Heidi Klum’s Secret Closet Discovery Leads to Awkward Family Confession

Ever tried explaining your risqué secrets to your kid—only for them to bring friends along (and maybe a camera)? Well, Heidi Klum just raised the bar on awkward family conversations. Victoria’s Secret’s first German angel might have insured her legs, but I doubt she ever considered her private closets would become the hot topic at a dinner table—or worse, the subject of viral giggles. In a recent podcast episode, Klum opened up about the day her 21-year-old daughter, Leni, wandered into what can only be described as the “Narnia” of adult wardrobes, sending Heidi scrambling for words (and a little dignity) . Are some family discoveries ever meant to stay locked away—or should we just expect kids to eventually find everything, no matter how wild? Get ready for a wild, candid peek behind Heidi’s closet doors—literally and figuratively. LEARN MORE.

Heidi Klum has admitted she’s had to explain her ‘sex closet’ to her daughter in one of their more unorthodox conversations.

The German-American TV personality and model is known for becoming the first German person to ever become a Victoria’s Secret Angel, while also making a number of appearances in films over the years.

Klum, who has previously revealed that both of her legs were insured during her career, admitted in an interview in 2024 that she had to be candid with her 21-year-old daughter, when she stumbled upon her intimate closet.

The former America’s Got Talent judge made an appearance on The Skinny Confidential Him & Her podcast and explained not just how her daughter found the closet, but how she organised the space.

Heidi Klum had an 18+ confession about a ‘sex closet’ (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Speaking to co-host Michael Bosstick about building a sex closet in the first place, asking: “Where do you keep all of your things?”

Lauryn, Michael’s wife and co-host, says that she has ‘an area’ in her closet but it’s more of a drawer, to which Michael claimed: “No, but you throw these things everywhere and people are just in the house.”

Moving onto Klum‘s situation with her daughter Leni, she admitted: “She fully knew what it was.

“But, also she was with a friend and she filmed it and they were giggling, and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’”

The mum was the asked about how she organised the closet, if it was by moods, or by colour, to which the 52-year-old joked: “It’s coordinated by size.”

She admitted that it was a big closet, adding: “But, there’s outfits in here and things, you know, you can have a lot of things. You can have wigs, you can have outfits, shoes, boots.

“I mean, I’ve had relationships in the past where they have been sick and I come home being a nurse and I’m like, ‘How’s my patient?’ And I just got laughed at and I was like, ‘That’s a very, very big red flag!’”

“Be sick and get your pulse checked,” she quipped.

Leni Klum said it was the ‘coolest thing ever’ (Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)

But what does her daughter think of all of this?

Well, a January 2024 episode of popular podcast Call Her Daddy had Klum as the guest, while also being joined by Leni through FaceTime to reveal how she felt about finding the closet of sex items.

Not only did she and her friends take videos of it though, apparently they started going through the items, as Leni recalled: “I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

“I was going through it with my friends. And I was like, ‘Mom, what is this? A microphone?'”

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.