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Heidi Klum dresses up as worm on 31 October in New York City
Heidi Klum dresses up as worm on 31 October in New York City
(Image credit: Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Celebrities in America love to make a splash with elaborate Halloween costumes, but few have gone as far as Heidi Klum. This year, the supermodel decided to wear “something different”, and settled on dressing up as a worm. It took her 12 hours to get into the outfit, made of spandex and foam, and she conceded that being “stuck inside the worm body” was not very comfortable. “But Halloween,” she reflected, “is not about comfort.”

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