Claudia Schiffer

Model

Claudia Schiffer was the best-known blonde model in the world for a time in the 1990s. Like Anna Nicole Smith, Schiffer got her first American exposure as a Big Blonde in glossy print ads for Guess Jeans. Unlike Smith, Schiffer parlayed her appearances into a career as a top print model. Her classic German looks and classic German business savvy made her an international star, and in 2006 Schiffer began as the public face of a national economic campaign called Germany -- Land of Ideas.

Extra credit: Schiffer was the longtime girlfriend and fiancee of glam magician David Copperfield; the two broke up in 1999. She married film producer Matthew Vaughn in 2002; their son Caspar was born in 2003, and daughter Clementine was born in 2004.

Claudia Schiffer appears with Adriana Lima in our loop on The Models of Victoria's Secret... Other German models include Heidi Klum, Tatjana Patitz and Katarina Witt.