I love you my V HAPPY BIRTHDAY Y

A photo posted by Heidi Klum (@heidiklum) on Jul 27, 2015 at 12:12pm PDT

Do you guys remember when Jennifer Lopez first acknowledged publicly that she was dating backup dancer Casper Smart? I think it was around their one year anniversary, at least that’s when I remember her tweeting to him and talking about him to the press. The jig was up by that point in that we’d seen Lopez and Smart together in countless paparazzi pics and on vacation several times.

There’s a similar situation going on with Heidi Klum, 42, and her now 29 year-old art dealer boyfriend, Vito Schnabel. These two have been together for over a year and they’ve been papped on multiple sunny vacations in that time. Heidi has now deigned to acknowledge her love for Vito publicly with an Instagram selfie she posted on his 29th birthday. (Above) She wrote “I love you my V HAPPY BIRTHDAY”

As Yahoo! Celebrity points out, this isn’t the first time that Heidi has posted a selfie with Schnabel, she first posted a photo with him on Instagram about a year ago.

So they’ve been together for well over a year, she waited to tell the public she loved him, and it looks like they’re serious. Heidi has been somewhat smart in her boyfriend rollout, although I don’t know how clever she was in her choice of a boyfriend. I’m Heidi’s age (exactly) and while I occasionally get hit on by guys in their late 20s, it’s hard for me to imagine actually dating them. I’m in such a different point in my life now than I was in my late 20s and early 30s. Still, it looks like Heidi is having fun and this isn’t a situation where she plucked the guy out of his teens like Sam Taylor-Johnson and her husband Aaron. Also, Vito seems to like older women who are famous, he’s previously dated Demi Moore and Elle Macpherson.

Yahoo! Celebrity wonders if these two are going to get engaged soon. I hope Heidi isn’t that foolish, but she definitely could be. I miss her with Seal. I want to see Seal coupled up with some chick who isn’t inappropriately young for him. I wonder if he’s mocking the crap out of Heidi’s relationship behind her back.

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Heidi Klum, 42, declares her love for her boyfriend on his 29th birthday

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Heidi Klum, 42, declares her love for her boyfriend on his 29th birthday