‘I love making myself not so sexy’

When it comes to Halloween, Heidi Klum is in a league of her own.

For over two decades, the supermodel has held her annual Halloween party in New York City, where she reveals her elaborately designed costume from that year.

After hours of anticipation, fans tuned into Klum’s Instagram Live at 10 PM ET on Halloween night to watch as she debuted her costume for 2024: ET, from Steven Spielberg’s 1982 film of the same name.

Klum’s costume refers to the scene where Gertie (Drew Barrymore) dresses ET in women’s clothes. For Instagram Live, Klum was joined by husband Tom Kaulitz, who dressed as ET without a disguise.

Ahead of her big reveal, Klum appeared on an Amazon live stream with her prosthetics designer, Mike Marino, to field questions about her costume and give viewers a look at her extensive preparation process.

During the hour-long stream, Klum hinted that she dresses like something that’s alive, can sing, has “lots of wrinkles” and “does 360.”

“It’s part of the show,” Klum said. “They are moving sculptures. We have to make sure everything works. It is a living work of art. It is performance art.”

With celebrity attendees including Emily Ratajkowski, Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes, Klum’s Halloween parties have become a celebrity hotspot on the spookiest night of the year.

“All my friends are from all over the planet, literally somebody from Germany, from Italy, from LA, like from everywhere,” Klum said during the live stream. “It’s always exciting for me to see everyone else’s costumes. That’s what I love. You know, I love seeing the creativity we all inspire (in) each other. That’s the fun of it.”

The America’s Got Talent the judge, who has been dubbed the “Queen of Halloween”, is known to go all out with her annual costumes.

For her Halloween party’s 20th anniversary in 2019, Klum dressed up as an alien, wearing a prosthetic bodysuit with stapled sutures and exposed brains, muscles and tendons — which took 12 hours to complete. Her past costumes include Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger RabbitPrincess Fiona from Shreka monkey from Planet of the Apes and a giant worm.

Klum’s repertoire of past Halloween looks speaks for itself. Instead of opting for sexy costumes, Klum said she prefers to lean into the grotesque.

“I love to make myself less sexy,” the former Project Runway said host. “I love the art of this and I like to transform into something so different and unrecognizable. A lot of times with the sexy costumes you can still see the person, but I love being super in disguise.”