Halloween means many things for different people: carving pumpkins, stuffing your faces with loads of candy (that we can't wait to buy by the bucketload once it goes on sale), and stepping out in the most ridiculous-looking costume you can put together. Supermodel and actress Heidi Klum especially loves spooky szn, and is famous for hosting one of the best Halloween parties in Hollywood, taking her costume to the extreme year after year. Click through, ahead, for some of Klum's incredible Halloween costumes since her inaugural bash from the tame to the totally insane.
2006: Forbidden Fruit
"The problem with that was that I was so big, I couldn't fit into a car, so I had to get a convertible at the last moment just so I could get to the party," she told the New York Post. "I couldn't drink water because my arms didn't reach my face, I couldn't even sit. That wasn't so much fun—I didn't fully think that one through!"
2008: Goddess Kali
However, Hindu leaders criticized the costume, saying that the costume was "denigrating."
2011: "Bodies" Cadavar
"It's kind of like a dead body with the first layer of skin ripped off," Heidi explained. "It's basically like me naked." She said that she called this costume the "visible woman."
2012: Cleopatra
When she finally had her party in December, she showed up in an improved version of the costume she had previewed. After a few years of being "ugly," she wanted "something really pretty and sparkly for a change," she told Us Weekly. There were hundreds of crystals on her face that were applied individually.
2013: 95-Year-Old Heidi
"When I was a 95-year-old version of myself, I spent a lot of time getting the details right, down to the varicose veins and the eye lenses to make it look like I had cataracts," Heidi told the New York Post. "No one recognized me, and I almost had to tell everyone to let me into my own party!"
2014: Butterfly
She chose the butterfly costume because "someone very special to my heart called me a schmetterling [German word for butterfly], so I wanted to be a butterfly this year," she told E! News. "They're just so pretty and colorful and I used to love painting butterflies."
2015: Jessica Rabbit
In 2015, Heidi raised her own makeup record to 10 hours when she became Jessica Rabbit. A team of artists applied prosthetics not just to her face, but her chest and rear (which made her too big to fit into her car, according to the New York Post's spies).
2016: Heidi and Her Clones
Despite criticism of the costume (many people thought it was boring compared to her past Halloween looks), Heidi maintained that the idea was ingenious and a personal fave. "I like to be creative," she told Us Magazine. "I don’t like to do things that have been done before, and I’ve never seen anyone do this before, and so I just like to be unique.”
2017: Werewolf from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Video
Heidi paid homage to the spookiest music video ever by dressing up donning the same outfit that MJ wore in the 1983 "Thriller" video. She even performed the music video's iconic dance routine in the streets before the party.
2017: Werewolf from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Video
Taking inspo from MJ was an obvious choice since, like Heidi, the late superstar had a flair for the dramatic. "[Michael] made it into this whole kind of film," she shared with Us Magazine. "It was super scary and super elaborate. He went through all that stuff, too, doing this. I thought it would be a fun idea to copy that.”
2018: Fiona from 'Shrek'
"I always wanted to be Shrek and Fiona," the supermodel told Extra at her 2018 costume bash. "I just didn’t have a Shrek to do it with.”
2019: Alien
Heidi was an alien last year, and got ready in front of a live audience in New York City. The process started at 10 a.m. and wasn't finished until 4 p.m. They don't call her the Queen of Halloween for nothing!
2019: Alien
Heidi's husband, Tom Kaulitz, explained the backstory of his space explorer costume to People: "I was in space looking for a new planet for humans to live on, right? Cause we already discarded ours," Tom said. "I was out there, touring the universe and so, I found her, I found this creature, and I was like, 'Wow, she looks good.' I brought her home. So, hopefully, she has some useful information planned."