On Monday, November 9, while on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM radio show, Radio Andy, singer-songwriter, Seal opened up about his marriage to ex-wife fashion designer Heidi Klum. They used to renew their vows every year, and he shared how this was a source of discomfort for him.
Seal told Andy, "That was my ex-wife's idea to be honest. It kinda turned into a little bit of a circus, which I wasn't terribly fond of because by default I'm quite a private person."
When Cohen flashed out how the couple’s vow renewals were massively publicized, the Kiss from a Rose singer said, “That’s the thing I disliked most about it.”
Nonetheless, the 52-year-old singer said he willingly did it before for Heidi saying, "But then you're married and you become a team player, and you understand that each of you have different lives, and you do whatever you can to support your partner's life."
"But the renewing of the vows. I don't know how necessary it was."
"You do things for the greater good, and the greater good in our case was always the family. So, whatever the family needed or felt that they needed, you did, and you supported it." Seal added.
It was in February 2004 when Seal first began dating German model Heidi Klum. Shortly after that, she announced her pregnancy and the end of her relationship with then Italian Renault Formula One team manager Flavio Briatore.
It was while they were in a quinzee he had built on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia that Seal proposed to Klum on December 2004.
The couple married on a beach in Mexico near Seal's home on Costa Careyes on May 10, 2005.
Seal and Klum renewed their vows, every year during their anniversary with their close friends and family.
The couple have three biological children together: sons Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel and daughter Lou Sulola Samuel.
While reflecting on the November 2015 issue of Redbook, regarding divorce, Klum said, “Obviously things have changed. But they haven’t changed drastically. Seal was never your typical dad who left for work in the morning with his briefcase and would be home by dinnertime every night. He traveled a lot. The kids knew it was part of his job. I’m a mom and a dad at the same time.”
