Heidi Klum talks everything from marriage to Tom Kaulitz to Halloween, fashion diversity

NEW YORK – Heidi Klum is enjoying being a newlywed.

The supermodel and TV personality chatted about her recent marriage to Tom Kaulitz on the red carpet at the amfAR Gala Wednesday night.

“So far so good,” Klum told USA TODAY at the annual benefit for AIDS research, held at Cipriani Wall Street. "He's an amazing person. I couldn't be happier."

Klum, 46, shared the news of her nuptials with the 30-year-old Tokio Hotel guitarist in August, posting a photo of their wedding day on Instagram.

Klum might not have listened to her now-husband's music before they got together, but she detailed meeting Kaulitz's twin brother, Bill, years earlier when he was a guest on “Germany’s Next Topmodel,” which Klum hosts, judges and executive produces.

"He did a stage dive and all my models had to pretend to be rock stars and do a stage dive into the crowd," Klum said. "I had met him many, many years ago, but I didn't know he had a twin brother that I was going to be married to one day."

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As Valentine’s Day approaches, while Klum said she didn’t have any major plans for the holiday, she hoped her husband would plan something special.

“Usually we always doing something cute for the kids,” she said. "I will see what my husband has in mind. I want to be surprised this year."

Though she might be taking a hands-off approach to Valentine’s Day, the reigning Queen of Halloween is always involved with her elaborate costumes during the spooky season.

“Usually I start in the summer,” she said, admitting that she won’t start planning her 2020 costume for a few months. “I had a hard one this last one."

Klum stunned fans with her makeover into a gory alien for Halloween 2019, transforming in front of a live audience at an Amazon bookstore in New York City ahead of her annual Halloween costume party.

"I did it in the window because no one ever gets to see this, not because of me but because of these people that are the artists and do that to me. I thought it was such an amazing process," Klum said. "So I didn't want to hide in a hotel room somewhere and do this. I wanted people to see what (the artists) do. It took a long time. I think I sat there for 10 hours.”

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While the “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” judge didn’t discuss the drama regarding former host Gabrielle Union’s recent exit, she spoke candidly about the fashion industry’s ongoing reckoning with racist incidents and internal diversity.

“I always say you have to go with the times. I can only look for girls who are wanted in the industry. Thankfully now I can change my casting, and I have been for a few years since it has changed,” Klum said, referencing her 15 seasons of “Germany’s Next Topmodel." "Beautiful girls with curves that before were not wanted in the industry, now they are, so now I cast those girls and it's amazing. A lot of them do lack a lot in their confidence, which I'm always trying to boost, so it's a beautiful change that's happening. It's long overdue, but at least it's changing."

As for being considered an icon in fashion, Klum had a modest response about her place in runway history.

"I've been on the worst-dressed list many times," she said. "It's important to be true to who you are. I always loved fashion, I never went the conservative route. If you look at all my years of being on a red carpet, I always was me. … And now that's on trend, and that's accepted."

Klum currently stars with her former “Project Runway” co-star Tim Gunn on Netflix’s new fashion competition reality show “Making the Cut.”

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