For Kim Kardashian it is already a tradition. Every time a new edition of the MET gala arrives, it appears with a look so tight you can barely move or breathe. For her, more than the big fashion festival, it is the perfect occasion to demonstrate, year after year, how far she can go to force her body to have unrealistic measurements. In 2024 it is her waist’s turn. Her dress, a transparent model with metallic brocades from Maison Margiela, fit so tightly around her waist with a corset that many social media users made the image look ugly. celebrity the obsession with an unattainable body.
This is not the first time that he has boasted to his millions of followers on social networks about carrying out unhealthy practices for simple aesthetics. At the 2019 Met Gala, Kardashian confessed that she had to take breathing exercise classes to be able to wear a corset signed by Thierry Mugler, which prevented her from having freedom of movement to such an extent that she could not dine comfortably. On another occasion, the reality star confessed to Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen Degeneres Show what she was capable of doing to achieve the perfect look: “I don’t care how uncomfortable it is, I don’t care how long I have it on.” to wear, even if I have to wear a diaper and not go to the bathroom.”
In 2022, she surprised everyone by telling on the red carpet what the process had been like to be able to button a dress that belonged to Marilyn Monroe and that was not her size. “I had the idea of wearing this dress, but when I tried it on it didn’t fit. So I told them, ‘I need three weeks and it will do.’ And I lost seven kilos,” she said before the microphones. “I am a person with a lot of determination. I sincerely believe that no one believed I could achieve it, but I did it,” she added, giving her attitude a nuance of a more than debatable heroic feat. When asked how she achieved her goal, she explained that she had gone on a very strict diet in which she ate “no carbs or sugar” for three weeks.
In an article by Beatriz Serrano titled Kim Kardashian as Marilyn or the mistake of glamorizing extreme diets to fit into a sinister dress and published in S Fashion In the coverage of the MET 2022 we asked ourselves what sense it had for the influencer I would have boasted about going on an express diet to lose weight. “What I wonder is why a personality of Kim Kardashian’s stature always ends up talking about her body and her weight. “I get the feeling that they are a family enslaved by their own corporality,” said Raquel Carrera, activist, co-creator of the body positivity platform SoyCurvy and co-author with Lidia Juvanteny of the book The revolution of self-love. “I welcome the fact that there is some curve, the point is that their curves restrict us just like other body types. Kim Kardashian’s body does not represent a reality: a large person has a belly, has holsters, has fat in places where he would prefer not to have fat. “Kim Kardashian has none of that and, furthermore, it seems that he is controlling at all times not to be fat.”
Many things evolve in life, but Kim Kardashian’s obsession with flaunting an unattainable body does not. In 2024 she has taught us again with the epic of suffering through a very tight corset how to have a wasp waist with big hips and buttocks. And all without stopping to think about how these images affect her millions of followers or how dangerous it is to glamorize suffering to achieve certain measurements or fit into a certain garment. Will this physical madness be witnessed again in the 2025 edition as well? I hope a miracle happens and he finally understands that celebrating fashion is not about that at all.
