Heidi Klum Shares Throwback Photos to 1992 Modeling Competition

Just six years before she landed the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue.

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Heidi Klum appears to be going down memory lane and we’re here for it. The legendary supermodel recently offered up a few glimpses from her archives on Instagram, featuring a series of swimwear Polaroids from 1992, six years before she landed the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue.

A roughly 19-year-old Klum was photographed in a series of swimsuits, including a blue, orange and yellow textured-looking one-piece with black accents, a high-cut black one-piece with strappy sides, and a white one-piece printed with black card suit symbols. Klum posed with her arms above her head, while seated in a wooden chair and sprawled out across a carpeted floor.

While Klum captioned the photo in German, it roughly translates to the following in English: “Similarly to how I look at photos and videos of models for GNTM, these photos were my application photos for my 1992 modeling competition. My mom brought me a box of lots of old pictures from the basement.”

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In addition to her Oct. 14 swimsuit throwback, Klum offered up a black-and-white close-up snap of her 16-year-old self with her 11.6 million followers the same day.

While it’s not clear which modeling competition the 50-year-old’s Polaroids were for back in the day, Klum went on to land the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue a few years later after her very first photoshoot with the brand in 1998. She was photographed by Robert Erdmann in the Maldives. Throughout the years with the publication, Klum was featured in a total of nine SI Swimsuit Issues.

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