Between Heidi Klum splitting from her first husband in 2002 and meeting Seal in 2004, Heidi dated Italian businessman Flavio Briatore. The couple met in March 2003 and Heidi announced she was pregnant in December, per Wonderwall. However, they split soon after when Heidi discovered he’d been cheating. She wasted no time crying into a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey, though, and within weeks she started dating Seal.
Heidi told Seal she was pregnant the first time they slept together. “I laughed and said, ‘Already? That’s amazing!’ She said, ‘Not with you stupid,'” Seal told theDaily Mirror. He raised Leni Klum as his own, and Briatore permitted Seal to adopt her. “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,” Briatore told Il Corriere della Sera in 2016, via The Express.
Briatore shared that he hadn’t really seen Leni in her twelve years of life at the time, and they had no kind of relationship. Briatore admitted he didn’t feel any sense of loss over not being in contact with Leni. “It’s hard to miss a baby that you never see,” he explained. However, it seems Leni’s father is back in her life.