Leni Klum Reveals Mom Heidi Klum's Response to Her First Modeling Offer (& It Might Not Be What You Think)

Heidi Klum told her daughter Leni Klum that she couldn’t accept her first job offer in the industry.

The 18-year-old model recalled that she grew up watching her mother work and knew that she wanted to follow in her footsteps.

However, the first offer that came through wasn’t one that Heidi would sign off on. Leni opened up about it in a recent interview.

Click inside to find out what Leni Klum had to say…

“I was stopped in a Brandy Melville when I was 12 and they asked me to model for their clothes. I was freaking out because Brandy Melville was my favorite at the time. It was the only place I went shopping,” Leni told People.

“I said ‘Mom, Mom, guess what? Brandy Melville wants me to model. Please, please.’ And she was like, ‘Absolutely not,’” she explained. “I was really sad about it, but in the end she was right. And I feel like that’s what sparked me to want to model more.”

Things worked out, and Leni‘s first big moment was sharing the cover of Vogue Germany with her mom, which she remembers fondly. “That’s, like, insane that I did that as my first job and my mom was with me, which made it so much fun,” she said.

Heidi is very clearly one of her daughter’s biggest fans. She was on hand to watch her daughter on the runway during a fashion show last month.

The famous mom also revealed how often they talk now that they don’t live together.