On the archetypal Monday of May successful 2022, and accompanied by then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, Kim walked the Met Gala reddish carpet successful the golden gown Marilyn Monroe famously wore portion singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy successful 1962. Since the formal was a portion of American past and could not beryllium altered, Kim said she lost 16 pounds successful 3 weeks successful bid to acceptable successful it.

"I would deterioration a sauna suit doubly a day, tally connected the treadmill, wholly chopped retired each sweetener and each carbs, and conscionable devour the cleanest veggies and protein," she told Vogue. "I didn't starve myself, but I was truthful strict."

Not lone did Kim's her Balenciaga ensemble made it hard for Met Gala chairwoman Anna Wintour to recognize her during the 2021 lawsuit (the 2020 Met Gala was canceled amid the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic), but the head-to-toe look besides prevented the Keeping Up With the Kardashians prima from jotting down aboriginal [ex-]boyfriend Pete Davidson phone number.

"I saw him astatine the Met and helium knew I was hosting SNL but it wasn't announced yet. He came up to maine and we were talking about SNL," she recalled of their brushwood during an occurrence of Dear Media's Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. "I had gloves connected and I couldn't get into my phone."

Fortunately, the mates reconnected during Kim's SNL quality and the remainder was history.

To execute the look of a ace snatched waist successful her Thierry Mugler formal astatine the 2019 Met Gala, themed "Camp: Notes connected Fashion," Kim wore a constricting corset by Mr Pearl that made it hard for her to move. Despite taking "breathing lessons" from the decorator to guarantee that she tin respire portion wearing the undergarment, the ultra-cinched ensemble restricted her from sitting, forcing Kim to, um, opt retired of utilizing the bath erstwhile she had it on.

"If it's an emergency, I deliberation I pee my pants and past person my sister hitch my limb up," she said portion preparing for the event, arsenic shown connected Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "I'm not adjacent joking. She tin hitch my limb up."

Kim besides said the beads connected her gown, which hung disconnected the cloth to marque it look similar she had conscionable climbed retired of the ocean, poked her from the inside. She quipped, "It's a cactus."

Although Kim radiated successful golden connected the red carpet successful 2018, her Versace gown proved to much troublesome erstwhile she got wrong the Met. In a video shared to her societal media account, Kim said the sequins connected her formal kept getting caught connected different people's clothes—particularly the tulle skirt of chap guest SZA.

"When your formal is connected to this beauty," she quipped successful the clip, showing their downs entwined unneurotic arsenic assistants tried to untangle the knotted chaos. "We're stuck together!"

You could accidental that Kim didn't get overmuch quality beauty remainder earlier the 2016 gala. After all, the world prima antecedently explained, she met up with Balmain decorator Olivier Rousteing once she flew into New York astatine 1 a.m. for a fitting, wherever they "literally chopped skirts successful half, created tops from dresses, and stayed up until 4 a.m. to get the cleanable enactment that we felt acceptable the theme."

The effect was a effect was a futuristic metallic gown that paired perfectly with the taxable of "Manus × Machina: Fashion successful an Age of Technology."

Kim added, "The process of getting acceptable for an lawsuit similar this is intense; it truly takes a village."

The SKIMS mogul aboriginal called bleaching her eyebrows for the look a "big mistake."

Before Kim had adjacent stepped onto the reddish carpet astatine the 2014 Met Gala, her look was already causing immoderate drama. Not lone did Kim suffer a wardrobe malfunction in the high-slit Lanvin gown portion connected her mode to the Met, but the chunky loop and leather cuffs she primitively wore with the formal were "a spot excessively stone 'n' roll" for her taste.

To marque definite she was camera-ready, Kim ditched the accessories successful the car and swapped them for a cleanable achromatic satin belt.