When it comes to Heidi Klum and her children, Henry Samuel and Leni Klum, those genes are in strong play.
The group models the latest issue of Paper Magazine, making them the first trio to appear on the magazine’s cover.
On the cover, Klum, wearing pink pants and a matching pink cardigan, sits on a bronze bear statue in front of Leni, 21, who wears sexy shorts with polka-dot tights and a contrasting striped T-shirt.
Meanwhile, Henry, 20, stood behind them, dressed in all white, smashing pineapples with a bat in the air.
The brightly colored shoot continues with a mash-up of outfits, including Leni in striped boxers and knee-high socks lying next to a wading pool and her mother in a red carpet gown filling a water bottle.
In another photo, Henry jumps into the air next to the dining table, with Leni standing over him and Heidi, wearing a green skirt suit, squirting ketchup and mustard from a bottle.
The models also pose together in the bathtub, looking up at the camera suspended above their heads.
Klum’s blended family is gearing up for a two-part reality series, “On and Off the Catwalk.” According to the paper, the series chronicles the supermodels at the “heyday of their talents,” while also shadowing Henry and Leni’s own burgeoning modeling careers.
“We’re rushing through all of our different businesses, so to speak,” Heidi said, adding, “Nothing is really staged.”
She has Henry, son Johan, 19, and daughter Lou, 18, from ex-husband Seal, who also adopted Leni in 2009. Leni’s biological father is Italian businessman Flavio Briatore.
The host of “Germany’s Top Model” also talks about how the modeling industry has changed over the past 20 years, especially when it comes to the treatment of women’s bodies.
“You didn’t see a lot of pregnant women on TV[20 years ago]which was a big deal back then. I was pregnant and my kids were on the show all the time, and it was hard for me because maternity clothes were really hard to find back then,” she said.
The 52-year-old continued: “I remember I had a client and when I was pregnant, they didn’t want to work with me anymore. I think they thought I wasn’t sexy anymore, because I was already a mother. Before I had kids, I was defined as a sexy woman, and now that I have kids, I’m defined as a mother. I don’t deserve that anymore, and…” Henry finished, “A title?”
Heidi, Henry, and Leni have never appeared as a family in a cover shoot before, but the kids are starting to take the modeling industry by storm just like their veteran mom.
Henry, who made her modeling debut on the Lena Erziak Haute Couture runway in Paris in January last year, featured Heidi in Elle Germany late last year.
Meanwhile, Leni has shot multiple lingerie campaigns for Intimissimi with her mother.
While her children follow in Heidi’s footsteps, Seal has criticized the modeling industry.
“I don’t think that’s what he ultimately wants to do,” he told his son’s Page Six last year, adding that modeling work “is a stepping stone to getting what you want in life. And it’s not necessarily a profession.”
However, her children say that they always admired their mother as they watched her work.
“I think as I was growing up, watching my mom’s work and seeing how happy she was and how much fun she had working, I was always really inspired by that,” Leni told Paper mag. “And when I would go on set with her, I was always trying to get into the frame. I was always stealing her makeup artist. I told him to do my hair and I got in front of the camera and the day just kind of fell apart. I just fell in love with it, and I still love it to this day.”
Henry added, “Yeah, I was the same way. I used to visit her all the time on her set days. And we were all so interested. She just seemed like she was having fun on set, and I just wanted that feeling too.”
Maybe it’s a family business.
