Why Heidi’s Klum’s daughter Leni won’t stop doing ‘weird’ photoshoots with mum… after childhood growing up with ‘3 dads’

WHEN your mum is 1 of the world’s astir celebrated supermodels, pursuing successful her celebrated footsteps down the catwalk could beryllium a small spot daunting.

But not for Heidi Klum’s daughter Leni, who is blessed to airs alongside her celebrated mum successful her lingerie.

Heidi, 51, and her mini-me Leni, 20, some looked unthinkable arsenic they posed successful pieces for Intimissimi's Fall-Winter campaign this week.

In 1 representation posted connected the brand’s Instagram, Heidi wowed successful a maroon lace bra and matching knickers, portion assured Leni smiled astatine the camera portion wearing a achromatic set.

Proud mum Heidi shared the images to her ain social media, commenting: "Our caller Intimissimi FW Campaign is retired now! @Leniklum and I had truthful overmuch amusive shooting this with @Rankinarchive and @Thomashayo.”

But immoderate fans rushed to the comments conception to question mum and girl posing successful lingerie together, with 1 writing: "Which mean ma would airs unneurotic with her girl successful lingerie?”

While different posted: "Cringe and weird. Would ne'er bash this with mom.”

But it is apt that the famous mum and girl duo volition motion disconnected immoderate criticism, fixed their super-close relationship.

On a erstwhile modelling assignment together, Leni said: "My ma and I are conscionable wholly comfy astir each other, and we were dancing astir the full day.

"That was what we had to do, and we bash that anyway, truthful it conscionable acceptable right. It was conscionable specified a amusive day."

And Leni says her supermodel mum has ever been her inspiration, truthful it is hardly a astonishment that she saw a modelling vocation arsenic a earthy step.

"I've ever gone to enactment with my ma and thought, 'This looks truthful fun. She looks truthful blessed portion she's working,' leap successful sometimes, and I'd play astir with the constitution that her constitution creator would bring," she said.

Leni’s imagination came existent erstwhile she got to beryllium connected the screen of Vogue Germany with her supermodel parent astatine the property of 16.

"That's, like, insane that I did that arsenic my archetypal job, and my ma was with me, which made it truthful overmuch fun. It was conscionable specified a bully day. I wasn't tense astatine all. I was conscionable truthful excited," she said.

'Three daddies'

Leni is Heidi’s biologic daughter from her narration with billionaire Formula One boss Flavio Briatore. 

But the mates divided earlier Leni was born, and her caller beau, popular prima Seal, was contiguous astatine her birth.

"Seal is Leni's father", Heidi said plainly astatine the time, making it wide that Flavio would person nary relation successful the small one's life. 

The vocalist reflected connected connecting aboriginal connected with Leni, telling E!: "It's everything and it has ever been similar that, from the time I met her mother."

He added: "She was 2 weeks large with this beauteous lady. We person ever had that bond."

Heidi and Seal joined successful 2004. He adopted Leni successful 2009, and the mates went connected to have children Henry, 18, Johan, 17, and Lou, 14.

They sadly divorced successful 2014, but the kids happily divided their clip betwixt Heidi and Seal’s homes successful LA. 

Seal regularly gushes astir however arrogant helium is of Leni and the Kiss From A Rose vocalist took to Instagram connected her 19th day to explain: "In NY with the young pistillate who changed my beingness for the amended 19 years ago. Thank you Leni for making maine a amended person”.

But successful caller years, Leni and her biologic dad, Flavio, person rebuilt their relationship, and they were spotted holidaying unneurotic successful France and Italy past summer.

Flavio had antecedently spoken astir however hard it was to person a narration with small Leni, arsenic helium lived successful London and Heidi lived successful America with their daughter.

So helium ‘calmly’ agreed that Seal could adopt her. He told an Italian newspaper: “The 3 of america calmly agreed that it made the astir consciousness that helium follow her due to the fact that a kid needs to turn up successful a family.”

Flavio went connected to person a son, Nathan, with his then-wife, histrion Elisabetta Gregoraci.

When Leni was 12, Flavio reflected: “Heidi, Seal and I person built an astonishing relationship. It's hard to miss a babe that you ne'er see. But I cognize that Leni is not an abandoned child. Leni is portion of Seal's family, and Nathan is portion of mine.”

After her divided with Seal, Heidi started dating German instrumentalist Tom Kaulitz and they joined successful 2019 - but lone aft Tom got support from Heidi’s children.

“He asked my kids archetypal if helium could inquire for my hand,” she told People magazine. ”So helium was successful cahoots with my kids. They figured retired however they were going to bash it, and past they each amazed maine connected Christmas greeting six years ago.

"I thought that was truthful bully that helium progressive my kids."

In 2020, Heidi opened up astir Leni's upbringing and the 3 antithetic men who person been begetter figures successful her beingness - Flavio, Seal and Heidi's now-husband Tom.

In a heartfelt tribute to her girl connected Instagram, Heidi wrote: “I cognize that being my girl is not ever easy. You ne'er had the accidental to turn up 'normally'. But what is normal?

"Growing up with 3 antithetic daddies astir apt won't either, but you person the endowment to get the champion retired of everything. And I would say: nary of it harmed you - connected the contrary: you are a self-confident young pistillate who fights for her goals.

"And adjacent much important: you are a truly large idiosyncratic with your bosom successful the close place.”

'Nepo baby' tag

Despite her unconventional upbringing, Leni appears to person her feet firmly connected the ground. She is studying interior plan astatine assemblage successful New York alongside her blossoming modelling career.

"It's been amazing,” she said. “I've ever dreamed of moving retired and designing my ain apartment. I person been talking astir it since I was 14. And I yet did it.

"I utilized to travel to New York each summertime with my household due to the fact that my ma had enactment here, and I loved it. I knew that I wanted to spell to schoolhouse present and survey interior design.”

She's besides afloat alert of her privileged life. Critics person tagged her arsenic a nepo baby, questioning whether she would beryllium arsenic palmy successful the modelling satellite without her mother's backing.

In a 2022 People Magazine interview, she said: "It's conscionable a fact. My parents are famous. I did get assistance starting off, and I cognize radical would imagination to commencement disconnected with what I had.

"I'm truthful grateful that I was capable to instrumentality what was talented to maine by my mom. But I americium doing the enactment and putting successful the time. Now I'm moving connected my own, travelling alone, going to school.

"My ma and I conscionable person the aforesaid emotion for the aforesaid thing."

But Heidi hasn't wholly chopped disconnected the cord conscionable yet. She inactive makes definite her girl has everything she needs.

Leni said: "She loves to nonstop america groceries. I got an alert the different day, and I looked extracurricular the door. There were 25 large bags of groceries. My roommate and I were freaking out.

"We started repast prepping everything. It astir didn't acceptable successful the fridge."

Leni has been dating Aris Rachevsky, 21, for much than 3 years.

They person been spotted looking cosy successful respective pictures and present unrecorded unneurotic successful New York. Earlier this year, the mates revealed they had adopted a puppy.

In luxurious vacation snaps shared connected Instagram, Aris plants a buss connected her caput arsenic they lounge connected a boat. Heidi is seen wearing sunglasses by Dior portion Aris spots a Prada bucket hat.

Leni has racked up a immense fanbase successful her ain right. On Instagram, she is followed by 1.8million people, often posting astir her fabulous beingness and her modelling gigs.

According to HypeAuditor, which calculates the income influencers tin gain online, Leni tin marque up to £3,000 for each sponsored station she posts connected Instagram.

She is besides gathering a immense luck of her own, with Celebrity Networth estimating she is already worthy implicit £4million.

It's inactive acold disconnected to lucifer her mum's staggering $160million wealthiness but with a agelong vocation up of her, she conscionable might.