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Heidi Klum is busier than ever as America's Got Talent returns to our screens for its 18th season, but it's not just her career which is keeping her busy.
The 49-year-old supermodel spends her time raising her four kids - Leni, 19, Henry, 17, Johan, 16, and Lou, 13, - who she shares with her ex-husband Seal.
She also makes sure not to neglect her romance with her husband Tom Kaulitz, who she married in a private ceremony in February 2019.
While Heidi and Seal navigate their co-parenting relationship, with Tom on hand as an "extra dad" the Making the Cut host has admitted that "it's never easy".
Heidi Klum has a very busy schedule (NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
She co-parents her children with ex-husband Seal (Getty Images)"Obviously when you get married and you have children, you hope for that to last forever. When I said 'yes' I meant yes forever.
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"Unfortunately, that was not the case, and so you try to do your best to keep your children as happy as possible and keep them as grounded and loved most as possible," she explained during an appearance on the Today Show.
Heidi added: "I mean, it's never easy."
Heidi biologically shares her eldest child, Leni, with Italian businessman Flavio Briatore.
The couple never married, and their relationship ended when she was still pregnant.
Leni Klum has worked with her mother on a number of occasions (Instagram/heidiklum)
She's now married to Tom Kaulitz (Niviere David/ABACAPRESS.COM/REX/Shutterstock)Soon after, Heidi started dating musician Seal and he was by her side when she gave birth to Leni.
One year later, in 2005, the pair married and went on to have three children together. Seal also adopted Leni in 2009 when she was five years old.
Flavio was not involved in Leni's life until recently, when they reunited in Italy.
"Leni is my natural daughter, but the three of us happily agreed that it made more sense if Seal adopted her because a child needs to grow up in a family," he explained in a 2016 interview with Il Corriere della Sera.
He gushed: "Heidi, Seal and I have built an amazing relationship."
The model is kept busy with her large brood (GC Images)Seal and Heidi split in 2012 after seven years of marriage and divorced in 2014. Heidi then found love again when she married Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom.
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"Life has its ups and downs and even though I always wanted the forever house with the picket fence and the dog and the kids — it somewhat came through — other things have fallen apart.
"And you know, new love comes along and I don't know — as long as everyone is happy, then I'm happy and we're all in good place," she said on the show.
She also said co-parenting isn't always easy.
"It's not all rosy-rosy. It just isn't," she told Red last year.
"So sometimes it's hard, but then you have to all come together as a family and sometimes everything is just like hopping on clouds. It's just the way it is."