Kim Kardashian

The star said she cried when she realised she didn't fit into the iconic dress during a first try-on, but went on to lose over a stone in weight.

I was FaceTiming my sisters to meet up at the top of the stairs. I was like, I don’t know how I could wear the mask. I was so nervous to go by myself I almost threw up on the way & I had to pee every second.. 'But Demna [Gvasalia, Balenciaga’s creative director] and the team were like, "This is a costume gala. Earlier she had noted: 'I thought Balmain was the perfect choice for me and Kanye, especially. During her first year at the splashy, star-studded event she had on a tight floral dress that made the most of her very pregnant belly. Husband Kanye West was in the same designer. Big mistake to bleach the brows but Kanye looked so good this year with those blue eyes! The California native said that she was not invited but rather was West's plus one. Her hair was slicked back and she modeled huge earrings. 'I think I might just wear that one to eat pizza in my hotel room. She said she thought she would fit into Marilyn's dress as 'I always thought she was extremely curvy.

Speaking on the Met Gala red carpet, Kim Kardashian said she had to lose 16lbs and so would wear a sauna suit twice a day while it took her 14 hours to dye ...

I said, 'Give me three weeks.' I had to lose 16 pounds." I imagined I might be smaller in some places where she was bigger and bigger in places where she was smaller. "I always thought she was extremely curvy.

With Kim Kardashian revealing she lost a stone in a few weeks to fit into her Met Gala dress, Laura Hampson says it's a giant step backwards for the body ...

But when it comes to diet culture and the pressure to be slim to be seen as a whole person? “It was this or nothing,” she told the publication, adding that her extreme routine in the run up to the gala included wearing a sauna suit (a suit that retains sweat, often used by athletes to lose weight before a competition), running on the treadmill and completely cutting out “all sugar and carbs”. “I didn’t starve myself, but I was so strict,” she said. When weight loss and an Instagram-perfect body is so entwined into your core being, of course you’re going to do anything you can to look perfect, to fit into the dress. When I was in my early teens, I remember reading about a fad diet Beyoncé had done to lose 14 pounds before a tour. Speaking to US Vogue, the reality star said she wanted to “cry” when she first tried on the dress and it didn’t fit. Kim Kardashian wants us to know that she lost 16 pounds (just over a stone) to fit into her Met Gala dress.

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She accessorised with emerald earrings and a tiara. Later on, three team members helped Lively to unwrap her dress to reveal turquoise draping. American social media personality and make-up artist Avani Gregg made her debut at the Met Gala 2022 in a dress from the first collection of Bach Mai, a New York City-based womenswear designer from Texas. The theme is inspired by that year’s Costume Institute exhibition, and guests are expected to choose their outfit, most of which are designed and created specifically for the event, to match the theme of the exhibit. The Met Gala is a fundraising event which marks the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibit on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. The Met Gala is an annual fundraising ball held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City.

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So strong in fact that Pete appears to have tattooed the names of the four children Kim shares with ex-husband Kanye West, on his neck. It comes from rice, grows your hair back,’ before giving a thumbs up and walking off. Kim then motioned for her 28-year-old boyfriend to come back, to which he did and was immediately showered with compliments from the ladies.

The reality star wowed on the red carpet of the 2022 Met Gala in New York City on Monday – but she swiftly whipped off the original and changed into a ...

I thought to myself, what would I have done for the American theme if it had not been the Balenciaga look? Speaking to the magazine about her anxiety over destroying the dress, and why she changed out of it as soon as she could, Kim said: “I’m extremely respectful to the dress and what it means to American history. She also explained why she wanted to wear the dress for the theme, saying: “The idea really came to me after the gala in September last year.