The incredibly beautiful and in-shape Heidi Klum was at Los Angeles Confidential’s pre-Emmy party Thursday night – wearing 7-inch leopard-print heels and showing off her almost-ready-to-deliver baby body.
But amidst the reports came the news from E Online that Klum
“doesn’t think she can bounce back in time to strut her stuff…” in this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
‘The last time [I gave birth], I had two months, and I don’t know if I have that much time this time,”
The 36-year-old supermodel, and Emmy nominee as host for her hit show Project Runway is expecting her fourth child, a girl, in October. Klum is famous for her ability to get back in shape quickly and retain (or retrain) her body.
She gave birth to son Henry on September 12, 2005 and appeared in that year’s VS show November 9. To do that, she flew top celeb trainer David Kirsch out to LA to put her on a program of twice-a-day workouts and a special diet. However, Klum was still nursing her daughter, so the diet was a sensible one.
Her workouts that time included yoga, core work, shadow boxing and hiking.
Klum’s commitment to healthy fitness is well known, so if she says she can’t do it this time, the public will just have to accept the fact.
Klum is not the only Victoria’s Secret super body to be baby-bodied this year; joining her are Gisele Bunchen, Karolina Kurkova; and Adriana Lima. The show tapes in November and airs on CBS in December.
source: examiner.com
September 19th, 2009
By age 16, Twiggy Lawson was an international sensation, appearing on catwalks and magazine covers worldwide. She redefined the fashion world with her stick-thin body, popularizing the waif look over the more voluptuous pinups. When she retired from modeling at 20, Twiggy pursued a career in film and theater. She has recently been seen as the face of Marks & Spencer and plans to write a fashion book for women over 40.
Twiggy’s Early Life
Twiggy was born Lesley Hornby in the London borough of Willesden on September 19, 1949. Her father William Norman Hornby was a builder and his wife Nellie Lydia Hornby was a factory worker for a printing firm. Many of Twiggy’s ancestors worked in farms, factories and industrial plants: a far cry from fashion runways.
Lesley herself preferred work to studying. She dropped out of high school to take a job at a beauty parlor, where she was discovered at age 15 by Justin de Villeneuve (né Nigel Davies). De Villeneuve got a hairdresser to give her a boyish cut, took some photos of her and transformed her into a fashion superstar by the time she was 16. It was de Villeneuve who gave Lesley her famous moniker, stating: “You’re like a twig. I’ll call you Twiggy.”
Twiggy’s most successful professional years occurred when she was a teenager: by 20, she retired from modeling and began to pursue a career as an actress. “I loved it,” Twiggy has said of her days as a teenage model. “It was like a dream come true, a fairy story. It was certainly better than going to school, which was the only other thing I’d ever done.”
Twiggy’s Notable Accomplishments
Twiggy redefined the fashion industry in the 1960s, pioneering a trend that replaced curvy pinup girls with thin, more androgynous models. She was regularly on the cover of Vogue and Tatler magazines and became a marketing sensation after a mere four years of modeling. Mattel created a “Twiggy Barbie” in 1967 and lunch boxes, tights, sweaters, bags and false eyelashes were all branded with the Twiggy image.
Photos of Twiggy as well as videos of her dancing during the 1960s illustrate her pivotal role in defining the “flower power” generation. Twiggy’s image was so influential in determining popular culture of the era that London’s National Portrait Gallery owns 11 photographic portraits of her.
The Rest of the Story
Twiggy ended her modeling career with this statement, “You can’t be a clothes hanger for your entire life!” The young model parlayed her image into a series of acting roles, beginning with her 1971 film debut in director Ken Russell’s “The Boy Friend.” Twiggy won two Golden Globes for her performance and eventually took the part to the stage. Other films in her repertoire include the thriller “W” (1974), “The Blues Brothers” (1980) and “Madame Sousatzka” (1988). It was on the set of “Madame Sousatzka” that Twiggy met her second husband, Leigh Lawson. Her first husband, Michael Witney, had died of a heart attack in 1983.
Twiggy’s most successful television and stage work include her own variety series for the BBC as well as a lauded portrayal of Eliza Doolittle in Yorkshire TV’s production of “Pygmalion.” Returning to the stage in the 1980s, Twiggy was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in the Gershwin musical, “My One and Only.”
Recently, Twiggy has returned to the fashion and modeling world, serving briefly as a judge on “America’s Next Top Model.” She also wrote a book, “A Guide to Looking and Feeling Fabulous Over Forty.” The book deal came after Twiggy helped revive Marks & Spencer as the new face of the company’s ad campaign.
Twiggy’s return to fashion has brought the pressures of the industry back to her attention. But in response to the deaths of two anorexic models in 2006, Twiggy blamed the film industry, not models, for the unrealistic expectations put on young women: “They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets … I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build.” She explained, “I always ate sensibly—being thin was in my genes.”
source: findingdulcinea.com
September 19th, 2009
