Karlie Kloss
Kloss in 2011, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Karlie Elizabeth Kloss
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 3, 1992
Ethnicity: German, one eighth Danish, possibly one eighth Polish, 1/16th Bohemian Czech
Karlie Kloss is an American fashion model and entrepreneur.
Karlie is the daughter of Tracy and Kurt Kloss.
She is married to businessperson and investor Joshua Kushner, with whom she has two children. Karlie is a convert to Orthodox Judaism, Joshua’s religion.
Karlie’s paternal grandfather is Bernard V. Kloss (the son of Theodore Kloss and Ella Dorthea Viejen). Bernard was born in Pennsylvania. Theodore was born in Poland, and was of either ethnic Polish or German descent. Ella was born in Denmark, the daughter of Jens Johan Jensen Viejen and Christine Maria Jorgensen.
Karlie’s paternal grandmother is Stella May Helmstetter (the daughter of Earl William Helmstetter and Mary Rose Ernst). Stella was born in Maryland, and has German ancestry. Earl was the son of William Helmstetter and Louisa D. Reinhardt. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Ernst and Mary Berger.
Karlie’s maternal grandfather was LeRoy/Roy William Fares (the son of Leroy Cleveland Fares and Minnie Strunk). Karlie’s grandfather LeRoy was born in Missouri. Karlie’s great-grandfather Leroy was the son of George Fletcher Fares and Ida Rosetta Comer, and was of German descent. Minnie was the daughter of Henry Strunk, whose parents were German, and Anna Janauschek, whose parents were Bohemian Czech.
Karlie’s maternal grandmother was Florence A. Stroh (the daughter of John Henry Stroh and Marie C. Wehrling). Florence was born in Illinois, to parents of German descent. John was the son of Urban H. Stroh and Johanna Rosine Kron.
Sources: Genealogy of Karlie Kloss – https://www.geni.com
Karlie’s paternal grandfather, Bernard V. Kloss, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Karlie’s paternal great-grandparents, Theodore Kloss and Ella Dorthea Viejen, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Karlie’s maternal grandmother, Florence A. (Stroh) Fares – http://www.memorialsolutions.com
Theodore Kloss spoke Polish.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH73-5LX
With the surname of Kloss, I imagine if Theodore had Polish ancestry, at least the paternal line was German in ancestry unless it’s some Germanized version of a Polish surname back further in time.
This is all just another way of saying that I imagine that Theodore was of mixed ancestry and not just Polish.
That photo is so 2005.
she looks a little like Taylor Swift
Yeah, kinda.
I would’ve guessed she was almost 100% danish. Her eyes and bonestructure are very nordic-looking.
I can’t see the Nordic. She looks exactly what she is mostly, which is Northern German. Germans look more like the Dutch than any generic Scandinavian.
I have lived in Denmark for 2 years then and Norway for 4 years and I can easily distinguish a Nordic person and a typical German, and she doesn’t even look like a Dane at all.
Please elaborate.
Tell me, what differentiate a german from danish??
She looks super creepy!
It’s the photo, she’s really pretty.