Heidi Klum Discusses Biracial Haircare

Heidi Klum finally solves the mystery of taming her chil’runs naps… with a little help from Lamar Odom!We’ve always loved to see photos of Heidi and her happy multi-racial family, but often wondered if she owned any brushes. So it’s a great relief to find out that she does, and that her boys were even more ready than her (and the rest of us) to downsize their Buckwheat steez.

Heidi took to her Huffington Post blog this morning to reveal how she struggled to master the mysteries of curly hair and says Lamar Odom pointed her in the right direction when she finally agreed to let Johan and Henry get close to some clippers:

Having four children, with one having straight hair and three curly, it’s a bit of a new world for me. Growing up with straight hair myself, that was all I really knew how to work with. It was pretty straightforward: wash, air dry, done.

Henry, Johan and Lou — my three youngest — have super beautiful locks. Their hair definitely requires a different kind of care than my daughter Leni’s hair. I’ve learned to never brush their curly hair when it’s dry because then it’ll frizz. I use lots of conditioner and detangler, and only go to hairdressers who really KNOW how to cut and style curly hair.

I’ve let my boys’ hair grow really really long, and just recently they asked me to cut off their beautiful hair! It was funny because it was definitely harder for ME in some ways, as I absolutely love their hair! I’m their Mom — I’ve been the one to carefully brush and help them care for it all these years, but I do want them to be who they want to be. I think that’s really important, to allow kids to express themselves — everything from the way they dress to how they want their hair. And now, that meant short.

And of course, it was not just simple short! They wanted mohawks with special designs to them, so I asked Lamar Odom who did his cool star-design buzz, and then contacted his stylist. He gave my kids these buzz cuts with amazing individual designs… great for the summer because they’re COOL, in both senses of the word!

Gotta love how Heidi is careful to say “curly hair” rather than… something else!

We gotta give Heidi props for being brave enough to even broach this subject publicly, cuz white folks with black kids tend to get a lot of flack for not caring for their hair properly. Even though it doesn’t always look that way, it’s good to know that Heidi does put a lot of thought and care into her kids locks.

Check out lots of shots of Heidi’s fam and their good and bad hair days over the years: