Do you remember how Heidi Klum had five clones with her for Halloween this year, complete with matching peach and gold bodysuits and prosthetics on their faces? Heidi’s makeup artist spoke to toofab about the process of getting her and the clones ready and he revealed that the entire thing was Heidi’s idea, of course. Toofab asked Heidi’s prosthetic expert, Mike Marino, if Heidi just called him up and told him what to do and he said “that’s exactly it, there’s no changing Heidi’s mind once she sees it in her head.” So Heidi saw herself as the hot model with five women trying to copy her look. As I said in our earlier post about this, if Heidi wanted to make a social statement about models she would have been wearing prosthetics too – she wasn’t. (Incidentally, Marino claimed it cost $10 million to do Heidi’s look but he was just messing around.)
Some journalists (me if I would have cared enough) accused Heidi of phoning in her costume this year, especially compared to past years when she was quite creative. Well Heidi has some words for the people who didn’t like her clone costume and she said, seemingly with no sense of irony, “I like to be unique.”
“I loved [my costume]. I know that some people loved it and some people hated it, and that’s always going to be the case,” the model, 43, told Us at the launch of her Heidi Klum Swimwear line at Bloomingdale’s in New York City Wednesday, November 2. “I like to be creative. I don’t like to do things that have been done before, and I’ve never seen anyone do this before, and so I just like to be unique.”
“I don’t want to come in a costume I’ve seen before,” she said. “For me, this was an innovative year. I know at the end of the day, I looked how I always look. I loved the concept of having these six clones.”
Heidi also spoke to People magazine about her new swimwear line. She said that she wants to look sexy at any age and that she’ll be going topless on the beach in her 60s. She described her line as classic cuts with unique prints and fabrics.
“With style and clothes and swimsuits or lingerie, it doesn’t change with age,” she tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s issue, on newsstands this Friday. “I love fashion and I love showing off my feminine assets. I still feel sexy and I want to look sexy and so it doesn’t matter that I’m 43 instead of 25.”
“Everyone is trying to put 5,000 straps and weird cutouts [on swimwear],” she says. “That works well on photo shoots, but it doesn’t look so great on everyone at the beach. I like classic silhouettes that you pep up with beautiful prints and textured fabrics.”
“I’m also probably going to be the girl on the beach with no top on when I’m 60,” says the model, who’s been dating art dealer Vito Schnabel, 30, for over two years. “Maybe my stomach and my boobs are not going to be the same way they are now. But it’s just who I am. I am more of a free person. I’m more nudist that way. I’m fearless. I don’t think that will change. I’m gonna be that 60-year-old woman laying on the beach with just my bottoms on.”
Heidi is German and they’re nudists compared to Americans especially. Women should be able to do their thing and go nude if they want at any age. It does seem like Heidi has one setting, sexy, and that she’s somewhat one-dimensional. Why is it that Elizabeth Hurley can pose in her bikini line at 51 and look like a natural while Heidi’s sexpot image seems forced? Maybe that’s because Heidi is always telling us about it and Hurley is just doing her thing.
Multiplied Ego but i like the swimsuits.
Unique? She always seems incredibly generic blonde model to me, nothing like the individuality of Linda Evangilista, Naomi Campbell or Christy Turlington, or even of more modern ones like Cara Delavigne. Just a more mature cheerleader look. Good to eat healthily but that diet sounds faddish.
As a model, she always comes across as generic to me also, but I like her sense of humor, and I think it would be fun to hang out with her.
The clones made me think of the fembots in The Bionic Woman. I don’t think Jaime Sommers had a fembot twin but this is what I think of when I see the clones. As a child, I was frightened by the fembots.
Spot on Kaiser, Heidi has it in our face and forces it while Liz is herself. Love Liz by the way so I am a bit biased.
Yes, multipilied ego for sure. What would happen if Kim K did this???
Those clones look terrifying.
I think it’s because they can’t smile?
They do. They are so creepy, it actually is a good Haloween costume, albeit for the models, not Heidi.
It’s because they’re trying to be unique. So says the giant ego named Heidi!
I loved it and it was definitely unique as I’ve never seen anyone doing this. Butterflies and Jessica’s Rabbit (though that one was fabulous!) are aplenty during Halloween but this was something different.
Unless I missed it I don’t think Heidi was trying to make social commentary about models. Any the clones looked nothing like her.
my theory about her clone-costume: heidi is filming germany’s next topmodel at the moment and i’m guessing that her clones are some of the contestants who won a challenge.
she has too much time on her hands
German here: Compared to other countries we really are quite open. When it’s warm enough outside some people lay around in the park naked to tan (or get skin cancer), on the beach many are topless or completely nude and in the sauna have to be naked (towels are allowed, though). Nobody actually gives a shit, even though it’s not always a nice sight. I prefer this to a society where people feel traumatised by just seeing a female nipple.
Same here. Couple years ago a friend and I took our sons (they were like 7 or 8) to the local park that has a playground. In the park there was a guy sunbathing in the nude. Our sons went to stare at him, came over giggling to tell us he’s naked, and went back to play. No ones gives a shit. We didn’t either, but then, he was just lying there sunbathing. No harm to anyone.
Clones are just not a Halloween costume to me?
And she is so hung up on retaining her former swimsuit model image. Ugh. Evolve.
This has to be her laziest Halloween costume. She should have worn prosthetics too. That would have been much more fun.
Why does she think people care about what she does for Halloween?
Because typically people do. It’s been a thing for years (since she was with Seal). She usually goes all out and her costumes are usually quite creative.
I like it and always enjoy her costumes. I find her Halloween costuems interesting and unique. Why are people so offened by everything.
Yup. Clone. The definition of unique.
The clones look like they are wearing diapers.
Dressing up as yourself is no one’s idea of a Halloween costume. Maybe that is why no one has done that in the past. The models don’t even look like her. There’s Melania, Heather Locklear, Barbra Streisand and Samantha Bee.
How was it an innovative year to show up in lingerie and then get other women to dress up as you?
Heidi Klum seems nice enough, but I just can’t with her some days.
costume only highlights the Bad Points of Heidi’s very blah /pinched face… so no
And that she’s clearly wearing a wig herself.
This is amazing and creepy AF
…I agree…plus of course she’s made the transition from costume into art…brilliant..
I hope she didn’t spend a lot on those prosthetics, as those models look nothing like her.