On August 25, 1970, Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, a small West German village. Her childhood self was not at all the glamorous person she would grow up to be; instead, she was a tall, shy, and awkward teenager. Claudia’s original goal was to become a lawyer and work for her father’s legal practice.
But when she was just 17 years old, a modeling agency found her at a Düsseldorf nightclub, and that’s when her life completely changed.