Kim Kardashian Hints That Marilyn Monroe’s Dress May Have Been Damaged

Kim Kardashian appeared to at least hint at the possibility that she did, indeed, damage Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress at the 2022 Met Gala.

Kardashian, 45, opened up about wearing Monroe’s Bob Mackie and Jean Louis dress, which fans criticized her for damaging, while taking a lie detector test via Vanity Fair’s YouTube channel on Monday, November 3.

In the video, Teyana Taylor asked her, “I wanna settle this for once and for all. Did you whoop Marilyn Monroe’s dress?”

Kardashian then looked at herself posing in the number and replied, “No.”

Taylor, 34, then clarified, “So, you’re saying that it got to you already whooped?”

Kardashian shook her head and replied, “I don’t know how it got to me. But it’s perfect now.”

Taylor gave her a bit of a side eye before asking, “Who fixed it?”

The Kardashians star gave a soft smile and said she didn’t “know” who restored the dress.

Taylor kept pressing. “So, when you tried it on, what was the dress giving?”

Kardashian then avoided the question and told Taylor that she was going to “cost her like $10 million in insurance.”

“Let’s move on,” she added, while Taylor laughed in the background.

The Skims founder then asked the test administrator if she was “being truthful.”

“All of it is true,” the administrator replied. Taylor then cheered, but Kardashian’s eyes went wide.

Taylor asked Kardashian why she looked “shocked” to hear that the test reported she was telling the truth. She slyly replied that she was “not” shocked.

At the end of the test, Kardashian was asked if she lied “at any point during [the] interview and [not caught].”

She answered, “Maybe.”

The test administrator then confirmed that the machine was “picking up some deception.”

When Kardashian wore Monroe’s dress — which the late actress originally debuted in 1962 while infamously singing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy — she wore the back of the dress unzipped to fit her curves.

On the red carpet, she told Vogue that she lost 16 pounds in only three weeks to be able to wear the design.

“It was this or nothing,” she said, noting that she lost the weight by wearing “a sauna suit twice a day [and running] on the treadmill.” She also “completely cut out all sugar and all carbs,” and ate the “cleanest veggies and protein.”

After cutting down, Kardashian tried on the dress, which is owned by Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and cried “tears of joy when it went up.”

Fans later criticized Kardashian for wearing the design, claiming that she damaged it.

“The dress now shows signs of tearing, and several crystals are either missing or hanging off of it,” one person wrote via X, showing a before-and-after of the dress. Another social media user added, “Why why WHY. This is like walking into the Louvre and throwing paint thinner directly onto the Mona Lisa. Fashion preservation is so important. This was the destruction of an irreplaceable historical artifact, all for a walk down a red carpet. I’m going to be sick.”

After the commentary, Ripley’s VP of Publishing and Licensing, Amanda Joiner, issued a statement in June 2022, claiming that the Hulustar did not cause any damage to the dress.

“From the bottom of the Met steps, where Kim got into the dress, to the top where it was returned, the dress was in the same condition it started in,” the statement read.

Inside of the gala, Kardashian changed into a replica of the dress.