Heidi Klum has come a long way since she couldn’t get a job in modeling.

Yes, you read that right: Klum was unemployable, she tells the May issue of Allure, on sale April 24.

“I was too curvy and too busty and a little too short,” she says of her early days. “And I was a little bit self-conscious about it. But I was by no means heavy, I just—well, you have hips and boobs, and that’s it. Haute couture, you don’t really see girls with big boobs. And I always wanted first to be a model. So I had to say, ‘OK, you’re going to find other things to do in this industry, or it’s maybe not my industry.’”

Ever her “Project Runway” co-host Michale Kors turned her down for runway shows back in the day.

Awkward!

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