Heidi Klum

Supermodel Heidi Klum was initially interested in becoming a designer until she beat more than 25,000 entrants in a modeling contest sponsored by Petra magazine in 1992. After making a splash on the runway as a model for Victoria's Secret, she was picked for the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and soon became one of the industry's top models. In recent years Klum has turned her efforts to several other ventures, most notably as a judge and executive producer of the reality show Project Runway, for which she won an Emmy in 2008. Updated 2009