Kim Kardashian said Marilyn Monroe’s dress didn’t fit above her hips on the first fitting. Kardashian said Ripley’s denied her the chance to wear the dress at that point. She eventually lost 16 pounds in three weeks and successfully fit into the dress.
Kim Kardashian said Ripley’s took away the Marilyn Monroe dress she eventually wore to the Met Gala when it didn’t fit her hips the first time she tried it on. In season two, episode seven of “The Kardashians,” Kardashian was trying to secure the dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy in 1962. While Kardashian eventually wore the dress to the Met Gala in May, she told the show that its owners, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, denied her the chance to wear it at some point in the process. “They just pulled this all over me, so I can’t even do it, and I’m freaking out,” Kardashian told her sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian during lunch on the episode. “I had to try on the prototype first and see if it fit, and once it did, they sent the prototype over. And when I went to put it on, it wouldn’t even go up over my hips. And I was just devastated.” Controversy erupted after Kardashian wore the dress to the Met Gala, with some claiming she had ruined the historic garment by wearing it. However, a video surfaced that proved the dress was damaged before Kardashian wore it. Both she and Ripley also denied that she had destroyed the garment. In a clip from the dress fitting session, Kardashian said she would “try on anything” and try to drop 10 pounds to fit into the dress. She told her sisters over lunch that she wrote Ripley’s a “stupid, pleading email” but that they were “very firm” in their refusal, citing concerns about insuring the dress. Ultimately, as Kardashian told Vogue, she lost 16 pounds in three weeks. When she wore the dress to the Met Gala, she only wore it for a few minutes and changed into a replica after walking up the stairs at the event, Vogue reported. Read the original article on Insider
