Questionable Choices: Heidi Klum’s Gruesome Halloween Costume

…Wow. Every year in the weeks leading up to Halloween, I remember that Heidi Klum goes all out when it comes to her costumes. Nothing is too outlandish, too dorky, too labor-intensive. Then I promptly forget her dedication to the holiday and am surprised every year by what she comes up with.

This year is no exception: Heidi showed up to her own Halloween party looking like a corpse stripped of all its skin. And this wasn’t some sexy ghoul: The only airbrushing involved was the fake blood and muscles showing through all over her body. It makes you wince just looking at it. She even wore a pair of false teeth! Truly, she’s unrecognizable.

The costume has its own name (perhaps if other people want to emulate her in 2012): “Visible Woman.” She also arranged for a very dramatic entrance: She was wheeled in on a bloodstained gurney by two equally blood-spattered medical interns.

What’s really thought-provoking about Heidi’s costumes is that she has absolutely no vanity. As Mean Girls taught us, many women use Halloween as an excuse to vamp it up in sexy getups, but here you have a former Victoria’s Secret model continually working against her natural beauty—discarding it to instead be geeky (like last year’s giant robot superhero) or gory.

Heidi tells People that she loves being creative—and it’s a requirement for all of her party guests: “I always put on my invitation, ‘Costume required,’ because if you’re not dressing up, you’re not getting in.”

Let me put it this way: I used to work at Bodies… The Exhibition, and she looks more authentic than those real dead bodies did.