Kim Kardashian says getting laced into her itty-bitty corset for the 2019 Met Gala wasn’t exactly a cinch.
“I have never felt pain like that in my life,” the reality star, 38, revealed to WSJ. “I’ll have to show you pictures of the aftermath when I took it off — the indentations on my back and my stomach.”
Contrary to rumors that she’d had ribs removed to squeeze into her Thierry Mugler look for the gala — “I don’t even know if that’s possible,” she said — Kardashian’s impossibly tiny waist was the work of a corset by the famous Mister Pearl, a favorite of burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese.
The midsection-whittling undergarment was so tight that the KKW Beauty mogul couldn’t sit, and required that the star take breathing lessons from the corsetmaker so she wouldn’t pass out during the party.
Fortunately, her upcoming line of shapewear — which Kardashian recently announced will be rebranded after the original name, Kimono, faced backlash — promises to be far less painful.
“The feeling when I had to wear that corset, [the shapewear] is not that,” she told the outlet. “It’s the second skin that makes me feel comfortable and cozy and all smoothed.”