Inside Heidi Klum’s 2026 Halloween Party: See All the Wacky Costumes

Heidi Klum donned a grotesque giant severed hand costume for her annual Halloween party, marking 25 years since she first hosted the event in New York. Accompanied by helpers wearing blood-stained hazmat suits, Klum's face was concealed, revealing only her eyes and mouth. The upper portion of the hand bore an unsettling collection of ligaments and tendons, with a gory finish of long red nails, a thumb ring, and her engagement and wedding rings.

Klum conceived the idea of becoming her own left hand with these embellishments in 2025. She explained her inspiration, stating, "I looked at my hand and I thought, Hey, I think I could fit my body in this somehow." The supermodel and television personality gained attention in 2022 when she arrived at the party suspended from a fishing line in a worm costume.

In prior years, Klum has portrayed various characters, including Greek myth Medusa, a peacock, a 2.4-meter-tall Transformer, a werewolf from Michael Jackson's Thriller music video, a clone with Klum lookalikes, and Kali, the multi-armed Hindu goddess of death and destruction. Creating her hand costume took about five to six hours, yet the initial construction required significantly more time.

Klum shared glimpses of the process on her Instagram, as bloodied prosthetics were applied to her face. While the costume was heavy to maneuver, Klum noted, "Hands down, the hardest thing is carrying it." Her husband, musician Tom Kaulitz, did not join her at the party as he was on tour. However, Klum's costume featured a tattoo of his name on her ring finger, incorporating her palm lines and veins.