Heidi Klum would very much like you to please hate her.

Stunning Heidi Klum reveals in a new interview that she couldn't book a runway show when she was 20. And she was even rejected by her “Project Runway” co-star Michael Kors

Okay, so this is one of those feel-good stories. One of those, "hey, chin up, even I wasn't always this beautiful and glamarous and successful" type stories, right?

"I never did fashion shows—not in Paris or Berlin or even in New York City. I tried, but no one would book me," the Lifetime host explains in Allure magazine’s May issue

 So, what, when you were younger people thought you were homely? Ugly duckling now a beautiful swan? Is that it?

"I was too curvy and too busty