Kim Kardashian was given a lock of Marilyn Monroe’s precise hair after carrying the actress’s precise gown to the Met Gala 2022.
The truth star, 41, made headlines after carrying Marilyn’s historic ‘Glad Birthday, Mr President’ robe for the crimson carpet on the Met Gala, earlier than becoming a reproduction after doing the crimson carpet.
However that’s not the one a part of Marilyn memorabilia the mother-of-four has obtained her palms on, as she was additionally gifted a number of the icon’s hair, too.
Kim was loaned the well-known gown by Ripley’s Consider It Or Not! museum for the night, they usually had an additional shock in retailer for her too.
They shared a video of Kim being gifted a lock of Marilyn’s hair, with a Ripley’s staffer telling her the present is both ‘very cool or very bizarre’.
Ripley’s added: ‘Throughout @KimKardashian’s Met Gala gown becoming at Ripley’s Consider It or Not! HQ, our workforce shocked her with a silver field that contained an precise lock of Marilyn’s iconic platinum hair.
‘The Ripley’s workforce additionally crammed her Met Gala dressing room with a trove of Marilyn Monroe and JFK memorabilia to assist encourage her look.’
Within the video, Kim may be seen gasping with pleasure earlier than saying: ‘Oh my god I’m actually going to do some loopy voodoo s**t and channel her!
‘That is so particular to me. Thanks a lot, that is so cool,’ earlier than including to boyfriend Pete Davidson, 28, who was off-camera: ‘That is sleeping with me each night time… sorry babe.’
Marilyn had worn the gown for her well-known efficiency for John F. Kennedy’s forty fifth birthday at Madison Sq. Backyard on Might 19, 1962, simply three months earlier than her demise.
Because the gown is so iconic and part of American historical past, no alterations have been allowed to be made to it, so Kim needed to lose 16lb to suit into it.
She advised Vogue: ‘I might put on a sauna go well with twice a day, run on the treadmill, fully minimize out all sugar and all carbs, and simply eat the cleanest veggies and protein. I didn’t starve myself, however I used to be so strict.’
The gown additionally got here with guards and Kim needed to put on gloves to strive it on, and needed to develop into a reproduction after doing the crimson carpet so the actual gown wouldn’t undergo any undue put on and tear on the night time.
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