Kim Kardashian it seemed to at least hint at the possibility that it did, in fact, hurt Marilyn Monroeher iconic dress at the 2022 Met Gala.
Kardashian, 45, opened up about wearing Bob Mackie and Jean Louis de Monroe dress, which fans criticized her to harm herwhile taking a lie detector test using Vanity FairYouTube channel on Monday, November 3.
In the video, Teyana Taylor asked her, “I want to settle this once and for all. Did you call her Marilyn Monroe’s dress?”
Kardashian then looked down at the number and replied, “No.”
Taylor, 34, then clarified: “So you’re saying it’s already gotten to your face?”
Kardashian shook her head and replied, “I don’t know how it got to me, but now it’s perfect.”
Taylor gave him a bit of a sidelong look before asking, “Who fixed it?”
The Kardashians The star smiled softly and said she didn’t “know” who restored the dress.
Taylor kept pressing. “So when you tried it on, what did the dress look like?”
Kardashian then dodged the question, telling Taylor it would “cost her $10 million in insurance.”
“Let’s go ahead,” he added, as Taylor laughed in the background.
The Skims founder then asked the test administrator if she was “being honest.”
“All true,” replied the administrator. Taylor then clapped, but Kardashian’s eyes widened.
Taylor asked Kardashian why she seemed “surprised” to learn that the test reported she was telling the truth. She slyly replied that “no” she was shocked.
At the end of the test, Kardashian was asked if she lied “at any point during (the interview) and (she didn’t get caught).”
She replied, “Maybe.”
The test administrator then confirmed that the machine was “picking up some cheating.”
When Kardashian donned Monroe’s dress, which the late actress originally debuted in 1962 while infamously singing “Happy Birthday” in President John F. Kennedy — wore the back of the dress unzipped to fit her curves.
On the red carpet, he said Vogue who lost 16 pounds in just three weeks to be able to wear the design.
“It was this or nothing,” she said, noting that she lost weight with “a sauna suit twice a day (and running) on the treadmill.” He also “completely cut out all sugar and all carbs” and ate the “cleanest vegetables and proteins.”
After getting her trim, Kardashian tried on the dress, owned by Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and cried “tears of joy when it came on.”
Fans later criticized Kardashian for wearing the design, claiming it damaged him.
Kim (Kardashian), people are dying…over your 2023 Met Gala look. The TV personality had all eyes on her when she arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. For the evening on Monday, May 1, Kardashian, 42, wore a custom Schiaparelli dress made of 50,000 real pearls, with strings (…)
“The dress is now showing signs of tearing and several crystals are missing or hanging off,” one person wrote via Xshowing a before and after dress. Another social media user added: “Why why WHY. This is like walking into the Louvre and throwing paint thinner straight at the Mona Lisa. Fashion preservation is so important. This was the destruction of an irreplaceable historical artifact, all to walk a red carpet. I’m going to be sick.”
Following the comment, Ripley’s VP of Publishing and Licensing, Amanda Joiner, issued a statement in June 2022, claiming that the Hulustar did not cause any damage to the suit.
“From the bottom of the Met stairs, where Kim put on the dress, to the top where she returned, the dress was in the same condition it started in,” the statement said.
Inside the gala, Kardashian changed into a replica dress.