Heidi Klum has been a massively successful supermodel and entrepreneur for decades.

However, she’s also faced her share of trials and tribulations over the years.

In an auspicious beginning, Klum won a $300,000 contract after she entered a modeling competition.

Heidi Klum looking intent and smiling slightly

Even so, this early success didn’t ensure instant fame.

Fortunately, Klum was able to tune out the noise.

“I never bought into it.

Flavio Briatore and Heidi Klum smiling

I felt if they don’t want me like that, it’s tough.”

she informedThe Timesin November 2024.

“Instead, I did a lot of catalogues, which was fine I made money.”

Seal and Heidi Klum looking unhappy

However, by early 2004, the relationship abruptly ended due to allegations of Briatore’s infidelity.

“She is absolutely devastated,” Klum’s aunt informed the Sunday Mirror (viaBritish Vogue).

“I’ll never know what she was doing with such an old has-been,” she added.

Vito Schnabel looking grim and Heidi Klum smiling

Leni and Briatore only reconnected in person when she became an adult.

Seal was angry with Klum’s timing, since the divorce proceedings weren’t complete.

In 2020, Klum wanted her kids with her when she did a TV gig in Germany.

Heidi Klum smiling

Seal was concerned about long-term pandemic-related separations.

“She’s going through a bad midlife crisis.”

Schnabel and Klum were together over three years, and their relationship ended in September 2017.

Heidi and Leni Klum smiling together

Schnabel denied the accusations, informingPeople, “I was simply saying goodnight to a family friend.”

Until I found out," Klum informed"Call Her Daddy"in January 2024.

“I had the opportunity to go into the emails, which I’d never done.”

Klum also noted that the evidence she found corroborated a longstanding uneasiness she had about the relationship.

One shot showed Klum’s bare breasts, and fans had polarizing reactions.

“All I see is midlife crisis,” remarked oneInstagramposter.

However, she ’s resolved to rise above the chatter.

Eventually, Klum found it helpful to turned off the commenting feature and keep posting skin-baring shots.

Unfortunately, the nasty remarks continue to occur in other places.

Additional assertions of Klum and a midlife crisis were also the subject of a 2022 article onMedium.

“You’re my best friend because I can tell you everything,” Leni sweetly said to Klum.

The pair were modeling together for the magazine.

“It’s so sad .

The actual adjustment process wasn’t easy for Klum.

After being clued in, however, Leni communicated more frequently, strengthening their connection.

“But I get that it’s hard for her.”