Heidi Klum’s 13 Best Halloween Looks

From an old lady to Jessica Rabbit to Cleopatra, the model never misses

Heidi Klum and friends as Heidi Klum as a Victoria’s Secret model.Mike Coppola/Getty Images

Heidi Klum is the queen of Halloween—that’s a fact, not an opinion. For the last two decades, the model and TV host has thrown the most elite Halloween party in the industry and the highly coveted invite is widely-known as a the biggest honor. She takes the holiday extremely seriously and she rarely misses with her well-planned costumes.

Due to COVID-19, the nine-time SI Swimsuit model had to pause on throwing her bash in 2020 and ’21, but that didn’t stop her from celebrating and dressing up. The model made up for lost time by hosting the most epic bash last year last year. View some of our favorite looks from the event here.

The 50-year-old has already begun to tease this year’s party and she shared a spooky promo post to get everyone in the mood on Oct. 5. The short video featured a creepy melody overlayed with someone drawing on a chalkboard. After a bit of fast-motion sketching, shading, erasing and cleaning up, an ashy orange Heidi Klum face appeared on the blackboard.

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“👻🕷️🧛🏻‍♀️🎃🦇🧟‍♂️💀🕸️🖤,” the mom of four captioned the post she shared with her 11.5 million Instagram followers. She added the hashtags #heidihalloween2023 and #comingsoon, and tagged artist Josh Hernandez.

Klum’s extremely extravagant costumes often require hours of special effects makeup (she has also incorporated prosthetics and additional props in the past). Who knows what she’ll come up with this year?

“It’s going to be extra. It’s going to be really extra. I have had sleepless nights over it, you know me,” she teased last month. “I have to admit, I love it. And then my gut, I feel like it’s going to be good. I don’t want to let my Halloween fans down,” she said. There are so many creative people around the world and I don’t want to let them down.”

The Making the Cut host added that she plans each look a year in advance—and begins percolating ideas for the following Halloween literally on Nov. 1.

In the meantime, here are some of her best looks from the past.

2007: Cat

Heidi Klum at her Halloween Party held at The Green Door on Oct. 31, 2007 in Hollywood, Calif.

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Klum invented this basic Halloween costume, but she spiced it up with a custom-made catsuit and veneers.

2009: Crow

Heidi Klum arrives at her 10th Annual Halloween Party at Voyeur on Oct. 31, 2009 in West Hollywood, Calif.

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Klum admitted that eating, drinking and dancing were extremely hard with this costume. No one’s surprised.

2010: Robot

Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 2010 Halloween Party at Lavo on Oct. 31, 2010 in New York City.

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Klum can handle wearing stilts all night long, high heels are NBD.

2011: Human body

Heidi Klum attends her 12th Annual Halloween Party at TAO Nightclub at the Venetian on Oct. 29, 2011 in Las Vegas.

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How does she come up with these ideas?

2012: Cleopatra

Heidi Klum gets fitted for her 13th annual Halloween party at finale on Sept. 3, 2012 in New York City. 

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At least we could see her beautiful face this year.

2013: Old Lady

Heidi Klum attends Shutterfly Presents Heidi Klum's 14th Annual Halloween Party sponsored by SVEDKA Vodka and smartwater at Marquee on Oct. 31, 2013 in New York City. 

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She still looked amazing!

2014: A butterfly of some sort

Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 15th Annual Halloween Party at TAO Downtown on Oct. 31, 2014 in New York City. 

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How did she fit through any doors with those wings?

2015: Jessica Rabbit

Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 16th Annual Halloween Party sponsored by GSN's Hellevator And SVEDKA Vodka at LAVO New York on Oct. 31, 2015 in New York City.

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A look complete with prosthetics and a fiery red wig.

2016: Heidi Klum as Heidi Klum

You know you’ve made it when you can dress as yourself for Halloween.

2017: Werewolf from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”

Heidi Klum (C) attends her 18th Annual Halloween Party at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge on Oct. 31, 2017 in New York City. 

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Klum pulled inspiration from “Thriller” for her werewolf incarnation, with her own group of backup dancers, to boot.

2018: Fiona From Shrek

Heidi Klum at her 19th Annual Halloween Party at Lavo on Oct. 31, 2018 in New York City. 

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I wonder how many showers she needed to wash the green paint off?

2019: Gory alien

Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 20th Annual Halloween Party at Cathédrale on Oct. 31, 2019 in New York City. 

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Klum told Vogue that this gory costume took a total of 13 hours to make.

2023: Worm

Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 2022 Halloween Party at Sake No Hana at Moxy LES on Oct. 31, 2022 in New York City. 

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Klum topped all her previous costumes last year when she totally outdid herself in this earthworm costume. It took months of planning and trial, a bulk of prosthetics and an army of helpful artists to create.

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