Eep! The Worst Celebrity Costumes Over the Years

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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Anne Dizon

Is it fall already?

It's that time of year again, guys. Put your bikinis away and trade your fake tans for bodypaint. Halloween is just around the corner and the celebs are here to provide guidance on what NOT to wear this year. What really constitutes as a bad costume, though? The answer is debatable. Sure, a costume can have a completely unaesthetic structure that can make our eyes burn...but if the effort is there and it pays strong attention to detail, they can (maybe) get away with it.

When we think of Halloween, we used to automatically think about witches, ghosts, goblins, vampires, etc. Nowadays, costumes range from the disgustingly gory to the purposely ironic hipster all the way to the endless array of people epitomizing the Mean Girls motto of: " In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it." As much as we can agree with that statement, the little feminist in me is not a fan of that word to describe us ladies who simply want to be able to show a little skin on a fun night of dress up.

With that said, once you take a look at the upcoming costumes on the bottom, getting too sexy is far from the problem. Here are 5 of some the worst and WTF-worthy costumes that celebs have donned over the years.

1) Janet Jackson (The Lavin Dolls party 2010) - Looks like the usually stylish star had a bit of trouble deciding on a costume. Did she want to be Mary Poppins? Zorro? Prince? Janet loved all the ideas so much, she decided to dress as all three. Yikes.

2) Nadya "Octomom" Suleman - Holy [fill in the blank]. The most shocking aspect in this list is the fact that she is considered a "celebrity" of some sort. What really catches the eye is the mother's little attempt at irony by dressing up as a pregnant nun with little Devil spawns in strollers. We can get all into what is offensive and all that but bottom line, the babies are crying for a reason.

3) Seal & Heidi Klum (2007 annual Halloween party) - This costume ensemble between the superstar couple definitely gets an A for originality...but really? Couldn't Seal be the apple and have the former Victoria's Secret babe as Eve in the garden of Eden? Nah. Too easy.

4) Dennis Rodman - We really do not know what is going on is this picture either...perhaps it's a poor attempt as a peacock? Or a Troll doll?...No one knows.

5) Lady Gaga a.k.a. "Joe Calderone" - Alright, this may not be a Halloween costume, this photo is merely a screencap from her (his) opening monologue in the 2011 Video Music Awards. However, this little outfit she has on just 'scah-reams' costume. Were you a fan of her little gender-bender gimmick at the show? Frankly, the mute button was more of the star than anything on my TV screen.

Anne Dizon is Editor for Almost Famous and a contributer for Joonbug. She is currently on her last year at Lehman College with a major in English and a minor in Linguistics. Her affinity for writing and celebrity gossip stems from her inability to sit still (aptly nicknamed Pikachu), as well as her natural gift of knowing everything & anything about pop culture. Her interests include writing, karaoke, getting lost in Sephora, iced chai lattes, American Sign Language, anything white chocolate, event planning, going on food adventures & preparing her wedding to Darren Criss. Anne also has an addiction to sushi, especially since she is an Aquarius and convinced that she was a mermaid in a previous life.