Highly pregnant Claudia Schiffer (picture below) features nude on cover of the June issue of German Vogue. Schiffer, 39 years old at the time of the release of the Vogue issue, is pregnant with her third child. According to Vogue, Schiffer is expected to give birth “in a matter of days”. The June issue of Vogue is released to the newsstands on May 11, 2010.

Vogue’s editor Christiane Arp commented: “There are probably not many other women who have been photographed as often as Claudia. But she has never been seen in such a different way. "

The cover photo, which was taken by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, shows a very pregnant Claudia Schiffer in a similar pose to a pose by Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, which was very controversial at the time.

Claudie Schiffer featured the cover of Vogue for the first time nearly 20 years ago, and has since appeared on over 900 covers of all mayor fashion magazines, including Vogue and ELLE, as well as TIME magazine and Rolling Stone. Schiffer also appeared in several movies and music videos. Her first movie appearance was in Richie Rich in 1994. Her latest appearance was in romantic comedy Love Actually, in which she appeared as herself.

She appeared on many sitcoms and talkshows, including Larry King Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dharma & Greg and Arrested Development. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000629/ Claudia Schiffer is regarded as one of the “super models” of the nineties, together with fellow models Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Elle Macpherson. http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Claudia_Schiffer

Fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld, who shot the photo of Claudia Schiffer, has often been the center of controversy. Lagerfeld is a strong defender of the use of fur in fashion, which got him in a battle with animal rights activists, including PETA. End 2009, he was said to have dissed Heidi Klum, by stating: “Heidi Klum is no runway model. She is simply too heavy and has too big a bust. And she always grins so stupidly. That is not avant-garde - that is commercial!”. The statement was later identified as being issued by Wolfgang Joop. http://www.fashion-forum.org/fashion-designers/karl-lagerfeld.html http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/19/070319fa_fact_colapinto?currentPage=all