Over the years, Klum has worn some more traditionally sexy costumes, too. (“This is how your email finds me,” one Twitter user captioned the image.) The image in which worm-Klum is seen lying on the ground, immobile, with a microphone pointed at her, seemed to elicit special glee. It seems like this was basically what Klum was going for: as she told Vogue, “Because it is Halloween, you need the creepy factor, also a bit gross and disgusting.” But I also found that I couldn’t look away-a feeling that was obviously shared by many, as the pictures went viral immediately. “I want to unsee this,” my eleven-year-old daughter said, shuddering, when I showed her the images. But it was the worm that took center stage, and not just because of its sheer size (I’d estimate its height at seven feet and counting) but also because of the level of repulsion it inspired. It was technically a couple’s costume Klum’s husband, the musician Tom Kaulitz, dressed as a fisherman who had “hooked” her. Her choice to portray a worm, however, surpassed all her previous Halloween efforts combined. In 2011, she was a hairy ape (a couple’s costume with her then husband, the singer Seal) in 2014, she was the whiskered, varsity-jacket-wearing teen werewolf of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video and in 2018, she was Princess Fiona from “Shrek” (the green-skinned-ogre version of Fiona, of course). Throwing an annual star-studded Halloween party has been a Klum tradition for twenty or so years-a routine disrupted only by the pandemic-and, in the past, she has worn some extreme, labor-intensive costumes. The enormous worm wasn’t just any old enormous worm: within its prosthetic encasing was Heidi Klum, the supermodel and television personality, who has been known over the past three decades as a Victoria’s Secret Angel, a host of fashion-centric reality-competition shows such as “Project Runway” and “Making the Cut,” and, no less famously, a person who has been known to go really hard on Halloween.
“Hi, guys!” it said into the mike, in a surprisingly girlish, German-accented voice. A crouching “Entertainment Tonight” reporter proffered her microphone to the creature, whose mouth opened and closed with some difficulty, like a ventriloquist’s dummy. As a video I watched later confirmed, the worm was also able to speak. (Steven Spielberg came to mind, too my initial thought, upon seeing this horror, was this since-deleted viral tweet.) Disturbingly, the worm had a face, too, or at least eyes and lips, emerging wetly from the expanse of its tubelike body. First the worm was standing on a red carpet, and then it was lying prone, as if flung from the set of a John Carpenter movie.
What was I looking at, exactly? The pictures appeared to show a bulbous, enormous worm, ridged and glistening and pinkish brown, its tail elongated and tapering, its texture somewhere between that of an oily strip of bacon and offal that had turned.
BETTY BOOP HALLOWEEN IMAGES SERIES
On Tuesday morning, I was, as usual, on Instagram, scrolling through the previous night’s Halloween posts on my feed, when a series of images, from the New York Post account, stopped me in my tracks. Photograph by Roger Wong / INSTAR / Alamy
We fangirl her because we recognize she’s the first of our kind: a stylin’, sexy, take-no-shit dame who knows the power of a great lipstick.Heidi Klum’s choice to portray a worm has surpassed all her previous Halloween efforts.
(See Mouse, Minnie.) Not Betty-she was allllll woman. Still, before Betty Boop, female cartoon characters were childish stereotypes, or literally the same as male ones with eyelashes and a bow added on. I’m pretty sure everyone agrees the oversized toddler head on top of her scantily-clad curves is nightmare fuel. But why do we love her so much? It’s not the cloying sexy-baby voice, the Cyndi Lauper accent, or the annoying catchphrase. An 86-year-old It-girl, she has sold more merch than the all of the Kardashians put together, collaborating with everyone from Jean Paul Gaultier on perfume to Supreme on a satin jacket recently worn by Bella Hadid. (The designer even joins her in a three-part series of old-timey animated shorts.) The nostalgia factor for Betty Boop is off the charts. Betty Boop lipstick (on sale today), which comes right on the heels of the announcement that Zac Posen is releasing a Betty Boop dress collection in a new shade called Betty Boop Red by Pantone. Boop-Oop-a-Doop! Editors and red-lipstick fans are freaking out over the launch of the M.A.C.
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