Seal Says Wife Heidi Klum 'Can Do It All'
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Halloween is always a big day for Seal and wife Heidi Klum, and this year — despite welcoming their fourth child, daughter Lou Sulola, just three weeks beforehand — the couple showed again that they are game.
Chatting with reporters while dressed as crows at Heidi’s 10th Annual Halloween Party at Voyeur in West Hollywood on Saturday, Seal spoke lovingly to Celebrity Baby Blog about the family’s newest addition.
“It’s a funny thing, having another child, because you have three kids who you love dearly and you think to yourself how could you possibly find any more love to give anyone else,” he notes.
“The first time you hold your baby in your arms there is this overwhelming sense of otherworldliness that is very, very difficult to describe.”
Although the couple are no doubt tired, Seal says that Lou makes it all worthwhile.
He explains,
“Sleep deprivation is kind of pretty much neutralized by what I call the amnesia gene. They look at you and you forget that when you have more kids.”
Earlier in the day Seal took the couple’s older three children — Leni, 5 ½, Henry, 4, and Johan, 3 this month — trick-or-treating for the first time.
The boys dressed as skeletons, Seal said, while Leni dressed as a skeleton-witch hybrid.
“She tends to be very strong-headed, a bit like someone else I know,” he joked, “She was a great witch at school in the parade last week.”
The 46-year-old singer was less forthcoming when asked to spill Heidi’s body-after-baby secrets.
“You know I’m not going to do that,” he laughed before conceding, “she just has a knack for all of these things.”
“There isn’t actually anyone quite like her. I certainly haven’t met anyone like her. She just has a knack for it. She is the person that can pretty much do anything and I’ve got used to that within a few months of marriage…she’s the woman, she can do it all.”
Click below to read about how the three older Samuel children are adapting to life with Lou.
Heidi, by contrast, was quick to shoot down the suggestion that she has reclaimed her pre-baby body outright. “I wouldn’t say I’m back in shape yet,” she demurred. “Everything changes when you get older. It was different when I was 31 with the first one and now being 36 with the fourth one.”
She later admitted that “get[ting] back into it immediately” helps, adding,
“I think that if you wait too long and it sticks there it stays that way forever. I have to be motivated.”
Although she doesn’t “exercise too much,” Heidi said she will hit the treadmill occasionally as well as take walks up and down the driveway. With her bustling brood, however, time is always scarce.
“When you have three children and two boys, they’re very active because they want to do a lot of things. But when you breastfeed, when you eat right, you move around a little bit, that usually does the job.”
Leni, Henry and Johan have been receptive to — and conscientious of — Lou, Heidi revealed. “They are very good with her,” she said. “They know to wash their hands all the time and they know not to lean into the stroller.”
Lou resembles both her parents, according to Heidi, just like her siblings. She explains,
“To be honest they all look the same when they are little. They all have a beautiful full head of black hair. Beautiful dark eyes and full lips. They all do look the same and then they morph into their own faces.”
Because she is nursing, Heidi said she is handling the overnight feedings — for now. “I have the goods right here,” she laughed. “I wish I could say ‘Here baby, do that now,’ but I do that.”
Although she’s been through this scenario three times before, Heidi says it’s “always new again,” just like with each of her four pregnancies. “Even though when you’ve done it before, for the fourth time it’s still going to the hospital with the same worries,” she notes.
“I hope everything is going good, I hope the baby is going to be okay, I hope there’s no complications. Even though you’ve done it, and I had three easy ones, you’re still there with the same worries. Then they come out and you look all the time, is the baby breathing? Is everything okay?”
– Missy with reporting by Michelle Ward
