Conversation | 07/16/2008 10:00 am
The Liz Smith Interview Part One: Heidi Klum on Modeling and Sex

Editor’s Note: Heidi Klum has expanded her career far beyond the realm of modeling with the hit reality television show "Project Runway," for which she is host and co-executive producer. In a candid interview with wowOwow’s Liz Smith, Heidi talks about the show and more. Season five of "Project Runway" will premiere Wednesday, July 16th, at 9PM on Bravo.
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LIZ: Are you planning other things? Do you have projects for yourself in the future? Are you just having this fun experience and waiting to see what will happen?
Click here to read Part Two: Heidi Klum on Shoes, Bloggingstocks and Husband Seal.
Click here to read Part Three: Heidi Klum on Fashion, Starter Husbands and Face-lifts.
HEIDI: I always think about the next thing. I always do. I think that’s what got me here in the first place. I think that if you want to be successful … then I think that’s within you, and you kind of surround yourself with the right team to make things happen. I don’t think I got here by just doing everything by myself. You know, I had great help. I had great friends around me, I had a great team. You know, you have to bounce ideas off of people. And I never knew the right people to call but I would ask people who would know who to call. But I feel like that has to be within you. And that kind of person, I still am. I still am eager to do certain things because I still have ideas, and I want to make certain dreams come true and work on things … and I’m very passionate about creating things and making things.
LIZ: You know, this is interesting because once upon a time, a woman who became a model, she had a very limited and brief moment to enjoy that, and so maybe she went on to endorse things. But no one ever thought about becoming a real entrepreneur the way you have, so it’s extraordinary because it’s almost like you opened a new frontier.HEIDI: I don’t know. I think it’s something that you can’t plan necessarily. Because it’s not — you know, you want to be a teacher and you then can do all these certain things that you have to do to become a teacher … or all the certain steps that you have to do to become a lawyer. Like in the entertainment industry, and being in front of the camera or even behind the camera, to come up with great ideas for a certain show, you never know if it gets picked up. How many great things are out there, ideas that people have but they necessarily don’t know the right people to ask. You know, it just kind of fell into place.
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LIZ: Well, you see what I’m saying, though, that very few models in the past were ever able to do … a few of them would transform themselves into movie stars, like Lauren Hutton, but it was rare. That was rare. So what you’ve done is incredible.
HEIDI: Thank you.
LIZ: You know, you’ve had a rose named after you. I want to ask you: What more does a woman want after that?
HEIDI: I want it to be in this country, but I can’t bring it. It makes me very mad. It’s all over my mom’s garden, but I can’t even have it in my own garden because you’re not allowed to bring plants and food and all that crap into the country.
LIZ: Oh, that’s right, so it’s only in Germany.
HEIDI: Yeah, I would like to have it in my garden in LA, but I’m not allowed.
LIZ: Well maybe somebody professional, you know, a professional flower grower will bring it.
HEIDI: Yeah. And it’s a really nice rose. It’s beautiful
LIZ: Let’s see, "Project Runway" has been going for five years. Do you still feel fresh with it?
HEIDI: I do.
LIZ: Do you feel it’s evolved into more than you imagined?
HEIDI: It definitely evolved into more than I imagined. I mean, how can you expect for something like this to happen the way it did? It was an idea that we sold, and as I said before, how many ideas do people have? People want to have a show but who at the end of the day gets a show?























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