Heidi Klum didn’t hold back while candidly discussing her 17-year age gap with her husband, Tom Kaulitz.
“When our door closes at home, I don’t really care so much what happens around us,” Klum, 52, told People about the backlash they’ve faced for their age gap in an interview published on Monday, July 28. “I’ve learned things from my husband that I didn’t know I was capable of doing.”
Klum and Kaulitz, 35, first met while attending a friend’s party in 2018. They quickly new they were a match and got married on February 22, 2019.
Prior to her marriage with Kaulitz, Klum was married to Ric Pipino from 1997 until 2002 and Seal from 2005 until 2014.
While speaking to the outlet, the supermodel admitted that meeting Kaulitz was “the sliding door moment” of her life and he represented a “clean slate.”
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“[At first] I wanted to [project] what I had learned from different men I had been with… like ‘Ooh, this reminds me of something that happened, is that a flag?’” she said while reflecting on the baggage she had from her past relationships. “But Tom said, ‘Don’t do this to me, because I’m not this person, I’m not that person. Scratch everything. I have to have a fair chance.’”
Klum added that they haven’t lost the spark in their marriage, while she said one of their favorite activities is going lingerie shopping together. “He loves sitting there, and I go into the changing room and I come out with a different outfit on,” she said. “He loves me in a miniskirt. He loves me in pumps. He just loves when I get all dolled up.”
Despite loving her life as a wife, Klum insisted that her marriage hasn’t changed who she is as an indidivual. “This is pretty much what you get. I’m pretty loud and you know I’m there,” she said.
