Heidi Klum’s Halloween countdown begins as she slowly reveals her costume

Halloween has many traditions, from candy to jack-o’-lanterns – and the annual spectacle of Heidi Klum’s costume.

Today she unveils her latest look.

The supermodel and TV personality loves to surprise her guests with her elaborate costumes, such as in 2022, when she arrived at the event at the end of a fishing line, wrapped in a slippery worm costume.

“I just wanted to be something random,” she explained, lying on the ground for maximum worm-like effect. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone look like an earthworm.”

Last year she enlisted the help of several Cirque du Soleil artists tail feathers on her peacock costume.

“There’s a lot of planning involved, you know,” Klum said through her peacock beak, with husband Tom Kaulitz next to her, dressed as an egg. “Because you have to have an idea first.”

At her 2008 party, she dressed as Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction – complete with multiple arms, dangling heads and a deep coat of blue body paint.

Klum told The Associated Press that she would immediately plan her look for next year. ‘After tonight I’m going to think about what I’m going to do next year. It always has to be different. Very different,” she said.

Other notable Klum costumes over the years include a giant Transformer, a clone (complete with several Klum lookalikes), an older version of herself, and an alien experiment gone wrong.

The star has also transformed into a terrifying butterfly, a monkey, a cat, a crow – and cartoon characters including Jessica Rabbit and Fiona from ‘Shrek’.

Her tip for those still trying to decide what to wear this Halloween? Leave the store-bought masks at home.

‘Personally, I don’t like it when people hide behind those full masks. I prefer when people are a little creative and play with their faces, when they put on a lot of makeup,” she told the AP in 2007. “That’s always what I like most about me, it really creeps me out sight .’

As Cleopatra, she attends her Haunted Holiday Party to benefit Superstorm Sandy relief efforts in New York on Saturday, December 1, 2012

A closer look

In 2022, Klum dressed up as a worm

It must have been hard to breathe in that suit

In 2013 she dressed up as an older woman

In 2019, she dressed up as an alien, and Tom Kaulitz attended Klum’s Halloween party at Cathedrale

In 2023 she was a bird at Marquee in NYC

In 2018, she was Princess Fiona and Tom Kaulitz dressed as Shrek

In 2015 she was Jessica Rabbit at Lavo

In 2008 she was Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and time

She really had a lot of hands in this

In 2010, she dressed in an 8-foot-tall ‘Transformer’ costume

She was all red and purple

In 2014, Heidi was a butterfly at TAO Downtown

In 2006 she dressed up as the forbidden fruit

In 2007 the model was a cat

In 2009 she was a crow

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