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Ms. Gercke, you became known in 2006 as the first winner of the TV show “Germany’s Next Top Model”. Was that your big dream – and what happened to it? I fell into the modeling business through the TV show. But that gave me the desire to be an entrepreneur someday. As a model you are above all a service provider; it is always about something from others for others. I wanted to create something myself and decide for myself.

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