Max MontgomeryHow does Heidi Klum do it?
In addition to modeling, hosting Project Runway and Germany's Next Top Model, judging America's Got Talent and designing a line of intimates, the 42-year-old catwalk queen is also busy raising four children: daughters Leni, 11, and Lou, 6, and sons Henry, 10, and Johan, 8.
"Women are capable of juggling a lot of balls—we do things that guys just cannot do. Men typically can juggle only one ball, and even then they're like, 'I'm confused. Should I put it in my right or left hand?'" she jokes in the latest edition of Redbook, on newsstands Oct. 20. "A lot of them have a very hard time just trying to figure out what to do with that one ball. And often they want us to hold that one, too!"
Klum's divorce from Seal was finalized in October 2014, but sharing custody hasn't been a problem for the amicable exes. "Obviously things have changed, but they haven't changed drastically," she says in the magazine's November issue. "[Seal] was never your typical dad who left for work in the morning with his briefcase and would be home by dinnertime every night. He traveled a lot. The kids knew it was part of his job. I'm a mom and a dad at the same time."
One thing that has changed over the years, though, is Klum's body.
"Would it be nice if my skin and body still looked the way it did when I was 25? Sure," she admits. "But the fact is, your body changes when you have children; you get wrinkles as you get older. I like that I have laugh lines from smiling too much."
Klum says feels more desirable than ever, and it has nothing to do with her boyfriend of more than a year, art curator Vito Schnabel. Rather, it comes from the feeling she gets when she wears lingerie from Heidi Klum Intimates. "You walk a little differently [in something sexy] versus knowing you wouldn't want anyone to see you in your underwear," the supermodel tells Redbook. "I call those willpower panties. You wear them so you won't show them to anyone."