Why Kim Kardashian Almost Had a Panic Attack in Controversial 2024 Met Gala Look - E! Online
Nearly a year after Kim Kardashian turned heads with her waist-cinching look at the 2024 Met Gala, she revealed just how painful the experience in an episode of The Kardashians.
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Kim Kardashian isn’t sure she would survive in the Regency era—especially after the 2024 Met Gala.
In May, the Kardashians star made a bold fashion statement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wearing a metallic Maison Margiela floral print gown that showcased her hourglass figure with its waist-cinching lace corset. But while the silver chromatic gown was the perfect addition to the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” theme, the actual act of wearing it was not so glamorous.
"I’m not as uncomfortable as I might look," Kim told hairstylist Chris Appleton and designer John Galliano while getting ready for the event at the time, shown in a Feb. 13 episode of The Kardashians. "It’s definitely a performance piece. I mean, God bless the Bridgerton cast that has to dress like this every single day. That would be so difficult."
But it didn’t take long before the corset-induced panic set in during the limo ride to the event. In fact, she told her friend LaLa Anthony that she “never felt this much pain in my life.”
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"I am claustrophobic,” she recalled in the episode. “I've never felt this way before, where I feel like I can't breathe.”
Indeed, the ensemble even sparked some controversy due to how drastically it cinched her waist. And while the 44-year-old planned to “sneak out right before the dinner” to get out of the agonizing dress, she found herself getting held up.
"It's like I can handle it for so long,” she continued, “but I have to pee, I can't breathe, I can't get this off, so this one I was just like I'm going to die if you don't get this off of me right now."
When she finally got to take the dress off at the end of the night, she removed the corset to reveal some pretty intense outlines imprinted into her skin. And earlier in the night, her mom Kris Jenner jokingly questioned Kim’s commitment to making a fashion statement—even at the expense of her own comfort.
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“Are you ever gonna wear a dress to the met where you can actually walk,” the 69-year-old quipped. “I don’t know what I would do if you just walked into the Met wearing a normal dress.”
But despite the discomfort that it caused, not even Kim could deny how fabulous it looked on the red carpet. And when asked if it was all worth it, she said, "Abso-f--king-lutely."
"That's just who I am," she added. "If you look good, it's all worth it."
To see more of Kim’s most challenging Met Gala looks over the years, keep reading.
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2024: Breathing Is an "Art Form"
Kim channeled the "Garden of Time" theme in a Maison Margiela corseted gown—and controversial "boyfriend" sweater on top. However, as she told Vogue in a getting ready video, breathing was "an art form" in the waist-cinching ensemble, "but I got it."
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2022: Crash Diet to Channel Marilyn Monroe
On the first Monday of May in 2022, and accompanied by then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, Kim walked the Met Gala red carpet in the gold gown Marilyn Monroe famously wore while singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in 1962. Since the dress was a piece of American history and could not be altered, Kim said she lost 16 pounds in three weeks in order to fit in it.
"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," she told Vogue. "I didn't starve myself, but I was so strict."
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2022: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
In order to channel Marilyn Monroe for the 2022 Met Gala, Kim spent 10 hours before the red carpet event bleaching her trademark brunette hair. In a YouTube video shared by Kylie Jenner, Kim quipped of the lengthy dye job, "I'll risk getting my hair to fall out."
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2021: Call Me, Maybe?
Not only did Kim's her Balenciaga ensemble made it hard for Met Gala chairwoman Anna Wintour to recognize her during the 2021 event (the 2020 Met Gala was canceled amid the start of the COVID-19 pandemic), but the head-to-toe look also prevented the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star from jotting down future [ex-]boyfriend Pete Davidson phone number.
"I saw him at the Met and he knew I was hosting SNL but it wasn't announced yet. He came up to me and we were talking about SNL," she recalled of their encounter during an episode of Dear Media's Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. "I had gloves on and I couldn't get into my phone."
Fortunately, the couple reconnected during Kim's SNL appearance and the rest was history.
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2019: Corset Chaos
To achieve the look of a super snatched waist in her Thierry Mugler dress at the 2019 Met Gala, themed "Camp: Notes on Fashion," Kim wore a constricting corset by Mr Pearl that made it difficult for her to move. Despite taking "breathing lessons" from the designer to ensure that she can breathe while wearing the undergarment, the ultra-cinched ensemble restricted her from sitting, forcing Kim to, um, opt out of using the bathroom once she had it on.
"If it's an emergency, I think I pee my pants and then have my sister wipe my leg up," she said while preparing for the event, as shown on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "I'm not even joking. She can wipe my leg up."
Kim also said the beads on her gown, which hung off the fabric to make it look like she had just climbed out of the ocean, poked her from the inside. She quipped, "It's a cactus."
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2018: Stuck on You
Although Kim radiated in gold on the red carpet in 2018, her Versace gown proved to more troublesome once she got inside the Met. In a video shared to her social media account, Kim said the sequins on her dress kept getting caught on other people's clothes—particularly the tulle skirt of fellow guest SZA.
"When your dress is connected to this beauty," she quipped in the clip, showing their downs entwined together as assistants tried to untangle the knotted chaos. "We're stuck together!"
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2016: No Sleep Till Manhattan
You could say that Kim didn't get much beauty beauty rest before the 2016 gala. After all, the reality star previously explained, she met up with Balmain designer Olivier Rousteing once she flew into New York at 1 a.m. for a fitting, where they "literally cut skirts in half, created tops from dresses, and stayed up until 4 a.m. to get the perfect option that we felt fit the theme."
The result was a result was a futuristic metallic gown that paired perfectly with the theme of "Manus × Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology."
Kim added, "The process of getting ready for an event like this is intense; it really takes a village."
The SKIMS mogul later called bleaching her eyebrows for the look a "big mistake."
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2015: Hiding a Pregnancy
Kim was in the first trimester of her pregnancy with her and ex Kanye West's second child, son Saint West, when the then-couple attended the 2015 Met Gala. She ultimately concealed her baby bump in a sparkling, semi-sheer Roberto Cavali gown. She wrote on her app after the event, "I was trying to hide it."
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2014: Wardrobe Malfunction
Before Kim had even stepped onto the red carpet at the 2014 Met Gala, her look was already causing some drama. Not only did Kim suffer a wardrobe malfunction in the high-slit Lanvin gown while on her way to the Met, but the chunky belt and leather cuffs she originally wore with the dress were "a bit too rock 'n' roll" for her taste.
To make sure she was camera-ready, Kim ditched the accessories in the car and swapped them for a clean black satin belt.
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