Seal Says Wife Heidi Klum ‘Can Do It All’
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Halloween is always a big day for Seal and wife Heidi Klum, and this year — despite welcoming their fourth child, daughter Lou Sulola, just three weeks beforehand — the couple showed again that they are game.
Chatting with reporters while dressed as crows at Heidi’s 10th Annual Halloween Party at Voyeur in West Hollywood on Saturday, Seal spoke lovingly to Celebrity Baby Blog about the family’s newest addition.
“It’s a funny thing, having another child, because you have three kids who you love dearly and you think to yourself how could you possibly find any more love to give anyone else,” he notes.
“The first time you hold your baby in your arms there is this overwhelming sense of otherworldliness that is very, very difficult to describe.”
Although the couple are no doubt tired, Seal says that Lou makes it all worthwhile.
He explains,
“Sleep deprivation is kind of pretty much neutralized by what I call the amnesia gene. They look at you and you forget that when you have more kids.”
Earlier in the day Seal took the couple’s older three children — Leni, 5 ½, Henry, 4, and Johan, 3 this month — trick-or-treating for the first time.
The boys dressed as skeletons, Seal said, while Leni dressed as a skeleton-witch hybrid.
“She tends to be very strong-headed, a bit like someone else I know,” he joked, “She was a great witch at school in the parade last week.”
The 46-year-old singer was less forthcoming when asked to spill Heidi’s body-after-baby secrets.
“You know I’m not going to do that,” he laughed before conceding, “she just has a knack for all of these things.”
“There isn’t actually anyone quite like her. I certainly haven’t met anyone like her. She just has a knack for it. She is the person that can pretty much do anything and I’ve got used to that within a few months of marriage…she’s the woman, she can do it all.”
Click below to read about how the three older Samuel children are adapting to life with Lou.
Heidi, by contrast, was quick to shoot down the suggestion that she has reclaimed her pre-baby body outright. “I wouldn’t say I’m back in shape yet,” she demurred. “Everything changes when you get older. It was different when I was 31 with the first one and now being 36 with the fourth one.”
She later admitted that “get[ting] back into it immediately” helps, adding,
“I think that if you wait too long and it sticks there it stays that way forever. I have to be motivated.”
Although she doesn’t “exercise too much,” Heidi said she will hit the treadmill occasionally as well as take walks up and down the driveway. With her bustling brood, however, time is always scarce.
“When you have three children and two boys, they’re very active because they want to do a lot of things. But when you breastfeed, when you eat right, you move around a little bit, that usually does the job.”
Leni, Henry and Johan have been receptive to — and conscientious of — Lou, Heidi revealed. “They are very good with her,” she said. “They know to wash their hands all the time and they know not to lean into the stroller.”
Lou resembles both her parents, according to Heidi, just like her siblings. She explains,
“To be honest they all look the same when they are little. They all have a beautiful full head of black hair. Beautiful dark eyes and full lips. They all do look the same and then they morph into their own faces.”
Because she is nursing, Heidi said she is handling the overnight feedings — for now. “I have the goods right here,” she laughed. “I wish I could say ‘Here baby, do that now,’ but I do that.”
Although she’s been through this scenario three times before, Heidi says it’s “always new again,” just like with each of her four pregnancies. “Even though when you’ve done it before, for the fourth time it’s still going to the hospital with the same worries,” she notes.
“I hope everything is going good, I hope the baby is going to be okay, I hope there’s no complications. Even though you’ve done it, and I had three easy ones, you’re still there with the same worries. Then they come out and you look all the time, is the baby breathing? Is everything okay?”
– Missy with reporting by Michelle Ward
- Posted on Nov 4, 09 at 6:00PM
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November 4th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Ilove this couple..Random costumes though…
November 4th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
The costumes have scared the living daylights out of me.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
i believe the costumes are a tribute to a favorite book or movie of their kids. i’m not sure what it is though. i really love them, i remember when she was on oprah last week (via skype) and she was sitting there in her house with all these toys, train tracks, pictures… spread all over the room. i’m betting their children are very happy ones
November 4th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I loved their costumes!! They were soooo creative. I look forward to Heidi’s Annual Halloween Party every year and she never disappoints! She looks great! Can’t wait to see Lou as well as the whole Samuel family. I ♥ this family!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
These costumes freak the living hell out of me, but it’s nice that they always get so into it. They just take it to a level I could never go to, lol!
November 5th, 2009 at 2:03 am
I’m a little confused by this comment of Heidi’s: ““To be honest they all look the same when they are little. They all have a beautiful full head of black hair. Beautiful dark eyes and full lips. They all do look the same and then they morph into their own faces.” If I’m remembering correctly, Leni did not have black hair as a baby.
November 5th, 2009 at 7:46 am
what are they supposed to be?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:14 am
^ It says in the piece that they are crows. Very creative costumes but they also freaked me out. I liked the year she was an apple.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:15 am
@CelebBabyLover
Leni did, check for yourself
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,353517,00.jpg
both my children and I myself had black hair on birth, and not too little (though that changed at 3 months) and we are all fairheaded now, – well, the boys are, my hair changed in my early twenties to a dark blonde…
November 5th, 2009 at 9:50 am
and also i imagine the interviewer was asking how she looks compared to her full siblings – her brothers…
November 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Was there ever a more loving family? They are just sooo sweet, I love them. Those crow costumes are far scarier than any witch or zombie though!!
November 5th, 2009 at 11:39 am
CELEBABYLOVER Heidi is most likely comparing this baby to henry and johan, they all come from the same dad and are more likely to resemble each other, than leni who is blonde and blue eyes. The others did have dark hair, full lips and dark eyes. Well henry’s hair is light now, but as a baby it was dark.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Leni hair was also dark hair, dark eyes and full lips when she was born. You can see that on the picture she releases she got lighter as she got older but she did look like her siblings (a lighter version of course).
November 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Very elaborate costumes. They’re always creative.
As can be seen in the photo, Leni, too, had dark hair at birth. A good handful or two of children I know were born with darker hair but it lightened over time. My son’s cousin, for example, was born with jet black hair. Now, at 8, it’s strawberry blonde.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
If I had to guess I would say they are dressing up like Black Crowes
November 5th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
This is their best costume yet, although, Seal looked hot as a Warrior last year. Women have been doing it all for years and years but at least we now have birth control pills and automatic dishwashers.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Aww, Lou sounds adorable. Now I really want to see a pic of her. It’s great that the kids are getting along well with her.
I always find their Halloween costumes very creative, including this year with them being black crows.
And, whoa, Seal as a Warrior? How did I miss that look? lol
November 5th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Love looking forward to their costumes each year! (Hate, hate, hate though when people differentiate between siblings … full brothers … Leni is in no way 1/2 of anything!)
November 5th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Brannon, biologically she is their half sister and they are her half brothers. There is nothing wrong with that, it’s just reality.
I hope they release photos of Lou soon. I think they did with Henry and Johan so they probably will again.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:48 am
itstartedwithafish- Thanks for the link! I’d actually never seen pictures of baby Leni before.
November 7th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Anna- And Lou is her half-sister.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I thought she had a boy with the name LOU! It wasn’t until I read halfway through that it was a girl. Not sure I’d want to be named Lou…maybe Louise???