Heidi Klum reveals how long it takes to plan her Halloween costumes
Heidi Klum is already thinking about her next Halloween costume.
The supermodel and queen of Halloween revealed that she starts creating her elaborate ensembles nearly a year in advance.
Asked when her planning process starts during her annual Halloween party on Monday, the 49-year-old told People, “Tomorrow. When I wake up tomorrow, I start thinking of the next [costume].”
Klum’s over-the-top Halloween transformations have made headlines for nearly two decades — and this year’s was no exception.
The “America’s Got Talent” judge shocked fans when she showed up to the party dressed as an enormous fishing worm.
The look took more than 10 hours to complete, with a team of artists covering Klum’s entire body with realistic ridges and slime.
Klum, whose look rendered her unrecognizable, was accompanied on the red carpet by her husband, Tom Kaulitz, who dressed as a bloodied fisherman with Klum attached to his line.
“I tried to think outside of the box and come up with other things and last year I was thinking, oh, a tree would be really cool, or like, a plant, and then I kind of went from plant to rainworm,” she told reporters at the red carpet on Oct. 31.
Although Klum says this year’s extravagant costume was one of her “top” outfits, she admitted the snug suit made her feel a bit “claustrophobic” — especially when it came time to use the bathroom.
“A lot of it has to come off,” she told Page Six Style about the intricate prosthetics. “When I gotta go, I’ll have to de-strap and just make it happen somehow.”
The model eventually did shed those slimy layers, revealing a sparkly mesh catsuit — but keeping on her creepy worm mask throughout the night.
Klum’s sported some memorable looks over the years — even during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she filmed a short horror movie at home to get into the spooky spirit.
She dressed as a shockingly realistic ape with ex-husband Seal in 2011, and as Cleopatra the year after. The former “Project Runway” judge also transformed a group of women into her “Klum clones” in 2016, using prosthetics to make the models’ faces look identical to the supermodel’s.