Claudia Schiffer

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer was born on August 25, 1970, to Heinz and Gudrun Schiffer in Rheinberg, Germany. Along with her two brothers and one sister, Claudia Schiffer grew up in a close-knit and well-to-do family in the Dusseldorf suburbs. By her own account, Schiffer was a shy and awkward teenager, painfully conscious of her 5' 11" height, skinny build and status as the daughter of a prominent and wealthy family. "I wasn't a star," she has said of her school days. "There were other girls who were the stars, who were the ones everybody thought were beautiful, the ones everybody wanted to go out with. I had my friends, but I was never 100-percent part of them, because I was so different."

Therefore, it came as a huge shock to the 17-year-old when she was approached at a Dusselfdorf disco by a modeling scout, who convinced Schiffer and her parents to let her go to Paris in 1987 to try out modeling. Schiffer was sure it was all a fluke. "After I was discovered, and did the test shots, I was sure that they would realize they had made a mistake and send me back."

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