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HEIDI KLUM:BARACK OBAMA HAS GIVEN MY MIXED-RACE KIDS A CHANCE
Submitted by admin on March 9, 2009 at 11:40 am 18 Comments
Super Model Heidi Klum & singer Seal took their kids Leni and Henry sans baby Johan to a doctors’ appointment in Brentwood last week. In a recent interview with Ladies Home Journal, the model spoke about Barack Obama’s presidential win. Heidi says that his win means that her kids can be anything they want to be.
“Having mixed race children, I feel that when I tell them they can be anything, it now means they really can.”
Heidi also praised her husband Seal in the article: “I have the best husband in the world. He’s very involved.” See another picture of the “very involved” Seal, along with his 3-year-old son Henry.
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HEIdi shut up
I feel the same way Heidi does. The day that Obama won, I kept looking at my son and crying because I know that things are likely to be even better in his life, simply because the President is also biracial.
It’s not like I didn’t believe his life would be good, but even in something stupid like little kids making comments, his retort can be: “There’s nothing wrong with me. The President is like me.”
This ruffled my feathers a little bit
I’ve actually never been concerned with my mixed race baby succeeding in life or doing well. She is beautiful & smart and WILL do any & everything she wants to! The sky is the limit!
Or the White House!!!
Heidi your kids were never going to have a problem can someone tell her to stop talking
Seriously, who ISN’T mixed race lol?
She means well, I think. Hopefully she would have instilled that in her kids regardless of who the president is. But anyway when did Seal get such wide hips? And those pants leave nothing to the imagination especially in the second photo.
@Lisette
I thgought I was the only one who was noticing the “buldge” and can someone explain to me what’s up with the nail polish on that MAN’s fingernails? Is that the new thing for men? someone let me know
I like Heidi & Seal & everything, but I don’t get down with that statement. Even when other Black people say it, I’m like: “I always knew I could be anything I wanted to be, even if the prototype wasn’t there for me”.
Don’t get me wrong, Barack’s win was great for the country & it has tremendous significance, but it didn’t automatically tell me that doors would be open for me that weren’t before. In fact, I’m sure there are still some people who want to shut some in my face RIGHT now, and they couldn’t care less if A Black man is pres. or not.
The reason I always knew I could do it is bec. I know the power of God (I can do anything in Christ Jesus who strengthens me).
Ex: I bet Thurgood Marshall felt he could become a SC Justice, whether or not someone had done it before him. Its the innate belief that has to be there first.
BTW-I didn’t realize biracial kids were lacking for successful role models. I’d actually counter that & say in today’s day & age, biracial kids (esp. little girls) have more people to look up to (in entertainment) than “Black” girls. (I use that term in quotes, bec. technically most of us are mixed race anyway, but u know what i mean).
i love this family
I’m black and, I don’t feel the way that Heidi does. My parents brought me up to believe I could do anything I wanted to, and I believed them; I brought my children up the same way. I didn’t need a black president to make me feel better about myself or my future. Maybe some blacks do, especially those that constantly use their race as a crutch, but that’s not the way I was brought up.
Plus, we saw how both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were treated by the media and by most of the public, and the horrible treatment they received from the so-called “feminists.” Maybe the country is ready for a black president, but not a female president.
I love this cute family they are always with their children. Seal is getter plump!
@Blue
do you have a white mother or father?
if not, you are not mixed in her context, or like barack obama
Heidi realizes as I do that even though she knows her children have all the opportunity in the world, there will always be that 1-2% of people who are going to make inappropriate comments or stares, and that’s what I meant in my earlier post. There will always be those uneducated people, and Obama being President isn’t going to get rid of that completely, but even the fact that he is President will go a long way towards acceptance. It already has.
People as beautiful, kind, and intelligent as my son already have it pretty good. Heidi’s children also have privilege. I get that. I already know the sky’s not a limit to my son, but this just makes the ride a bit smoother.
Both my mother and “birth father” are Black (we haven’t been able to fully trace this so I don’t know the exact region), White (German on my mothers side, not sure on my “dads”) and Native American (Cherokee on both sides).
The term “mixed” should not only apply to those who have two parents of different races, but to anyone who is indeed “mixed.” MOO
Henry stays filthy. *blows hard* Oh, and what up Baby Nak!
It annoys me being biracial myself when people say Obama being president will now make me be able to say my kids can be whatever they want. When I have children I will tell my child they can do whatever they want and get whatever they want and be whatever they IF they WORK hard for it. You shouldn’t let race be an issue even if their are a few ignorant racists out there.
Barack is an interesting case study, but like those weight loss commercials, he should come with the disclaimer, “Results not typical.” People have embraced this very competent black man because he does not remind them of the sordid past, or the dirty present. Racism has changed in America, not been eradicated. I certainly hope that Heidi believes her children can help to improve the lives of others not so fortunate to have a world-famous singer and a supermodel for parents.