Karlie Kloss
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177 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I was not, you know, so for me, I sort of dropped into this other parallel universe.
I was an alien child.
Somehow I'm even taller today, but I was 5'11 at 15 years old. And I was so tall and I just... was in the right place at the right time. And did you have aspirations to model? Not at all. Not at all. I was walking in a mall in St. Louis in like Birkenstocks and a really amazing local scout, Jeff and Mary Clark, they discovered Ashton Kutcher at a bar in Iowa. Like it was such a fluke, honestly.
And I feel very grateful that, you know, they sort of took me under their wing and really helped me launch in a very legitimate way. And if it would not have happened that way, there's no world I would have,
pursued this it was not it was not like honestly what I was interested in my dad's a doctor I love science I'm a total nerd like and that has continued to be sort of where like my heart and my mind kind of is most stimulated but I had this key to the world overnight through sort of this opportunity to build a modeling career so from 15 to 18 years old I took advantage of it I ran with it and I sort of took my studies with me I was doing my
homework backstage and on airplanes I had my grandma my mom my teacher anyone sort of chaperoning me because I was under 18 and sort of living this jet set life and then coming back home to St.
I did. It's actually funny. I feel like I walked my first Victoria's Secret fashion show and I like pretty immediately they signed me on contract. And I, as a girl in Missouri, like the exposure I had to fashion was on Project Runway. Yeah.
Heidi Klum on Project Runway and the Victoria's Secret fashion show and like I'm one of four daughters so we would all pile around the TV and like that's that was the sort of like height of fashion in my eyes and so it was very full circle to then sort of sign with them and and be on the runway and actually it's funny I had just graduated high school and I think there was this feeling of like all those all like I know I could not get a date in high school I'm not exaggerating you're like I'll show them I'm like I'll show them like those boys that didn't want to like go on a date with
You couldn't get a date in high school?
No. Stop it. I was so tall and pale. And, like, I think they were like, where is this girl all the time?
I mean, it was such a funny moment. It was actually, it was very, like, gratifying to be like, yeah, see? You know, I don't want to shut up.
There were a lot of things happening around that time. Social media was starting to develop. So I graduated high school in 2011. I think I walked my first VS show that year. I remember Instagram really was sort of one of the first places. And then I met Josh in 2012. And I remember, I think he was the one that was like, oh, there's this new thing, Instagram, like you should sign up for it.
Like it was all so new and social media was really one of the first platforms for someone like me, like a model that had been already very accomplished and successful on all the covers of Italian Vogue, American, like American Vogue, Vogue's everywhere. Well, you've done like 40 Vogue covers. Is that right?
I mean, that's bananas. But I was on a household name. You know, it's like the names that Americans knew were the Victoria's Secret models. It was like Giselle. Absolutely. Heidi.
Candice. And like those were the girls. So in a funny way, it was almost sort of like just a box that I wanted to tick because it was the highest sort of like platform a model could aspire to. But, you know, it's funny because I think, you know, and especially like I was reflecting on this, like I think I was so…
dissociated from my body as a model it was sort of my job it was sort of this like almost you know I was like a like a racehorse you know it's like I was not it was not me that felt like I was me on that runway wearing those wings it was more like it was sort of a job it was a and I and I almost like a caricature of yourself you kind of created this like
And that really, I think, is a way that I was able to sort of survive and thrive in my career as a model. And I started, you know, first I was a ballerina as a young teenage girl. And I think that sort of is something that trains you to almost like your body is a performance vehicle. Yeah.
And so I always have sort of dissociated, I think, my me, like me actually the person, Carly, from the way that I showed up in my job and in a photo shoot. Which I think gave me, you know, it was both something I think now is like I've had to work through, which is I think motherhood actually finally was the first time where I was like, Whoa, like there's something maybe Saturn return.
I don't know. But like I had to sort of actually ground myself in myself. But I think for those early years, I was so sort of dissociated.
I was kind of over it. There were a lot of things that had happened. I wanted to go back to school. I mean, I had worked… I mean, first of all, you went back to school and you studied. I went back to NYU. I was like… A couple of things. I think one, I finally kind of woke up to the reality that like…
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