Claudia's missing curves

Curves were always her calling card. But a very different Claudia Schiffer has emerged since the birth of her first child.

The German supermodel, who has a 13-month-old son, revealed her slimmer new look at an awards ceremony in Berlin.

Her tumbling blonde hair and alluring smile are still as eyecatching as ever. But her elegant black gown showed off the changes in the figure that made her one of the biggest names in modelling.

Miss Schiffer, 33, has certainly slimmed down since the birth of her son Caspar in January last year.

He new shape is thought to have emerged as a result of breastfeeding her baby.

She married British film producer Matthew Vaughn, 32, in a lavish £100,000 ceremony in Suffolk in May 2002.

Caspar, their first child, was born by Caesarean section at the private Portland Hospital in Central London.

Almost immediately after giving birth Miss Schiffer seemed to shrink back to her normal size.

Days afterwards she was pictured looking slim and healthy, enjoying her first taste of motherhood.

The model who was discovered in a Dusseldorf disco in 1987 has always maintained a rigorous exercise regime, with four workouts a week. Her daily menu is said to consist of fruit for breakfast, followed by salad for lunch. Her main evening meal is usually chicken or fish. In between meals she sips on tea with honey.

Her disciplined approach takes considerable effort and she has admitted a weakness for her mother's sausage casserole.

'I do occasionally break out the milk chocolate, but I'm not one of those lucky people who can eat what they want and always stay the same weight,' she has said. 'It's agonising because I love sweet food.

'I wouldn't want to be terribly thin and I think I know instinctively when I'm at my comfortable weight.'