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| 16-year-old @leniklum via IG |
Leni Klum, Heidi's then-16-year-old daughter, and Alabama Barker, Travis' then-15-year-old daughter, were in the news in 2021. For example:
- Hannah Southwick posted on Page Six: "Heidi Klum’s daughter Leni, 16, covers Glamour Germany 20 years after mom" (April 9, 2021).
- And Heather Waugh posted on the Daily Mail: "Travis Barker's daughter Alabama, 15, says Shanna Moakler is an absent mom..." (17 May 2021)
What struck us the most after clicking on the links in the articles, was the similarities between the two teens. For example, for the Glamour photoshoot, Leni posed with her denim jacket lowered to expose her young shoulders sans bra straps. Thereby, giving the viewer the impression that she was braless. Bandeau?
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| 16-year-old Leni Klum |
In addition, Leni posted a picture on Instagram with her denim jacket lowered to expose her young shoulders sans bra straps. The post was captioned to promote the magazine's release: "Coming soon… #twomoredays."
Unsurprisingly, a year later, then-17-year-old Leni went even further in an Instagram post for RollerCoaster magazine (Autumn/Winter 2021) where she barely covered her large left breast with her small manicured hand. RollerCoaster posted on Instagram:
In our AW21 issue, the 17 year old cover star shares the best advice her mother has given her, where she finds her style inspiration, and why she’s using her platform to pave the way to a greener planet. #aww
A year later, Kristin Contino reported for Page Six's Style section: "Leni Klum poses pantless for Flaunt magazine" (March 2, 2023). Contino wrote:
No pants, no problem.
Leni Klum, 18, graces the cover of Flaunt magazine’s new issue [...] wearing a pair of Wolford fishnet tights ($55) with nothing over [or under] them [...]
In the Flaunt piece, then-18-year-old Leni reflected on her mother making her wait to model until she was older, admitting that the decision was smart.
“It would’ve been so different if I’d started [even] younger,” she says in the interview. “I would’ve regretted posting certain photos of myself. I would’ve been like, ‘This was so embarrassing.’”
Heidi Klum’s 18-year-old daughter showed off a festive red lingerie set on Instagram as she promoted the new Intimissimi line she modeled in a campaign for with her mom — and her unusual pose stirred up lots of attention from fans.Sitting on a bathroom sink with her feet placed inside, Leni [seductively] holds a toothbrush in her mouth as she sports the brand’s red lace bra ($69) and matching “’80s style thong” ($15) in the snapshot.
And Kristin Contino posted on Page Six: "Leni Klum heats up Instagram with nearly topless snap" (March 16, 2023). In the photo, the then-18-year-old covered her fountains, which were (barely) covered with a skin bra, with her hands. And she captioned the post "I LOVE YOU".
No shirt, no problem.
Leni Klum, 18, posed in a pair of jeans and a bra on her Instagram Story yesterday, with the rising model following in the footsteps of her famous mom, Heidi, as she covered her breasts with her hands in the sexy photo.
The New York college student wore a nude bandeau bra with the strap hanging down her shoulder in the pic, writing “I LOVE YOU”
No shirt, no problem? Apparently, not - as Heidi is also prone to post revealing photos on social media. Like mother, like daughter? Apparently, so.
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| 15-year-old @alabamabarker |
As for Alabama, she made a TikTok with her pajama top lowered to expose her young shoulders; however, her designer bra strap, which she fingered, was visible.
Arguably, Alabama's exposed shoulders post may be more conservative than Leni's, but Alabama was not conservative in some of her other TikTok posts. For instance, in another TiKTok, she rubbed her fountains over her latex and aimed her young derrière at her iPhone's camera.
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| 15-year-old Alabama Barker via Daily Mail |
But what may be the most interesting thing about Leni's photoshoot and Instagram post and Alabama's TikToks is that some argue, like journalist Taylor Lorenz, that the teens were not being sexualized, but that they were displaying their teen sexuality. And that Leni and Alabama used the allure of nymphets to their own advantage? For example, Leni to sell Intimissimi (teen) thongs and Alabama for likes and/or followers.
Interestingly, Taylor Lorenz opined on the New York Times' "Popcast" podcast (SEP 16, 2020) that "there's a lot of overreaction" over the sexualization of teens on TikTok. Lorenz opined:
And I think that, you know, young women should feel confident in expressing themselves. You know, and if they wanna dance to a certain song and that makes them feel good and they wanna put that on the Internet [...] I think that a lot of the concern over-sexualization of [...] [teens] and stuff is very focused around young women and can sometimes be used as an excuse to kind of shame them for things that you know maybe they, like, don't deserve it for - there's a lot of overreaction [...]
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