Are Skinny Celebrities To Blame For Eating Disorders?
Kim Kardashian’s 2022 Met Gala look literally took her breath away. She had to suck in her guts to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s famous dress.
The dress worth $4.8 million is reported to be the most expensive dress in the world. It was worn by Monroe when she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
The dress did not fit Kim Kardashian when she tried it the first time. It was loaned from ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’ on the condition that no alterations would be made to this priceless dress.
Kim took it as a challenge to get into the dress. She followed a strict regimen of sauna suits, exercise, and food restrictions to get into the dress. “I didn’t starve myself, but I was so strict,” Kardashian told Vogue on the red carpet.
Kim managed to lose a whopping 16 lbs in 3 weeks and fit into the historic dress. She wore the original dress only for her red carpet appearance and changed into a replica for the rest of the event.
Kim was at once slammed for promoting thinspiration which refers to imagery commonly shared on social media that encourages a user to be thin.
Being a public figure with mass influence, critics felt her comments could send out the wrong message to highly impressionable youngsters. Her rapid…
