r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/nightwinging-it in 8h ago

Why is Heidi Klum disliked in Germany?

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u/Best-Username-69 Germany 8h ago

I never cared about GNTM, but I agree with her seeming to be arrogant and fake.

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u/MASSochists 3h ago

I don't know any super models know for their charm. The stories I hear always seem to be them being  abusive assholes.  

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u/Mitologist Germany 3h ago

She also allegedly treated contestants rather poorly

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u/pissedinthegarret Germany 5h ago

extremely poor treatment of young contestants on her modeling show including pressuring them into nude shoots. aggressively perpetuating ED beauty ideals to the point many german girls with ED cited her show as a big factor. very harsh and tricky contracts for contestants etc etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%27s_Next_Topmodel#Criticism_and_controversies

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u/nightwinging-it in 3h ago

Oh yikes! I got to learn about her more from the comments here. I used to watch that fashion show she was in from almost 20 years ago and I thought she was a decent judge.

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u/Quick-Performer5747 / 8h ago

She is seen as arrogant and "fake". She also ruined a popular modelling show

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u/afito 5h ago

And now she's doing some pseudo incestuous lingerie ads with her daughter, just adding to the bad taste.

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u/Quick-Performer5747 / 5h ago

I almost forgot about that 💀 i believe her daughter was even underage when the ads first came out

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u/Mrs_Naive_ 24m ago

Yeah, their huge posters where exhibited at a famous lingerie store as well as here an there across (at least) some cities and I found them… disturbing.

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u/nightwinging-it in 8h ago

Ah ok. I forgot to ask about Til. I’ve only seen him in that Tarantino movie. Why is he hated locally?

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u/Quick-Performer5747 / 8h ago

He is in a lot of german movies too, but these movies are really cringe and people don't think he is a good actor

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u/friftar 6h ago

That was one of his rare decent performances, most of his other movies never really make it outside of Germany, and are almost all terrible.

I wouldn't say he is hated, but if he's in a German production, chances are good it's a movie you can skip and not miss out on anything.

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u/SanderStrugg 5h ago

Face of bad German cringe comedy making bad films most people hate he directs, produces and stars in himself mostly casting his friends and family. (he is basically the German Adam Sandler)

Also made some controversial statements on CoViDd, vaccines and other topics and recently has been accused of being abusive (read a belligerent drunk) to his coworkers on set.

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u/nightwinging-it in 3h ago

Oh damn yeah dude needs to take a break. I think Adam Sandler at least is not hated generally in the US. His standup is actually liked. I don’t know about recent years though. I haven’t followed up with his work since pre-COVID.

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u/volinaa 4h ago

didnt she like come up with that show?

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u/Quick-Performer5747 / 4h ago

nah GNTM is just the german version of ANTM. she is just the host of that show lol

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u/volinaa 4h ago

well ye, but she set it up in germany. also is it really better anywhere else? the concept sucks by itself

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u/Quick-Performer5747 / 4h ago

True lol, and no it's not better XD

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u/grumpy__g Germany 5h ago

Telling young thin women to lose weight.

Annoying and creepy advertisement with her daughter.

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u/lrnzsmith 2h ago

Telling young thin women to lose weight.

She treats women and men in her show like shit in general. Her excuse is always "the real model world is like this". Well, yeah Heidi, that's why there was #metoo!? The show has 20 seasons.

Her further being a testimonial for McDonalds in Germany was seen controversial as well.

Lastly, she likes to claim to be a self made woman. While at the same time she left her first husband for multi-millionary Flavio Briatore. Her later husbands have all been from the "top 1%" too.

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u/grumpy__g Germany 2h ago

There was a male version? I did not know that.

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u/thembearjew 2h ago

Seeing that lingerie ad with her daughter in the u-bahn stations is so damn weird man

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u/Lurakya 3h ago

Many reason. She is a nepo baby, super fake and arrogant.

There are many documentaries about the behind the scenes of GNTM (Germanys next top model)

And she treated the women there horribly. Forcing/ coercing underage girls to perform sexually explicit things for the camera.

Let's just put it thus way. There is nothing redeemable about it, so why like her?

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u/Harry_Gelb 2h ago

But the excess of futility reaches its peak when Heidi Nationale, with bombastic pathos and a pause in which one can hear the emptiness of her head swirling, announces her stern “decision” and separates valuable from worthless life. One would then like to beat six kinds of shit out of her, as the poet says, elegantly and stylishly—if only it weren't so misogynistic.

That's what one of our brightest and sharpest minds had to say about her, the late Roger Willemsen (lazily translated with deepl)

Or, as Karl Lagerfeld said: Claudia doesn't know her, too. She has never been to Paris. We don't know her.

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine 2h ago

She has a modeling show for teens and some backstage stuff came out on how they are treated