Getting creative! Heidi Klum tweets a topless shot with a smiling sand and shell face adorning her enviable washboard stomach



Heidi Klum is known for sharing glamorous and scantily-clad pictures of herself on Twitter.



But the 40-year-old German beauty has excelled herself with this humorous take on the topless shot.



Heidi posted a picture of her covering her bare breasts with her hand above a smiley face made out of sand and small seashells on her taut tummy.



Larking around: Heidi Klum Tweeted this picture of her bathing topless after she'd got a bit creative



It's a canny way to draw attention her bodacious body without appearing to have added another narcissistic selfie to the Twitterverse.



The star documented a recent trip to the Bahamas with a series of intimate shots taken by boyfriend Martin Kristen and posted on the picture messaging service – amongst them a shot in which she shows off her sunburned bottom.



Heidi’s first marriage to stylist Ric Pipino last for five years before they divorced in 2002, after which she was involved in a brief relationship with Flavio Briatore – the biological father of her oldest child, 9-year-old Leni.



Family: Heidi with Martin Kristen and her brood Johan Samuel, Leni Klum and Lou Sulola Samuel



Her second marriage to Seal – with whom she has children Henry, 7, Johan, 6, and 3-year-old Lou – was thought to be one of the strongest in Hollywood, with the couple re-exchanging vows every year following their beach wedding in Mexico in 2005.

Despite their mutual show of affection, the pair went their separate ways in January 2012 – six months before Heidi started dating Martin.



Speaking earlier this year, she admitted that, while she’s happy, she has no plans to walk down the aisle for a third time.



‘I don’t think so. It’s not that important to me anymore. I’ve been married before,’ she said. ‘When I got married the first time, I was 23 and it was always this dream to get married and wear this white dress. I was married for six years and it didn’t work out.’

Chest amazing: Heidi in one of her Instagram shots from the Bahamas

Ouch: Heidi shows off her burnt behind



