Kim Kardashian shares major Met Gala regret over iconic Marilyn Monroe gown
Kim Kardashian thinks about her one major regret over her Marilyn Monroe Met Gala look "once a week".
Kim Kardashian thinks about her regret over her Marilyn Monroe Met Gala look "once a week".
The Kardashians star appeared at the glitzy fashion event in New York in 2022 wearing a gown that was previously seen on the late Hollywood legend back in 1962 when she sang Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy but the Skims founder opted not to mimic Marilyn's iconic fluffy bob, instead scraping her tresses back into a bun, and despite four years having passed, she still wishes she'd styled her hair differently.
Speaking about the look in a TikTok video with make-up artist Mario Dedivanovic and hairstylist Chris Appleton, Kim said: "It was all about the hair. It was all about the hair, I'll fight you on that until the day I die.
"I think about it once a week. It was that we had too much going on. You were doing every [Kardashian] family member, we weren't focused.
"Everyone was telling me, 'Don't do Marilyn hair, because you'll look like a wax figure of hers.'
"Everyone f***** up here, let's just say that."
The 45-year-old reality star pulled up a photo of Marilyn and noted that copying her hair would have been "iconic".
But later in the video, Kim noted that hours after she had complained about the look, Vanity Fair published a gallery of '11 Met Gala Moments That Helped Define Pop Culture', with her Marilyn look as the cover image.
She said: "And this is the front page. And these two look good... I still wish I had curly hair, but it's okay."
Kim previously admitted she wished she'd stayed brunette when she wore Marilyn's dress to channel Kennedy's wife Jackie instead.
Speaking on an episode of The Kardashians, Kim explained: "I will bring this up til the end of time. I don’t know why, but everyone told me: 'Don’t do Marilyn hair. You’re gonna look like a wax figure of Marilyn.’ We just thought we wanted to be blonde.
"I should’ve been, like, dark, Jackie O vibes ... [I] photoshopped it 500 different ways after the fact [to see the different hair colours]"
The reality TV star previously admitted it was a struggle it took to fit into the iconic dress - which is owned by Ripley's Believe It Or Not - and had to change into the outfit at the gala itself in a bid to avoid damaging it during travel to the venue.
In a previous episode of The Kardashians, she said: "I can't sit in a car, I can't risk it. It's so fragile, you guys. No one can touch me. So if anyone touches me and gets their oils on the dress … it's too risky to get in the car and leave from the hotel and do it ...
"So, all of this - the losing the weight, dying the hair for 30 hours, leaving the hotel in a robe, getting there, changing on the red carpet, just walking to the top of the red carpet, then changing again into a replica of the dress, because we can't risk sitting in it and eating dinner, is all for maybe 10 minutes of my life, just on the red carpet. Like, that's it."
