Kim Kardashian has been slammed for promoting ‘unhealthy weight loss’ after losing 16lbs in three weeks to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s dress at the Met Gala.
The reality star said she cried when she couldn’t fit into the iconic 'naked' gown during a first try on.
Instead of choosing another outfit, she admitted she lost weight so she could wear the £4million dress for just a few minutes on the red carpet.
“I always thought she [Marilyn] was extremely curvy,” she told Vogue.
“I imagined I might be smaller in some places where she was bigger and bigger in places where she was smaller. So when it didn’t fit me I wanted to cry because it [the dress] can’t be altered at all.”
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After realising the dress didn’t fit, Kim was “determined” to lose 16lbs – something she approached like a film role.
Revealing how she did it, the 41-year-old said she hadn’t eaten carbs or sugar in three weeks.
She also admitted wearing a sauna suit twice a day, running on a treadmill and eating the “cleanest veggies and protein”.
Kim said while she didn’t starve herself, she was “so strict” with her diet in the days before the Met Gala - fashion’s biggest night of the year.
But fans have criticised the reality mogul for promoting unhealthy weight loss – especially after she admitted having a “pizza and donut” party with beau Pete Davidson straight after wearing Marilyn’s dress.
One tweeted: “Kim Kardashian’s comments on losing 16 pounds in 3 weeks are vile. Glorifying rapid weight loss when so many young women follow and admire her, no wonder eating disorders are rife. She should not be broadcasting it ever, let alone to her followers.”
Another said: “Kim Kardashian saying she had to lose 16lbs in 3 weeks to fit into that Met Gala dress and stating it like it’s some great accomplishment is not just insane... it’s a problem.”
A third wrote: “Sick message from Kim K to glorify losing weight to fit in the ‘perfect dress’? Like hey impressionable youth if you can’t fit your clothes just lose weight to look perfect, no matter the cost right. Don’t accept yourself, change yourself right Kimmy?”
“Kim Kardashian looked beautiful at the Met Gala, but she has promoted unrealistic body standards for YEARS (diet teas, waist trainers, $$$ procedures, etc) and her talking about losing 16 lbs in 3 weeks to fit into Marilyn's dress (which no one should get to wear) is appalling,” a fourth chimed in.
Others blasted her for admitting to “bingeing” on food as soon as the night was over.
“Kim said she’s been avoiding carbs and as soon as the night is over she’s ordering pizza. Eek, restricting yourself for dramatic weight loss to basically binge afterwards isn’t healthy or worth it. We are all enough as we are,” one fan tweeted.
Another fan added people have been fat-shaming Marilyn Monroe for years, when it fact she was never ‘plus-sized’.
They said: “The fact Kim Kardashian had to lose weight to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s dress should forever destroy the myth that MM was a plus sized woman.”
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