NEW YORK (AP) — Heidi Klum donned inexperienced scales and squirming snakes to rework herself into Medusa for Halloween on Friday.
Klum mentioned she loves the Greek fantasy of Medusa, by which a goddess turns a stupendous lady right into a monster with serpents for hair, the sight of which turns residing issues round her to stone.
“So I wanted to be really, really like a really ugly, ugly Medusa. And I feel like we nailed it — to the teeth,” Klum mentioned earlier than pointing to fangs in her mouth.
Her husband, musician Tom Kaulitz, dressed as a person turned to stone.
Klum mentioned she spent 10 hours moving into costume for her annual Halloween occasion. She mentioned it was all price it as a result of she loves the celebration.
The supermodel-turned-TV persona went viral in 2022 when she arrived at her occasion on the tip of a fishing line, encased in a slithering worm costume.
In previous years, Klum has come dressed as an 8-foot-tall (2.4-meter-tall) “Transformer,” a werewolf from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, a clone accompanied by a number of Klum-lookalikes, and Kali, the multiarmed Hindu goddess of loss of life and destruction.
Klum has mentioned she begins planning her costume for the following 12 months instantly after her occasion wraps.
Among the many different celebrities who walked the carpet on the Laborious Rock Lodge New York had been a green-painted Darren Criss as Shrek, Maye Musk as Cruella de Vil and Ariana Madix as Girl Gaga.
Final 12 months, Klum and Janelle Monáe turned as much as their respective events in the identical costume: E.T.
Monáe was internet hosting her annual occasion on Friday, too, and got here dressed as a vampire attacked by a shark. The actress and singer-songwriter turned your complete month right into a collection of Halloween-themed immersive experiences throughout the Los Angeles space, concluding with a celebration at her residence in Studio Metropolis. Earlier within the week, she had dressed because the Cat within the Hat.
“Halloween gives context to what I already do every day,” Monáe instructed The Related Press earlier in October. “As an artist, I’m always transforming, world-building and inviting people to play in the worlds I create.”
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This story has been corrected to point out that Janelle Monáe was dressed as a vampire on Friday, not the Cat within the Hat.
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Related Press journalists John Carucci in New York, Jordan Hicks in Los Angeles, Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake Metropolis and Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu contributed reporting.
