{"id":48837,"date":"2022-01-31T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=48837"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:48:34","slug":"heidi-klum-snoop-dogg-interview","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/heidi-klum-snoop-dogg-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Klum on Fashion, Family and Her New Song With Snoop Dogg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 13: In this image released on March 13, Heidi Klum attends Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on March 13, 2021 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman\/KCA2021\/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Very few people are famous enough to host an annual party<\/a> that assumes legendary status. Elton John with his now defunct White Tie and Tiara Ball is one. The author Jeffrey Archer and his shepherd\u2019s pie and Krug dos of old is another. And so too is Heidi Klum with her annual Halloween bash<\/a>. Indeed, her 2019 appearance as an alien<\/a> was utterly gobsmacking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent ten hours in prosthetics and make-up,\u201d the German supermodel says. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever looked better.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it was the first Halloween party she threw, in 2000, that is the subject of renewed interest. It was themed, according to some papers, as a \u201chookers and pimps\u201d affair. Photos of the night show Ghislaine Maxwell there too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait, who called my party a \u2018hookers and pimps\u2019 event?\u201d asks Klum darkly when I raise it with her. \u201cThat is disturbing and quite rude. I never even have a theme for my parties. It\u2019s just a Halloween event. I bet that was the tabloids. Secondly, I was wearing a traditional German dirndl, not dressed like a hooker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh dear. Klum up to this point has been very open and friendly but she does sound a bit put out. Anyway, at this party, at which traditional Bavarian outfits were showcased, the Duke of York and Maxwell were present.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my very first party and I was very excited to meet a prince. To be honest, I had 50 friends there\u2014but everyone else, I have no idea who invited them or him. Obviously you get more press when someone like that comes, so I was pleased, but others arranged it. And he was nice as far as I could tell from saying, \u2018Hi, nice to meet you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you feel about him now?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to know what to think. The story is still unfolding and I\u2019m watching it just like you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klum is at her home in Bel Air and we are talking on Zoom. Her children (daughters Leni, 17, and Lou, 12, and sons Henry, 16, and Johan, 15) are at school and she is about to head off to film an episode of Germany\u2019s Next Top Model, which she hosts and on which she is also the lead judge. But we are here to discuss her new venture in which she mixes again with royalty, this time from the world of hip hop. Klum has recently recorded a song, Chai Tea with Heidi, with the rapper Snoop Dogg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m on the 17th season of my TV show and we needed a new theme song. Before we have had Justin Bieber<\/a>, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. This time someone said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you do it?\u2019 And so I thought which artist do I most admire in the world? Snoop Dogg! And I see him around the city, so I called him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 25: Heidi Klum is seen on August 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by RB\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wait a sec. Klum was married to the British singer Seal for eight years (and he\u2019s the father of her children) and is now hitched to Tom Kaulitz from the German rock band Tokio Hotel. Won\u2019t they take it amiss that all the while Klum was a closet gangster-rap fan?<\/p>\n

\u201cOh no. Tom wrote the song with his DJ partner and Snoop rapped on it. And Seal has the most amazing voice of all time. I mean that. I still think he has the most incredible voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Has Seal given her any feedback?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, he hasn\u2019t. The kids might have played him the song when they went over to stay with him at his place but… he hasn\u2019t mentioned it.\u201d<\/p>\n

You have to admire Klum. She\u2019s game for anything but comes across as remarkably unstarry. It possibly explains how she has survived in the world of modeling for so long.<\/p>\n

She grew up near Cologne. Smiley, sporty and tall with what she still calls \u201cchild-bearing hips\u201d, she won a contract in 1992 and found global stardom despite her \u201ccheerleader\u201d demeanor and body shape being out of tune with the listless, androgynous aesthetic of the time.<\/p>\n

She recently appeared on the US chat show Ellen wearing a pink latex miniskirt. \u201cI\u2019ll still be wearing miniskirts when I\u2019m 90,\u201d she says. \u201cBut that one\u2014I did make a small mistake in thinking I could easily sit down in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most viewers saw a middle-aged supermodel having fun. However, she does attract trolls. Klum is a former Victoria\u2019s Secret \u201cangel\u201d with numerous fashion and TV interests behind her reputed multimillion-pound fortune. Forbes listed her 2020 earnings at $39.5 million. Some say she should be pushing the message that getting older is OK (Klum is 48), that the forever-young ideal can feel like a pressure to some women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve had to turn the comments off on my social media,\u201d she says. \u201cSome people say mean things to me. Or else they say mean things to each other, which is in some ways worse. They are coming onto my platform and fighting among themselves and I don\u2019t want to be the person fueling that hatred. I have an \u2018If I don\u2019t like something then move on\u2019 type of outlook. The planet is big enough for everyone as long as you\u2019re not hurting anybody. They should take their negativity elsewhere because I am definitely not trying to tell any woman they need to be this or that. That\u2019s not me.\u201d<\/p>\n