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A prejudice against German models wants that they are experienced, and not prudish.
If one is not over-friendly as a model once, this is immediately lent to one as arrogance. Very much will work for it and you can irritate before during the looking weeks. But I then try to suppress, I just am not what in reality either because of course I do not want to be regarded as a nanny goat.
And where comes the will-power from?
From the family. Without my parents and friends I would not have made it.
For this, however, you seldom drive home!
I was there three days over Easter in summer two weeks. I live already almost two years in New York now and am here at home. But I speak on the phone to my parents every day. And I also miss Munich beer gardens.
Go you "tailor" in the East Village to the comfort into this?
Yes, for sauerkraut and frying sausages. I know rather exactly where there is downtown escalope. And I like to go also into the "blue goose" in Tribeca with an Austrian German cooking.
For the first time, when did you get conscious that you jut out of the crowd from stature and beauty?
I was taller than the Jung already in the first class. In the puberty they called me Steckerlfisch or beanpole or Stegosaurus. However, these were only Frotzeleien. I was not satisfied with 12 or 13 with my height at all. My parents are -- then gone with me both very big -- for a test at which the wrist was X-rayed. One told me there I would become not more than 1.76 metres. I was 1.80 metres sometime and we went again. It was then said there it would only become two or three centimetres. And it has become really only 1.83 metres.
For a model ideal!
Anyway I feel no longer too tall in the society of models.
You also have remained thin.
However, it disturbs me if people claim I would have bulimia.
However, you are really very thin!
This already. But I belong to the models looking normal. I do not have and be hungry either.
Strictly speaking, your model career has already started in the basic school age.
With seven or eight years I have worked for child agencies. I have for example made television advertizing for cold means. I was also Komparsin for ZDF films. Anyway I have always loved to stand in front of the camera.
What has to come together so that a model is successful?
One must love the cameras, one must be slim and look good, have charisma, personality and nerves. And one must be young: When I began full-time with 18 years, all girls were my age. At the moment, really many five ten-year-olds come again and I find this not well. Not because I would be afraid in front of competition. It already was not easy for me with 18 although I had a stable home. With 14 years one is far too unstable for such a job anyway! I would never either have begun without school-leaving qualification. Exceptions are girls like Gemma Ward who was already with 16 very adult.
But you have thrown the special abitur down for the model career.
Because there were so many inquiries, that everyone has for me said: Make it now! Who knows whether they want you within two years certainly?
Heidi Klum has resorted to the commercial one from the start and is never right in the " high fashion " mattered. Would this be a way also for you?
I like to work in the " high fashion ". Some Fotostrecken into magazines are art for me. Saying many: What does this look like, then? But I like it. Nevertheless: I also like to make beautiful catalogues.
And do you run also for young designers without being paid?
Sometimes one must settle for a dress.
Is this better in Paris and Milan?
Only in Milan. In which one already complains there, too, why one must pay the large fees still.
No way passes by shows?
Primarily at the beginning the catwalk is very important. Everyone is there there and one is seen by all editors. I have run in New York, Milan and Paris in altogether seventy shows in three weeks in my second season. This was extreme. I am choosing what I like now. I do not want me hergeben for everything so fast either.
Particularly since shows are exhausting!
And how! Therefore I am not a fan of fashion shows either. It is simply too stressful. One has fittings till late in the night, constant make-up is down made and on it made again, everything is rather superficial and after half an hour it is anyway past. No, I like to cooperate with people a little longer. This business is quite often fake. And I do not like it to be fake. The only good: One meets designers and many other girls again.
Important question for models: What comes according to that?
I intend already to make my special abitur up and to study some time, perhaps business administration. Although I was always weak in mathematics in the accountancy but top.
And otherwise?
Man, children, house and dog.
A TV show of one's own?
I do not need.
Heidi Klum earns well with that.
She can present herself very well!
Acting?
Really good offers should come there.
Since actresses always work more often than model, perhaps it works the other way round once, too.
Hollywood stars make advertising campaigns and come on the cover. I therefore say: Models combine forces! Let us snap the jobs from the actresses!


