Heidi Klum’s daughter Leni took to her Instagram on Monday to shed light on her struggle with acne.
The model, 19, shared a candid makeup-free selfie with her 1.9 million Instagram followers, that showed a number of breakouts on her cheeks and forehead.
In the snap her hair was brushed back, and she had her eyes closed as she showed off her profile.
Leni — who recently posed in lingerie alongside her supermodel mom, 50 — didn’t add a caption to the image, but she’s previously been open about dealing with the stigma of acne.
‘I feel like there is a thought behind having acne that you’re not beautiful with it or it makes you look not as good as you could look,’ she told People in October.
‘Then I realized, “Oh my God, this is normal.” Everyone goes through it … It’s not bad if you have it. It’s something that anyone can get and it’s not your fault and it’s hormonal.’
The teen, who made her runway debut in 2021 and is following in her mother’s modelling footsteps, also admitted that she previously had days when she didn’t want to leave the house until her ‘acne cleared up.’
‘Then I realized I can’t live like that. I can’t let pimples on my face prevent me from leaving the house.’
‘A lot of people have acne that make it seem like they don’t and then people see that on social media and they’re like, “None of these gorgeous girls have acne,”‘ she shared.
‘But some do and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.’
At that time she decided to post a photo of her acne on social media in order to normalize it for others.
Since then, she’s shared a number of close-up photos showing off her breakouts.
Last summer, she posted a makeup-free selfie, and in 2021 she shared a snap of her skin on a ‘bad day.’
‘#nomakeup #nofilter #sowhat’ she wrote in the hashtags.
Last month Leni and her supermodel mom Heidi attended The Art of Elysium’s 25th Anniversary HEAVEN Gala in Los Angeles together.
Heidi dazzled in a strapless number adorned with a gold floral design.
Leni was just as stunning as her mother, donning a sparkling, bright red gown and a matching floral choker.
Leni recently recalled how she found Heidi’s sex closet when she was younger.
‘I thought it was the coolest thing ever!’ the CAA Fashion model revealed via FaceTime on an episode of Call Her Daddy.
‘I was going through it with my friends. And I was like, “Mom, what is this? A microphone?” I really had no idea what it was. My mom got so mad at me after, like, “You can’t go in my stuff!”‘
Leni continued: ‘I was like showing it off to my friends like, “Look at how cool this is. My mom has a whole cupboard, she has a whole drawer.” And I snuck them into my mom’s room and opened the drawer, and we were all taking videos.’
The America’s Got Talent judge also has a habit of going topless within the confines of her lavish $9.875M six-bedroom mansion located in Bel-Air’s exclusive gated community of Stone Ridge.
‘I would have birthday parties at the house. Or I’d have friends over, like my boyfriend over. And she tans topless by the pool,’ Leni said.
‘And I remember having my girlfriends over and I’d be so embarrassed and like, scared, because usually in like my friend’s families, I never see my friend’s moms tanning naked at the pool. But I thought it was normal. And my friends would always be like, kinda stand off-ish but it was so normal in our family.’
Leni’s father is Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, 73, however Heidi’s ex-husband Seal, 60, later adopted her in December 2009 when she was five.
Heidi and the four-time Grammy winner were married to each other from 2005 until 2014, and he’s remained in Leni’s life.
Heidi also has three younger children – son Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, 18; son Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, 17; and daughter Lou Sulola Samuel, 14 – from her marriage to Seal.
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