Posted on 02/28/2014 4:03:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Claudia says 'He asked if he could hire me for a dinner for a million pounds. I declined – and some other supermodel took it'
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer reveals how she once turned down an offer of £1million to spend the evening with an Arab prince.
The German beauty says being a catwalk queen and one of the world’s most photographed women has led to a number of unusual propositions.
She says: “I’ve had loads of weird ones but the strangest was from an Arab prince.
“He asked if he could hire me for a dinner for a million pounds. I declined – and some other supermodel took it!”
Claudia, 43, is not the first high-profile star to reject such an approach. Myleene Klass revealed in 2010 she received an indecent proposal over lunch with a Hollywood A-lister.
And actress Stephanie Beacham claimed on Big Brother in the same year she was offered £40,000 by a stranger for sex.
Speaking on this weekend’s Jonathan Ross Show, Claudia also confesses she hides her extreme shyness behind her modelling persona.
She says: “I am just shy when there are lots of people. I’m OK when we’re just one on one, or maybe four people, or six. More than that is not really comfortable for me, it doesn’t feel good.
“I’m a really, really shy person. It does help when I’m in make-up or getting dressed up. That’s why modelling kind of works.
I thought it was never going to work until I put the make-up on and you couldn’t tell that I was turning red all the time.”
Claudia shot to fame two decades ago after high-profile campaigns for brands such as Chanel and Guess. Recalling her early modelling days in Paris, she admits: “I would be thinking, ‘I don’t want to be here.’ But once I put the full make-up on I’d go, ‘OK, I can cope – no one can see what I’m thinking’.”
In the interview, 5ft 11in Claudia also reveals that she was far from popular as a gangly youngster. She says: “I was the loser at school. Everyone called me ‘Duck’ because my bum stuck out, and I walked kind of funny because my legs are a bit funny, and I was really tall.
“Everyone was sort of the same height except me and I didn’t have any friends.”
Claudia, who has three children – Caspar, 10, Clementine, nine, and Cosima, three – with film director husband Matthew Vaughn, says she is pragmatic about the ageing process and doesn’t worry about gaining a few wrinkles.
She explains: I just think it’s a part of life. If anyone is worried about it and has a problem with it then, they have a problem. It couldn’t be more natural and more normal and, no, I don’t have a problem with it.”
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And it’s only right that Kathy Ireland and Cindy Crawford and Paulina and the rest be posted as well. In the name of Diversity. Because we celebrate women! ;)
I don’t want to insult this lovely woman so I am offering to split the dinner check with her and, uh, entertain her for free.
I wouldn’t necessarily offer money in exchange, but I’m sure I am not alone in saying I wouldn’t mind being seen in the company of a woman as attractive as Ms. Schiffer.
Only I’d want her to wear flats, as I’m reasonably sure she’s taller than I am. :)
ARRRGGHH!!!! EYEBLEACH!!!!...
...Said no straight man ever ;)
IMO Cindy Crawford is the most beautiful of the ‘90s supermodel bunch, and she still looks great.
As for the model who took the Arab prince up on his offer——STUPID. That’s a good way to be sold into slavery and never heard from again.
Personally I liked Linda Evangilista and Angie Everhart but Crawford definitely had the total package.
Unlike much of the current crop of ‘boys in heels’.
i remember that she was engaged to David Copperfield for quite a while...
How much did he offer?
Cindy Crawford was totally on fire in “ fairgame. “ she and the best of the Baldwins, Stephen, had a good chemistry
The way women look today-—I don’t even know what they’re thinking. They don’t care about appealing to men.
I think I saw that...or maybe it was just the ads, LOL.
Prostitution is not uncommon at all at every level of the modeling industry.
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