Leni Klum learns how to accept her skin day by day – and in front of 1.9 million Instagram followers.
The rising model and daughter of Heidi Klum took to the social media app on Monday with a candid, makeup-free photo of her skin undergoing a flash.
The 19-year-old, who is also an interior design student in New York, did not caption the image. However, she has been vocal in the past about accepting her skin, no matter what stage it is in.
While speaking with PEOPLE in October, Leni admitted that she once succumbed to the negative stigma around acne.
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“I feel like there’s a thought behind acne that you’re not beautiful with it or that it doesn’t make you look as good as you could,” she explained. “That’s when I realized, ‘Oh my God, this is normal.’ Everyone goes through it… It’s not bad if you have it. It’s something that anyone can get and it’s not your fault and it’s hormonal.”
The teenager, who along with her mum ran major campaigns for the underwear brand Intismissi, added that she used to face days when she didn’t want to leave the house until her “acne cleared up”.
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Leni Klum and Heidi Klum attend the 2022 Harper’s Bazaar ICONS and Bloomingdale’s 150th Anniversary Event in NYC on September 9, 2022.
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That’s when she realized she couldn’t let her skin rule her life. That’s when she decided to post a photo of her acne on social media in hopes of normalizing acne breakouts.
She has since posted more close-up photos of her blemishes. Last summer, she uploaded a bare-faced selfie right after a shower, and in January 2021, she realized the “bad day” her skin was having with a zoomed-in photo tagged with the hashtags #nomakeup #nofilter #sowhat.
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Lena is also an open book when it comes to breaking stereotypes in the modeling industry. As a petite model at just over 5 feet tall, she told PEOPLE that she’s learned to love her height, which hasn’t stopped her from making major runway appearances.
“At first I didn’t even think about the runway – and now I like it. I want to do more. I don’t think, and I never did, that you have to be a certain height or look a certain way. I don’t think there should be a certain standard, especially when it comes to height,” she said.
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