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Heidi Klum’s girl Leni shared she's "grateful" her parents helped commencement her career, but clarified she's besides putting successful the enactment herself.
Heidi Klum's Daughter Leni's Rare Appearance With Dad Seal
Leni Klum knows she's had an easier way to modeling than others.
As the girl of Heidi Klum and Seal, the 18-year-old got candid about how overmuch her parents helped with launching her modeling career.
"It's conscionable a fact. My parents are famous," Leni told People in an interrogation published Oct. 27 erstwhile asked astir the nepotism babe stereotype. "I did get assistance starting off, and I cognize that radical would imagination to commencement disconnected with what I had. I'm truthful grateful that I've been capable to instrumentality what was talented to maine by my mom."
However, Leni shared that she is pulling her ain value arsenic well.
"But I am doing the enactment and putting successful the time," she said. "Now I'm moving connected my own, traveling alone, going to school. My ma and I conscionable person the aforesaid emotion for the aforesaid thing."
The rising star's privation to travel successful her mother's footsteps began erstwhile she was stopped astatine a Brandy Melville store astatine property 12.
"They asked maine to exemplary for their clothes. I was freaking retired due to the fact that Brandy Melville was my favourite astatine the time," Leni recalled, "It was the lone spot I went shopping. I said 'Mom, Mom, conjecture what? Brandy Melville wants maine to model. Please, please.' And she was like, 'Absolutely not.'"
She added, "I was truly bittersweet astir it, but successful the extremity she was right. And I consciousness similar that's what sparked maine to privation to exemplary more."
Back successful 2021, Heidi told E! News that aft Leni had been "begging maine for years" to commencement modeling, the supermodel finally caved in. "Her being 16, astir 17, I said, 'fine,'" the Project Runway alum said. "She opened Berlin Fashion Week."
Leni also graced the screen of Vogue Germany successful 2020 with Heidi and posed for an Intimissimi lingerie run sprout earlier this month. Through it all, Leni ever keeps successful caput her parents' omniscient words.
"They person some taught maine to beryllium myself, and to bash what makes maine consciousness comfortable. You tin archer if you're not comfy and past the champion of you isn't brought out," Leni shared. "I conscionable deliberation you should beryllium unfastened and honorable with what makes you comfortable, beryllium yourself, bash what you love. And if you bash each those 3 things past you're golden."
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