Heidi Klum’s highly anticipated Halloween costume reveal has finally arrived, and this year she and her husband Tom Kaulitz dressed up as E.T.
Since the early 2000s, the model has gone out of her way to transform herself into something impressive for the spooky holidays, and her legacy of over-the-top costumes has proven why she’s called the “Queen of Halloween.” She then uses the red carpet at her annual Halloween party at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City – now in its 23rd year – to show off her incredible costumes.
This year, Klum and her musician husband both dressed up as the alien from the 1982 cult classic Steven Spielberg. ET the extraterrestrialwith Kaulitz transforming into E.T. once he lands on Earth and Klum portraying the character once he is dressed up by the young children, Elliot and Gertie. Their faces were not in the alien’s face as you would expect, but were instead on E.T.’s neck.
Klum’s costume was complete with a glowing fingertip and a motorized headgear, which her team could control remotely. Costume designer Mike Marino told us The New York Times that both suits were made using 3D printing.
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People always eagerly anticipate how the model will dress up and this year’s costume has gone viral, with ‘Heidi Klum Halloween Costume 2024’ trending on X (formerly Twitter) and people also searching for ‘Heidi Klum husband’.
@PopBase’s Entertainment At the time of writing it had been viewed 2 million times. The same account also posted a video of the model transforming into the famous alien with the caption “Heidi Klum reveals her Halloween costume.” At the time of writing it had been viewed 2.3 million times.
Newsweek emailed a Klum spokesperson for comment outside normal business hours on Friday
The model narrated The New York Times that she came up with the costume idea a few weeks after Halloween in 2023. It wasn’t just that ET the extraterrestrial her favorite movie as a child, but she also loved the gender-neutral aspect of the character.
“They don’t have genitals. I like the whole idea that we’re all the same,” she said.
At the costume reveal, the couple appeared from behind a backdrop in the hotel, with Kaulitz and Klum both using the remote control to wave and point their fingers.
At one point during the party, Klum changed her full costume to an oversized ET top and fishnets, but left the alien’s neck as a mask on her face.
Klum teased the costume on her Instagram and had started preparing for her big party in the early hours of Thursday. While she was getting ready, she posted a short video on Instagram in which she had prosthetics all over her face, but didn’t reveal what she was dressing up as.
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In the past, Klum has dressed up as everything from a sultry Jessica Rabbit and a Transformer to the werewolf from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video and Cleopatra.
“I always try to find things that people wouldn’t naturally do,” the supermodel said People in 2023, adding: “Most people work as nurses or police officers, but I was always looking for something I hadn’t seen yet.”
In 2022, Klum arrived on the Halloween scene transformed into a giant worm, lying on the ground to fully embody her role. Her husband joined her, dressed as a fisherman, and hooked her on his fishing line.
“I just wanted to be something random,” she explained at the time.
Klum’s costumes always involve extensive planning. In 2023, she enlisted Cirque du Soleil performers to support her beautiful peacock ensemble, where she proudly showed off her feathers alongside Kaulitz, who dressed as a complementary egg.
“You have to have an idea… it has to be different. Completely different,” she explained on the red carpet at her party.
“I wanted to make a costume with a lot of people. I wanted to have a group of people and we would all become one thing. And for me, that one thing in my mind was the peacock.”
