Was Heidi and daughter Leni Klum's lingerie ad inappropriate? Inside the teen model's meteoric rise to fame, from Dior beauty ambassador and fronting Fila, to launching a line at Milan Fashion Week
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Heidi Klum’s 18-year-old daughter Leni Klum has a budding modelling career and even launched a fashion line at Milan Fashion Week this year … but why the furore over that lingerie ad with her mum?
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Heidi Klum’s teenage daughter Leni is the spitting image of her. The 18-year-old has taken after her mother’s drop-dead gorgeous looks and already has an impressive modelling career.
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Was Heidi and daughter Leni Klum's lingerie ad inappropriate
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Heidi Klum and daughter Leni model in Intimissimi lingerie shoot
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Was Heidi and daughter Leni Klum's lingerie ad inappropriate
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Heidi Klum and daughter Leni heat up the holidays with lingerie
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Heidi Klum is 'proud' of her underwear shoots with daughter Leni
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Was Heidi and daughter Leni Klum's lingerie ad inappropriate
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Heidi Klum and daughter Leni, 18, slammed for 'weird' and
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Heidi Klum poses in red lace lingerie alongside daughter Lenii for Intimissimi
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Heidi Klum's daughter brushes off backlash over lingerie shoot