Kim Kardashian shows how she 'repositioned butt' to fit into iconic Marilyn Monroe dress

Kim Kardashian has shown the surgeon-like precision it took for a team of gloved Ripley’s staff to squeeze her into Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Happy Birthday Mr President gown

Kim Kardashian has given fans a behind the scenes look at her fitting into Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Happy Birthday Mr President dress, which she squeezed into for this year’s Met Gala.

The Skims founder took the Hulu cameras to Ripley’s Believe it Or Not museum in Florida in the latest episode of The Kardashians, after she had dropped 10 lbs to fit into the dress.

This involved a sugar and carbohydrate-free diet, running on the treadmill and wearing a sauna suit twice a day.

She later w ore the nude sequined dress to the 2022 Met Gala in New York, where she walked the red carpet with boyfriend Pete Davidson.

Kim told the cameras as she arrived at the museum: “After my mum's conversation, they've agreed to let me try on the dress one last time. If it fits, I'm going to the Met. If it doesn't, I'm not going to the Met.”

The Kardashians episode showed the surgeon-like precision to squeeze Kim into the vintage gown ( 

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Kim admitted to being nervous to try on the gown and during the fitting the reality show revealed the difficulty in manoeuvring the mum-of-four’s infamous behind into the dress, which was made-to-measure for the Gentleman Prefer Blondes star in 1962.

The Kardashians episode showed the surgeon-like precision it took for a team of gloved Ripley’s staff to squeeze Kim into the vintage gown as they tugged it up her legs.

Kim said: “I've been working my ass off to see my vision come to life. I will be crushed if this doesn't pay off.

Kim's curvaceous frame was too big for the dress

Kim wore the nude sequined dress to the 2022 Met Gala ( 

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“It's hard because you can't shimmy into this dress the way I normally would. That's the difficult part. It just has to glide up.”

Referring to her British hair stylist, Kim said: “Chris Appleton was like, ‘We didn't fly all the way over here for nothing’.”

The cameras then closed in on the beauty expert’s gloved hands as he pushed Kim’s derriere, clad in a pair of beige Skims, into the dress – before it finally climbed over her voluptuous hips.