with a famous smile and a flag in Germany

Sure, lots of footballers are going to be at the World Cup. They're like the senators. But the rostrum, classic as she is, shouldn't surprise anyone. Not only is Germany trying to recover from the whole national identity crisis, they're hard-fought to find spokespeople. Sure, there's politicians -- uh, hell no. Marlene Dietrich is dead. Uwe Boll or Nena? Nah. And who else we got? Heidi Klum's pretty... German, but she's basically an Ami now. No, Claudia is the classic choice -- she is pure and bereft of guilt, which is exactly what the PR campaign is going for. Positive associations.

Speaking of: apparently Claudia got made fun of a lot by her yacht-commandeering, cokehounding colleagues for being a square. But that might have something to do with the fact that she looks exactly as beautiful at 36 as she did when she started. Clean living and wool knickers is the key. Oh, if we could all just convince the ex-runway models in our lives that!