Kim Kardashian worried her hair would ‘fall out’ after going blonde for striking Marilyn Monroe look at Met Gala

Kim Kardashian, who took her hair from darkish brunette to bottle blonde for the Met Gala, was anxious she put her tresses in danger (Image: Getty)

Kim Kardashian was involved her hair might have fallen out after going peroxide blonde for her Marilyn Monroe makeover on the Met Gala.

The 41-year-old billionaire Skims founder and mother-of-four borrowed Monroe’s iconic costume from Ripley’s Consider It Or Not! museum for the occasion – which paid a staggering $4.8m (£3.9m) at an public sale for the long-lasting costume in November 2016.

On Wednesday, Kim’s half-sister Kylie Jenner launched a vlog to her YouTube account, which featured Kim saying that she was involved her hair could also be in bother whereas getting ready for the transformation, which included a bleach-blonde slicked-back coiffure that took a whopping 10 hours to finish.

Within the vlog, Kim enters together with her hair wrapped in foils as Kylie is in a becoming for the style occasion, attempting on her white baseball cap and wedding ceremony costume, which have been worn in honour of the late dressmaker Virgil Abloh, who died aged 41 from most cancers in November 2021.

Within the clip, 24-year-old Kylie will be heard saying: ‘I can’t imagine you’re actually dyeing your hair’, then provides that Kim is ‘so daring’ for the transformation.

Kim then speaks to Kylie’s daughter Stormi, telling her that she’s going to go ‘blonde’ – similar to ‘Elsa from Frozen’.

Kim was anxious she’d go bald from dyeing her locks blonde once more (Photograph by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos)

Days earlier than the Met Gala, Kim was rocking her normal darkish coiffure (Image: AP Photograph/Jose Luis)

She provides: ‘I’ve been doing this for 10 hours already. I’ll threat getting my hair to fall out.’

The theme for the evening was In America: An Anthology of Trend and Gilded Glamour and the truth star pulled out all of the stops to embody the vibe, guaranteeing she was the centre of consideration on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s annual high-fashion occasion.

The figure-hugging robe Kim wore is adorned with 6000 crystals and Kim admitted to Vogue that she’d misplaced 16lbs with the intention to squeeze into it on the day.

The truth star additionally revealed that she wasn’t in a position to do the costume up over her internet-breaking bum, and so needed to depart the zip open and canopy her modesty with a white scarf just like the one Monroe wore when she sang Glad Birthday to John F Kennedy in 1962.

Kim first experimented with blonde hair in 2009 (Image: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage)

This isn’t the primary time that Kim has rocked a blonde coiffure – she’s opted for the look many occasions lately.

In 2009, the brunette star dyed her lengthy tresses a honey-blonde, whereas additionally tinting her eyebrows a lighter shade with the intention to mix in.

In 2013, she additionally added some honey-blonde highlights to her naturally dark-coloured hair.

Her first foray right into a super-blonde coiffure got here in 2014 when she rocked a sunny, California-girl look with lengthy blonde streaks.

Kim has gone blonde on a variety of events (Image: Gotham/GC Photos)

Kim revealed that her 2015 dye job severely broken her hair (Image: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photos)

In 2015 the tv character first tried a bleach blonde do – which took her from her pure darkish brunette to a brief blonde lob, nevertheless, afterwards, she revealed that it had severely broken her hair.

The next years of 2016 and 2017 noticed the star additionally attempting out bleach blonde seems to be, however, additionally experimenting with braided types.

This 12 months’s Met Gala is the primary time that the Kardashian-Jenners have been all in attendance, with Kim, Kris, Kourtney, Kendall and Khloe all on the vogue occasion.