The Daily News has a random ode to Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks today. The article praises them for "doing things they're actually good at" after their modeling careers began to fizzle:

In the '90s, supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell tried to break away from the runway with roles on the big screen. (Anyone remember Crawford's flop, "Fair Game"? We thought not.) But Klum and Banks redefined the model slash actress cliché and instead created a platform that actually flies: model slash host.

Seriously, thank gawd they stopped trying to do things that required acting talent. (But Karolina Kurkova, we wish you all the best in your big-screen debut in GI Joe.) What's interesting, however, is that Klum gets top mention in this article. This is probably because it's inspired by models.com's list of the world's sexiest models, which ranks Klum number one, and Banks number four, after Gisele Bündchen and Adriana Lima. They may call Klum "Heidi Inc.," but America's Next Top Model is about to launch an unbelievable tenth cycle this week while Project Runway is only in its fourth season. Add to the mix that Banks draws over a million viewers each morning on her daily talk show and we had to wonder if the News was really right in insinuating that Klum is America's top ex-supermodel. Is Klum more successful than ubiquitous Miss Tyra?

To answer this serious question, we decided to take a quantified look at the non-modeling highlights of each woman's career, ranking each on the Fierceness Scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being "absolutely ferocious."