Claudia born 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-feet 11-inch height, skinny build, and status as the daughter of a prominent and wealthy family.

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.

There had been no mistake. Not long after her first runway shows, the lanky blonde was chosen by designer Karl Lagerfeld to be the face of the famous Chanel line. She then starred in a global campaign for Guess jeans, catapulting her to worldwide superstardom. Claudia Schiffer would eventually appear on the covers of more than 500 magazines, including Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone, where she became the first model ever to grace the famed music magazine’s cover. She walked virtually every major designer runway and became nearly omnipresent in marketing campaigns.

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