As Heidi Klum says on “Project Runway,” when it comes to fashion, one day you’re in and the next day you’re out. And when the German supermodel was just starting out in the business at age 20, she was out — at least to Michael Kors. The two “Project Runway” personalities are best buds now, but Klum reveals that was not always the case in a new interview with Allure, for which she posed nude. “I never did fashion shows — not in Paris or Berlin or even in New York City … no one would book me,” she tells the magazine. Klum, now 38, goes on to recall the time she went on a casting call for Kors. After the fashion designer saw her in one of his creations, he told her tersely, “Thanks, but no thanks.”
But it wasn’t just Kors who didn’t think Klum was right for his clothes. “I was too curvy and too busty and a little too short,” she says of her early days as a model before she went on to become one of Victoria’s Secret’s most-famous Angels. “And I was a little bit self-conscious about it. But I was by no means heavy, I just—well, you have hips and boobs, and that’s it. Haute couture, you don’t really see girls with big boobs. And I always wanted first to be a model. So I had to say, ‘OK, you’re going to find other things to do in this industry, or it’s maybe not my industry.’”
Lesson: Don’t ever give up but don’t burn bridges either!
Source: http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/aline/heidi-klum-reveals-michael-kors-rejected-her-casting-210058906.html
