Immigrant of the Day: Supermodel Heidi Klum (Germany)
Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is a world famous model and actressl. Klum has also been the Emmy Award-nominated hostess of cable television shows Project Runway and Germany’s Next Topmodel.
Klum was raised in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, a small city outside Cologne. According to Klum, she was persuaded by a friend to enroll in a national modeling contest. Out of 25,000 contestants, Klum won and was offered a modeling contract. The rest is history.
Klum now is based in the United States with her family. In 2008, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen.