Lena Gercke

Lena Johanna Gercke,[1]  (born February 29, 1988) is a German fashion model and television host. She was winner of the first cycle of Germany's Next Top Model.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[ edit] == Gercke was born in Marburg,[2]  Germany and grew up in Cloppenburg where she attended the Liebfrauenschule Cloppenburg (ULF),[1]  a Roman Catholic gymnasium,[3] completing her abitur in 2007.[4] [5]  Gercke is a hobby chess player. She has a sister and two half-sisters, who are her father's daughters.[2] ==Career[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Modelling career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On August 14, 2004, Gercke won a casting call for fast food chain Burger King. She was represented by Langer-Pueschel who booked her for photoshoots, catwalk shows, and dance performances. At the beginning of 2006, she attended a casting call for Germany's Next Topmodel hosted by Heidi Klum. Upon winning the competition, she received an advertising contract with the fashion label OuiSet, a modeling contract with IMG Models in Paris, the cover shoot for the June 2006 issue of GermanCosmopolitan and an advertising contract with Microsoft for Windows Live. She also appeared in magazines such as the American issues of Cosmopolitan, Sports Week,Glamour and on the cover of French Votre Beauté. She was featured in print campaigns of H&M, Mexx and Geox. In 2010 she walked on New York Fashion Week for the Spring season of Custo Barcelona.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gercke dated US5-boyband member Jay Khan until December 2009 with whom she lived in Berlin. Since May 2011, she is dating Real Madrid footballer Sami Khedira.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  She lives in Berlin and New York, but now spends most of her time in Madrid to be close to Khedira.
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Modelling career
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links