Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum had to give up her favorite German foods to make it as a model. The 41year-old catwalk star was born and raised in Bergisch Gladbach, a town just outside of Cologne, and she began her career she quickly realized she would have to ditch the delicious calorific treats she enjoyed, such as schnitzel, if she wanted to make it in the fashion business. She explained: “Once I started modeling, I changed my life. When I left Germany, I went to Paris, London and Milan and I saw how the girls were all so fit and ate differently. Coming from Germany, I ate all the schnitzel and potatoes that my mother would cook for me, but that doesn’t work if you want to be in this industry. “You have to be fit, your skin, your nails and your hair have to look great, as well as your body, of course, so I completely changed the way I ate.” Although she follows a strict diet and exercise regime, Heidi will still allow herself the occasional treat, and she enjoys nothing more than munching on a slice of pizza with her four children - 10-year-old Leni, her daughter with ex Flavio Briatore, and Henry, nine, Johan, eight, and Lou, five, with her former husband Seal. Speaking to You magazine, she said: “I eat everything but not on a daily basis. I don’t eat a lot of bread, spaghetti, rice or carbs - it’s not really necessary. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t eat carbs, but have them in moderation. I eat a lot of vegetables and I don’t eat a lot of sauces ... but when I go with my kids to a pizza restaurant, yeah, I’ll eat pizza.” Heidi accepts it is her responsibility to always be ready to strip off and look good and that’s her motivation for sticking to her regime of distance running and weight training. She said: “I always have to be ready to take off my clothes and look great ... If you’re not fit and you’re not 100 per cent, someone else is going to get the job. There are so many beautiful girls to choose from, so if you want to be top, your body has to look top. It’s just the way it is - it’s the job.”

Bob Dylan thinks people are “joking” when they compare him to Frank Sinatra. The 73-year-old singer-songwriter’s 36th studio album, ‘Shadows in the Night’, features a number of songs associated with Sinatra - including ‘Autumn Leaves’ and ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ - but Dylan insists the legendary crooner is beyond compare. Asked whether it’s a risk to make records previously sung by Sinatra, he said: “There’s nothing risky about making records. “Comparing me with Frank Sinatra? You must be joking. To be mentioned in the same breath as him must be some sort of high compliment. “Nobody touches him. Not me or anyone else.” Dylan confessed his new album is “out of step with the current media culture” but dismissed accusations of being “corny”. He told the American Association Of Retired Persons magazine: “These songs, take ‘em or leave ‘em, if nothing else, are songs of great virtue. That’s what they are. “If they sound trite and corny to somebody, well so much for that. “But people’s lives today are filled on so many levels with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. “We see the destruction of human life and the mockery of it, everywhere we look. These songs are anything but that. Romance never does go out of fashion. “It’s radical. Maybe it’s out of step with the current media culture.”