In the decade since, Kardashian and her sisters have all attended many times and are now considered Met Gala staples. However, in the past few years, it seems that Kardashian is less focused on fashion, more focused on the all-consuming need to ensure that we all talk (and talk and talk) about her seemingly non-human body.
This started in 2022 with the Marilyn Monroe dress debacle, when Kardashian appeared on the carpet in Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” gown. If you remember, fashion lovers and historians were outraged that Kardashian was allowed to wear the dress at all, especially when it was rumored that she had damaged it in the process (which the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum, which owned the dress, later denied).
Many were disturbed by Kardashian’s casual admission of the drastic measures she took in order to fit into the dress, mainly that she essentially didn’t eat for three weeks.
“I would wear a sauna suit twice a day, run on the treadmill, completely cut out all sugar and all carbs, and just eat the cleanest veggies and protein. I didn’t starve myself, but I was so strict,” she told Vogue.
As we wrote at the time, Kardashian’s promoting of such an extreme crash diet was “both alarming and outdated,” and many people were justifiably up in arms about it. It was all anyone talked about for weeks after the Gala, and the instance was among the first to spark the Ozempic discourse, as the drug was relatively unknown to the masses in 2022. She was, for better or for worse, the Met’s main character.
That’s why, when I first saw Kardashian’s outfit on the red carpet last night and that teeny-tiny waist, I had to roll my eyes. We’re doing this again? It just seems so obvious and tired at this point. Her midsection was crammed into such a ridiculous corset that many joked that it looked like she had her ribs removed. Other commenters on social media noted how physically miserable she looked, wondered if her organs got crushed, and said it looked as though she was crying tears of pain on the red carpet.
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