Heidi Klum Turns Into a Giant Severed Hand for Halloween 2026

Heidi Klum has done it again, and this time she gave Halloween a hand. Literally.

Klum arrived at her 25th annual Halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Cathédrale in New York City dressed as a giant severed human hand.

Heidi Klum's Instagram reel for her 2026 Halloween party.

A hand modeled on her own

The costume was a massive left hand, and it was based on Klum's own.

Her legs became two of the fingers, finished with long red nails. The hand wore her real engagement ring and wedding band, plus a thumb ring, and it even copied the lines on her palm and her veins. At the top, where the hand had been "cut off," bloody ligaments and tendons dangled down.

Blood dripped from her mouth as she stuck out her tongue for the cameras. Helpers in blood-stained hazmat suits walked beside her on the blue carpet.

"I looked at my hand and I thought, 'Hey, I think I could fit my body in this somehow,'" Klum told CBS News.

"Hands down, the hardest thing is carrying it"

Getting into the costume was a production on its own. It took about five to six hours to put on, according to CBS News. Around 10 to 15 people helped her into it on the day, according to USA Today. Others had been working on it for months before that.

Wearing it was no easier. "Hands down, the hardest thing is carrying it," Klum said. "It's quite heavy."

She still looked like she was having the time of her life. "I'm feeling great," she told USA Today.

Heidi Klum's Instagram post about the costume.

A little bit of Tom

Klum's husband, Tom Kaulitz, usually joins her for a couples costume, but he missed this year's party because he was on tour.

He still made it into the look. The hand has a tattoo of his name on the ring finger. "A little bit of Tom is with me," Klum said.

Even when he is there, Klum has made it clear who calls the shots. "Tom definitely does not have a final say in the couple costume or any kind of costume," she told USA Today.

She dropped clues all month

Fans had been guessing for weeks. In a mid-September interview with Parade, Klum gave one clue: "It's bloody." She later told People it would be "very, very bloody."

USA Today reported that she also hinted that "my body is going to fit in a shape that normally a human body would not fit in." She also posted clips on Threads that, at first, made the look seem like some sort of bloody creature full of boils.

25 years of Heidi Klum Halloween costumes

The severed hand is the latest entry in a tradition fans wait for every October. Here are some of her most memorable looks:

• 2025: A Medusa, with Kaulitz as a soldier turned to stone
• 2024: E.T., with Kaulitz matching her
• 2023: A peacock, with Cirque du Soleil performers
• 2022: A giant earthworm, while Kaulitz played the fisherman
• 2021: A zombie, in a short horror film
• 2019: An alien, with Kaulitz as an astronaut
• 2018: Princess Fiona, with Kaulitz as Shrek
• 2016: Five Heidi Klum lookalikes
• 2015: Jessica Rabbit
• 2012: Cleopatra
• 2008: The goddess Kali

Entertainment Tonight's Instagram reel about Klum's Halloween look.

Will she ever take a year off?

Not a chance, if you ask her. "Taking a year off? Are you crazy?" Klum told USA Today.

After 25 parties, she keeps finding new ways to shock her guests. And if she can fit her whole body into a hand, it is anyone's guess what she will become next October.