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Heidi Klum, Queen of Halloween, reveals this year’s ‘bloody’ costume: A giant severed hand

Heidi Klum arrived at her 25th annual Halloween party as a giant, bloody severed hand, a replica of her own left hand, right down to her wedding ring.

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Heidi Klum's "bloody" Halloween costume is finally here. The supermodel arrived at her 25th annual Halloween party in New York on Saturday as a giant, gruesome severed hand.

Only her eyes and mouth showed, with blood dripping from her mouth as she stuck out her tongue, the Associated Press reported . Her legs formed two of the fingers, and helpers in blood-stained hazmat suits walked her down the carpet at Cathédrale.

The hand is a replica of her own left one, with long red nails, a thumb ring, and her engagement ring and wedding band.

"I looked at my hand and I thought, 'Hey, I think I could fit my body in this somehow,'" Klum told the AP.

It took about five to six hours to get into the costume, she said, adding, "Hands down, the hardest thing is carrying it. It's quite heavy."

Longtime collaborator Mike Marino, a special effects makeup artist, used scans of her body to build it. "It's not just any giant hand: It's my giant hand!" Klum told Vogue, according to Vanity Fair .

Her husband, Tom Kaulitz, missed the party because he is on tour, but the costume includes the tattoo of his name on her ring finger. "A little bit of Tom is with me," she told the AP. She also joked to USA Today that he "could have been the other hand."

Klum spent the week before the party teasing the look on Instagram, including close-ups of prosthetics that resembled organs and tissue, and images of a misshapen mouth. She also told USA Today that her body would "fit in a shape that normally a human body would not fit in." Fans guessed everything from Monstro Elisasue from The Substance to a Clicker from The Last of Us.

Before the party, Marino told NBC's Hollywood ReelTime that this year's look was "one of the most elaborate costumes ever made."

"It's so difficult to do and just the complication of it is really challenging," Marino said. "It might not appear to some people sometimes how much work goes into it but there's so much that goes into these things."

Klum first teased the costume on Oct. 24, sharing a close-up on Instagram of prosthetics resembling human organs. Fans were quick to guess, with answers ranging from "Coral reef. Inspired by St. Barth's" to "pirates of the caribbean when the pirates become sea creatures on the flying dutchman."

"Internal organs?" one commenter asked, while another remarked, "Looks like the inside of a stomach."

"Idk but I'm gagging already," admitted another fan.

When it comes to her costume for All Hallows' Eve, Klum has a history of going all-out . Over the years, Klum has consistently debuted high-concept, unsightly transformations. Her greatest hits include E.T., a gigantic peacock, a slinky worm, a skin-baring zombie creature and Fiona from Shrek . Last year, Klum slithered into her costume bash as Medusa, complete with a scaled body, a tail and a head of snakes. In past years, Kaulitz has joined in, dressing as the Greek soldier that Medusa turned to stone, a bloodied fisherman and the Shrek to her Fiona.

Klum opened up about what sparked her desire to throw a costume party every Halloween, telling Parade, "I'd go to some of these Halloween parties and people were just not given anything."

Klum isn't concerned with looking sexy on Halloween. In fact, she prefers to go in the complete opposite direction. After seeing one too many unimpressive costumes, she decided to take matters into her own hands, hosting her first Halloween party in 2000.

"This is really how it sparked my idea on doing one myself because I thought all the parties were so lame and the costumes people were doing even lamer," Klum told Parade. "I was like, 'There needs to be a person who really shows them to give more.'"

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Sunday, November 1, 2026

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