Leni Klum, photographed for the German "Vogue"
Source: dpa / Chris Colls
How times change: in the past, the daughters of the international jet set were sent to the Bal de Débutantes in Paris (2011, for example, Tallulah Willis, exactly, Bruce's daughter) to recommend themselves there with all their advantages for dazzling résumés.
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Today is the first magazine shoot, the first catwalk walk, the first film role with which hyper-successful showbiz parents like Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford or Heidi Klum let their children come of age: Now run, my darling, and explore what the glittering world has to offer for them!
Heidi Klum could not have introduced her daughter Leni better into society than with the joint cover appearance on the German "Vogue".
The 16-year-old is now with a big lead in the fashion high society.
The interest in daughter Klum is enormous.
Of course, “Vogue” anticipated this and enriched the cover shoot with all sorts of digital snacks intended to bring Leni Klum closer to the audience as a person.
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In an Instagram video, Leni dances around her mother, in a longer film the two explain their mother-daughter relationship.
Heidi is a “perfect” mother, says Leni, the two of them are “besties”, i.e. best friends.
Heidi appreciates her daughter's energy (to be honest: If you have no energy at 16, then when!), But criticizes Leni's knowledge of German: “You should have listened better!” The highlight of the reporting: eleven facts are compiled in an online article, which, according to the promise, will “surprise”.
Fact number seven: Leni only knows her current classmates from Zoom conferences because of the pandemic.
Where does the fascination come from?
It is not the fault of the “Vogue” editors that Leni does not report anything more exciting.
She is 16 years old.
An age-appropriate, somewhat silly teenager who happens to have a famous mother, but is otherwise mainly interested in the current
boyfriend
.
And yes, there are 16 year olds who are changing the world, but that may not be the average expectation of a high school girl.
All the more astonishing is the fascination that is shown not only to Leni Klum, but also to celebrity children in general.
Sometimes one has to speak of a downright obsession with which the adolescents are targeted: In any case, personality development is usually not the point when gossip magazines assess the similarity between famous parents and children and, if they are pleased, certify an “amazing” gene pool.
This has happened in the past few years with Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny and Vanessa Paradis, and Lila Grace Moss, daughter of Kate;
and Ava Philippe, Reese Witherspoon's daughter, now looks exactly like her mother!
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Is there nothing more interesting?
Yes, of course!
Follow-up question: And why do you still click through videos and interviews with Heidi and her daughter, just to have a look ?!
Gossip since time immemorial
Well, humanity has always been enthusiastic about the fate of others.
Especially fond of the fate of people who somehow seem to float above the affairs of ordinary people.
People of a prominence that doesn't need to be explained: emperors, kings - A-list celebrities.
Also because of the voyeuristic sympathy of the population, the royals are still in Great Britain.
Basically, Leni Klum can even be compared a tiny bit with Prince George: In a sense, both of them will one day succeed the throne.
Small joke.
Obviously, public interest in celebrity news, gossip and gossip is of course triggered even faster than usual in Corona times;
there is not much going on, the private gossip dump has in most cases given up the ghost (the rumor transport no longer runs smoothly without open-plan offices and market stand discussions).
Then celebrities and their children have to be used for the social comparison.
After all, the offspring allows certain conclusions to be drawn about the actions and thoughts of their parents: How did Heidi manage to deal with the children?
She is professionally successful, but not everything has always worked out privately!
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The sometimes secret, sometimes offensive joy in judgment is ultimately what predestines the children of celebrities for the silver platter of the gossip world.
The fact that the media and recipients push interest in Leni, Lily-Rose & Co. to extremes by mutual agreement reveals more about human nature than about young people or their parents: the vast majority of us are simply much more biased and more curious than we'd ever want to admit.