Heidi Klum Is the Ultimate Halloween Queen — And These Photos Prove It

For Heidi’s first bash, she wore a costume with vague S&M vibes—spikes, patent leather, you know the drill—plus two Pippi Longstocking braids.

While yes, it’s clear that Heidi is in costume here, it’s def not obvious how committed she would one day become to the art of dressing up.

Heidi leveled up quite a bit for her second Halloween party, dressing up as Lady Godiva—but an injured or dead version, thanks to the blood dripping from her mouth.

Heidi wore a floor-length blonde wig and a sparkly white bodysuit, which was pretty conservative by Lady Godiva standards. Legend has it that the English noblewoman rode her horse buck-naked through town. Legit.

The horse wasn’t Heidi’s only date to the party (although we’ll give her a 10/10 for pulling off that grand entrance). Her now ex-husband, Ric Pipino, showed up as a knight in shining armor.

Year three of the model’s Halloween hosting duties gave us scary Betty Boop—scary because she wore fangs under her red pout. Why, you ask? The world may never know.

The key to Heidi’s Betty Boop getup was her hair and makeup. The model wore a black wig, curled with Betty’s signature loops, and rocked some serious lashes to appear even more cartoon-like. Here, Heidi poses with model Karolína Kurková, who dressed like a 1920s flapper. Guys, this was before Instagram existed! Can you even??

Ric was Heidi’s date once again and he opted for an Elvis Presley costume. His platform shoes totally steal the show, IMO.

It’s unclear what served as Heidi’s costume inspo in 2003. A…golden…monster…alien? What’s obvious is that she went all out, from her braids all the way down to those wild boots.

The model spray-painted her entire body with gold glitter, rocked a set of gold teeth, and painted her eyebrows the same shade to finish off the look.

In 2004, Heidi arrived at her party dressed as a scantily clad witch with scarlet hair. Her makeup was amazing, as usual. She also gave a skeleton a piggyback ride on her way in. She is nothing if not committed, okay?

It doesn’t look like her failed stunt put a damper on her fun though. Here’s Heidi posing with her then-boyfriend Seal, who was dressed as the phantom from The Phantom of the Opera.

Heidi loves wearing a good stiletto boot with her Halloween costume. I’m willing to bet she may have even planned her whole look around this footwear choice. The black patent leather thigh-high boots are just to-die-for, don’t ya think?

The model finished off her vampire costume with long fangs, an enormous curly wig, and a bleeding heart pinned to her corset dress, as one does.

Seal showed up dressed as a cop. Based on the Getty archives, it seems like a lot of handcuff jokes were made.

Back in 2006, Heidi and Seal showed up to her annual shindig as the epitome of couple goals (sorry to use that phrase, but alas, it’s true). He went as Eve and she was the proverbial forbidden fruit.

Later we learned that Heidi was secretly pregnant, and suddenly the bulky costume made a lot more sense for the Victoria’s Secret model.

No one can say that Heidi doesn’t make sacrifices in the name of Halloween. “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!”

After the ordeal with her apple suit, Heidi opted for a much more relaxed look the following year. The model arrived in a gray bodysuit dressed as a fierce feline.

At first glance, Heidi’s 2007 getup seems pretty simple, but the model went above and beyond when it came to the details. In addition to colored contacts, fangs, and a stick-on nose and whiskers, Heidi wore a collar around her neck that read: “If Lost, Please Return to Seal.”

A bright blue bodysuit fitted with additional arms and gold jewels helped Heidi pull off her costume as the Hindu goddess, Kali. Seal coordinated with his wife, wearing a warrior costume.

Heidi said that her assistant came up with the idea for this elaborate costume. “My husband and I were in India last year, so she said, ‘Why don’t you do an Indian goddess? Like a scary Indian goddess?’ And I said ‘Okay!’’ But Hindu leaders criticized the costume, saying that it was “denigrating.”

Heidi and Seal twinned in 2009 as two crows. While the costumes made the couple look like monster-size birds, the getups weren’t at all practical.

“It was bad. My husband was driving and he could hardly see anything,” Heidi said. “When you have a beak on, you can’t talk to anyone, you can’t really drink. It’s not a good costume.” Noted!

Even though most of her face was covered with an elaborate headpiece, Heidi still went all out with her makeup, rocking long lashes and a full face of face paint.

The already 5’9″ model isn’t necessarily a shrinking violet, but add some boots on stilts and robot armor and you’ve got the supermodel-robot costume that Heidi arrived in at her party in 2010.

Heidi fully committed to the superhero getup, complete with colored contacts, a sky-high red wig, and glittery skin that combined Iron Man’s metallic armor with Mystique’s bold colors.

Heidi described the costume as being “larger than life” and she was being literal when she said that: She towered over everyone at the party—including her husband, Seal.

Remember the super popular museum exhibition that everyone and their mother went to see, even though it featured the preserved remains of actual people? Heidi looked like she spent a night at the morgue museum when she showed up to her first of two Halloween parties in 2011—this one in Las Vegas.

Heidi shared a behind-the-scenes look at her costume, proving that it really does take a village to pull off these extreme looks every year.

For her second Halloween party of 2011, Heidi and Seal arrived in New York City as apes. The couple looked loved-up on the red carpet. But this was their last couples costume, as they announced their split later that same year.

Heidi teased her Halloween costume for 2012—she was planning to go as Cleopatra—but ended up postponing the party out of respect for the victims of Hurricane Sandy, which hit NYC just before Halloween.

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.

In order to do the ancient Egyptian justice, Heidi had hundreds of crystals applied to her face individually, which gave her skin a golden glimmer.

Heidi outdid herself by arriving to her 2013 party dressed up as a 95-year-old version of herself. At least now she knows she’ll age gracefully. (P.S. Did Heidi basically call the FaceApp, or…?)

“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!”

Once she made it into her party, she had a rocking chair and a cane for when she got tired of standing.

After five hours in the makeup chair, Heidi metamorphosed into a butterfly for her 2014 Halloween party.

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.”

She looked utterly unrecognizable, but entirely like Jessica Rabbit. Really, only Heidi could pull this off.

Heidi spent seven hours undergoing special-effects makeup to make her debut as werewolf Michael Jackson from his “Thriller” music video. She even got some friends to dress up like zombies for what was sure to be a thrilling grand entrance.

Her face, hands, teeth, and torso were prosthetics, and her costume took an entire team of makeup artists to create. She completed the look with yellow contacts for a spooky effect.

Heidi and her now-husband Tom Kaulitz dressed up as Fiona and Shrek—prosthetic ears, green skin, and all. She documented the getting-ready process on Instagram, during which a whole team of special-effects artists helped transform her.

Heidi was an alien (again!) in 2019, but this time she 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!

Heidi was in character all night long, starting with her arrival in a giant glass vehicle with a bio-hazard warning and blood splatters on the glass, because, why not?

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.” Uh huh, sure, dude!