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- Birth nameClaudia Maria Schiffer
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Claudia Maria Schiffer is a German model, actress, and fashion designer, based in the United Kingdom. She rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the world's most successful models, cementing her supermodel status. In her early career, she was compared to Brigitte Bardot. She has appeared on more than 1,000 magazine covers and holds the record for the model with the most magazine covers, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2002, Forbes estimated her net worth to be around US$55 million.
- IMDb mini biography by: - - Claudia Schiffer is a German model, actress, fashion designer, and executive producer.
She rose to fame in the early 1990s as one of the world's most successful models, cementing her supermodel status. In her early career, she was compared to Brigitte Bardot. She has appeared on more than one thousand magazine covers and holds the record for the model with the most magazine covers, listed in the Guinness World Records (2004).
As well as endorsing luxury brands, Schiffer has appeared as the face of high street retailers including Mango and Accessorize. Schiffer was a judge on Fashion Fringe in 2011. Schiffer launched her eponymous cashmere collection during Paris Fashion Week in March 2011. The Autumn-Winter 2011 season saw her fashion design debut and was followed by a Spring-Summer 2012 collection.
Schiffer began her involvement with UNICEF by becoming a member of the Arts & Entertainment Support Committee, and was a UK Goodwill Ambassador for the organization.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpouseMatthew Vaughn(May 25, 2002 - present) (3 children)
- ChildrenCosima Violet Schiffer
- ParentsHeinz SchifferGudrun Schiffer
- Looks often compared to Brigitte Bardot, especially during her early career
- Long blonde hair and blue eyes
- Holds the record for the supermodel with the most magazine covers, gracing over 1000. Her record is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
- In 1993 she met magician David Copperfield at a Berlin celebrity gala, and in January 1994 they became engaged. During this engagement, she sometimes used to appear in his stage shows as a special guest assistant in a number of illusions: first he would levitate her high in the air before making her vanish and reappear, then he would use a large guillotine to behead her. Finally, he would saw her in half inside a glass-sided box in what has sometimes been voted by other magicians as one of the most baffling versions of the sawing in half ever performed. Claudia also appeared in David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (1994), a documentary in which she played the role of a reporter interviewing Copperfield in his Magic Warehouse. After a six-year engagement, in September 1999 they announced their separation.
- Is fluent in French.
- She is a spokeswoman for the fight against breast cancer. Moreover she is a member of UNICEF since 1997 and ambassadress since 2006.
- Was the first model to wear Victoria's Secret famous million dollar 'Fantasy Bra'. [1996].
- I know one day I'll be considered too old. I think 40-year-old women actually look more healthy and fit than some girls in their 20s. I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
- I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet. - on turning 30, to the German magazine Stern
- (on turning down appearing in Playboy in the nude): "It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle."
- I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall. I became the height I am now from one day to another... and everyone else stayed short. Boys don't want to be seen with a girl that is taller than them. It was totally isolating because I was different from my friends.
- I used to work every single day and travel round the world. I worked weekends, I never took one second off. When I met my husband I said, "You know what, this is important. I'm not going to work weekends any more." And when I had kids, I became even more careful. Modelling work is fine because you can do one day here, two days there, you're never long gone.
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