diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py
index 3c9cee3892..7eb175dfaf 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py
@@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ class HuggingFaceInferenceAPIEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     """The name of the model to use for text embeddings."""
     api_url: Optional[str] = None
     """Custom inference endpoint url. None for using default public url."""
+    additional_headers: Dict[str, str] = {}
+    """Pass additional headers to the requests library if needed."""
 
     @property
     def _api_url(self) -> str:
@@ -327,7 +329,10 @@ class HuggingFaceInferenceAPIEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
 
     @property
     def _headers(self) -> dict:
-        return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {self.api_key.get_secret_value()}"}
+        return {
+            "Authorization": f"Bearer {self.api_key.get_secret_value()}",
+            **self.additional_headers,
+        }
 
     def embed_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> List[List[float]]:
         """Get the embeddings for a list of texts.