Heidi Klum Dishes on Relationship With Vito Schnabel, Says It’s “Not About Age”

Heidi Klum is standing behind her man, Vito Schnabel.

The Victoria’s Secret alum covers the brand new difficulty of Ocean Drive journal, the place she opens up about her 30-year-old beau, reveals how fame has affected her self-confidence and extra!

Though Vito is 13 years youthful than Klum, the “Project Runway” star desires critics to know one factor: “It’s not about age.”

“We have an incredible connection, we have now enjoyable collectively, and we love one another,” she continues. “It does not matter what individuals say. As lengthy as you already know whenever you shut your door in your personal dwelling, you have got an incredible time collectively. That’s actually all that issues.”

While Heidi is arguably one of many largest names within the trend world, she says her rise to stardom was removed from straightforward.

“When you are a traditional lady from a small city and nobody actually takes notice of you, after which unexpectedly you are strolling down a catwalk in your lingerie and on the duvet of Sports Illustrated and all these persons are turning their heads whenever you go right into a restaurant and pointing their finger at you saying, ‘She’s not as fairly in individual as she is in images,’ you get slightly insecure,” the 43-year-old admits. “You all the time get judged, so it’s a must to discover ways to deal with that.”

And though she’s needed to cope with her fair proportion of criticism, Heidi attributes her physique confidence to her European roots.

“I grew up going to nude seashores with my dad and mom, so I am a nudist. I’ve no issues with nudity in any respect. I am very free,” she reveals.

That doesn’t suggest that Klum landed each gig she tried out for — usually she was turned away for a variety of causes.

“That I am too curvy. Too female. I bought that quite a bit,” she says of the explanations she used to not get jobs. “That I ought to be skinnier. And that I am not edgy sufficient and slightly too comfortable half of the time. Everyone was all the time telling me perhaps I ought to skip a meal or I ought to go on these [diet] drugs.”

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