Kim Kardashian’s Trainer Reacts to Met Gala Weight Loss Controversy: It Was Done in a ‘Healthy Way’

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On defense. Kim Kardashian‘s 2022 Met Gala look sparked plenty of conversation, not least because she lost 16 pounds to wear it — but her trainer says she shed the weight using healthy methods.“[Kim] works, like, really hard, so I was there through the process,” Don-A-Matrix told TMZ on Wednesday, May 4, noting it’s a “misconception” that Kardashian, 41, is lazy. “So, it wasn’t, like, a starving herself type of thing.

I mean, she’s been on a balanced diet. At times, she wouldn’t eat as much, but the second thing is she really put the work in.”The fitness guru went on to claim that his client didn’t engage in any unhealthy behavior during her weight-loss journey. “We were working out sometimes twice a day,” he explained. “It’s possible to lose 20 pounds in a healthy way.”The Skims founder borrowed Marilyn Monroe’s 1962 “Happy Birthday” dress for the Met Gala on Monday, May 2.

Speaking to La La Anthony on the red carpet, the reality star confessed that she had to lose weight to wear the gown.“It didn’t fit!

So, I looked at them and I said: ‘Give me, like, three weeks,’” Kardashian recalled, adding that she lost 16 pounds in less than a month. “It was such a challenge, it was like a role.