posted new photos Monday showing the bedazzled dress, which Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday Mr. President” in 1962 to then-President John F.
Kennedy. But the dress appeared to be “missing” a few crystals, claimed the account, which added that others seemed to be “hanging by a thread.” Kardashian, 41, vowed to not make any alterations to the dress and altered herself instead.
She now infamously admitted that she lost 16 pounds in three weeks in order to squeeze into the dress.She was finally able to fit it over her famous derriere but was unable to zip it — hence why she draped herself with a white fur shawl while on the carpet. “I tried it on and it didn’t fit me,” Kardashian recalled on the red carpet as she retold the tale of her first fitting. “It was such a challenge.
It was like a role, I was determined to fit in it.”The Post has reached out to representatives for Kardashian as well as Ripley’s, where the dress is currently on display, for comment.A post shared by The Marilyn Monroe Collection (@marilynmonroecollection)In 2016, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
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