‘This is sleep with me every night’: Kim Kardashian gets a lock of Marilyn Monroe’s hair
Kim Kardashian Leave everyone surprised about Met Gala 2022 recently when she appeared wearing the actual dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in 1962, to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to former US president JF Kennedy. And now the American social and reality TV personality has been given a lock of Monroe’s blonde hair!
In the process of trying on clothes first Gala, Ripley’s Believe it or Not! gave Kim a silver box containing “a truly iconic lock of platinum hair from Marilyn.”
“Oh my god! I’m really going to do some crazy evil deeds [to] her channel. This is so special to me. Thank you very much. This is great, great. oh!” Kim gasp, upon receiving the lock.
“This is sleeping with me every night,” she said. “Sorry honey,” Kim added, looking over at her beau Pete Davidson.
According to Ripley’s, the team “also filled her Met Gala dressing room with a bunch of Marilyn Monroe and JFK memorabilia to help inspire her look.”
In an earlier post, Ripley’s, who bought the historic dress in 2016 at Julien’s auction for a winning bid of $4.8 million, shared that Kim is currently the only person besides Monroe to have ever worn the dress. iconic dress ‘Happy Birthday’.
“The multimillion-dollar dress has rarely been detached from its original model, let alone worn by anyone other than her. Monroe. Great care has been taken to preserve this piece of popular culture history. With input from garment conservationists, appraisers and archivists, the condition of the garment is a priority,” they wrote.
Kim admitted to losing more than 7 kg in three weeks to fit because there was no change to the dress. After Red carpet looks, she became a clone, Ripley mentioned.
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