Heidi Klum admits something — but not cheating — with bodyguard

Heidi Klum has admitted it: She’s got something going on with her bodyguard. But she’s not in a rush to call it a relationship.

“I don’t even know if I can call it that,” Klum said Wednesday, discussing her split from Seal with Katie Couric on Couric’s new chat show. “I don’t know, you know, it just started.”

Word that Klum and the bodyguard were an item came early this month via Seal, who told TMZ and other photogs that he “would’ve thought Heidi would’ve showed a little more class and at least waited until we separated first before deciding to fornicate with the help, as it were.”

Ouch. Can’t a girl date anymore?

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The singer later clarified that he meant she’d moved on before their divorce was finalized, not that she’d been doing the nasty with someone else while they were still a couple, Couric said. The two separated in January after seven years of marriage, and Klum filed for divorce in April.

Of Seal’s comments, Klum said, “He has a very unique choice of words. I’m used to them. ... Obviously it’s not true. I never looked at another man while I was with him, and it’s hard when you think that he thinks that.”

The bodyguard, Martin Kirsten, has been in the family’s employ for four years, Klum said, and she has trusted him with her four children’s lives. Now, she said, they’ve gotten to know each other “from a completely different side.”

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