Heidi Klum Teases "Very, Very Bloody" Halloween Costume for 2026
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Heidi Klum is going for an extra spooktacular look this year.
The Queen of Halloween teased that her upcoming costume for her 2026 Halloween party will have a bit of extra gore to it—although she wasn’t revealing too much about the transformation.
“It’s very, very bloody,” Klum told People in an interview published Sept. 17. “That’s what Halloween is all about. We go gory, and we go there.”
The Project Runway host also confessed that her yearly costumes can be a bit tough on the skin, especially as she often has to prepare for pounds of prosthetics to be applied to her face.
“Everything needs to be removed,” she explained, “otherwise, the prosthetics don’t stay.”
And getting it on his only half the battle, as removing her costumes—which have included ET, a worm and Jessica Rabbit in recent years—can be equally challenging.
“It’s basically like nail polish remover on the face,” Klum said. “I’ve had chunks ripped off my chest before because they went too fast.”
Over the years the 53-year-old—mom Leni, 22, with ex Flavio Briatore, and Henry, 21, Johan, 19, and Lou, 16, with ex Seal— has made it her mission to go as hard as she can every Halloween, taking it to a new level in 2025 with her Medusa costume that featured robotic snakes on her head. And prepping for that costume took a whopping five months.
"Everything is hand-painted," Klum shared with E! News during her Halloween party last year. "About 15 people have been working on this, and I think they did a fantastic job."
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Husband Tom Kaulitz complimented her Medusa garb with his own costume of a warrior turned to stone, with the two noting their costumes took 10 hours to put on.
"I've been thinking about Medusa for quite some time," Klum added, “because I've seen over the years obviously many, many Medusas, and I thought, You know, one day I'm going to try my own...I really wanted to have snakes that were moving, a super-ugly, super-scary face, really ugly teeth, and to be like a really long rattlesnake."
While we wait to see what bloody design Klum has up her sleeve this year, keep reading for a look back at all of her most intricate Halloween costumes.
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2025
Heidi Klum and her husband Tom Kaulitz opted for a Grecian vibe, with Klum dressing as Medusa while Kaulitz was one of the warriors she turned to stone.
"I've been thinking about Medusa for quite some time," Klum told E! News at the party, "because I've seen over the years obviously many, many Medusas, and I thought, You know, one day I'm going to try my own...I really wanted to have snakes that were moving, a super-ugly, super-scary face, really ugly teeth, and to be like a really long rattlesnake."
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2024
The couple channeled E.T. from the 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. "I loved being E.T. so much," she shared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in August 2025. However, she admitted, “It was so heavy holding that head on my head because it goes from the back to the front. I thought my neck was going to snap off.”
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2023
Heidi was proud as a peacock on the red carpet of her annual party, enlisting nine people to dress as her beautiful tail feathers and claws.
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2022
Happy Halloworm from Heidi! While hosting her 21st annual Halloween party presented by Now Screaming X Prime Video and Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur, the America's Got Talent judge debuted her worm costume.
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2022
After enjoying a night at Sake No Hana, Heidi changed into a nude sheer bedazzled jumpsuit.
2020
"Halloween is different this year," the reality TV star wrote on Instagram amid the coronavirus pandemic, "but that shouldn't stop us from getting creative at home."
2020
Heidi channeled a creepy mummy for her Halloween short video. It marked one of her many spooky looks in the five-minute clip.
2020
Heidi blended into her walls with this clever costume in 2020.
2020
Heidi, are you there? The model was hard to spot, as she perfectly matched the blue and black-streaked bedsheets.
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2019
The star's costume was truly out of this world when she turned herself into a gory alien.
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2018
The supermodel transformed into everyone's favorite green princess, Fiona, from Shrek. An idea she'd been dreaming about for awhile, "I just never found a crazy enough person that wants to do Shrek with me," she told People. Enter: husband Tom Kaulitz.
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2017
The America's Got Talent judge had a hair-raising good time dressed up as the werewolf from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video. "I wanted to do the 'Thriller' dance," she explained.
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2016
Instead of channeling someone else for the spooky season, the fashion expert opted to clone herself five times with the help of prosthetics and some fabulous wigs.
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2015
Heidi who? The former Project Runway host answered only to Jessica Rabbit.
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2014
"They said, 'Are you really in there Mama?'" she told E! News about her kids' reaction to her incredible metamorphosis into a butterfly.
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2013
When describing her kids' responses to this elderly get-up, the star told E! News, "The one time that I [looked] like me but older, they were scared."
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2012
Heidi gave Elizabeth Taylor a run for her money with this chic Cleopatra costume.
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2011
Klum's seen here with ex-husband Seal at a time when they were presumably quite a bit more bananas about one another.
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2011
The former Victoria's Secret Angel looked like she hopped right out of an anatomy textbook. She hosted two parties that year, debuting this look on Oct. 29 in Las Vegas.
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2010
The model is tall, but not that tall. Heidi wore stilts to make this robot monstrosity more menacing.
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2009
Little known fact about crows: a group of them is called a murder. Perhaps that's why the model chose the bird for her haunting costume. Distressed to discover the step-and-repeat was black, "Now I work on the background, too," she told People. "Since then, I do the step-and-repeat, the carpet, everything."
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2008
Heidi's costume as the Hindu goddess of death and time, Kali, has since divided the internet.
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2007
Heidi's ferocious feline doesn't hold a creepy candle to the CGI in Cats.
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2006
She's the apple of our eye in this costume, which was inspired by the biblical tale of Eve and the forbidden fruit.
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2005
Eat your heart out—literally!
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2004
Not all witches wear black, you know? In fact, this witch had a lacy costume that included a fake skeleton she got at a medical supply store.
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2003
Gladiator goddess or sci-fi dream? Either way, this vivacious look goes down as one of her best.
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2002
The former Victoria's Secret model was red hot, as she channeled the iconic Betty Boop.
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2001
In her second year hosting, the star went full Lady Godiva—horse and all!
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2000
While the model's looks have become a lot more elaborate, for her very first party she was just Heidi (as in the character from Johanna Spyri’s German novels), choosing to dress up in a dirndl "but not a tradtional dirndl," she told People. "And in those days I still did my hair and makeup by myself."
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