Heidi Klum Arrives as Giant Severed Hand at 25th Annual Halloween Party in New York

Heidi Klum, 53, arrived at her annual Halloween party in New York City on Saturday, October 31, dressed as a giant, bloodied severed hand, marking 25 years of the event. Klum said the costume was her own left hand, with long red nails, a thumb ring, and her engagement ring and wedding band. Only her eyes and mouth were visible, and the top of the hand ended in dangling ligaments and tendons. Helpers in blood-stained hazmat suits accompanied her. Klum said the idea came to her last year, that putting on the costume took five to six hours, and that the hardest part was carrying it because it was heavy. She posted hints on Instagram as prosthetics were applied. Past costumes include a worm in 2022, which went viral, and Medusa last year. Elsewhere, Zendaya dressed as Halle Berry in a recreation of a 2002 X-Men premiere look, Hailey Bieber wore an angelic costume, and Paris Hilton dressed up with her two children.

Left-leaning outlets, here CBS News, give the fullest account of the costume. They lead with the transformation, quote Klum on the idea and the weight, and list her earlier costumes, including Medusa, a peacock and Kali. The Daily Mail and New York Post, on the right, treat Klum as one of many stars. The Daily Mail's headline leads with Zendaya, Bieber and Hilton, and it gives Klum a few lines, including her 12.7 million Instagram followers. The New York Post's piece is a short gallery introduction calling it perhaps her most outrageous costume yet. Both sides agree on the date, the severed-hand look and the Instagram teasing. They differ in that the left supplies Klum's own words and the costume's construction, while the right supplies other celebrities' outfits. BBC and Variety largely echo the left's focus on Klum.