Claudia Schiffer: 'Supermodels don't exist anymore'

[MaryJane]

Claudia Schiffer claims supermodels are extinct.

The German beauty insists aspiring models can no longer achieve the kind of fame she, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista enjoyed in the 90s.

She believes actresses and pop stars are now much more likely to grace the covers of magazines, preventing models from reaching global celebrity status.

She told German magazine Fivetonine: "In order to become a supermodel one must be on all the covers all over the world at the same time so that people can recognise the girls.

"That is, for now, not least because the advertising industry is very much taken nowadays by pop stars and actresses. Supermodels, like we once were, don't exist any more."

However, Claudia does believe Brazilian catwalk beauty Gisele Bundchen comes close to earning the supermodel title.

She added: "Her face is well known, her name is recognised - but no other girl comes to mind that people in the street would recognise."

At the height of her fame, Claudia - who has two children, Caspar, four, and two-year-old Clementine, with husband Matthew Vaughn - had to be constantly protected by bodyguards.

She said: "I can remember when I needed four bodyguards to get backstage from a Chanel show just to my car. And that wasn't only me. It just isn't like that any more."

Claudia Schiffer's model extinction

[Lily]

Well, I think theh days of Claudia/Linda/Christy/Cindy, et. al are gone. Now ANYONE is a model if they're skinny and marginally pretty, and nobody has that fire and luminous quality that The Supermodels had. Gisele does come close, though. She's the only one.

Claudia was the least interesting of the Supermodels, I think.

[Aella]

^^I was never much of a Claudia fan either. She does have a point though.

[Soth]

^^ agreed - but I see no mention of Elle Mc here WTF

[Lily]

^^[Monica Geller] I KNOW! [/Monica Geller]

[nycgirly101]

she sounds bitter

[Grimmlok]

The great supermodel extinction of the 2000's. Someone call PETA.

[KrisNine]

Tragic. If only we realised that extinction is forever, we would have never put an actress or a singer on a magazine cover.

Perhaps if the "supermodels" would have left acting alone, this never would have happened. Shame.

[Raspberry gashes]

thats so true, actresses and singers shouldn't always be having photoshoots and being on the cover of magazines, and models shouldn't act or have talk shows. Now they all do everything.

[curlysem]

true, model now and days are disgusting, but im sick and tired looking at actors on the covers of magz...

[Bijoux]

Originally Posted by Soth

^^ agreed - but I see no mention of Elle Mc here WTF

She wasn't a "supermodel" she was just on the cover of sports illustrated forever.

[NHKMM]

I agree with her.

[Laxmobster]

Originally Posted by Bijoux

She wasn't a "supermodel" she was just on the cover of sports illustrated forever.

Yeah if I remember, she was more of a swimsuit model. I don't think I've seen pics of her on runways. I could be wrong as I don't follow models that closely. Kudos to whoever said they need to stop acting, it's just sad when they think they can act or sing. Now there are some exceptions but that's very few...

[Sojiita]

Supermodels still exist-just nobody give a shit about them anymore-they are increasingly irrelevant.

[Voodoo Child]

Originally Posted by Grimmlok

The great supermodel extinction of the 2000's. Someone call PETA.