Heidi Klum shares amount of hours it took to transform into Medusa for Halloween 2025 party

Heidi Klum divulged that it took nearly half a day to transform into the mythical creature Medusa for her legendary Halloween 2025 party.

The supermodel and her husband, Tom Kaulitz, who went as a warrior turned to stone by Klum, spent a stunning 10 hours getting into their characters and began preparing for the event “at noon,” they told E! News Friday.

“Everything is hand-painted,” she told the outlet about the elaborate costumes. “About 15 people have been working on this, and I think they did a fantastic job.”

Klum confessed that the wild getup — which included green snake-eyes, a snake-tail tongue, sharp fangs, and mechanically writhing serpents atop her head — had been on her mind long before its terrifying reveal.

“I’ve been thinking about Medusa for quite some time, because I’ve seen over the years obviously many, many Medusas, and I thought, ‘You know, one day I’m going to try my own,’” the 52-year-old said.

She added, “I really wanted to have snakes that were moving, a super-ugly, super-scary face, really ugly teeth, and to be like a really long rattlesnake.”

Kaulitz, 36, divulged that the couple sometimes has trouble coming up with their yearly coordinating costumes — which in the past have included identical E.T. alien costumes, a worm and a fisherman, and animated ogres Shrek and Fiona.

“We always have to come up with something that matches,” he said of their repeatedly iconic couples’ costumes.

The model took to social media in the hours leading up to the big reveal to show off her progress on the jaw-dropping look, directly from the MUA chair.

Klum previously promised that the wild costume would be exceptionally ugly.

“I’m going to be very ugly because I always try to do something different,” she told People last week.

In August, Klum told Jimmy Fallon during a “Tonight Show” appearance that the costume was already in the works.

“I’m hard at work already,” she told the comedian. “Like, already months ago.”

The former Victoria’s Secret model added that the costume would be “super scary” and “extra ugly.”