Heidi Klum says she refused to diet when designers told her she wasn’t skinny enough

Heidi Klum has reflected on refusing to diet during her early career when designers and casting directors deemed her not skinny enough.

The 51-year-old model who rose to fame on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1998 and as the first German model to become Victoria’s Secret Angel, has reflected on the pressures to be super skinny during the “heroin chic” modelling era in the Nineties.