Heidi Klum spent a whole year planning her E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial costume for Halloween.
“It took one year,” the supermodel told Entertainment Tonight at her annual Halloween party on Thursday, October 31.
“When I was 9 years old, the movie came out and I fell in love with the movie, and I fell in love with E.T., and I thought it would be fun if both of us would be E.T. and F.T., and here we are,” she added of her couple’s costume with husband Tom Kaulitz, who was also dressed up in an otherworldly costume.
Klum, 51, teased her look earlier on Thursday, going live on Amazon as she got ready for her annual party. In the stream, fans watched Klum as prosthetics were applied to her face — an hours-long ordeal.
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Klum also teased a photo of her holding a massive finger, teasing one of E.T.’s signature trademarks.
The model previously told Extra that her costume was from “a different planet” while visiting the Empire State Building on Tuesday, October 29. “It’s not from earth and it’s a couples costume,” she hinted. “[Tom] is such a good sport because it’s hours and hours of planning, fittings, prosthetics. For me, it is fun because I love the art of it and I love the amazing people that are able to put all these prosthetics on me.”
“I have a vision, I have an idea, I bring the vision to my team and then, ‘Good luck figuring it out!’ I try to do things that haven’t been done before,” she continued. “It’s not something that I can buy in a store. It’s tricky! I love it that way.”
Klum previously teased details of her Halloween costume in October, giving Today a hint of what to expect.
“It will be outerworldly,” she said in an interview at the time. “And there will be a lot of prosthetics again. I’m claustrophobic just thinking about it.”
In previous years, Klum has dressed up as the Hindu goddess Kali, a Transformer and Jessica Rabbit.
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One of Klum’s most memorable looks came at her 2022 bash, which saw her disguised as a giant worm. The getup featured creepy textured — and slimy — skin complete with ridges and a curved silhouette. Klum revealed ahead of the party that the costume took over 14 hours to create.
Klum’s husband, who went as a fisherman, opened up about his wife’s ensemble, telling Us Weekly at the time, “She just came up with the worm. She’s like that. She gets up in the morning and she’s like, ‘I’m gonna be a worm,’ and I’m like, ‘OK.’ … I’m running out of options [for my costume].’”
He added, “What can you do with a worm? It’s either going to be a fisherman or a gardener or something like that so I decided on a fisherman and now I’m part of the costume.”
