Claudia Schiffer (SHIFFER Claudia)

The most highly paid model, the most famous German woman, blonde decade. Claudia Schiffer was born August 25, 1970 in Germany in Dusseldorf in a family lawyer and a housewife. Spouses Schiffer raised their three children (Claudia - older) in the severity. Claudia was going to go to his father's footsteps - to become a highly paid lawyer, and has studied ballet and played the piano.

For the first time, Claudia thought about a modeling career at age 16 when her parents, convinced of the purity of the intentions of the Spanish photographer Pedro Colla, allowed her daughter to earn pocket money. But, despite all the enthusiasm of the photographer, not followed by the continuation. Claudia received $ 200 for work and returned to Dц?sseldorf to their fuete and piano.

In 1987, at a discotheque in Dusseldorf Claudia meets with the director of the Paris agency Metropolitan - Michel Levatonom. He is something, and managed to persuade Herr and Frau Schiffer, that their daughter can not wait much louder the future, rather than jurisprudence.
In Metropolitan excitedly took up promotion Schiffer. The fresh, blond, with a magnificent figure, Claudia concluded a contract for the contract and already in 19 years was considered one of the most successful and highly paid models of the world. Shares Schiffer climbed even higher, when in 1990 it angazhiruet 'creator of top-models' - Karl Lagerfeld, head designer of fashion house Chanel. But this popularity Claudia brought the advertising company Guess jeans. The sensation of the contract for advertising their products, proposed by the American cosmetics company, Claudia Revlon - 10 million dollars! After that, the German beauty was officially recognized by the highest paid model of the world.

After moving to the principality of Monaco, Claudia closely consorted with Prince Albert, son of Prince Rainier and Hollywood actress Grace Kelly. Impeccable reputation for top-models - no scandalous novels, and candid shots, fanatical devotion to family, made her the most viable contender for the role of a spoiled wife of Crown Prince. But the long-awaited union did not take place. Claudia chose to leave in the shade as soon as she realized that in the near future, Albert does not intend to start a family. However, soon Representatives Schiffer yet announced her engagement. Chosen top model - American illusionist David Copperfield.

They met in autumn 1993 on the show David in Berlin, where Claudia has been invited as guest of honor. Four months of phone calls and short meetings - and Schiffer is already showing a wedding ring with a huge diamond. However, the wedding was postponed indefinitely. Careers Claudia and David were on the rise, and they preferred to squeeze out of its popularity all possible and impossible. In 1994, . According to American magazine Forbs, . Schiffer earned 5, . 3 million, . and the number of covers with its depiction of a record number - nearly 500! Claudia stayed on top, . even when the majority of designers and fashion magazines prefer to work with models of a new type, . such, . as Kate Moss and Stella Tinnen,
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Popularity Claudia is so great that it easily earns all that bears her name - calendars, videos with gymnastic exercises, photo albums, dolls.
Recently, Claudia Schiffer suspended from work in the modeling business. Now, more than at the podium, it can be seen on the television and movie screen. But, despite all the advances in this field and the world continues to see Claudia "model of the decade '. Moreover, it gives a lot of reasons for this: to enter into new contracts enviable (at the Pepsi ad, . Revlon, . L `OREAL), . 'hosts' in the Fashion Cafe, . Yes, and a new friend, Claudia - British millionaire Tom Jeffries is known to, . the plant novels only supermodels.,

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