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Heidi Klum Opens Up About Split From Seal For The First Time

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First Posted: 9/03/2012 11:12 Updated: 9/03/2012 11:12

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Unlike many celebs who have gone through a high profile break up, Heidi Klum has kept a dignified silence since her split from Seal in January but now the model has spoken for the first time about the break down of her relationship.

In an interview in the latest edition of Elle magazine, the mum of four says she has waited until now to talk about the split for the sake of her kids.

"I feel like I'm in the eye of the tornado. It's emotions inside of your body that are a tornado. And then the outside world doing all this craziness - with you wanting it or not wanting it - is another tornado.

"I don't want to talk positively or negatively about the ups and downs that we had. Every couple goes through things. Unfortunately, we're in the public, so the highs are out there. But I don't think it's necessary - especially for our children - to have the lows being printed in magazines and talked about."

Heidi and Seal - who were regarded as having one of the most solid marriages in showbiz - shocked the celeb world when they announced they were going their separate ways at the start of the year.

Seal has spoken about the split on more than one occasion and admitted to Ellen DeGeneres that he still wears his wedding ring.

Speaking on her US chat show he said: "Yes, I am still wearing my ring. I think it's just pretty much a token of how I feel about this woman. We have eight years.

Just because we have decided to separate doesn't necessarily mean you take off your ring and you're no longer connected to that person.

"We will be connected in many ways 'til the rest of our lives.... through our children and also through this tremendous admiration, respect and love that we have for each other."

More recently he explained to Australian radio station 2DAY FM his reasons for opening up about the split.

He said: "When you publicise your marriage as much as our marriage was publicised, when you renew wedding vows, when you do all those things you are giving them a picture of an ideal relationship, of a relationship that people aspire towards... when it goes south you can't all of a sudden take the philosophy of a Celestine monk and decide to go for a vow of silence, it doesn't really work like that.

"And while I respect my wife's decision not to talk about it, I felt that people at least deserved some kind of explanation."

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Unlike many celebs who have gone through a high profile break up, Heidi Klum has kept a dignified silence since her split from Seal in January but now the model has spoken for the first time about the...
Unlike many celebs who have gone through a high profile break up, Heidi Klum has kept a dignified silence since her split from Seal in January but now the model has spoken for the first time about the...
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sashaduck
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10:27 PM on 03/09/2012
Beautiful woman. Beautiful smile. Beautiful healthy slim figure as opposed to skinny and gaunt.Completely natural unaffected and spontaneous charisma and sparkle.
All these judgemental people really haven't the right to assume superiority and condemn two people whom they know nothing of.
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steamboats999
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04:28 PM on 03/09/2012
This would be the same Heidi Klum who renewed her wedding vows on a yearly basis getting vast press coverage regarding it. Why did she do this, surely not for the money it would generate in magazines etc. but then again, nothing she would do or say would surprise me. Absolutely pathetic. Lead everyone to believe they have the "ideal" marriage when it was all just a sham.
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gimmeanamethen
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02:55 PM on 03/09/2012
dignified silence??? it's only been 2 months!!! she must have really bit her lip.

just goes to show no matter how rich you are, money loosens lips
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stephan67
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01:56 PM on 03/09/2012
Heidi Klum,you renewed your wedding vows in public every year,you were overblown with bliss. Was it all fake?
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maryegunyu
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01:40 PM on 03/09/2012
Ridiculous 'the tremendous love and respect we have for each other'. Well Seal that is all you two need to stay together.
I am always camp VB, that Lady knows how to prioritise. Many claim amicable this and that, love each other forever this and that, respect each other so much, you guessed - this and that, much worse the annoying,= we are still best friend. Lord help us!
I doubt you are not any of the above ' this and that', If people were not selfish they would work things out, after sooo many years 'two-gether'.

I am 'self less' first but extremely irrevocably selfish. When it is over, over. You are not my best friend, no I do not respect you much after you cheated on me as probably I would not. I most definitely do not want to see you again, and I forgot, wish a bus would run you over. Oh no, the children still need you. See the children outside, far outside my door.

That is why my admiration for Victoria Beckham, priorities and then some.

Why, if I would rather be in your arms a or you in mine are we suddenly very respecting of each after we walk away?

Publicity to protect 'money' and image rolls into full swing. I blame 'us', We allow 'our' idols to feign perfection. Time for pedestals to fall, let us just reward them for whatever their worth but no-longer encourage the deception of our emotional perceptions.
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sashaduck
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11:55 PM on 03/09/2012
So , you really believe VB actually is a designer! and that David Beckham actually sat down and designed bodywear for H&M like he said !
That Lady with her bad taste pic with Goldenballs - courting publicity ,parading her kids in the spotlight , using them for publicity. True class like Natalie Portman keep their private lives PRIVATE.
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maryegunyu
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11:36 AM on 03/10/2012
I meant the way she keeps her family two-gether. Bottom line people stray. See, how VB ignores all rumours true or not and keeps David? Think, why should anybody change patners like socks.

Facts; David is handsome, well spoken, hardworking and rich. Very eligible. Reality; as soon as any 'heartbroken' man or woman drops a cheating long term mate, to applause, another 'hunter' on the prowl grabs them off the 'market', to applause. Cue Aniston V Jolie.

Once much time has been invested STAY, unless your physical safety demands otherwise

Another mistake is 'taking a break to think things over' ninty-nine out of a hundred you loose.

Rather than leave a well-earned relationship for speculation, to embark on freash desperate courtship ritual now riddled with scepticism, rather work on what you already built, its called mending, rejuvination.
In the long run human nature will not change, I advice all those who read 'mills and boon' to get real no waste previous effort and prosper or risk despair.

What about her designing skills? Judging from her always-been impeccable taste in clothes, no doubts deserved. Who really stiches all their desigs, cuts every skirt in the design world? At best it is some interns doing the job then the a trademarked name gets stuck on.

It is VB's marital honesty, intergrity, dependability and perserverance that I admire , plus she did not just not earn at times muchmore than her multi- millionaire husband without clout of her own.
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