Heidi Klum Went to Her 25th Halloween as a Severed Hand. Tom Kaulitz Was Elsewhere
Five to six hours in the chair, her wedding ring on the finger and her husband on tour. The costume does most of the talking.
By the Heckle Desk · · 2 min read
Heidi Klum held her 25th annual Halloween party Saturday at Cathédrale in New York, and she arrived as a giant severed left hand. It had long red nails, dangling ligaments and tendons at the top, and only her eyes and mouth showing, with blood running out of the mouth. Helpers in stained hazmat suits came along. The event was presented by Apothic and Butterfinger, so if you've ever wondered where wine and candy stand on dismemberment, they're for it.
It took about five to six hours to get into the thing, CBS reports, and Newsweek says the costume took five months to make. It's modeled on her own hand, with her palm lines, her veins, her engagement ring, her wedding band and the tattoo of her husband's name on the ring finger. That's five months of skilled labor on a left hand. I know men with two good ones who haven't put five months into anything, including their marriages.
Which brings us to the husband. Tom Kaulitz wasn't there, being on tour with Tokio Hotel, and he has made a point of saying the absence had nothing to do with a marital crisis or a fight. I believe him. But I want you to think about the sequence from where he's sitting. In 2023 she went as a peacock and he went as an egg. Last year she went as Medusa and he was a soldier she'd turned to stone. Now he's got a concert, and she comes dressed as a hand that's been cut off a body with his name on it. "A little bit of Tom is with me," she said, and I suppose that's so, in the sense that detectives use the phrase.
She also said the costume was "quite heavy," and that the carrying was the hardest part, which is the most honest review of fame I've heard all year. Consider what she's doing up there. One of the most photographed faces of her generation now spends Oct. 31 burying itself under a worm, or E.T., or an amputated limb, then walks past a room of celebrities who've paid good money to look like somebody else all year round. They ask who she's supposed to be. Most of them couldn't tell you who they are.
I can't say I understand it, but I've come to respect it. A woman who'll spend six hours turning herself into a hand has finally figured out show business: if you stay long enough, they only want a piece of you.