“Kim was super dedicated to pulling off the exact Marilyn Monroe look for
"I had to lose 16 pounds to fit into it." Lest you believe the Monroe-inspired hair is a wig, Kardashian confirmed that she did, in fact, bleach her hair for the occasion. "I'm spending the whole day just dyeing my hair, 14 hours straight," Kardashian told Vogue in a pre-Met Gala interview about the look.
“Marilyn was the idea, but I wanted Kim to look like Kim, not a look alike of Marilyn,” he told PopSugar. “The hair look was simple to highlight the platinum colour with a really simple bun, giving the hair colour and dress the attention.”
The biggest challenge was just how fragile the dress was. Knowing they could not risk ruining the historical masterpiece, Kim and her glam team came up with the perfect way around it — a replica dress. “I can't risk it. It's so fragile.
Kim had the lightbulb moment of draping a white fur coat around her – just like the one Marilyn had also worn. The newly-divorced star marked her return to the iconic steps of the Met in serious style, having last attended the Met Gala in 2021 – in *that* incognito look.
According to the KKW Beauty founder, the idea of wearing the late actress' dress felt like the perfect representation of America. "When she sang Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy — who is America — I thought where is the dress that she wore?" she recalled. "[Ripley's Believe It or Not] said I can try on the dress."
Kardashian borrowed the dress from Ripley's Orlando location and she did not pay for it – but she did make two charitable donations to organizations in the Orlando are on behalf of the company, the post reads. Ripley's bought the dress at a private auction.
Created 60 years ago by Hollywood designer Jean Louis, with help from Bob Mackie, the dress was loaned to Kardashian for the Met Gala, with the agreement that no alterations were allowed to be made.
But that didn't mean things were automatically set in stone. First, Kim had to fit in the dress, a fitting that she lost weight and even dyed her hair blonde for.
Kim Kardashian said that the Marilyn Monroe dress didn't fit over her hips at the first fitting. Kardashian said that Ripley's denied her the possibility of wearing the dress at that point. She eventually lost 16 pounds in three weeks, and successfully fit into the dress.
Kim Kardashian 'tripping out' about weighing 120 pounds before Met Gala.
“It was designed for her,” Mackie says. “Nobody else should be seen in that dress.” Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress has reportedly been damaged after being worn by Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala. “A report written on the dress's condition in early 2017 states, 'A number of the seams are pulled and worn.
During the event, Kim confirmed that she'd lost 16 lbs in three weeks to fit into the dress, which received a mixed response from fans and critics alike – with many pointing out that it's unhealthy, not to mention unsustainable, to lose so much weight in such a short period of time.
Kim Kardashian did not damage Marilyn Monroe's dress, Ripley's Believe It or Not says. The museum said that the dress was damaged long before Kardashian wore it to the Met Gala. Ripley's Believe It or Not!
The dress is currently opened by Ripley's Believe It or Not. The "attractions company" acquired the dress for $5 million in 2016. According to Kardashian, when considering the theme of this year's Met Gala, the "most American" thing she could think of was Marilyn Monroe; hence, her decision to wear the dress.
"I did want a physical change, too, so I thought I would wait and do it for this, so I'm spending a day straight dyeing my hair — 14 hours straight! — to get it done," she revealed to the outlet.
While her journey to get into the dress seemed to be going well, she hit a metaphorical snag when she couldn't fit into the original... leading her to try and drop 16 pounds in just three weeks, including a strict diet, sauna suits and more.
The famous celebrity usually follows a plant-based diet, but she explained that she had to eat meat ahead of the Marilyn Monroe Met Gala. "Psoriasis broke out over my body and I got psoriatic arthritis, so I couldn't really move my hands," Kardashian said. "I had to go to a rheumatologist who put me on a steroid.
The dominant theory was that she was paying tribute to ex-husband Kanye West's new album, “Donda”. The album cover is all black, and Kanye himself turned up to the Gala in black with his face covered just like Kim's.
Kardashian borrowed the dress from Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum, which bought it from a 2016 auction for $4.8 million. Designed by Jean Louis, the dress was originally worn by Monroe to President John F. Kennedy's birthday fundraiser in 1962.
It's frequently reported that Marilyn wore a UK size 16 - but in today's dress sizes, which are generally cut bigger, this means she would have worn a size 10/12. And going by the fact Kim had to lose so much weight, Marilyn was likely to be even smaller than that.
Does Marilyn have any children? No. Although Marilyn was married three times (first to James Dougherty, followed by baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller), she did not have any children before her death in 1962. However, she really wanted to have a family and did have multiple documented pregnancies.
After he died in 1990, the clothes were displayed by his colleague Bill Sarris. It joined the private collection of Hollywood memorabilia owned by Debbie Reynolds at the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum.
During an interview with Vogue, Kardashian explained, “It was this or nothing. [In the weeks leading up to the Met Gala], I would wear a sauna suit twice a day, run on the treadmill, completely cut out all sugar and all carbs, and just eat the cleanest veggies and protein. I didn't starve myself, but I was so strict.”
According to Healthy Balance, Kim Kardashian's 3-week weight loss journey involved her cutting carbs and eating “just the cleanest veggies and protein.” When it came to working out, Kim ran on a treadmill and wore a sauna suit twice a day.