Heidi Klum: “It doesn’t matter that I am older”

Heidi Klum (52) does not let anyone tell how she has to behave at her age. “For me it doesn’t matter that I am older. I have no problem with age discrimination or body shaming,” explains the model in one. Her clear message: “I like to walk around sexy – even now at 52.”

This attitude shows Klum on poster walls, on magazine covers, in her show “Germany’s Next Top Model” or “The Runway Project” or on Instagram, where she presents herself in tiny bikinis, sexy outfits or underwear. “The greatest misunderstanding about life in the fifties is that you are no longer in demand. That is not true,” she clarifies. “We are very much in demand, everyone can see that. Don’t hide in their fifties.”

Cosmetic interventions are also not taboo for them. “I am totally for Botox,” she explains openly and is inspired by the current wave of celebrities who make their interventions public. “If you want to talk about beauty operations and exchange ideas, you are welcome to give me your number.”

This self -confidence also extends to their upbringing. Klum, who has four children, is proud to have conveyed a relaxed handling of your own body. “I’ve always been very open with my body. If I am in the garden in the garden, I may not wear a top. I am a European,” she explains. This naturalness has been transferred to her children: “My children don’t know me any other way and are probably more relaxed with their body.”

In 2023, their shared underwear campaign with daughter Leni (20) caused a stimension. The criticism of this cannot understand: “Many people say: ‘Oh, I don’t really know whether mother and daughter should do it together’. But for us? I’m proud of my daughter. She has no problem with me.”

Klum finds her biggest support in husband Tom Kaulitz (35), whom she met seven years ago by chance at a party. “I actually wanted to stay at home,” she recalls the fateful evening. “But then I gave myself a little step in my butt.” Today she describes this decision as “the decisive moment” of her life. The couple went out of their way in December 2018 and married two months later.

Klum also says that the beginning of her relationship was not always easy – so she had to be careful not to transfer contaminated sites from previous relationships to her new friend. “Tom said: ‘Don’t do that because I am not this person, I’m not that person. Forget everything. I have to get a fair chance.'”

Klum leads together weekends for two, handwritten notes and the need to be there for each other as reasons that their marriage works so well. And adds with a wink that there are also a few things that she cannot share with the public.

In the meantime, the two of them have even tattooed each other on each other on each other – although Klum laughs with a laugh: “Being looks much better – so I am the better tattoo artist.”