Kim Kardashian says Ripley's took Marilyn Monroe's dress back from her after it didn't fit over her hips the first time she tried it on - Yahoo News

• Kim Kardashian said that the Marilyn Monroe formal didn't acceptable implicit her hips astatine the archetypal fitting.

• Kardashian said that Ripley's denied her the anticipation of wearing the formal astatine that point.

• She yet mislaid 16 pounds successful 3 weeks, and successfully acceptable into the dress.

Kim Kardashian said that Ripley's took the Marilyn Monroe formal she yet wore astatine the Met Gala distant from her erstwhile it didn't acceptable implicit her hips the archetypal clip that she tried it on.

On play two, occurrence 7 of 'The Kardashians," Kardashian was successful the process of trying to unafraid the formal that Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy successful 1962.

While Kardashian did eventually deterioration the formal to the Met Gala successful May, she said connected the amusement that its owners, Ripley's Believe It oregon Not!, denied her the anticipation of wearing it astatine 1 constituent successful the process.

"They conscionable pulled the full happening from maine truthful I can't adjacent bash it, and I'm fuming," Kardashian said to her sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian implicit luncheon successful the episode. "I had to effort the prototype archetypal and spot if that fit, and erstwhile it acceptable they sent the original. And erstwhile I went to enactment it on, it wouldn't adjacent spell up implicit my hips. And I was conscionable devastated."

Controversy erupted aft Kardashian wore the formal to the Met Gala, with some alleging that she had damaged the humanities garment by wearing it. However, a video emerged that proved the dress had been damaged earlier Kardashian wore it.

Both she and Ripley's besides denied that she had damaged the garment.

In a clip from the formal try-on session, Kardashian said that she would "try everything" and effort to driblet 10 pounds to beryllium capable to acceptable successful the dress.

She told her sisters astatine luncheon that she wrote Ripley's a "groveling, begging email," but that they were "very firm" successful their refusal, citing concerns astir security for the dress.

Eventually, arsenic Kardashian told Vogue, she mislaid 16 pounds successful 3 weeks. When she wore the formal astatine the Met Gala, she lone did truthful for a substance of minutes and changed into a replica aft ascending the stairs astatine the event, Vogue reported.

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