Love stories. Seal and Heidi Klum - a love story with a sad ending

Text: Anna Churilova

The hope is that 38-year-old model Heidi Klum and 48-year-old singer Seal Samuel will change their minds about getting divorced and “shattering the ideas of millions of people about happy marriage“, melts every day... On January 23, Seal visited two American shows at once and spoke about the reasons for this “difficult breakup”: “It’s all my fault.”

Seal arrived to filming The Tavis Smiley Show in Los Angeles right on time. He was dressed strictly: a classic gray jacket, White shirt, black trousers... The singer looked depressed, but tried to smile and show with all his appearance that divorce is not the end of life.

“Heidi could no longer tolerate my explosive temper,” Samuel admitted with bitterness in his voice, adding: “The most important thing in this situation is not to lose face, remain an understanding person and finally realize that Heidi and I are not the only people on this planet, who are going to get a divorce, who have gone through a breakup.”

Also, Seal, who apparently decided to protect Klum from attacks from the press by personally telling the media about the reasons for the divorce, visited the Ellen DeGeneres show. “You enter into marriage with the best intentions. When you say, “I agree” and “Till death do us part,” those vows are not just words. We worked on our relationship for a long time - almost eight years, but something went wrong,” Seal said. According to him, there were “problems” in his and Klum’s marriage, although the singer did not specify what they were. “I am sincerely grateful to this great woman - my wife - for giving me four children. Heidi is still the one for me beautiful woman in the world,” the singer noted.

"Yes, I still wear wedding ring. I think you understand that this is a sign of how I feel about this woman. I still love Heidi,” Seal said. His words touched everyone present. You don't wish anyone to part with love.

He noted that divorce does not mean that he will take off the ring and will not participate in later life Heidi and children. “We are forever connected to each other. I don’t know when I’ll take off the ring... Now it’s very comfortable on my finger,” the singer emphasized. “Whether we will be together again or not... I don’t know. I can’t speak for Heidi,” Seal said.

When we, dear readers, watched the video Sila and Heidi, telling the story of their love and passion, we sincerely believed that these two would be together forever... On the other hand, even the most loving and strong couple Sometimes it is very difficult to avoid disagreements, it is difficult to endure when your strength is running out. After seven years, Klum could not stand it and gave up - she did not save the marriage. According to the TMZ portal, Heidi demanded a divorce because she began to worry about Seal's inability to control his explosive temper, and she feared for the children. The reports also claim that the model was "fed up with her husband's wild parties."

The divorce petition Heidi filed this week is being considered Supreme Court In Los Angeles. In the column “reasons for divorce,” the model indicated “irreconcilable differences,” which in Russian practice means “they didn’t get along.” Servants of Themis will have to make the main decision: with whom the couple’s children will remain.

Sources of The Sunday Mirror claim that a crack in the family boat appeared after the couple's holiday in Ibiza in August 2011: “Sil then spent almost all his time in clubs with friends, and Heidi was left with four children. Besides, in Lately They spent a lot of time away from each other, working on various projects."

Heidi Klum and Seal met and began an affair in 2004. The media then wrote that the singer “sheltered and warmed” the pregnant supermodel, who had recently experienced a difficult breakup with Formula 1 manager Flavio Briatore. The couple got married in Mexico in May 2005 and repeated their vows of love and fidelity every year. The marriage produced three children: Henry (now six years old), Johan (five years old) and Lou (a two-year-old girl), and Seal also raised Heidi and Flavio’s daughter, Leni (seven years old), as his own.

We wish Heidi and Seal a peaceful divorce process (but we still hope that they will come to their senses, weigh the pros and cons and live amicably and happily again)!

Heidi was born in West Germany into a family quite close to fashion. The celebrity's father was a representative of a large cosmetics company, and his mother worked as a stylist. Therefore, already at school, Klum decided that she would storm the podium.

Career at the expense of studies

Already in 1992, Heidi Klum became popular. At the age of 18, the girl was the winner of the national competition “Model 1992”. Then Heidi beat out 25 thousand competitors. And the main prize of the competition was participation in the “Late-Night-Show”, as well as a contract with a modeling agency for 300 thousand dollars. A few months later, Klum made the risky decision to quit school.

A year later, Heidi was already a resident of America, here she took up her career in earnest. The girl began to appear in popular magazines, including Marie Claire, Vogue, Elle. Worldwide recognition in fashion world came to Klum after her appearance in a swimsuit on the cover of Sports Illustrated. A brand underwear Victoria's Secret immediately offered the model a multi-million dollar, long-term contract. And when Heidi signed the contract, she was sure that she would soon become the company’s leading model.

Heidi began performing as a model, as well as for body art for artist Joan Gair. The girl’s photographs, by the way, were included in the photo book, and Heidi wrote the introduction to the first edition of the album.

Film career

Heidi did not limit her career to the world of fashion. The girl began to receive offers to play in films and television films. More often Klum performed herself, but she also worked in episodic roles. So, in 1992, the newly minted actress appeared in an episode of “The Larry Sanders Show.” And four years later and until 2002, she starred in the sitcom “City Whirl”. There the girl played herself in seven episodes.

Later actor career the model began to transform into a cinematic one. Heidi appeared in a series of paintings that were far from the world of fashion, although these were mostly guest works. Klum played several times in the series “Sex in big city", she worked as confidently as she walked the catwalk. This was followed by a successful performance in the TV movie Malcolm in the Middle.

A little later, the model smoothly switched to roles in full-length films. But even there she imagined herself as a model. In 2001, Ben Stiller's third film, Zoolander, appeared. This is the story of the number one male model in the world.

The creators of the films almost admitted that they showed the famous model in the frame because it worked one hundred percent as a bait for viewers. This circumstance did not bother Heidi Klum herself at all. The girl treated even such work responsibly, as always.

Next, the marvelous model was transformed into a marvelous fairy, by the forces of a wizard-hairdresser. Heidi starred alongside Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson in Padie Breathnack's 2001 sports comedy The Barber of England. True, here, instead of baseball or tennis, beautiful curls became the object of struggle. A year later, Heidi played a small role in the melodrama CSI: Miami.

By the way, the public accepted Heidi as an actress as enthusiastically and unconditionally as the model. Therefore, in 2003, Klum actively participated in the creation of two documentaries, “Blue Collar Comedy Tour,” about the hardships of the modeling business, and “Victoria’s Secret Fashion.”

And at the end of 2004, the project “Project Runway” appeared on television screens. Here, a jury of 12 candidates for the best designer chose the best. Klum was not only one of the producers, but also managed to receive three Emmy awards for her participation. By the way, 2004 was a very productive year for the model. That same year, Heidi appeared in episodes of several films. First there was the fairy tale “Ella Enchanted,” where the actress played Anne. And then the picture “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” appeared. By the way, the film is based on real stories.

Every year, films appeared at the box office where Heidi Klum appeared in small or guest roles. In 2005, viewers saw the actress’s minor work in the film “How I Met Your Mother.” A year later, on the German channel “ProSieben”, the model headed a reality show called “Germany’s Next Topmodel”. Here beautiful girls competed for a contract with the fashion modeling agency “IMG Models”, as well as a car and for the right to appear on the cover of the “Cosmopolitan” publication. The show also aired in 2007 and 2008.

The Devil Wears Prada

And only after that Heidi was offered a serious role. In 2006, Klum, as part of the trio of Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, played in the comedy “The Devil Wears Prada” by David Frankel. The model's heroine is a girl from the provinces who dreamed of becoming a journalist. Critics reacted rather reservedly to Heidi's work, but viewers, on the contrary, took it for granted. But the producers and directors came to the conclusion that Heidi is more confident in playing guest roles. The model didn’t think about it; she took on all the roles offered.

In 2007, audiences were presented with James Foley's erotic thriller The Perfect Stranger, starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis. Klum played the usual role of herself.

Personal life

Heidi Club's personal life is in full swing, as is her career. For six years until 2002, the model was the wife of designer Rick Pipino. After him, the girl began an affair with the owner of the Formula 1 team, Flavio Briatore. And in the fall of 2003, Heidi announced that she was pregnant, at the same time the tabloids published frivolous photographs of Briatore with Fiona Swarovski, heiress to a jewelry empire.

Heidi Klum is on the table again

After a difficult breakup, Heidi met black artist Seal. He became the model’s support during pregnancy. In the spring of 2004, Klum gave birth to a daughter, Helena, and a year later she became the wife of Sil, who, by the way, adopted the actress’s girl. Real father the child does not participate in his upbringing, moreover, he has never seen her. In 2005, Heidi gave birth to a son from Seal, the boy was named Henry, a year later a second son, Joan, appeared, and in the fall of 2009, the model gave birth to another daughter, Lou Sulola Samuel.

It is worth noting that after each birth the model recovers quickly, this is required by the contract with Victoria’s Secret. And just two weeks after her first pregnancy, Heidi took to the podium. She was able to do this after daily individual training for five hours a day. At the very beginning of her career, Heidi Klum’s card stated that she was 176 centimeters tall, measurements 89-65-92, light brown hair and green/brown eyes.

In 2007, according to the Forbes rating, Heidi was in third place on the list of the highest paid models on the planet. A year later, Klum climbed one line higher. Heidi is in third place on the list of the most beautiful German women in the world, ahead of the girl Nade Auerman and Claudia Schiffer.

There were two marriages, with last husband she managed to save friendly relations. Yesterday, the model was spotted on the football field where her children were playing, in the company of her ex-husband. The celebrities kissed sweetly and chatted cheerfully about the future of their offspring, their successes and achievements. The wise blonde realized long ago that even after a divorce, children should communicate with their father and receive attention from him.

Before the game started, Heidi Klum and Seal couldn't kiss their children and hugged them endlessly. Although eldest daughter model Helen is Seal's stepchild; he treats her no less reverently than his own children. The singer adopted the baby and tries to spend as much time as possible with his children.

Now the eldest daughter Helen, whose father is the famous billionaire Flavio Briatore, sons Henry and Johan, as well as daughter Lou Sulola from ex-husband Force. The singer adopted the girl Helen, despite the fact that he is not her biological father. AND for a long time Heidi Klum and Sila's family were considered true role models. However, the celebrity divorce changed the situation, although the former spouses managed to maintain friendly relations.

Not long ago, Heidi Klum admitted that doesn't want any more children and is going to give birth, even if she meets a worthy man. “I think four kids is great. “I no longer plan to give birth and become a mother again,” the model said in a conversation with journalists from one of the popular publications. This categorical position of Heidi Klum in relation to the number of children is due to the fact that in this moment she has to raise her offspring on her own. Despite the fact that the star was married twice and gave birth to four children, she never met a worthy man.

German blonde-haired, brown-eyed TV presenter, supermodel, actress and co-producer Heidi Klum was born on June 1, 1973, in the city of Bergisch Gladbach, which is located in the North Rhine.

Heidi Klum: biography

Since the late 90s, Heidi has been considered one of the most sought-after models in the world. Her modeling career began back in 1992, when she won her first and main prize on Thomas Gottschalk's popular entertainment talk show Late-Night-Show. Then the 18-year-old schoolgirl was able to become the best among 25 thousand of the same girls.

The prize for participating in this show was signing a contract with a modeling agency for the huge sum of $300,000. After graduating from school, Heidi abandoned her studies as a fashion designer in Düsseldorf and began developing her modeling career.

Heidi Klum: Victoria's Secret Angel

Since 1993, Heidi has lived in America. World famous came to her in 1998, after her photo shoot in a swimsuit, one of the photographs was published on the cover of the American weekly sports magazine Sports Illustrated and sold 20 million copies. Klum was also able to become one of the leading models and an “angel” of Victorias Secret. The famous glossy magazines Vogue and ELLE released their issues with a photograph of Heidi on the cover. But, despite this, Klum never belonged to the elite models - those who have the honor of walking on the catwalk during luxury shows.

Klum participates in advertising campaigns for the “sweet” Katjes, and since 2005 she has been filming for the fast food chain McDonalds.
Klum advertises the brands Stiefelkönig, Taft, Birkenstock, the SPAR grocery store chain, and participates in advertising campaign Douglas.

Heidi Klum: career

Klum uses her considerable popularity to increase sales of products that are produced under her name.
Klum, together with the New York jeweler Mouawad, creates a collection of bras with diamonds - the Very Sexy Fantasy Bra, which was presented at Victorias Secret shows, collaborates with the LR health & beauty system company, releasing its own lines of perfumes and body care products.

In December 2004, supermodel Klum's first book, entitled Klums Body of Knowledge: 8 Rules of Model Behavior, was published.
Klum is perhaps the only model whose name was given to a variety of a beautiful flower - Rosa Heidi Klum Rose.
2008 was a very significant year for Heidi Klum - she was included in the list of the fifteen richest models in the world, according to Forbes.
In 2009, the famous German edition of the influential fashion magazine Vogue completely dedicated its June issue to the model.
And in 2011, Klum was unable to take 39th place in the list called “The Most Influential Women.”
Heidi Klum has also successfully played several roles in films and TV series. She can be seen in “Spin City”, “The English Barber”, “Sex and the City”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “ Desperate Housewives"and others.

Heidi Klum: Project Runway

In December 2004, an interesting show “Project Runway” was released on television, one of the producers of which was Klum. Also in this show she got the role of co-host and chairman of the jury.

In 2006, the reality show Germanys Next Topmodel started on the ProSieben TV channel (German television), where beautiful girls competed for the main prize - signing a contract with the IMG Models agency. Since 2006, this show has been organized annually, and Heidi has a place of honor on the jury.

Also during her career, Heidi Klum was the host of the MTV Europe Music Awards 2012, which took place in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in early November 2012.

Heidi Klum: personal life

A stormy career did not stop Heidi from organizing her personal life. She has been married twice and has four children: Helen, born May 5, 2004, Henry, September 12, 2005, Johan, November 22, 2006, and Lou, October 9, 2009. Her first husband, from 1997 to 2002, was Rick Pipino, a hairdresser. The second husband, a musician and singer named Seal, was her husband from 2005-2014.

The biological father of Heidi-Helen's daughter is her ex-fiancé, Flavio Briatore, with whom Klum broke up during her pregnancy and even before the birth of her daughter, she began dating her future husband Seal. In December 2009, Seal officially adopted Helen. From September 2012 to January 2014, Klum dated her security guard, Martin Kristen.

Heidi Klum is the only model in whose honor they were released stamps. In 2002, Grenada Post decided to issue three stamps with a photograph of the supermodel and the specific inscription “Discover the Beauty of Stamps.”

Rarely seen among the stars married couple, whose marriage lasted more than 1-2 years. Usually relationships do not withstand the test of living together and collapse as soon as they begin. Therefore, among celebrity couples who have lived together for 3 and more years, are the standard. One of them is Seal and Heidi Klum, who have been the ideal for 7 years family happiness, but their marriage, unfortunately, came to an end. Why did the model and singer divorce?

life before meeting Sil

The name Heidi Klum is known not only to fashion connoisseurs, but even to those who are far from her. And this is not surprising - after all, Heidi is one of the ten most famous models world since the 90s. Her supermodel career began at the age of 19 - quite a late age by modeling standards. But this fact did not stop her from gaining superstar status - she is one of the leading models of Victoria's Secret and often appears on the covers of glossy magazines. The model considers regular exercise to be the secret of her slimness. She says that she does not go on diets and loves to eat delicious food - proof This includes advertising for sweets and fast food, which is not typical for a model.In addition, she is one of the producers and co-host of the reality show “Project Runway,” which was broadcast by MTV in 2006. Thanks to her artistic abilities, Heidi Klum often receives filming offers in films and TV series. Today her filmography includes 6 films - “Studio 54” (1998), “Victoria's Secret Fashion” (2001), “Ella Enchanted” (2004), “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” (2004) , “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006), “The Perfect Stranger” (2007).

The status of a supermodel allows Heidi Klum to speak openly about her profession. She described her knowledge and experience in the autobiographical book “Klum Knowledge: 8 Rules of Model Behavior”

Sil: the story of a boy with a difficult fate

Heidi Klum's ex-husband Seal is a famous man of Nigerian origin. His real name is Henry Olushegan Adeola Samuel. His parents were students, and after his birth they sent him to foster family. At 4 years old adoptive parents The forces divorced, and his mother, Aldebishi Samuel, took her son in with her. Two years later, the woman fell ill and returned to Nigeria, leaving her son with his father, Francis Samuel. According to the singer, the man treated him poorly, which could not but affect who he became in the future.

Seal ran away from home and dropped out of school when he turned 15. Despite this, the singer has higher education in architecture.

Seal began his singing career in the 1980s after working as a designer electrical devices and designer of leather goods. Later he sang in bars and clubs, but without success. The first song Killer became the starting point in his career. Today Seal is not only the performer of the hits Kiss from a rose, Crazy, but also the author of other songs and the winner of 3 music and awards from the Brit Awards.

The story of how the model and singer met

Singer Seal and Heidi Klum met in a New York hotel in 2003. At that time, the model was going through a painful breakup with an Italian businessman, from whom she was pregnant. Later, the model admitted that she immediately liked Seal, and he, in turn, would say that he had long been in love with Heidi, whom he had already seen at social events in London.

It was Heidi who made the first date, not Seal. To the singer’s surprise, it took place not in an expensive restaurant, but in a pizzeria. The second date was arranged by Seal, and Heidi Klum agreed. She immediately admitted her situation to the singer and he began to help the model and monitor her health. In 2004, Leni was born - the daughter of Heidi Klum, whom Seal later adopted. For the sake of the baby, the singer interrupted his tour and went to the hospital.

A match made in heaven

A few months after Leni was born, Seal and Heidi Klum got married. The wedding took place on a private beach on May 10, 2005 near Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. The witnesses were little Leni and the waiter. Here Seal performed the song Wedding Day, specially written for Heidi. Later, the couple joined the guests, which included only their closest relatives and friends. Many surprises awaited the guests, one of which was a beautiful wedding cake with mini figures of Seal and Heidi Klum.

Soon after the wedding, baby Leni had a brother, Henry, and a year later, Johan. All this time, despite pregnancy and childbirth, Heidi Klum was launching her own lines of perfumes and underwear. The singer and model always said that they wanted big family, and in 2009, little Lou appeared in their family.

In order to maintain newness in the relationship, the couple decided to organize symbolic celebrations every year. wedding ceremonies. Four years after their wedding, Heidi Klum and Seal threw a chic celebration in Malibu, where the bride wore a lace dress and pigtails, and the groom wore shorts and a mohawk.

In the fifth year, a ceremony took place in the style of the Venetian carnival - both the bride and groom, and the guests put on masks and were dressed as if for a ball.

Besides the symbolic wedding tradition, Seal and Heidi Klum maintained other romantic traditions in their relationship - for example, writing paper letters to each other and constantly declaring their love for each other. They often voiced the latter in their interviews. Seal often said that Heidi was the most beautiful, and Heidi declared that she had the best husband.

Divorce

Despite a seemingly strong marriage, after 7 years life together Seal and Heidi Klum filed for divorce in January 2012. The tabloids cited several reasons for the divorce, including the incompatibility of the stars' work schedules, and Heidi's reluctance to deal with Seal's quarrelsome character. But real reason turned out to be much more shocking - a few months after the official divorce, the famous supermodel on the talk show Katie Couric admitted that she had fallen in love with the family’s bodyguard. The affair with Martin Kirsten began during a holiday to Sardinia, when Heidi Klum and Seal, children and a bodyguard were relaxing on the island.

Relationships after divorce

The breakdown of the relationship between the singer and the model could not but have an impact on the four children - the issue of joint upbringing arose between the former spouses. How did Seal and Heidi Klum solve this issue? The divorce, according to the former spouses, should not have affected the lives of the children, and therefore for their sake ex-spouses decided to maintain friendly relations with each other.