, 1961 in Ciudad Juarez by Francisco Jose Gomez Fraire. On February 17, 1962,
Miller married Inge Morath, one of the Magnum photographers recording the making
of The Misfits.
In January 1964, Miller’s play After The Fall opened, featuring a beautiful and
devouring shrew named Maggie. Simone Signoret noted in her autobiography the
morbidity of Miller and Elia Kazan resuming their professional association “over
a casket.” In interviews and in his autobiography, Miller insisted that Maggie
was not based on Monroe. However, he never pretended that his last
Broadway-bound work, Finishing the Picture, was not based on the making of The
Misfits. He appeared in the documentary The Century of the Self, lamenting the
psychological work being done on her before her death.

The Kennedys
From President Kennedy’s birthday gala where Monroe sang “Happy Birthday, Mr.
President”.On May 19, 1962, Monroe made her last significant public appearance,
singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” at a birthday party for President John
F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden. The dress that she wore to the event,
specially designed and made for her by Jean Louis, sold at an auction in 1999
for USD $1.26 million.
Rumors have existed since the 1960s that Monroe had affairs with Robert Kennedy
or John Kennedy, or both. Allegations of an affair with President Kennedy
did not make it into the mainstream press until the 1970s, but a pamphlet was
published in 1964, after Monroe’s death, entitled The Strange Death of Marilyn
Monroe, by investigator Frank Cappell. It alleged a relationship between Monroe
and Bobby Kennedy. JFK’s reputed mistress Judith Exner, in her 1977
autobiography, also wrote about an affair that she said the president and Monroe
had.
Journalist Anthony Summers examines the issue of Monroe’s relationships with the
Kennedy brothers at length in two books: his 1993 biography of FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover, entitled Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar
Hoover, and his 1985 biography of Monroe, entitled Goddess. In the Hoover book,
Summers concludes that Monroe was in love with President Kennedy and wanted to
marry him in the early 1960s; that she called the White House frequently; and
that, when the married President had to break off their affair, Monroe became
even more depressed, and then turned to Robert Kennedy, who may have visited
Monroe in Los Angeles about the time that she died.
Patricia Seaton Lawford, the fourth wife of actor Peter Lawford, also deals with
the Monroe-Kennedy matters in her 1988 biography of Peter Lawford, entitled The
Peter Lawford Story. Lawford’s first wife was Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the
sister of John and Robert; Lawford was very close to the Kennedy family for over
a decade, including the time of Monroe’s death.

Psychoanalysis
Monroe had a long experience with psychoanalysis. She was in analysis with
Margaret Herz Hohenberg, Anna Freud, Marianne Rie Kris, Ralph S. Greenson (who
found Monroe dead), and Milton Wexler.

Filmography
YearTitleRoleDirector
1947Dangerous YearsEvieArthur Pierson
1948Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!Betty (uncredited)Hugh Herbert
Ladies of the Chorus Peggy MartinPhil Karlson
1949Love Happy Grunion’s Client (uncredited)David Miller
1950A Ticket to TomahawkClara (uncredited)Richard Sale
Right CrossDusky Ledoux (uncredited)John Sturges
The FireballPollyTay Garnett
The Asphalt JungleAngela PhinlayJohn Huston
All About EveMiss Claudia CaswellJoseph L. Mankiewicz
1951Love NestRoberta Stevens Joseph M. Newman
Let’s Make It LegalJoyce ManneringRichard Sale
Home Town StoryIris Martin Arthur Pierson
As Young as You Feel HarrietHarman Jones
1952O. Henry’s Full HouseStreetwalkerHenry Koster
Monkey BusinessLois LaurelHoward Hawks
Clash by Night Peggy Fritz Lang
We’re Not Married!Anabel NorrisEdmund Goulding
Don’t Bother to Knock Nell ForbesRoy Baker
195 Niagara Rose Loomis Henry Hathaway
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Lorelei LeeHoward Hawks
How to Marry a Millionaire Pola Debevoise Jean Negulesco
1954 River of No ReturnKay Weston Otto Preminger
There’s No Business Like Show BusinessVickyWalter Lang
1955 The Seven Year ItchThe GirlBilly Wilder
1956 Bus Stop Charie Joshua Logan
1957 The Prince and the Showgirl Elsie Marina Laurence Olivier
1959 Some Like It Hot Sugar Kane Kowalczy kBilly Wilder
1960 Let’s Make Love Amanda DellGeorge Cukor
1961 The Misfits Roslyn TaberJohn Huston
1962 Something’s Got to Give (Unfinished)Ellen Wagstaff ArdenGeorge Cukor

Songs
1948
Ladies of the Chorus :
“Every Baby Needs A Da Da Daddy,” “Anyone Can See I Love You,” “Ladies Of The
Chorus”
1953
Niagara: “Kiss”
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:
“Two Little Girls From Little Rock,” “When Love Goes Wrong,” “Bye Bye Baby,”
“Diamonds are Forever ( Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend)”
1954
River of No Return: “I’m Gonna File My Claim,” “One Silver Dollar,” “Down In
The Meadow,” “River Of No Return”
There’s No Business Like Show Business: “Heatwave,” “Lazy,” “After You Get
What You Want,” “A Man Chases a Girl”
1956
Bus Stop: “That Old Black Magic”
1959
Some Like It Hot: “Runnin’ Wild,” “I Wanna Be Loved By You,” “I’m Through With
Love”
1960
Let’s Make Love: “My Heart Belongs To Daddy,” “Specialization,” “Let’s Make
Love”
1962 “Happy Birthday Mr. President”

Awards and nominations
1951 Henrietta Awards: The Best Young Box Office Personality
1952 Photoplay Award: Fastest Rising Star of 1952
1952 Photoplay Award: Special Award
1952 Look American Magazine Achievement Award: Most Promising Female Newcomer
of 1952
1953 Golden Globe Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite Female.
1953 Sweetheart of The Month (Playboy)
1953 Photoplay Award: Most Popular Female Star
1954 Photoplay Award for Best Actress: for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to
Marry a Millionaire
1956 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Seven Year Itch

1956 Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical
for Bus Stop
1958 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the
Showgirl
1958 David di Donatello Award (Italian): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince
and the Showgirl
1959 Crystal Star Award (French): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the
Showgirl
1960 Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Some
Like It Hot
1962 Golden Globe, World Film Favorite: Female
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
1999 she was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the
American Film Institute in their list AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars.

Gisele Bündchen

BornGisele Caroline Bündchen 20 July 1980 (age 31) Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair colorLight Brown
Eye colorBlue
Measurements35-23-35.5 (89-59-90)
Weight57 kg (130 lb; 9.0 st)
Dress size38 EU/6 US
Shoe size37 EU/6 US/4 UK
AgencyIMG Models
SpouseTom Brady (2009–present)
Website www.giselebundchen.com.br

==Gisele Bundchen Biography==
Gisele Caroline Bundchen ( born July 20, 1980 in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program. According to Forbes, she is the highest-paid model in the world and also the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment world, with an estimated $150 million fortune.

==Family and early life==
Bundchen was born in the Brazilian town of Tres de Maio and grew up in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, to Vania Nonnenmacher, a bank clerk pensioner, and Valdir Bundchen, a university teacher and writer. She has five sisters – Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her fraternal twin Patrícia, Gisele’s junior by five minutes. Bundchen is Roman Catholic and speaks Portuguese as her native language. She also speaks Spanish and English.

- I was born in Horizontina, a town in the backcountry of (Brazilian) state Rio Grande do Sul. The town was once mainly colonized by Germans. In the school which I attended, learning German was actually obligatory from third grade on. But being out of touch with the language for such a long time, I unfortunately forgot it. I belong to the sixth generation of my family in Brazil.

==Modeling career==
Originally, Bundchen wanted to be a professional volleyball player and considered playing for the Brazilian team, Sogipa. While in school, Bundchen was so thin that her friends used to call her “Olivia Palito” (Portuguese for Olive Oyl, Popeye’s skinny girlfriend) and “Saracura” (a type of Brazilian shorebird).

In 1993, a then-13-year-old Bundchen joined a modeling course with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela at her mother’s insistence.The following year, Bundchen went to Sao Paulo on a school excursion to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city. In a shopping mall, while eating at McDonald’s with her friends, Bundchen was discovered by a modeling agency. She was subsequently selected for a national contest, Elite Look of the Year, in which she placed second Claudia Menezes, from Bahia, took first place. Bundchen placed fourth in the world contest, held in Ibiza, Spain. In 1996, Bundchen moved to New York City usa to begin her modeling career, debuting at Fashion Week.

Gisele Bundchen on the Fashion Rio Inverno 2006, January 30, 2006. Her debut on the cover of the July 1999 issue of Vogue magazine, and the accompanying editorial entitled “The Return of the Sexy Model”, is widely viewed as marking the end of the fashion’s “heroin chic” era. She graced the cover again in November and December of that year. She won the VH1/Vogue Model of the Year for 1999, and a January 2000 cover gave her the rare honor of three consecutive Vogue covers. In 2000, she became the fourth model to appear on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone, when she was named “the most beautiful girl in the world.” Bundchen has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including W, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Allure, international editions of Vogue, as well as style and lifestyle publications such as i-D, The Face, Arena, Citizen K, Flair, GQ, Esquire, and Marie Claire. She has been featured both in the Pirelli Calendar 2001 and 2006 and in broader market publications such as Time, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Newsweek and Veja, more than 500 magazine covers throughout the world.

Bundchen consistently works with acclaimed photographers such as Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mert and Marcus, Rankin, Annie Leibovitz, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Lindbergh, David LaChapelle, Mario Sorrenti, Nino Munoz and Patrick Demarchelier, and with renowned directors such as Jean Baptiste Mondino and Bruno Aveillan.

Claudia Schiffer said: “Supermodels, like we once were, don’t exist any more” and reckoned that Gisele Bundchen was the only one close to earning the supermodel title.

Naomi Campbell said: “Models need to earn their stripes – I just think the term is used a little too loosely. Kate Moss is obviously a supermodel but, after Gisele, I don’t think there’s been one.”

On August 26, 2008, the New York Daily News, in a list, named Bundchen the fourth-most-powerful person in the fashion world.

On May 12, 2009, The Independent, called her the biggest star in fashion history.

==Endorsements and earnings==
Since her debut, Bundchen has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including several seasons of Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Mervyn’s, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Versace, Givenchy, Bvlgari, Lanvin, Guerlain, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Earl Jean, Zara, Chloé, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton and Victoria’s Secret. She has appeared in advertisements for Nivea lotion and is the face of several Brazilian brands including Vivo, Multiplan (Shopping Malls), Colcci, Credicard (Citibank) and Volkswagen do Brasil. After C&A Brazil hired Bundchen as a spokesmodel and began airing television commercials, sales increased by 30%.

At the Fashion Rio Inverno 2006In May 2006, Bundchen signed another multi-million dollar deal, this time with American giant Apple Inc.. She starred in an advertising campaign to promote the new Macintosh line through the Get a Mac advertisements. Also in 2006, Bundchen became the new face of Swiss luxury watchmaker Ebel.

She has her own line of sandals with footwear company Grendene called Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. Forbes puts her 53rd on their list of the most powerful celebrities of 2007 because of the international success of her shoe line, making the brand Ipanema the most sold Brazilian flip-flop in the world, surpassing the legendary Havaianas. Custom Ipanema flip-flops sell for as much as $230 a pair. She is also the owner of a hotel in the south of Brazil, the Palladium Executive.

On May 1, 2007, it was announced that Bundchen had ended her contract with Victoria’s Secret.

In July 2007, having earned an estimated total of $33 million in the past 12 months, Forbes magazine named her the world’s top-earning model in the list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.

An American economist named Fred Fuld developed a stock index to measure the profit performance improvement of companies represented by Bundchen compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. According to Fuld, the Gisele Bundchen Stock Index was up 15% between May and July 2007, substantially surpassing the Dow Jones Industrial Average which was up just 8.2%.

==Charity activities==
Bundchen lends her support and image to a number of charities and humanitarian causes, such as the I am African campaign, in which she painted her face to protest the lack of attention given to Africa’s HIV/AIDS victims. Without receiving payment, Bundchen was, in 2006, the face of American Express Red Card, an initiative launched by U2 front man Bono and Bobby Shriver to send a percentage of monies earned from the financial transactions of this credit card to Africa’s HIV/AIDS victims.

In 2009, she appeared almost simultaneously in more than 20 covers of the international issues of Elle magazines wearing (Product) Red clothing and posing with products from companies who support the same cause. (RED)’s primary objective is to engage the private sector in increasing assistance for the Global Fund, to help defeat AIDS in Africa. Companies whose products take on the mark contribute a percentage of the sales or portion of the profits from that product to the Global Fund to finance AIDS programs in Africa, with special attention on the health of women and children.

At the Fashion Rio Inverno 2006In 2003, Bundchen designed an exclusive and limited edition of platinum hearts, working with Platinum Guild International and Harper’s Bazaar, crafted by jewelers Gumuchian Fils. These platinum hearts were sold to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital which specializes in cancer treatment. She served as the spokesperson and campaign model for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. Bundchen already gave a Sao Paulo Fashion Week’s payment check for Zero Hunger (in Portuguese: Fome Zero), a Brazilian-government program introduced by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also in 2003.

She was, in 2009, one of the celebrities to sign up for the auction fundraiser of celebrities autographed iPods to raise cash for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, organised by Tonic.com., alongside former U.S.A.’s president Bill Clinton, Cher, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Ellen DeGeneres and others. The money is for the Music Rising institution which aims to recover and invest in the musical culture of the destroyed areas.

She promotes protecting the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Amazon Rainforest water sources, donating to this cause a percentage of profits from her line of sandals named Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. Also, Bundchen helps projects such as Nascentes do Brasil, ISA, Y Ikatu Xingu and De Olho nos Mananciais.

Bundchen and Grendene, the company that produces and disseminates her line of sandals, also joined the Florestas do Futuro project for the reforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The project was created by the NGO named SOS Atlantic Forest in 2004. The new forest, named for Gisele Bundchen Sementes, started with 25,500 shoots of 100 different species, enough to revitalize an area of 15 hectares.

On 20 September, 2009, she was designated Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

==Acting career==
In 2004, Bundchen entered the film industry, playing the bank robbers’ leader, Vanessa, in the 2004 remake Taxi. In 2006, she played a minor character in The Devil Wears Prada.

Personal life and Relationships:
On Thursday, February 26, 2009, Bundchen married New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in a small Catholic ceremony in Los Angeles ( la ). On April 5, 2009, the couple remarried in Costa Rica with Brady’s son, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, present. For the ceremony, Gisele wore a dress and veil designed by famed fashion designer John Galliano. Bundchen’s three dogs were also present at the ceremony. Bundchen and Brady had been dating since late 2006. Before marrying him, she dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio and professional surfer Kelly Slater. On Friday, June 19 2009, People magazine reported that Gisele was pregnant with her first child with husband Tom Brady. The baby is due on December 14, 2009.

==Music tribute==
As an homage to Bundchen, Brazilian singer and songwriter Gabriel Guerra, along with musician Pedro Cezar, wrote the song Tributo a Gisele (Tribute to Gisele in English), which is currently the theme of the model’s official website. In January 2008, Bundchen met Gabriel Guerra at Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro.
There’s another music called “Coisa Linda” ( Pretty Woman ) dedicated to Gisele Bundchen by Nelio Guerson and Carlos Guerson. More info on Palco MP3, Last FM and Garagem MP3.

==One reason to love New York==
In the December 2005 issue, New York magazine chose and publicized a list of 123 reasons to love New York City with reason number 43 being that Gisele Bundchen lives there.

==Nude photography==
On April 11, 2008, a black-and-white photo of Bundchen, shot by Irving Penn, was auctioned for US$193,000 (£96,000). The picture was one of dozens from the collection of Gert Elfering that were sold at Christie’s International in New York. In all, the auction tallied US$4.27 million and included pictures of Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Carla Bruni. Bundchen’s picture reached the highest price in comparison with the others. Bardot was the second with US$181,000 (£90,000).

In 2009, Gisele featured, on artistic nude picture, the cover of the work retrospective book of Australian photographer Russell James.

==Image inspiration==
In 2006, Elle magazine bosses surveyed the American leading stylists and asked them to name the star whose hair is a favourite for their clients. More than 50 per cent gave Gisele the title of best hair in Hollywood, followed by Sienna Miller in at second place and Nicole Richie in at third position.

In February 2008, a result of research was publicized by The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) to reveal how world celebrity images, which overwhelm popular media, influence people’s choices and decisions to undergo plastic surgery. The question asked was “What influences do celebrities have on the decisions patients make?”. The survey was sent to more than 20,000 plastic surgeons in 84 countries. Gisele Bundchen, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Sophia Loren, Brad Pitt and George Clooney were the most frequently mentioned celebrities. Gisele won the abdomen and hair categories and took second place in the breasts category.

==Controversies==
PETA anti-fur target
In 2002, during the taping of the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Bundchen was the target of a protest made by four members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because she was signed to be the new face of Blackglama, a trademark of a fur-farming cooperative. When Bundchen was on stage, four women jumped onto the runway holding posters that read “Gisele: Fur Scum” and included the logo for PETA. Bundchen tried to ignore them while several security guards detained the protesters. Bundchen told CNN that the protest was “unwarranted” because the fashion show featured only faux fur. After the incident, the producers decided to stop the music and redid Bundchen’s segment once the protesters were removed.

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Cindy Crawford Biography

Cindy Crawford Birth name Cynthia Ann Crawford
Date of birth February 20, 1966 (1966-02-20) (age 43)
Place of birth DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Hair color Brown
Eye color Brown
Measurements 34c”-26″-36″ (86-66-91 cm)
Weight 130 lbs (59 kg)
Dress size 8 (US), 38 (EU), 12 (UK)
Shoe size 10 (US)
Spouse(s) Richard Gere (1991-1995)
Rande Gerber (1998-present)
Website http://www.cindy.com/
Cynthia Ann “Cindy” Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is a former American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1′s 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s. Her success at modeling made her a celebrity that has led to roles in television and film, and to work as a spokesperson.

Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 After modeling
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Films
4.2 Videos
4.3 Television

=Early life=
Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the daughter of Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker) and John Crawford. She was discovered at the age of 16 by a newspaper photographer. He noticed Cindy at work during her summer job of detasseling corn and took a picture of her. The photo and positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. She entered the Elite Model Management’s Look of the Year contest at 17 and was the runner-up. The Elite modeling agency in Chicago then started representing her.

Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in 1984, as valedictorian. She won an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she attended for only one quarter. She dropped out in order to pursue a full-time modeling career. After working for photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago, Cindy moved to Manhattan in 1986; she was signed with the Elite New York modeling agency.

In 1987, she briefly appeared during the opening credits of the Michael J. Fox film The Secret of My Succe$s.

==Career==
During the 1980s and 1990s, Cindy Crawford was among the most popular supermodels, and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and in fashion campaigns. She was repeatedly and frequently featured on the cover of many magazines, including: Vogue, W, People, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Allure. A partial count in 1998 totalled over 400 appearances. Crawford also appeared in many fashion campaigns during her career, including those for Gianni Versace, Escada, Revlon, Ink. She has also worked for Omega, Maybelline, and Clairol.

The inaugural issue of George, a short lived political magazine in the 1990s, featured Crawford dressed like George Washington on the cover. In 2005, The American Society of Magazine Editors listed it as the 22nd best magazine cover of the last 40 years.

Crawford is just over 5 feet 9 inches (177 cm) tall, with brown hair and eyes. Her measurements are 34″-26″-35″. Crawford’s trademark is a mole (or “beauty mark”) above her upper lip. She is so closely associated with this physical feature that she appeared in an advertising campaign for chocolates featuring commercials wherein she “licked off” her own mole. During the beginning of her career, the mole was removed from many of her earlier modeling pictures, including her first Vogue cover. Her resemblance early in her career to model Gia Carangi led her to being known as “Baby Gia”.

Crawford has also been on TV and in films. From 1989 to 1995, Crawford was host of MTV’s House of Style. In the mid-1990s Crawford starred in famous Pepsi and Pepsi Stuff advertising. In 1995 Crawford broke into movies as the female lead in the movie Fair Game. Her performance was panned by critics– Leonard Maltin commented “In her acting debut, supermodel Crawford makes a good jogger.” The film was also a financial failure, with expenses of $50 million and $11 million takings at the box office. In 2001, she costarred as part of an ensemble cast in The Simian Line. Again the film was not successful or critically acclaimed, but Crawford’s acting was not criticized. She has had several other minor acting jobs over the years.

In July 1988, she posed nude for Playboy magazine in a shoot by photographer Herb Ritts. In October 1998, Crawford returned to the pages of Playboy for a second nude pictorial.

Crawford has consistently ranked highly on lists of the world’s sexiest people. She was ranked number 5 on Playboy’s list of the 100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th century. A 1997 Shape magazine survey of 4,000 picked her as the second (after Demi Moore) most beautiful woman in the world. In 2002, Crawford was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine. Even in her forties she claimed #26 in the 2006 Hot 100 issue of Maxim magazine.

Fashion designer Michael Kors summed up her impact:

Cindy changed the perception of the ‘sexy American girl’ from classic blue eyed blonde to a more sultry brunette with brains, charm, and professionalism to spare.

==After modeling==
Crawford quit modeling in 2000. She continues to provide celebrity endorsement for a variety of projects. In 2005, Crawford created a line of beauty products with Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh called Meaningful Beauty for Guthy-Renker. Crawford has admitted to regularly receiving certain cosmetic procedures, including Botox and vitamin injections. She first saw a plastic surgeon at the age of 29.

In 2005, Crawford launched a new line of furniture under the “Cindy Crawford Home Collection” name. This collection is manufactured by HM Richards Inc., and is sold through many retailers including Art Van Furniture and Rooms To Go. She assisted in the creation of the line by directing the designers to include certain features, colors, or styles that fit the needs of families or reflected her own tastes. She also has a furniture line with Raymour & Flanigan and will launch another home goods line with J. C. Penney in late 2009.

==Personal life==
Crawford was married to actor Richard Gere between 1991 and 1995. She has been married to Rande Gerber since May 29, 1998, with whom she has two children, Presley Walker (born July 2, 1999) and Kaia Jordan (born September 3, 2001). She currently resides in Malibu, California.

Her brother died at a young age from leukemia, and Crawford has made childhood leukemia a focal point of her charity work, donating proceeds of her calendars to medical research. She is also an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

In 2007, Cindy became an official supporter of the Ronald McDonald House Charities and is a member of their celebrity board, called the Friends of RMHC. Crawford is on the Honorary Committee of the California Wildlife Center.

==Filmography==
Films
Unzipped (1995)
Catwalk (1995)
Fair Game (1995) … as Kate McQueen
54 (1998) …as VIP Patron
Beautopia (1998) …a critical documentary looking at the world of modeling
Bodyguards (2000) …as herself
The Simian Line (2001) …as Sandra
==Videos==
Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout (1992)
Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge Workout (1993)
Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension (2000)
[edit] Television
MTV’s House of Style (1989-1995) …host
Frasier: “Halloween” (1997)
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza (1998)
The Secret World of… Supermodels (1998)
Sex with Cindy Crawford (1998) …a one hour TV special about sex in the United States hosted by Crawford
Intimate Portrait: Cindy Crawford (2001)
Sunrise (2007)
Wizards of Waverly Place: “Fashion Week” (2009) as model Bibi Rockford
3rd Rock From The Sun