Claudia believes actresses and pop stars are now much more likely to grace the covers of magazines, preventing models from reaching global celebrity status.
Claudia Schiffer insists aspiring models can no longer achieve the kind of fame she, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelina enjoyed in the 90s.
"In order to become a supermodel one must be on all the covers all over the world at the same time so that people can recognize the girls," Claudia told German magazine Fivetonine, "I can remember when I needed four bodyguards to get backstage from a Chanel show just to my car."
"That is, for now, not least because the advertising industry is very much taken nowadays by pop stars and actresses. Supermodels, like we once were, don't exist any more."
However, Claudia does believe Brazilian catwalk beauty Gisele Bundchen comes close to earning the supermodel title.
"Her face is well known, her name is recognized - but no other girl comes to mind that people in the street would recognize," she said.
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