Heidi Klum is a proud mama.
The supermodel celebrated her 18-year-old son Johan’s high school graduation on Wednesday, posting footage of him getting his diploma and her kissing him on the cheek on Instagram.
“Cheering you on today and every day ❤️ CONGRATULATIONS JOHAN 🎓🥳🙏❤️ my heart is full of joy and pride ❤️❤️❤️❤️,” she captioned the sweet post.
In a photo she shared, Heidi, 52, smiled alongside Johan and her eldest son, 19-year-old Henry. She shares Johan and Henry as well as daughters Leni, 21, and Lou, 15, with her ex-husband Seal.
Heidi and Seal divorced in 2014. She’s been married to Tokio Hotel singer Tom Kaulitz since February 2019.
While Johan has remained largely private, Leni and Henry have chosen to follow in Klum’s footsteps and become models. Heidi did gush about Johan’s artistic abilities back in 2013, telling Parents magazine that his love for painting monsters inspired her Truly Scrumptious children’s clothing collection.
In October, the “America’s Got Talent” judge revealed that Johan was considering attending Parsons School of Design in New York City after graduating.
“Johan is very much into the arts and making clothes,” she told People. “So today we toured Parsons.”
Meanwhile, Seal, 62, spoke to Page Six in February about Henry making his modeling debut at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week this year, and shared that what he wants to actually do is to pursue a music career.
“But that’s difficult because it’s kind of what I do, and I think there’s a part of him that thinks that, you know, ‘I just don’t want to be kind of, you know, doing music because my dad does it,’” he said.
Still, Seal insisted Henry was a talent in his own right.
“And I don’t say that, as, you know, a biased father, which I am, of course, but he has a great voice,” he said. “And I just really wish that he would have the confidence to do it.”
As for Leni, the “Kissed from a Rose” singer said modeling was also not what she ultimately wanted to do.
“She gets that modeling is a segue,” he noted. “It’s a stepping stone to getting what you want out of life. And it’s not necessarily a profession.”
Leni and Heidi recently posed in lingerie together for another Intimissimi ad despite receiving backlash the first time they did it in October, with some calling the mother-daughter duo “weird” for posing in their underwear together. Heidi turned off her comments on her Instagram post announcing the second collaboration.
But Leni hasn’t been letting the criticism get to her.
“I always try to remember that no matter what you do, there will always be someone who doesn’t like it,” she told Glamour Germany about the backlash for their cover story published in March. “You simply have no control over it and you can’t focus too much on the negative.”