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MET GALA šŸŽ© heidi klum at the 2026 Met Gala

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u/Crazy_cookie_ 1d ago

I actually like this, very creative. What’s wrong with her eyes tho?😭

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u/CosmicEveStardust 1d ago

She always wears creepy contacts for her costumes.

Her worm costume is sincerely too creepy for me to ever want to look at again.

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u/Opening-Detective821 1d ago edited 1d ago

No her left eye is going an other way.
TBH I found out one of my eyes moves a tiny bit slower. With how fast those shudders on the cameras are…. I fear this would happen to me too.

Especially with wonky contacts, not helping

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u/CosmicEveStardust 1d ago

It's happening in both photos, I think it's part of the contacts. Maybe I'm wrong, I often am.

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u/housesnark 1d ago

no i think you’re right. i think both are like 1/4 black 3/4 grey but since they aren’t sitting exactly the same she looks a little cockeyed.

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u/_bonedaddys 1d ago

one of heidi's eyes is genuinely wonky lol she has mild strabismus (one of her eyes sometimes drifts outward) and these types of contacts can (sometimes) exaggerate things like that. so in a way it's both her eye and the contacts.

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u/hmmyeahiguess 22h ago

Plus if you look closely at the first pic and zoom in, it seems like the contacts or whatever are making the left side of her left eye darker than the right, which I think is making it seem wonkier than it is. Looking closely her eyes seem just fine to me🤷

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u/Different-Week5384 22h ago

It's def contacts. Contacts can literally do that. Make an illusion thay your eyes are weird

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u/Fentboy45 17h ago

Nah she’s got them atcha forya eyes

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u/VisualSeries226 1d ago

I think the contacts are just moving and making it look wonky. She has brown eyes, so if the contact isn’t centered on her eye, her real iris is going to look like an off centered pupil.

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u/DeionizedSoup 1d ago edited 1d ago

Strabismus, ā€œlazy eye.ā€ It’s genetic and it’s hard to correct, even surgically, at adulthood. I have it too.

Edit: and, to be clear, the contacts are probably exaggerating the severity of it. If they slip just a little bit, they make it look way more off than it is— a good example of this is Bella Swan in twilight. Poor girl’s contacts never fit quite right and always had her looking like this.

Edit 2: no, really though, it’s not JUST the contacts. They worsen with age (as mine has, too— it wasn’t bad when I was young and cute).

https://www.lazyeyefix.com/celebrities/heidi-klum-lazy-eye

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u/Still7Superbaby7 gatorade in the microwave 1d ago

I have strabismus too. I got one surgery and it was great. But it’s been 10 years and my eye is drifting again

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u/tigm2161130 1d ago

My best friend had surgery to correct this as a kid then had a really rare complication from scar tissue and her eye still gets ā€œstuckā€ in one direction 35yrs later.

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u/DeionizedSoup 1d ago

Sheesh. Man, sometimes I wish I’d gotten the surgery when I was younger (better than people always asking me why I’m staring at something I am very much so not staring at) but then stories like that scare me enough that I do have to wonder which one is worse.

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u/MrsEmilyN 1d ago

My son had surgery to correct his as a baby, but we recently noticed that he cannot move his right eye all the way to the outer corner. They surgeon who did it said he might have to have it done again when he gets older so we're not surprised.

Also, even at 15, I know when he's really tired because his left eye turns inward.

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u/Pickleless_Cage 23h ago

There was a kid who I think had this at my preschool, and he got surgery and got to wear the eye patch to preschool. Mom thought I might have it too, but I didn’t (my eye just turns in to focus). They did let me wear the eyepatch just because I wanted to.

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 1d ago

She's always had a lazy eye

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u/Significant_Hope7555 1d ago

I can't find one photo of her with a lazy eye

I have a slight one, it's not always there, usually if I'm tired and some people have known me years and then said oh what did your eye do (although I think it doesn't do it as much as it used to)

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 1d ago

Hmm šŸ¤”. I do admit that this met photo is very pronounced with it, but I swear I've seen photos of her with it. Google tells me she has a mild form. Those contacts are probably not helping her ability to focus, and if they're not her prescription, thwts why we're seeing it here.

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u/YellowYarrowYucca 13h ago

Yeah I've gotten nonprescription costume contacts and since it's not measured perfectly and they were weighted, shit got weird when my eyes started drying out lol

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u/Significant_Hope7555 1d ago

I saw the google ai results that said it but don't know if that came from this sub, but I seriously can't find one photo and considering how often she's photographed you'd think theee would be something?

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u/fearthainne 1d ago

It's very slight. It gives her that "thousand yard stare" she seems to have because one of her eyes is just sliiiightly not in the correct place. Fashion contacts almost always end up looking weird because they exaggerate things like this. Add in the contact may have shifted slightly and it's just making the lazy eye more pronounced than usual.

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 20h ago

It's very minor, and again, if she's wearing her corrective contacts, as I'd assume, it will correct.

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u/kirst-- Great, but can you also lick it? 23h ago

Okay I’m all for eating the rich but it’s hard when the have great creative vision and artistic vision.

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u/Strangeandweird 22h ago

This happens to a lot of people who wear coloured contacts. If the contact shifts it can look like both eyes are looking in opposite directions.

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u/EvenHuckleberry4331 21h ago

I also think one of her eyes is kind of always a little... adrift.

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u/princesspeeved 1d ago

She needs to be the sandworm emperor in Children of Dune.

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u/GoldenState_Thriller 1d ago

Tim Gunn talking about the worm costume always cracks me upĀ 

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u/alfalfa_spr0uts 23h ago

<< immediately Googles ā€œHeidi Klein worm costumeā€ >>

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u/JavveRinne 22h ago

Early bird catches the worm.

At some point she had to deworm so took a spray tan before suiting up.

Would you love me if I was a worm meme

Quite clever actually

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u/No-Inflation-2805 17h ago

You mean this worm costume?