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Star portrait of Lena Gercke

Lena Gercke has it all: A scandal-free modeling career, a touch of glamor for the gossip columns and her diligence make the difference.

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What is striking about Lena's date of birth? She was born on February 29th, so strictly speaking as a leap year child she only has a birthday every four years.

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In February 2012, Lena and then-boyfriend Sami Khedira flaunted a hot pose on "GQ": She was naked, he was standing behind her in a black suit and covered her breasts with his arm. The photo caused a scandal in Tunisia: The magazine "Attounisia" printed the picture and later had to pay a fine of around 500 euros. Reason: Violation of custom and morals!

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Her love for soccer player Sami Khedira has given her passion for sports even more kicks, she said during the relationship: "Because I'm with someone who works a lot on his body and trains a lot, I'm pulled along. I've been eating healthier ever since and paying more attention to my body."

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Lena has a godchild in South Africa.

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Luxury life? Doesn't need Lena! "I come from a normal background and was brought up to invest my money wisely and not spend too much. I grew up cautiously with money."

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One year after her GNTM victory, Lena passed her Abitur.

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She has a sister and two half-sisters - we even know one of them: Yana Gercke is a singer and was third in "Unser Star für Baku" in 2012. In 2014 she surprised Lena on "Das Supertalent".

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Your daughter Zoe and her partner Dustin share the same birthday! How handy when you just need to plan a party...

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Biography of Lena Gercke

"So far everything has taken care of itself" - as easy as that sounds, Lena Gercke goes through life as easygoing: The good-humoured blonde works almost around the clock, has an effect but never strained, never tried to be funny or forced to be in a good mood.

The girl next door - the image goes with the smile

When she took part in the first season of "Germany's Next Top Model" in 2006, she attracted attention - but not through bitchy behavior or loud boasting: Lena beamed Calm down, seemed almost shy at times. In the end she got the crown, landed a contract with IMG Models and graced the cover of the German "Cosmopolitan". "I don't even think about how people see me," she once said in an interview, and you even buy that from her. Because in addition to hot shoots and catwalk appearances, Lena repeatedly shows her private, completely unmade-up side on Facebook and Instagram. Almost 700,000 people follow her on Facebook and almost 600,000 on Instagram.

"Atamba by Lena Gercke": As a model against anorexia

Lena, like her discoverer Heidi Klum, likes to emphasize again and again that she eats a lot and regularly. Sentences like "I come from a family of butchers. You just eat well and like to eat from home" may sound like a model's mouth, but if you look closely, you can see: Lena is not skinny, but athletic! This is due to her passion for fitness, which she discovered early on: she was born in Marburg and grew up in Cloppenburg, where she took dance and acrobatics lessons as a child. Today she even has her own fitness program: With "Atamba by Lena Gercke" she wants to make her fans fit, on "atamba.de" you can register for the sports program.

Lena goes TV

"I love adventure too much, and things get boring very quickly. I don't like everyday life and routine" - that's Lena Gercke too. That's why the showbiz industry fits her like a glove: whenever a job gets too tight, she can try something new. As an advertising face, she stood in front of the camera for Gillette, Katjes, Opel and Karstadt, she walked at Fashion Week Berlin and worked in Milan, Athens, Paris and New York. In 2009 she went to Austria to moderate "Austria's Next Topmodel" - in 2012 she announced her departure. In the following year she stood for the TV lifestyle magazine "red!" in front of the camera and embarked on a new adventure in the same year: alongside Dieter Bohlen, Bruce Darnell and Guido Maria Kretschmer, she was a juror in the talent show "Das Supertalent". Lena liked this job so much that she did it again in 2014. Since autumn 2016 she has been at Thore Schölermann's side as co-moderator of "The Voice of Germany". And as if she wasn't already busy enough in front of the camera, she has now also joined the designers. In the summer of 2017 she launched her first fashion collection in the online shop About You.

Lena and love: Jay, Sami, Kilian, Dustin - and now a baby

At the beginning of her career, Gercke was still in a relationship with singer and later jungle camper Jay Khan, but this love failed in December 2009 After the breakup, Lena remained single for the time being – until she made her relationship with soccer professional Sami Khedira public in 2011. The two were engaged from 2012 to 2015. With the Stuttgarter, she lived near Madrid, where he played football. At regular intervals, they made sweet, well-measured gestures in public, like selfies in love on the Internet. Therefore, it hit fans and gossip press like a blow when Sami and Lena suddenly announced in July 2015 that they had split up by mutual agreement a few weeks earlier. Then the beautiful blonde found happiness with sports doctor Kilian Müller-Wohlfahrt, whom she presented as her new partner in May 2016. The two lived together in Munich and separated in 2018. In 2019, Lena Gercke introduced Dustin Schöne as a new man by her side - he is the managing director of a film production company. Their daughter Zoe was born in July 2020.

Barely a year later, the model posted on her Instagram account: "Best News Ever!" — Baby number 2? No, but Zoe probably slept through her first night alone. And with the help of sleep training. And of course the wave of mom critics and shocked fans was not long in coming. Does that mean that Lena's baby cries itself to sleep? Probably not. After all, a Lena would know better ways.

Lena Gercke on the go

You can't go anywhere without a cap and cool shoes

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