Heidi Klum Expresses Sadness as Leni is Ready for a Significant Transition

In the coming weeks, Heidi Klum's home will undergo some significant modifications, although she isn't exactly counting the days.

Leni, her 18-year-old oldest child, is flying the coop and leaving the family home to attend college in New York City after graduating from high school earlier this summer, the America's Got Talent judge has revealed.

While Heidi expressed her excitement for the 18-year-new old's exciting journey, she acknowledged that she will miss having her daughter at home.

Heidi expressed her pride to ET Online. "She's got her head screwed on, you know. College is currently at the top of the list. She is quite eager to start the next phase of her life, even though it is not modeling."

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"Unfortunately, she is moving away from home, which is clearly painful, but at the same time, she has enough to go for it," the supermodel continued.

In June, Leni received her high school diploma

She will relocate to New York. She is familiar with New York through and out because I started in the city and we filmed Project Runway there for many years.

"Since I usually relocated my family to New York while we were still filming, she is aware of this. I anticipate she will enjoy herself, but my heart will be sad.

Like her mother, Leni is a model

Flavio Briatore, a former F1 team owner, is the father of Heidi's daughter Leni, who is following in her mother's footsteps and made her modeling debut in Vogue Germany at the age of 16.

Early in 2003, the ex-couple began dating, and in December of that year, she made her pregnancy announcement. However, their relationship didn't endure, and Heidi started dating Seal while she was expecting Leni. Seal later adopted Leni and brought her up as his own.

Leni and Heidi appeared in Vogue Germany in 2020

Leni is my natural daughter, but the three of us joyfully agreed that Seal adopting her made more sense because a child needs to grow up in a family, Flavio told Italy's Il Corriere Della Sera.

After getting married in 2005 and having three kids together—Henry, 16, Johan, 15, and Lou, 12—Hidi and Seal divorced in 2012. In 2019, Heidi and her Tokio Hotel rocker spouse, Tom Kaulitz, got married.

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