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Heidi Klum Bad At Reading, Good At Rocking A Short Skirt

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 06/28/2011 2:27 pm Updated: 08/28/2011 5:12 am

Heidi Klum seems like the kind of woman who can "do it all," as they say: raise kids, conquer the runways, host a hit TV show and snag a hot husband all in one lifetime.

So Glamour just had to ask of its August cover girl: what can't this supermodel/mom do? Turns out, reading is not one of her specialties:

GLAMOUR: Is there anything that you're bad at?

HEIDI KLUM: There are many things! I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

GLAMOUR: Bad at reading?

HEIDI KLUM: Yeah! Sometimes I'm like, "What is this word?" And I start stuttering, and Leni [Klum's oldest daughter] is like, "Mommy, you don't know what that means?" And I'm like, "No, do you know what this means?" And she says, "No, but you should know. You're the mommy."

At least she has a sense of humor about it. Heidi can also take the heat from a dear friend with a sharp tongue, fellow "Project Runway" judge Michael Kors. Says the TV host:

[Tim Gunn]'s so polite--he would never say, "Why are you wearing this?" Michael [Kors] is a little bit more...well, he always jokes with me. He says that my skirts are really short. He calls it fallopian length. He teases me.

But it's all good -- Heidi can dish it out, too. When asked about how "Project Runway" has stayed consistent after all these years, Heidi says, "One thing that's stayed the same is that we eat a lot of Cheetos! We all have orange hands, though you can't really tell on Michael, because it blends in with his tan. [Laughs.]"

For more irreverent quips from the down-to-earth supermodel, read the full interview at Glamour.com.

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Workineh Abraham
Keepin' it real
03:18 PM on 07/13/2011
I Love this girl
06:00 PM on 07/03/2011
Lots of creative people are dyslexic...thats often why they've developed such a great sense of style and visual beauty to compensate. Good luck to Heidi. Keep on rocking !
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Smurfaveli
"Riding his horse thru tooooown." *Palin voice*
12:44 PM on 06/30/2011
Fooled again by the headline.

No giggity.
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CSKAP
Morlock or Eloi?
08:59 AM on 06/30/2011
Wit a second, great headline, where are the photos of the aformentioned skirt? I see the reading part.....
Darn
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Southern Yankee
Southeast, NC
10:46 AM on 06/29/2011
English is her second, maybe third language. I can speak French, reading and understanding everything I read is another story. Don't criticize unless you can walk in her 5" heels!
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AppleBaby
I'll look to like if looking liking move
10:45 AM on 06/29/2011
I cramped reading this. In my fallopian region.
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09:28 AM on 06/29/2011
"Snag a husband"

Is it the dark ages again?
07:48 AM on 06/29/2011
Rocket scientist she ain't.
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wandering girl
grownup
02:35 PM on 06/29/2011
she doesn't need to be. how many rocket scientists look as good?
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Dede Eagleburger
Beauty is in the eye of the makeup brush holder
12:21 PM on 06/30/2011
exactly!
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LamAng
You can't change anything with a fist.
06:26 AM on 06/29/2011
Well, you can't have everything....
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GraniteSkyline
I wish you happiness!
10:56 PM on 06/28/2011
Her English is great, but it is harder to read in a foreign language than it is to speak a foreign language.
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MissFrijole
My bite is worse than my bark.
07:53 AM on 06/29/2011
I beg to differ. I have been teaching myself Spanish using various media and can read and understand it better than I can speak it. That has been for any other language I have tried to learn.
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GraniteSkyline
I wish you happiness!
08:22 AM on 06/29/2011
Ask any language teacher about the process of learning a new language. A student can understand more than they can speak, and they can speak better than they can read or write.

Reading in English is especially tricky because so many words are spelled so oddly, whereas in German (which I speak) every word is spelled exactly as it is pronounced and no letter is not pronounced.
12:22 PM on 06/30/2011
The operative phrase is - you've been teaching yourself Spanish - doesn't mean you are fluent. My Grandmother spoke two other languages besides English and one tends to think with their first language and even dream in that language. She had difficulty at times translating a word if there was not a direct translation.
09:27 AM on 06/29/2011
I have to disagree here, too. It is much more difficult to speak a foreign language than to read it. Just a little background so you'll know what that informs my opinion on this: I am a professor of German (native-speaker like skills) and I have a really good reading knowledge of Danish and Norwegian but weak speaking skills in either of those languages. I also teach foreign language teaching methods so I have studied acquisition and its processes extensively and I can guarantee you that students acquire reading skills much much faster than they do speaking skills. The act of reading is a more passive act that requires little spontaneous creation. Speaking on the other hand requires a spontaneous creation of sentences, i.e. searching for proper lexicon and building sentences with the proper syntax on the fly. This is a very complex neurological act and takes much longer to master than reading.
Of course, if you're just talking about a simple conversation such as "Ein Bier, bitte!" "Gern, bringe ich sofort" and are comparing that to reading Goethe's Faust in the original, then yes, speaking is easier. But, in general, it is easier for a non-native speaker to read a text than to produce one spontaneously in speech. And in the classroom, reading skills emerge MUCH faster than speaking skills do. I speak from years and years of classroom experience.
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Lozange
Aiming around wondrously
10:16 PM on 06/28/2011
Fallopian length-good one!!
09:16 PM on 06/28/2011
Don't have to be able to read when your that hot. Shes older had a few babies and still rocking. But whats with the first line saying she snagged a hot husband? He looks like he was whipped in the face with barbed wire long ago and there wasn't anyone around to stitch it up.
09:26 PM on 06/28/2011
"Hot husband" doesn't have to include a handsome face.  As an example, Robert Redford was considered hot even though he too had facial issues.  He had that sort of rough complexion that later in life got much worse.  This is not a slam against Redford. I am trying to say that "hot" is often hard to quantify because often it doesn't make sense.  I think some people just "got it".  They have a confidence that everybody is attracted to.
iconico62
don't blame the mirror if you have a broken nose
05:39 AM on 06/29/2011
Being hot goes way beyond the quality of your skin. If this were the main criteria, men with school girl complexions would all be in the hot cotegory. Mostly, they are not. Hurrah to Heidi for sensing the real meaning of hot.
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veggiequeenmo
Blueneck in a redneck state!
11:18 PM on 06/28/2011
I think he had some sort of skin problems as a child and has chosen not to fix it. I heard him say something like he thinks of them as badges.

He's a great artist. And what makes him HOT is the way he LOVES his wife and children.
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Kellybelle22
Medicine. Marriage. Motherhood.
12:21 AM on 06/29/2011
A a child, he had a form of lupus called discoid lupus erythematosus, which affects the skin of the head, face and ears. So the scarring is from a serious auto-immune disease.
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MammaLu
Good food makes good people
08:58 PM on 06/28/2011
I don't know why but I feel sorry for this woman.
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Dede Eagleburger
Beauty is in the eye of the makeup brush holder
12:47 AM on 06/29/2011
I don't! She is SO real!!! I think she's amazing!
iconico62
don't blame the mirror if you have a broken nose
05:41 AM on 06/29/2011
Because she is gorgeous? Famous? Moneyed? With wonderful children? And a great husband who is just as famous and talented and rich? I suppose these are enough reasons to be sorry for anyone. Tsk Tsk.
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JEFFYBRUCE
seasoned fashion veteran and writer
05:42 PM on 06/28/2011
HAIR LENGTH !