It always bugs me when a celebrity woman is asked how she maintains her figure and she answers with some variation of “running around after my kids!” Some people are naturally slender, meaning it’s natural for them to stay within their calorie requirements and they don’t mindlessly eat like I do when I’m not tracking my food. When considering Heidi Klum, who is very thin still at 43, she surely works to maintain it. She’s previously fibbed about losing the baby weight and claimed that she didn’t diet or exercise much – when she was working with a trainer and on a special diet. So now that Heidi is covering Shape magazine she’s still kind of playing down the work she does to look that incredible. She chalked it up to being active in general.
On why she loves her shape:
“I love my shape because it’s mine. At the end of the day, it’s not what anyone else thinks about my body but how I feel about myself. I’m working it and owning it! I’m now 43…My stomach has stretched in and out and in and out and in and out four times. I’ve breastfed four children…You just have to embrace it, go with it, just roll with it”On the diet and fitness misconceptions models face:
“The myth that models don’t eat is totally not true. I just think that because we’re in this business, we have to choose more wisely. It’s not just about doing the cardio so that you’re nice and fit, and slim and trim, but your heart needs to pump, too, and that is very important.”On what inspires her to live a healthy lifestyle:
“Whenever I need motivation, I think of the big picture. I remind myself that I’m staying active and eating right to live a better and healthier life. I want to be as healthy as possible for myself and my family.”On how she stays fit in spite of her busy schedule:
“I try to be active as much as possible. I don’t have time for workouts every day. Being the mother of four kids is a workout in itself! Balancing my work and their schedules makes it hard to find time for a traditional exercise routine, so we try to do as many outdoor activities as a family as possible. We love to go on bike rides, take our dogs hiking, or jump on the trampoline. That’s the best way to stay fit and healthy—do things that don’t feel like work.”
I would rather hear celebrities be honest about the fact that they watch what they eat and exercise quite hard. I’ll take Kate Hudson’s honesty over Heidi Klum’s vagaries any day. Of course models eat, but they make sure they don’t overeat and they often eat at a deficit or they wouldn’t look like that. She wasn’t that bad in that statement but she’s remaining vague on purpose. She must bust her butt in workouts, Heidi isn’t looking that toned from just riding her bike casually with the kids and jumping on the trampoline. Heidi isn’t rolling with anything as she claims, she’s fighting that good fight to maintain her figure. Why doesn’t she just own that, or is she afraid it won’t make her “relatable”?
Oh and Heidi’s ass is hanging out on the cover of Shape because of course it is.
Photos credit ©Rankin/SHAPE Magazine
Isn’t well known that Klum has 5 nannies or something and a house full of staff to wait on her. I take every celebrity mothers advice/information with a grain of salt. It’s all fake.
Also she has that type of body that only needs to be maintained. So I guess she has never had to diet in her life. But it’s not the same for all of us.. Even if I eat well, If I don’t work out, I gain weight.
It sucks being normal. lol!
Is it? For whom? The mistreated Nannies? 👀
Also Her face is a no for me
What a load of tosh from HK. Your eyes are lovely, QQ!
Did her teeth get bigger? She looks different.
Being from Germany, I have seen Germany’s Next Topmodel with Heidi Klum. While I do not agree with everything on there, I found that she tends to push the contestants to be more active.
I agree that she probably downplays food, however, in the show she encourages the contestants to eat healthy too. So a very healthy diet, that is normal for her and other models, might seem effortless to them, but not to us. My colleague is a vegan, she does not think twice when eating, while I’d probably have trouble coming up with different meals for two weeks.
The same goes for her workout: I never had the impression she downplays her workouts. But she IS very active, so movement and sports are part of her life.
So I think your point of view evolves around your habits.
Not your average woman, Heidi and other celrbrities have so much help. Give me a trainer and a personal chef for 6 months, throw in a house keeper and I’d be set up to win this physically fit fight!
“I try to be active as much as possible. I don’t have time for workouts every day”. She doesn’t say she doesn’t work out. She only say she doesn’t work out EVERY DAY, plus she tries to stay active as much as possible on top of that.
she has had a tummy tuck – her belly button gives it away. give me a break.
Yes! I always find it funny when people speculate about celebrity surgery. I mean, OF COURSE they have all had all their flaws corrected. It’s so absurd to think they have not, even for a second. We only laugh about the ones that had BAD work, but they have ALL fiddled with what god gave ’em.
Dont believe a word she says. It’s been well known she is the “fun mom” type and once the kids sugar runs low she sends them away.
Oh, come ON. I’m a very active person too — besides running and going to the gym, I walk to and from work 4-5 days a week (1.5 hours total), walk my kids to all their music and dance classes, and go on a family hike or bike ride almost every weekend. But I don’t look anything like Heidi. BECAUSE I EAT. Heidi and other models DO NOT eat normal portions. They live on minimal calories in order to maintain a much-lower-than-average weight. I could never live on fewer calories than I eat now, because I wouldn’t be able to function. I wouldn’t get through a busy day of work, and I’d crash by 7 pm and wouldn’t be able to make dinner/do housework/help kids with homework/take someone to an evening activity. Heidi can do it because she has a million people helping her out. She doesn’t have to spend 8 hours a day at work, being alert and focused on a particular task. She doesn’t come home from that work, mentally or physically exhausted, and have to clean toilets or vacuum the house and wash all the floors. She even has someone to make her appointments for her, manage her daily schedule, and drive her to meetings.
I have no problem with celebs looking incredible and awe-inspiring and making me a little jealous with their impossibly perky butts. But I have a huge problem with people like Heidi acting like her ass looks like that because she’s just an aw-shucks active little ol’ mom who loves long walks on the beach and football in the backyard.