At the Met Gala 2022, as usual, Kim Kardashian caused a sensation. Not only did she appear with her new boyfriend, Pete “BDE” Davidson, but she also revealed to the press that she had to lose 16 pounds in three weeks to wear her dress that night. It was the iconic 1962 Marilyn Monroe dress she wore as she sang for JFK. (The dress was on loan from Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum, which stated that Kardashian could not alter the historical piece.) Online viewers and a notable Riverdale The star contested the reality TV star at the time by apparently promoting a quick weight loss diet to the public. You are responding to criticism now, and it’s not exactly a mea culpa.
In the middle of a profile on his new line of skin care products New York Times, the 41-year-old mother of four explained that she approached wearing the dress as if it were some kind of movie role. She hinted at Christian Bale’s 62-pound transformation for the role of him in The machinist and like Renee Zellweger she had to gain weight Bridget Jones’s diary. I guess, in her opinion, she put herself in Marilyn Monroe’s shoes in a genuine way, not just for the red carpet shots during the theme of the Anthology of American Fashion at this year’s Met Gala. Specifically, she told the outlet:
To me, it was like, ‘Okay, Christian Bale can do it for a role in a movie and that’s okay.’ Renée Zellweger also gained weight for a role. Everything is the same for me. I wasn’t saying, ‘Hi everyone, why don’t you lose that weight in a moment?’
We all know that actors sometimes make big physical changes for the sake of their characters. Ben Foster himself has just revealed a £ 60 shortfall for his next Holocaust survivor role. But that doesn’t make the effort any less controversial. Anne Hathaway once said she would lose 25 pounds per Unhappy in just two weeks he made her sick “for a long time”. Similarly, in 2019, Christian Bale had just earned nearly £ 50 to play Dick Cheney in the film. Viceand admitted that her constant weight fluctuations were no longer the best way to prepare for a role.
To be sure, Kim Kardashian isn’t actually an actress, so technically she doesn’t need to lose a lot of weight for a “role” at the Met Gala, because it’s just an event after all. However, it is clear that she still sees her public persona as a role in itself, one that she has already played with startling effects on her social media accounts.
The argument of RiverdaleLili Reinhart, however, was that fans who admired the TV personality would potentially believe they were “starving”. The Kardashian-Jenners have long been criticized for this point (promoting unrealistic body norms to the masses) in the past. But that’s not the only thing they can get criticized for. In fact, Kim and her family suffered a huge backlash shortly before The Kardashians‘premiere of the season (streaming now with a subscription to Hulu) when she seemed to criticize the work ethic of businesswomen to the press.
And comparing that now to how Oscar-winning actors and actresses suffer for their art may not work in the long run. Unless you believe that what Kim Kardashian does is also an art form.
Source: Cinemablend
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