Heidi loses modeling contract due to pregnancy

Heidi Klum issued a statement today announcing that she has lost a modeling contract for the upcoming season with Germany’s largest mail-order catalogue, Otto Versand,  "because I’m pregnant".

SMH

Anyone hear anything else about this? I realize that her body is her job, but this just doesn’t seem right.

Comments

It doesnt seem right..doesnt make me happy…she is one of the most gorgeous supermodels out there! She can come back after…geez….

- magda on March 28th, 2005

This story can be read everywhere here in Germany at the moment. So I think it’s true. And I think it’s the stupidiest thing the “Otto Versand” ever did. I mean, they are selling clothes for modern women, housewifes and mothers. What can be better than to have a famous model on the cover, who is also everywhere in the press right now because of the pregnancy? And she can pose again once the baby is born.

Never liked Otto Versand anyway…

Sarah, being annoyed

- Sarah on March 29th, 2005

Me again: OK, maybe there are reasons we don’t know, maybe she was scheduled for a photoshooting in two months and Otto loses a lot of money now or whatever.
I mean, Claudia Schiffer posed for the Otto catalogue with her little son, and there wasn’t such a fuss about the whole pregnancy. So there might be reasons we simply don’t know.
But I’m still not happy with their decision.

- Sarah on March 29th, 2005

I agree she should have lost the contract. They probably wanted a thin model, not a baby belly. No offence to Heidi.

- semisocial on March 29th, 2005

well, they didn’t sign her to do maternity clothings. standing around for hours, not just for a magazine but for a catalogue, under harsh lighting can’t be good for a pregnant woman anyway. even for a professional model like heidi.

- stephanie on March 29th, 2005

They probably signed her to do regular clothes, not maternity. So, that would make sense.

- Di on March 29th, 2005

I just read an article in one of the big German newspapers and it said that Heidi actually lost the contract because she cancelled a photoshooting and an official meeting with the company board. Apparently they didn’t really care about the pregnancy… Well, who knows…

- Nora on March 29th, 2005

In the Netherlands the news is that she did lose her job because she was asking for an increase of salary, not because she’s pregnant.

- Tehillah on March 30th, 2005

having a child is worth so much more then having a modeling contract and it’s much more important.

- v on March 30th, 2005