Heidi Klum has claimed a client cut ties with her as they thought motherhood erased sexiness

Heidi - who went on to have another daughter called Lou, 16, as well as sons Henry, 20, Johan, 19, with her 63-year-old former husband, singer Seal - claimed to Paper magazine: "I remember I had one client. When I was pregnant, they did not want to work with me anymore.

"They thought that I was not sexy anymore, because I was now a mother.

"I was defined before children as being a sexy woman, and now with a child, as being a mom. That I no longer deserved to have that title.

"That could also not be part of me any longer."

Heidi said it was a struggle finding pregnancy outfits to wear on the reality TV show Project Runway - which sees contestants battle it out to create the best clothes.

The blonde beauty - who has helmed the programme since it started in 2004 - said: "You didn't see a lot of pregnant women on television. It was a big thing at the time.

"I was pregnant with all my kids, always on the show, and it was a challenge for me, because pregnancy clothes were really hard to find at the time.

"So that's why I started having a pregnancy line because of that, because it's like, 'What am I gonna wear?'

"I'm not hiding in the house pregnant. I'm on the stage, I'm on TV, and it's a show about fashion, I need to have good things!"

Heidi - who has been married to Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz, 36, since 2019 - joked that she successfully juggles her hectic work-life with parenthood by having a split personality like a typical Gemini.

She quipped: "There's two of me. One is being domestic at home, in front of the computer, and the other one is going to the office. I'm a Gemini!"