Heidi Klum has faced backlash for a rather creepy photoshoot with her teenage daughter.
“Sorry but this is giving incest vibes,” wrote one person.
“This is basically stepmom p**n!” agreed another.
“I’m honestly so uncomfortable looking at these,” agreed a third.”
A fourth added: “Who okayed this weird, creepy shoot?”
The photoshoot caused quite the backlash, with some people even calling it “disturbing.”
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Klum is best known for her stellar modeling career.
The forty-nine-year-old is one of the most successful models of all time.
She has been involved with a multitude of high-profile brands.
Highlights include H&M and McDonald’s, among others.
Klum has also proven herself to be a great film cameo.
Fans adored her surprise appearances in movies such as The Devil Wears Prada and Perfect Stranger.
Klum was even an executive producer on Project Runway, as well as being the show’s host.
The star was nominated for an Emmy for each of the first 4 seasons of the show!
Klum has tried her hand at designing too…
She has worked with big brands such as Birkenstock, Lidl and New Balance to curate her very own ranges.
However, in Hollywood, the star is also known for something you might not expect…
Be warned — things are about to get spooky…
Klum is an all-out Halloween fanatic!
And her costumes over the year have been absolutely wild.
She even hosts a yearly party where some of the world’s biggest stars come together to show off their ‘fits.
However, Klum’s own costumes have always been some of the best of the night.
In 2019, for the twentieth anniversary of her annual party, she really outdid herself…
I’m not even sure what this is supposed to be, but the look is certainly doing its job of scaring me!
However, last year the star has somehow managed to one-up herself yet again…
Her latest look was absolutely nuts.
But let’s recap on just exactly who Klum is.
Don’t you want to know exactly how the star got to the place where she can host such extravagant Halloween parties?!
Born in Germany in 1973, Klum actually got her big break thanks to a competition she entered!
She was selected the winner out of 25,000 entrants, and nabbed herself a modeling contract.
The star’s talent quickly made her a global superstar, working with brands such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
In 1998, she was even featured on the cover of the classic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
However, what she is perhaps best known for is her work with Victoria’s Secret.
Klum walked the brand’s iconic runway for many years.
She was part of an iconic set of Angels.
Her co-workers included stars such as Gisele Bündchen and Tyra Banks!
Thinking about it, maybe this was where her love of crazy dressing came from…
A quick Google of Klum’s runway outfits with the Angels and you will get what I mean!
In 2008, Forbes estimated that the star was the world’s highest-earning model.
Her income was an estimated $16 million!
However, she hung up her wings forever in 2010.
But that only spurred the star onto bigger and better things…
She began to move away from modeling and towards business moves.
She also began to expand her presenting career.
Klum has been the presenter of Germany’s Next Top Model since 2006.
She had also worked on Project Runway, but moving away from modeling gave her the space to work on a wider variety of jobs.
Klum even tried her hand as a judge on America’s Got Talent!
The star has been a key part of the show since 2013.
In terms of her personal life, Klum has had a fair few relationships.
However, there are a couple that stand out…
The first is her marriage to British musician Seal.
The pair got married in 2005, but called in quits in 2014.
She then married Tom Kaulitz, guitarist of the German band Tokio Hotel.
The couple have been married since 2019.
Aside from being a Hollywood star…
Klum has made a name for herself in another way.
Fans have dubbed the star the “Queen of Halloween.”
Others said simply: “Girl wtf.”
At her 2022 Halloween party, Klum dressed up as a worm!
For those of you wondering how on Earth she managed to look like that, she has shared a clip of behind the scenes over on Instagram.
Now this is how a girl should do Halloween.
One fan joked that the star was “taking ‘would you still love me if i was a worm’ to the next level.”
For those of you worrying about how she managed to move around and enjoy the party… don’t.
The queen of Halloween wouldn’t have been so silly as to not think of a multi-functional outfit!
However, somehow we think the full-on look is less disturbing…
You get what we mean, right?!
However, that’s not all that Klum has made headlines for lately…
Klum and her daughter, Leni, recently received backlash after the two did a photoshoot together…
One commenter wrote: “I like to think I’m progressive in these things but mom and daughter in lingerie in the same video shoot is just a bit ick.”
“Really weird. Mother and daughter dancing around in lingerie,” another wrote.
Even veteran radio host Howard Stern laid his opinion on the table and said on his show: “I looked at it and I thought, ‘This is so f***ing’ out of line. It is so inappropriate. But you can’t stop looking at it.”
“It looks like a guy’s fantasy. They’re kissing and they’re holding each other. And they’re frolicking,” he added.
Page Six caught up with Leni and asked her what she thought of the backlash.
What she had to say was surprising…
It turns out Leni hasn’t really been keeping up with the online commentary about the photoshoot and she said that “If I don’t look at it, I don’t have to pay any attention to it.”
“I am overall happy with the campaign and I had an amazing day with my mom. I think the photos turned out great, and we had an amazing time,” Leni said.
Klum and Leni are the current brand ambassadors for the Italian lingerie company Intimissimi.
The backlash was a result of the pair starring in a photoshoot together modeling some rather skimpy looks…