‘Your daughter isn’t your Bezzie pal’: Ulrika Jonsson says Heidi Klum, 49, posing with her lookalike daughter Leni, 18, in a lingerie photoshoot makes her ‘deeply uneasy’.
Ulrika Jonsson has slapped Heidi Klum, 49, for posing with her daughter Leni, 18, at a lingerie photoshoot.
The 55-year-old TV presenter said the photos made her “deeply uneasy” and she would never ask her own daughters to pose with her like that.
Writing in her column for The Sun, Ulrika feels that stars like Cindy Crawford and Kylie Jenner are making “strategic” decisions to “exhibit” their daughters.
Undeterred: Ulrika Jonsson smacked Heidi Klum, 49, for posing next to her daughter Leni, 18, at a lingerie photoshoot
Ulrika is a mother to daughters Bo, 22, and Martha, 18, and said both would “shudder” to pose next to their mother in their underwear.
She wrote: “If I asked her to pose next to me at a lingerie photoshoot or even, God forbid, have a ‘twin relationship’ with me, I wouldn’t even get an answer, just a look that said ‘NO’ says.”
Ulrika said that celebrity mothers ‘twinning’ with their daughters felt like a modern day take on Jane Austen novels as young women were ‘showed off and bragged about’.
She said: “Trying to fit in with your daughter makes me deeply uneasy. It’s like trying to make the kid look like you, or worse, make the kid look like a kid. Besides, your daughter is your daughter. Not your Bezzie buddy.’
Honest: The 55-year-old TV presenter said the photos made her “deeply uneasy” and she would never ask her own daughters to pose with her like that
Ulrika also wondered if stars show their daughters to let everyone know “how young and youthful they still look”.
She said: “But could there also be a hint of mothers like Heidi – or even Gwynnie – flaunting their daughters while trying to let the world see how young and youthful they still look in comparison ?’
The former Gladiators presenter said she suspects some celebrity moms want people to think they look more like their daughter’s sister than their mother.
Heidi’s daughter Leni has followed in her mother’s footsteps and made a name for herself in the modeling world.
She recently stunned on a new magazine cover for Hunger and had features in Vogue Germany and Glamor Germany as well as at Milan Fashion Week last month.
The social media personality, who has 1.5 million followers on Instagram, recently left home to move to New York City to start her freshman year.
Family: Heidi’s daughter Leni has followed in her mother’s footsteps and made a name for herself in the modeling world