Heidi Klum has a five-name baby boy…
Supermodel Heidi Klum and singer Seal announced Thursday they were the proud new parents of a son, born in Los Angeles. Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel was born Wednesday at 5:01 p.m. and “looks just like his mother,” the supermodel’s Web site said. He weighed in at just under nine pounds.
Young Johan is Klum’s third child and Seal’s second. The couple married last year and say they are perfectly happy in their domesticated new life.
German supermodel Heidi Klum, 33, and husband Seal Samuel, 43, disclosed on Klum’s website Thursday the birth in Los Angeles of Klum’s third child. The British singer Seal said the 3.932-kilogram baby, Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, was born Wednesday and “looks just like his mother.”
“To our children, a brother. To our parents, a grandson. To my wife and I, a son. To our family, a blessing. He is healthy, beautiful and looks just like his mother.”
The couple had their first son, Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, in September 2005. Before their May 2005 marriage, a daughter, Leni, now 2, was fathered by Italian Formula 1 manager Flavio Briatore. The German supermodel was pregnant with Briatore’s child when she started dating her husband-to-be and has frequently said that Seal, who was by her side when her daughter was born, has always treated Leni as if she was his own little girl. The Samuel-Klum family lives mainly in New York but spends part of the year at Klum’s home in the town of Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne, where the model’s father is her manager.
Klum mainly works as a face in product advertising and as a TV personality and recently released a Christmas recording, Wonderland. She fronted a German TV show this year in which young girls were trained to become fashion models. Some critics said it misled girls. She is to front a second series soon.
Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, and now Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel. It may be difficult to pronounce, but does that actually fit on a passport? We did some research and found Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel is named after his father, whose birth-name is actually Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, Heidi’s father Günther, Seal’s father Ademola and after a naval slang for the second plane in a two-aircraft formation, the Dash Two.
Klum and Seal were wed on May 10, 2005, on a beach in Mexico. Klum has previously married celebrity hairstylist Ric Pipino on September 6, 1997. The couple divorced in November 2002. She has also dated Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis and musician John Mayer.
Three-time Grammy Award-winning Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, was born in London, England. His parents were Adebisi Samuel, a Nigerian immigrant, and Francis Samuel, an Afro-Brazilian immigrant. A childhood battle with discoid lupus left him with distinctive facial scarring and hair loss. He studied architecture and engineering in school. He is fond of German supermodels: Seal had had a long-term relationship with German supermodel, Tatjana Patitz. Seal also briefly dated supermodel Tyra Banks.
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