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Happy returns for Klum, Victoria's Secret

By SHARON FINK
Published November 11, 2005

Don't hate Heidi Klum because she's a Victoria's Secret model.

Hate her because she was able to look good in a light-up bra and thong (and angel wings) and model on a runway less than two months after having a baby.

The people at Victoria's Secret would want you to channel your negativity that way, if it would keep you from channeling it at them for putting models scantily clad in lingerie on TV again.

Klum made her appearance Wednesday in New York as Victoria's Secret brought back its made-for-television holiday fashion show after taking 2004 off. Having been a target in the country's indecency skirmishes even before Janet Jackson's breast was displayed at the Super Bowl last year, Victoria's Secret wasn't interested in being portrayed as the producer of Breastgate II.

With the country now fixated on other things, Victoria's Secret got CBS to resume airing its show, and the company put on its 10th extravaganza at the Lexington Avenue Armory. The taped show will be broadcast Dec. 6.

But really, there is no reason for any negativity. This year's show is a celebration of family values. That man Klum is blowing a kiss to - and vice versa - is her husband, singer Seal, who performed, and who is the father of Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, born Sept. 12.

THIS DOUBLES AS HER RETIREMENT GIFT: More warm and fuzzies from the Victoria's Secret fashion show: This one is being promoted as the last for longtime employee Tyra Banks. Banks desires to be the sole exploiter of her body parts by focusing on her TV shows, America's Next Top Model and the talker The Tyra Banks Show.

THAT LITTLE VACATION DID WONDERS FOR HER: Supermodel Kate Moss is employable again. She has just done a photo shoot for designer Roberto Cavalli's spring and summer collection, Moss' first job since leaving an Arizona drug rehab facility last month. Moss headed there after a video was released allegedly showing her snorting cocaine, and she lost three high-profile jobs in the fallout. "She is back working and doing what she does best, and like usual, she was really professional," Cavalli said in a statement released by Moss' spokesman and reported by the Associated Press. The photos are due in major fashion magazines next year.

A LITTLE HUMMY IN THE OVEN? The Criminally Damaging Celebrity Baby Name Alert Level has gone up. Us Weekly has started the buzz that Gwyneth Paltrow is pregnant again. If it's true, she doesn't look that far along; this is Paltrow on Tuesday at a London department store hawking perfume for Estee Lauder. Also if it's true, she should ban husband Chris Martin of Coldplay from naming it. She has said he named their 18-month-old daughter Apple. And Apple also should be banned from participating. Us reports that among the words Apple knows is "hummy," for hummus.

[Last modified November 11, 2005, 01:17:03]