Heidi Klum undergoes colossal transformations in her quest to scare fans each year with her sensationally ambitious Halloween looks.
But it’s the model herself who is left terrified at the ‘claustrophobic’ costumes which render her unable to hear and struggling to stay calm.
Heidi, 51, has earned the title of queen of Halloween due to her extravagant dress-up each season, having impressed fans around the world with her over-the-top looks at her annual Heidiween celebration for years.
Now, in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, she has lifted the lid on the tough mental preparation she faces behind-the-scenes, as she teased that this year’s costume is well and truly underway.
‘The best part is when I come up with a good idea and I feel like that has happened, but then [I’ll let] everyone be the judge,’ she said.
‘Once I step on that red carpet, the hardest is always the actual day. I literally get into it.
Heidi Klum has admitted she’s left feeling ‘claustrophobic’ and has to fight to remain calm in her extravagant Halloween costumes
Last year, the model, 51, made a head-turning entrance as a peacock for her Annual Halloween Party at Marquee in New York City
‘People get into, let’s say a boxing ring. Not that I have to do hard work, but I have to go within and stay calm because when you have so many things glued onto you and you go through this kind of stuff, you have to be calm and bring a lot of time.
‘And because you get claustrophobic with all that stuff glued on, your skin can’t breathe and it’s tight or it’s like whatever.’
Explaining just how suffocating her costumes can be, Heidi added: ‘You can’t properly move. You can’t hear people well.
‘So, it’s like I always know going into this, but to me, I do it for the art of it and for the surprise of it to hopefully wow people, because I know people are watching and waiting to see what I’m going to do.
‘And I don’t take that light-heartedly. I’m honored that people really want to know what I came up with again.
‘So I don’t want to let people down. I always give 150 per cent and I hope that people love what I came up with.’
Heidi is famous for pulling out the stops, once spending 10 hours having prosthetics applied on her body in order to transform into a giant ringworm – despite her team begging her not to.
Last year, the model made a head-turning entrance as a peacock for her Annual Halloween Party at Marquee in New York City, along with her daughter Leni, her boyfriend Aris Rachevsky, and husband Tom Kaulitz, dressed as an egg.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, Heidi said of her costumes: ‘You get claustrophobic with all that stuff glued on, your skin can’t breathe and it’s tight’ (pictured as a worm in 2022)
Heidi said despite the struggles, she does not want to let anyone down: ‘I always give 150 per cent and I hope that people love what I came up with’ (pictured in 2010)
Heidi shocked with her 2019 Halloween costume, in which she transformed into a prosthetic alien science experiment
Heidi began the tradition in 2000, showing off her supermodel figure in skintight black leather gear.
Her no-holds-barred costumes have gone on to includ Fiona from Shrek, a man-eating space alien, and Michael Jackson as a werewolf from his music video for Thriller.
When she’s not wowing the world with her Halloween efforts, Heidi is busy being a judge on America’s Got Talent alongside comedian Howie Mandel, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara, and creator Simon Cowell.
While she is used to critiquing contestants on the show, she does not cope well with being judged herself, revealing she has canceled out the online noise by turning off comments on her social media.
Heidi also revealed to DailyMail.com that she turns off her comments on social media as she does not want to see how people judge her
‘I probably get judged all the time,’ she said. ‘The good thing is I don’t hear a lot of it. That’s also a reason why I don’t turn my functions on in my social media because I don’t want to hear the judgment.
‘I just kind of do what I feel I should be doing without people telling me what I should and shouldn’t do.
‘So, I know I get judged all the time, and it’s been like that since I started in this industry, especially as a model. That’s what people do.
‘First of all, they judge you by a look. Then what you say, what you do, what you eat, what you don’t eat.
‘So, I feel like I’m used to it, but I probably got judged tonight while I was sitting there judging.’
