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"  Here&amp;#039;s the thing: When you&amp;#039;ve got a hit reality-TV show that just wrapped up its seventh season, a popular line of beauty products, two brand-new maternity lines, and \u2014 oh yeah \u2014 an 8-month-old child (your fourth!), your days are rather, well, full. And so you rely on the saving grace of savvy, swamped women and moms everywhere: multitasking. No time for a lengthy interview over Caesar salad and pomegranate iced tea? No problem: That&amp;#039;s what email is for. And Heidi Klum, as you can see for yourself in our interview below, is an excellent emailer. A message from her is like a breezy, funny, wisdom-packed note from your best friend (your absolute most drop-dead-gorgeous best friend, that is). The supermodel-turned-reality-TV-hostess-with-the-mostest proved long ago that she&amp;#039;s a force to be reckoned with no matter what she undertakes. She&amp;#039;s rocked runways the world over, whether for Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret or Lifetime&amp;#039;s Project Runway. She&amp;#039;s launched several successful product lines, most recently two maternity-clothing launches for A Pea in the Pod and Motherhood Maternity. And she&amp;#039;s snagged one of the hottest guys around: pop star Seal. Not only are the two mad about each other \u2014 they renew their marriage vows every year \u2014 but they&amp;#039;ve also got a big happy family: daughter Leni, 6, sons Henry, 4, and Johan, 3, and their new baby girl, Lou. Family definitely comes first these days for the 37-year-old, who seems to have at least as much fun getting her face painted at Disneyland as she does wowing the red-carpet crowd. But the truth is, leading with her infectious megawatt smile, Heidi brings the fun wherever she goes \u2014 and with a mischievous sense of humor, she has no problem turning a joke right around on herself.  So how does she nail both the glamorous and the grounded? How does she keep the fairy tale in her marriage \u2014 and the sparks in her sex life? How does she so delightfully stay a kid at heart? Ask and you shall receive.... You do everything with such style \u2014 whether it&amp;#039;s hosting Project Runway, dreaming up amazing Halloween costumes, or running after four kids. How can women feel beautiful no matter what they do? I think it&amp;#039;s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state \u2014 meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. For me, it&amp;#039;s having wonderful friends who love me for who I am, not my job, as well as a fantastic team that helps me reach all of my dreams. If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself \u2014 for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.  When I am saying &amp;quot;be happy with yourself,&amp;quot; I am talking about looking in the mirror and being happy with what you see. I DON&amp;#039;T mean that I look in the mirror and say, &amp;quot;Wow, I am good-looking.&amp;quot; :)   Anything you can do when things are going a little less than perfectly? Change things up so you don&amp;#039;t get in a rut. Get your hair cut to something new and fun! Reinvent yourself. For me, all these things are really important to be a happier and better person for myself and my family.  Was that part of why you created your beauty line? To help women bring out their most beautiful selves? I created In An Instant because I wanted something that shows results. I need my products to work and be fast! I don&amp;#039;t love having 50 different things in my bathroom, like a different cream for every inch of my face. That&amp;#039;s SO not me.  Part of your beauty is your 500-kilowatt smile and your irresistible \u2014 and seemingly endless! \u2014 energy. How do you keep that energy up?  I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it&amp;#039;s always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.  What was your inspiration for your maternity line? I absolutely loved creating my two maternity lines. One is called Lavish, which is sold at A Pea in the Pod, and it&amp;#039;s for the glam mom-to-be. The other line, Loved, you can find at all Motherhood Maternity stores; it&amp;#039;s more casual but still fashion-forward. I had naturally learned a bunch of things being pregnant myself four times, and I incorporated a lot of what I would have liked to have into my designs. Like for example, when you sit, the wrong pants can cut into your gut \u2014 not comfortable! Many times, my husband had to get big scissors at dinner and cut me out of my pants. So I tried to design all of the jeans in my line to be stretchy and soft so women wouldn&amp;#039;t have to deal with that discomfort. Most women go through so much as it is during pregnancy that they should not have to worry about what to wear.  This is our &amp;quot;hottest husbands&amp;quot; issue. What makes Seal hot to you? I don&amp;#039;t know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, &amp;quot;Is this just a dream?&amp;quot; Not only do I love my husband for the obvious reasons (ahem, his sex appeal), but also he is one of the kindest, most loving men I have ever met. He is sexy to me because he is fearless and not afraid to show emotions. He is a supersexy, hot kisser and... he is sexy to me because he can be singing in front of 25,000 people one minute and, the next, be changing our daughter&amp;#039;s diaper.   You and Seal still seem to enjoy each other so much. How do you maintain that joy in your marriage despite the daily grind?  We have no daily grind. But that&amp;#039;s because of the jobs we have. Or when we do experience it, we&amp;#039;re happy about it. So it&amp;#039;s mostly that we love and respect each other. We do things for each other. My husband is really into photography, for example, so I have made an effort to learn more about cameras, and I know he loves that I am interested in one of his biggest passions. That makes ME happy \u2014 making him happy. We go on dinner dates and have our occasional days sleeping in together. That&amp;#039;s not always so easy with four kids, but we somehow do it! I just really believe that our personalities complement each other. You need someone to tell you the truth in a forest of people in which 99 percent think all you do is fabulous. One thing I think I will always want to be for my husband is not only his wife, mother of his children, and his best friend, but also his &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot; girl who keeps making an effort to be attractive and fun!!!!  If you could choose three words \u2014 or just one! \u2014 that would describe your marriage, what would they be? Hmm, I think the word would be LOVE, because if there is no love, there is nothing. And all the other words and emotions are within that word: unconditional, everlasting, respectful, fun, appreciative, sexy, caring, hot, kind, special LOVE. What does Seal do that can, without fail, sweep you off your feet? He just needs to look at me... in that special way that says it all. It&amp;#039;s a look that makes everyone else disappear around us. My husband has not had the most easy upbringing. He lived with a foster family for the first four years of his life before being reunited with his biological mom. After his birth mom and dad passed, he lived with his stepmom and siblings. It was tough sometimes. So I understand why he is the way he is, so loving to his wife and children, never wanting to be overly harsh with his kids and instead teaching them with words and by demonstration why they should or should not do certain things. He wants us to live as examples for our children and all be loving to one another \u2014 to be the family that he didn&amp;#039;t have growing up! What my husband has probably learned is that family is the most important thing in life, and how valuable it is to have that solid foundation of family and friends around you.   You&amp;#039;ve got four kids to keep track of these days. What&amp;#039;s the rule or mantra you try to live by when things start to get a little out of control? With four kids, life is always out of control \u2014 as you can imagine! But that&amp;#039;s what you need to know will happen when you sign up for a big family. You need to have lots of patience, which I don&amp;#039;t have \u2014 but thankfully my husband does! I think if you give your best as a parent, then that&amp;#039;s all you can do. We do have so much fun as a family. We try to go on adventures and outings: to the movies, the circus, Disneyland. It&amp;#039;s important for children to see what&amp;#039;s out there and learn that it&amp;#039;s fun to go. It&amp;#039;s fun for us as parents, too, to experience things again through their eyes.  What&amp;#039;s one of your most special family memories? We love going on the road with Seal. We roll in and we roll out like the groupies. The kids watch him perform every night and we have the best time. It also makes them understand better when he is on the road by himself and they ask where he is.   Do you have any unfulfilled dreams? Climbing Mount Everest? Learning to play guitar? To be honest, I&amp;#039;m trying not to put too many more things on my to-do list. One of my biggest achievements in life is being a good mom and wife every day. Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that&amp;#039;s something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don&amp;#039;t want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.  What do you do when life disappoints you? Are you able to learn or grow from those experiences? I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I&amp;#039;m not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are. From being teased, to not being the best at school or skinny enough for the big runway shows in Paris, to being cheated on by boyfriends, to the death of family members and friends.... But as they say, what doesn&amp;#039;t kill you makes you stronger.  Last time we talked to you, you told us that Seal thinks you&amp;#039;re most beautiful when you&amp;#039;re pregnant. Which is supersweet... but a little tricky unless you plan to have many more kids! So how else do you knock him off his feet? I don&amp;#039;t know \u2014 you&amp;#039;d have to ask him. For my part, I always try to be attractive to my husband. I tossed the baggy sweatpants in the bin a long time ago so that I can&amp;#039;t even be tempted to put them on again! When do you think he&amp;#039;s the most handsome and sexy? When is he the most sexy and handsome? Hmmmm... in our bedroom. :) Seal&amp;#039;s Take The superstar is a devoted dad, but Heidi&amp;#039;s at the center of his world. What has surprised you most about being a dad? How much you get back from your kids. The tiniest things happen \u2014 a look, a first tooth, a sentence \u2014 and it can light up your world. Has having such a big brood changed your marriage?  Oddly, perhaps, not that much. My focus will always be on Heidi first and foremost. That relationship is at the core of everything you do as a family; if you don&amp;#039;t focus on that, everything else has the potential to break down. What&amp;#039;s one of your favorite family memories?  From our vow-renewal ceremonies. Each year, Heidi and I get remarried. It&amp;#039;s a great party, but for about an hour, we go off on our own down to a private beach. We sit there with the kids and read vows to each other as the sun sets. It&amp;#039;s a very special moment to us. Heidi told us you think she&amp;#039;s most beautiful when she&amp;#039;s pregnant. Still true?  She certainly glows when she&amp;#039;s pregnant; maybe that&amp;#039;s why we keep doing it! But there isn&amp;#039;t a moment when she doesn&amp;#039;t sweep me off my feet. Just to be near her is enough. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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