Kim Kardashian addressed the Marilyn Monroe costume scandal for the primary time Tuesday — insisting she didn’t have it on lengthy sufficient to trigger any harm.
Showing on the “Right now” present, the 41-year-old actuality TV star recalled with a smile that it was “such a course of” to get into the enduring “Blissful Birthday” costume, with handlers from Ripley’s Consider It or Not! carrying gloves to guard it whereas dressing her.
“I confirmed as much as the pink carpet in a gown and slippers and I put the costume on on the backside of the carpet, went up the steps — I most likely had it on for 3 minutes, 4 minutes,” Kardashian instructed the NBC morning present..
“After which I modified proper on the high of the steps,” she mentioned, insisting rumors that it acquired broken have been merely not true.
She mentioned Ripley’s — which has already denied the rumors — “labored collectively so nicely” together with her to make sure the treasured costume survived.
“There have been handlers in gloves that put it on me,” she mentioned with a smile.
She mentioned that she was further cautious with Monroe’s costume as a result of “I respect her, I perceive how a lot this costume means to American historical past,” she mentioned.
“With the theme being American, I believed, ‘What's extra American than Marilyn Monroe singing pleased birthday to the President of the USA?'”
Kardashian additionally fought again towards criticism that she misplaced 16 kilos to have the ability to put on the enduring garment.
“I checked out it like a job, and I actually needed to put on this costume. It was actually necessary to me,” she mentioned.
That need additionally “taught me so much about my way of life and my well being” as she dropped the load, she mentioned.
“Since then, afterward, I continued to eat actually healthily — I’m down 21 kilos now,” she mentioned.
“I’m not making an attempt to lose any extra weight, however I've extra vitality than ever,” she mentioned, noting how she had minimize out sugar and junk meals. “I simply utterly modified my way of life,” she mentioned.
Actually, Kardashian mentioned there was just one scandal from the night time — that so many individuals admitted on-line that they'd no thought who Monroe was.
“That was essentially the most surprising factor to me,” she mentioned of the tragic actress, who died of an overdose in 1962, aged simply 36.
“And that’s why I used to be so pleased to not less than have that chance to … share this second in order that it may reside on,” she mentioned.
Whereas it gave the impression to be the primary time Kardashian instantly spoke concerning the costume scandal, Ripley’s earlier insisted that the Hulu actuality star “didn't, in any manner, harm the garment within the quick period of time it was worn on the Met Gala.”
“From the underside of the Met steps, the place Kim acquired into the costume, to the highest the place it was returned, the costume was in the identical situation it began in,” famous Ripley’s VP of Publishing and Licensing, Amanda Joiner, who remained with the costume the day of the Met Gala throughout transport from Orlando, Fla., to New York.
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