Heidi Klum Praises Daughter Leni, 17, as They Appear on Harper's Bazaar Germany — See the Covers
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Like mother, like daughter!
Heidi Klum and her 17-her-old daughter Leni appear on their own individual (and stunning) covers for the April issue of Harper's Bazaar Germany.
Before posting her own cover — on which Heidi, 48, poses in a pool, rocking a smoky eye and slicked-back hair — the proud mom shared Leni's, which features a close-up of the teen model with a focus on her piercing eyes.
"Du hast die wunderschönen blauen Augen von meiner Mutter 🦋," Heidi captioned the post in German, which translates in English to, "You have my mother's beautiful blue eyes."
In a letter on the magazine's website, Editor-in-Chief Kerstin Schneider wrote that, during her chat with the Klums, Leni said of her own style, "I like it very differently than at home!"
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Leni is clearly following in her mom's fashionable footsteps, having expressed an interest in modeling as early as age 11.
She landed her first solo magazine cover with Glamour Germany last spring — exactly 20 years after mom Heidi became the magazine's first cover star.
Leni Klum/Instagram Heidi Klum and daughter Leni
The previous December, the then-16-year-old made her modeling debut on the cover of Vogue Germany's January/February 2021 issue.
"So excited for my first cover!! I had so much fun on set with @voguegermany couldn't dream of a better start!! Thank you for being by my side @heidiklum ❤," Leni wrote on Instagram at the time, alongside the cover shot by photographer Chris Colls.
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In February 2021, Heidi told PEOPLE that Leni has "been doing fantastic" since making her modeling debut, and has "been wanting to model for quite some time."
"And I finally said yes because she's now old enough, she's almost 17. She started with the German Vogue cover and she has another cover that's coming out in two months," the America's Got Talent judge added, likely referring to Leni's Glamour Germany cover.
Heidi said "it's mind-blowing" for her to see her daughter work, and "amazing to watch her do it all" after watching Leni grow up around the industry "her entire life."
"She's not really afraid of the cameras being stuck in her face. I do Germany's Next Top Model and she's done a lot of the shoots the models had to do. A lot of the times at the end of the shoots, she would be like, 'Now it's my turn!' off camera," the supermodel mom recalled. "She's done so much over the years, she loves it. She loves it!"
