Victoria Secret Model : Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer was the best-known blonde model in the world for a time in the 1990s. Like Anna Nicole Smith, Schiffer got her first American exposure as a Big Blonde in glossy print ads for Guess Jeans. Unlike Smith, Schiffer parlayed her appearances into a career as a top print model. Her classic German looks and classic German business savvy made her an international star, and in 2006 Schiffer began as the public face of a national economic campaign called Germany -- Land of Ideas.

Extra credit: Schiffer was the longtime girlfriend and fiancee of glam magician David Copperfield; the two broke up in 1999. She married film producer Matthew Vaughn in 2002; their son Caspar was born in 2003, and daughter Clementine was born in 2004.

Claudia Schiffer appears with Adriana Lima in our loop on The Models of Victoria's Secret