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Parenting & Family Quote by Heidi Klum

"But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me"

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In a culture that treats female ambition as a temporary phase before “settling down,” Heidi Klum’s line lands like a polite refusal to choose. It’s not a manifesto; it’s a calibration. The “also” does the real work, quietly insisting that career, desire, and domestic life are not mutually exclusive categories, even if the public conversation keeps trying to make them so.

As a model, Klum speaks from an industry obsessed with bodies as timelines: youth is currency, motherhood is often framed as risk, and the notion of a “prime” has an expiry date. That pressure hums underneath “one day,” a phrase that sounds casual but reads like strategic pacing. She’s claiming the future without letting it be used to cancel the present. The sentence is careful, almost managerial, because celebrity women are trained to narrate their choices in ways that preempt criticism: too career-focused and you’re cold; too family-focused and you’re irrelevant.

The “very important to me” is both sincere and defensive, a signal to tabloids and interviewers that this isn’t a cute accessory to fame. It’s a bid for control over the narrative of her body and her time. Klum isn’t asking permission; she’s setting terms, reminding an audience primed to demand a single, tidy identity that a life can be additive, not reductive.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Klum, Heidi. (2026, January 17). But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-i-also-want-to-have-a-family-with-children-59191/

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Klum, Heidi. "But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-i-also-want-to-have-a-family-with-children-59191/.

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"But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-i-also-want-to-have-a-family-with-children-59191/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is a Model from Germany.

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