Heidi Klum dresses as a giant, bloodied version of her own severed left hand

The costume

Heidi Klum appeared as a gory, eight-foot version of her own severed left hand at her annual Halloween party on Saturday, 31 October, according to The New York Times. The costume scurried onto the red carpet at the Cathédrale restaurant inside the Moxy Hotel in Manhattan's East Village, a nod to Thing, the disembodied hand from the Addams Family franchise. Asked why she chose a hand, and specifically her left one, Klum said:

“Sometimes the most random things that you see every day, all the time, can be the most interesting thing, if you twist it a little bit.”

How it came together

The idea struck Klum in 2025, while Mike Marino, a Hollywood makeup artist and her longtime costume designer, was transforming her into Medusa. She recalled telling him she already had an idea for the following year, and that he had asked her to hold off while he finished the Medusa look. El País reports that the costume took hours to prepare. Earlier on Saturday, she climbed the Empire State Building to start the tower's green and orange lighting before her transformation began.

The reveal

El País says Klum posted the costume on Instagram at about 22:30 New York time. In a video, she knelt on the floor and moved her red-nailed fingers across it until the image became her own hand, complete with rings and a wedding band, its wrist torn and bloodied. Over the day she shared parts of the costume showing entrails and fake blood, and she had begun posting photos of the process up to a week before the party. El País describes the hand as almost two metres tall, while The New York Times gives the height as eight feet. The Spanish outlet also recalls that in 2025 Klum dressed as Medusa, with her husband as a companion, and that in earlier years her E.T. costumes drew attention.