Heidi Klum is doing what Heidi Klum does best: keeping the world guessing. The supermodel has teased her 2026 Halloween costume with a series of grotesque close-up images, describing the look as “very, very bloody” and leaving fans to debate whether she is becoming a sea creature, a monster, or something stranger still. Her annual Halloween party takes place in New York City on October 31, and the reveal is now just days away.
Klum posted her first clue on October 24, a close-up of slimy, lumpy prosthetics that many followers thought resembled human organs. “What’s my costume?” she asked, launching a one-week countdown with a string of Halloween emojis. On October 27 she followed up with another image — what appeared to be segments of intestines lined up on a table — captioned “4 more days.”
“One of the most elaborate costumes ever made”
Her longtime special-effects makeup artist, Mike Marino, has fuelled the excitement. In an interview with NBC’s Hollywood ReelTime reported on October 28, Marino described this year’s creation as “one of the most elaborate costumes ever made,” adding: “It’s so difficult to do and just the complication of it is really challenging. It might not appear to some people sometimes how much work goes into it but there’s so much that goes into these things.”
Klum herself gave the earliest hint in a September interview with People, tied to her Apothic Wine partnership. “It goes very well with red wine,” she said. “It’s very, very bloody.” She added that a great glass of wine is always fun, “and most of the time you think of something gory when you have a blood transfusion bag. That’s what Halloween is all about. We go gory, and we go there.”
Fans guess everything from coral reefs to Clickers
The guesses have been gloriously scattered. Some followers suggested a coral reef inspired by St. Barts, others a mushroom zombie from The Last of Us, and others the monster from the end of the film The Substance. One asked simply: “Are you long intestines for Halloween?!” Another suggested pirates from Pirates of the Caribbean transformed into sea creatures.
Whatever the final reveal, Klum’s track record guarantees spectacle. Since launching her Halloween party in 2000, she has appeared as E.T., Princess Fiona from Shrek, a giant worm, several clones of herself, and — for the 25th anniversary of the party in 2025 — Medusa, with her husband Tom Kaulitz as a stone Greek soldier. Halloween, as one report put it, remains synonymous with Heidi Klum.
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