Kim Kardashian reveals how much work it took for her to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s iconic ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ dress for the Met Gala… AFTER losing 16 pounds.

The 41-year-old Kardashian flew to the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not headquarters in Orlando, Florida to try on the dress… after an apparently persuasive phone call from Kim’s mother, Kris Jenner.

After a strenuous three-week workout and diet regimen, Kim was able to fit into the original gown… with the help of three other people… though the dress wasn’t fully zipped over her behind.

Towards the beginning of the episode, Kim has arrived at the Ripley’s headquarters in Orlando, Florida, though her boyfriend Pete Davidson still has yet to be featured.

Both Kim and Pete were seen at Ripley’s in videos taken at the Orlando facilities in May, though Pete is nowhere to be seen in the new episode.

Kim is seen admiring a full makeup kid that Marilyn herself used, which is one of many Marilyn artifacts in the room.

There is also an iconic oversized cardigan sweater Marilyn wore on the Santa Monica beach for a photo shoot with George Barris in 1962, along with the famous picture of her wearing it.

She shows the makeup kit to her makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic through a video call, adding she’s about to try the original Marilyn dress on.

‘We’re trying it on now. If not I’m going in this sweater… just kidding,’ Kim jokes, referring to the iconic cardigan.

‘I flew all the way to Florida to try on the Marilyn dress at Ripley’s. They were not gonna let me wear this dress. They were not gonna let me even try it on, until Kris Jenner calls,’ Kim says in confession.

Kris is asked by a producer in confession, ‘What did you say to Ripley’s? Cause they were like flat out no,’ as Kris can only laugh.

They cut back to Kim who says she practically begged Kris to make this happen – ‘I was like, “Please mom, if you make this happen I’ll… marry you,’ as the producers are heard laughing when Kim adds, ‘I would have done anything.’

Kris says, ‘I cannot tell you my secrets, but if somebody says no, you know what I say, you’re talking to the wrong person,’ a line that Khloe had said during their Variety interview.

Kim adds that she was, ‘screaming at her on the phone’ adding she’d put in an appearance at Ripley’s and Kris kept telling her to shut up.

‘So, after my mom’s conversation, they’ve agreed to let me try on the dress, one last time, and if it fits, I’m going to the Met. If it doesn’t fit, I’m not going to the Met.’

Kim is seen putting on her shapewear before stepping into the original dress, as she adds in confession that she’s been, ‘working my a** off to see my vision come to life. I will be crushed if this doesn’t pay off.’

The dress is seen being pulled up over her behind, as she asks if she needs to put on, ‘another pair of shapewear.’

‘It’s hard because you can’t shimmy into this dress the way that I really would, that’s the difficult part, it just has to glide up,’ she says in confession, as a number of women wearing white gloves try to work the dress up.

‘Kim, push your a**,’ says Chris Stapleton, as Kim explains, ‘He lifted up my butt in my SKIMS, kind of repositioned my shapewear, and then it went up.’

‘Oh my God… it fits, ‘Kim says, though the dress doesn’t zip all the way up her butt as Kim asks if they can use the tie on top and ‘keep it open.’

Kim adds, ‘What if we did that and then put a fur over it?’ as one of the Ripley’s women says that’s, ‘a perfect idea.’

‘It’s happening. This is happening. I’m going to be wearing Marilyn Monroe’s original dress to the Met Ball,’ Kim adds in confession.

She hops on a video call with her sister Khloe and says, ‘It kinda fits… kinda. I mean, the back doesn’t zip. My butt still doesn’t fit, but it goes up.’

‘Kimberly, shut the f**k up that you got in that,’ Khloe is heard saying over the phone, adding, ‘I’m so proud of you.’

Kim adds in confession that she’s happy but she can’t celebrate because the Blac Chyna trial ‘just started, so I just have to focus, because I have no time.’

The episode begins in Milan, where Kourtney Kardashian, Travis Barker and family friends such as Simon Huck and Steph Shepherd, visit a famous church.

As they’re leaving the private offices of Dolce & Gabbanna, Kourtney thanks Travis for doing this for her, before Kourtney reveals in confession she has, ‘a super busy week.’

‘Tomorrow’s fitting is the most important one, which is my actual wedding dress and his actual wedding outfit,’ Kourtney explains.

They walk towards the church as Kourtney tells Travis that her legs almost gave out, adding, ‘the jet-lag, the stairs, the running three miles…’ though Travis adds, ‘but that’s how we do it, baby.’

‘It’s all preparing you to walk down that aisle, babe,’ Travis adds, joking that she could ‘run down the aisle,’ if she wants.

She joked that she would run down the aisle when she first sees him and he says, ‘That would be the cutest thing ever.’

They take pictures in front of the church with Travis lifting her up as they make out in front of the church, before marveling at the church’s architecture.

‘How crazy is all the carving and the marble?’ Kourtney asks, before they’re ushered into the church without the camera crew.

They leave and thank the people at the church, and when they walk back to their vehicle, a fan yells out, ‘It’s Travis Baker!’

Kourtney jokes that she loves it when people call him Travis Scott, the father of Kylie Jenner’s children, as Kourtney adds, ‘Or when they call me Khloe.’

They get to their car as an unseen fan asks, ‘Can you say Bye to us?’ as Kourtney obliges before getting in the vehicle.

After Kim trying on Marilyn’s dress in Orlando, the episode cuts back to Milan, where Kourtney and Travis are getting ready for their final fitting.

Kourtney asks if they’re all going to cry today, adding she has anxiety, while someone on her team admitted they already cried this morning.

Kourtney says to the camera this is her first time trying on her wedding dress, while she tells Travis, ‘Remember we were just going to run away? Just get married you and I? We tried.’

They arrive at Dolce & Gabbana’s offices again, as they marvel at the offices and again suggest to just get married there.

There is a woman playing the piano when they arrive and Travis says they should have her at their wedding.

Kourtney adds Travis gave her ‘an abundance of caffeine’ before they greet Domenico Dolce, the co-founder of Dolce & Gabanna with Stefano Gabanna.

‘I have known Domenico Dolce for years now. Vacationed at their home over the years in Portofino, he was at my 40th birthday party, so we’re super excited to be working with him.’

Domenico says he wants to make it the best, like his wedding, adding he’d like to marry again, with a laugh.

Domenico says they will talk with Puny, which is the most famous restaurant in Portofino, for the entire family.

He wonders if anyone in the family has allergies and Kourtney says that Travis is vegan, as Domenico jokes he will forget who he is during the wedding.

‘No, if you have some, we organize a special dish, adding that Portofino is a ‘public area’ and it will be ‘impossible’ to avoid paparazzi.

‘If you walk in Portofino, you have paparazzi,’ Domenico says, as Travis goes to try on his last few remaining looks for the wedding and Kourtney gets to see her dress for the first time.

‘Oh my God. That is crazy,’ Kourtney says of the elegant white minidress with an elaborate train, as Kourtney sees the mini version of the dress.

Domenico mentions the dress was made, ‘point by point,’ handmade and not made by machines at all.

She tries on the dress as Steph says it’s, ‘like nothing I’ve seen before’ as Kourtney walks out from behind the changing curtain.

Domenico and his team start making small alterations, as Kourtney explains in confession that he, ‘springs into action, biting bones out of my dress, cutting things and completely building a dress on me.’

Domenico says he wants the dress to push up on her chest and not down as they keep altering the dress as Kourtney says, ‘That is some surgery.’

Meanwhile, Travis is getting fitted for his suit with his stylist Chris Kim, as Travis says, ‘They’re making everything perfect.’

‘To some people I may look crazy with all these tattoos, but whatever. I like my wedding day to be like classic and traditional sort of,’ Travis tells the camera.

Stefano Gabbana arrives, telling Kourtney that she will need two people behind her to take care of the elegant train.

Dolce explains that Kris will walk her up the aisle and shake hands with Travis, and she and Travis kiss right away, much different from a traditional American ceremony.

‘Oh, right away? To start?’ Kourtney asks as Stefano says, ‘This is Italy,’ and Kourtney says, ‘That makes me feel so much better.’

She starts a video call with her mother Kris, wearing her full wedding dress, but Corey answers, saying Kris is in the shower.

‘Oh… I was trying to show my mom my wedding dress,’ Kourtney explains, as Corey says she looks, ‘Amazing,’ before Kris comes on the line.

‘Oh my God. You look like a little doll,’ Kris says over the phone. ‘Oh my goodness, Kourt, you look so beautiful. I want to cry. I would have never thought I would be looking at you in a wedding dress naked in the shower.’

She said she loved them and hoped they are having the best time and she says they are before disconnecting the call.

Kourtney’s stylist Dani Michelle asks if she’s happy and she says she is, adding, ‘I think he made it perfection.’

Her friend Steph Shepherd added, ‘I can’t believe it. I was like, Oh my God she’s in a wedding dress,’ as Kourt adds, ‘I know, I never thought there would be a reason.’

The episode cuts back to Los Angeles, as Kim and Khloe are getting ready for a fitting, with Kim saying Khloe is, ‘skinnier than ever.’

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott tells Khloe that she is, ‘skinnier than the models who would do the show,’ as Khloe tries on a bustier.

Khloe reveals in confession, ‘I have officially been invited to the Met. I have been invited in the past, I just opted not to go. I’m not big on red carpets. I think I’ve made that very clear, but good old Kimberly has a way with words and I am also sort of a pushover when it comes to some things, so I guess I allowed her to push me over.’

Kim tells the camera, ‘Do you guys get how cool this is that you have Jeremy Scott in Khloe’s house, on camera? You guys just don’t get it. I mean, maybe you do. I get it. It’s a really big deal.’

Kim adds this year will be the first time that all of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters will be going to the Met Gala together, and it will be both Kourtney and Khloe’s first time.

Khloe says that somehow it’s online already, and Kim said she saw it on celeb gossip site DeuxMoi, which she jokes is, ‘the Bible.’

Kim adds in confession that Khloe has always been, ‘really nervous to go to the Met, but after this year, we decide she’s going, and that’s it.’

A producer asks, ‘Who’s we?’ Kim responds, ‘Me… and myself,’ while Khloe tries on her glittering gold gown.

Kim says in confession that they plan on getting ready and glamming together and they will, ‘make this the best experience ever and you’re gonna feel good about yourself and show the world, “F**k you, I’m invited to the Met, dude.’

Kim says the dress is, ‘so beautiful,’ though Khloe adds, ‘I can’t breathe but that’s fine,’ as Kim and Jeremy joke that breathing is overrated.

Khloe asks if they will shorten the dress a bit and Jeremy says they will, but when she says she’s too tall, he insists, ‘You are not too tall. You are perfect. These gorgeous long legs, please, heaven.’

Khloe adds in confession, ‘I love that everyone is being so supportive, but that doesn’t take away from how many cameras are gonna be there and how long this carpet is, and that’s really overwhelming.’

Kim takes off as Jeremy says Khloe looks like a movie star as Kris arrives and Khloe says, ‘the boss… the other boss’ is here.

Kris raves about Khloe’s look and Khloe asks if Kris has had a vodka and she says, ‘Of course I have.’

Kris adds in confession, ‘I am absolutely, mentally, spiritually, physically tired. Tired from the trial, tired from being in the courthouse all day every day.’

They show news footage including sketches of the family in the courthouse, adding in confession it’s ‘exhausting’ so it will be a ‘two-martini night… maybe three.’

Kris tells Jeremy that Kim was trying to prepare Khloe for the red carpet at the Met, as Kris tries to replicate the experience by yelling at her like paparazzi would on the red carpet.

Kris adds in confession, ‘Listen, I’m the voice of reason. I want to get her mentally prepared so when she walks out onto the biggest red carpet there is, she knows exactly what to expect. I don’t want her to get there and scream at me because I didn’t prepare her.’

Khloe adds in confession that she feels, ‘really great’ in the dress and there needs to be some work done but it’s, ‘incredible how it looks.’

The episode cuts back to Milan where Kourtney and Travis play patty-cake, for whatever reason, before heading out for dinner.

Kourtney explains to Travis that they can make anything vegan that he wants, as Travis marvels at the gnocchi.

‘Today was like a fairy tale,’ Kourtney tells the table, as she’s asked if she’ll want glam for her bachelorette party.

Travis asks what day the bachelorette party is and she says it’s May 10 and 11, adding he’s ‘not a planner’ so he was making sure.

Kourtney tells the party that she started laying out the plan for Milan and she saw him, ‘spiraling’ and asked if he didn’t want to know and he said, ‘Yeah.’

Kourtney says she sent pictures of her wedding dress to her family and Kris said they said they wished she could be there adding, ‘Blac Chyna is ruining it all,’ referring to the trial.

Simon Huck adds that it’s, ‘just so Kourtney,’ that she wasn’t part of the trial when most of the rest of her family is.

‘I haven’t even seen one thing about it. Are there photos?’ Kourtney asks and is told there are only courtroom sketches.

Kourtney proposes a toast, thanking everyone for their, ‘time and opinions and love for this whole adventure in Italy.’

Simon jokes, ‘Oh my God, Kourtney is making speeches? Who is this woman?’ Kourtney insists, ‘That’s the longest speech you’ll ever hear from me ever.’

The episode cuts back to Los Angeles, as Kim continues working out so she can continue to fit into the Marilyn dress.

She tells her trainer Melissa Alcantara that she’s back down to 118 pounds after she jumped up to 120 pounds, which she said was, ‘tripping me out.’

‘So I fit into the dress, but I’m not gonna stop working out. I have this sauna suit and you put it on and it makes you just sweat. Even if it’s just water weight, it helps,’ Kim says in confession.

Kim’s trainer says for her to do 10 minutes on the treadmill and then another 10 minutes on the Stairmaster, as Kim speaks directly into the camera.

‘We have four days until the Met Ball. I still need to dye my hair blonde, I don’t know when I’m gonna do that, I have only a day to go blonde. When I thought to go in Marilyn Monroe’s dress – and I know how precious and fragile the dress is, I knew I had to lose at least 10 pounds for it to even go up on me,’ Kim said.

‘This feels exhausting, but it feels like a movie role, you know? How an actor will lose weight, gain weight for roles? It feels like my role is Marilyn Monroe. I’m determined,’ she adds as they show workout footage of Kim.

She gets a call and says she has to go because the trial has gone to closing arguments.

‘I need to be there for closing arguments, obviously as a defendant of this case, but also as an aspiring attorney, I need to see the closing arguments to see how they piece it all together. This is like the first real trial that I’ve seen, which is the best law school you can imagine,’ Kim says.

Kim adds in confession she has been taking notes during the trial and it was, ‘so interesting to see that you have to follow the proper process to get evidence submitted.’

She adds it’s ‘scary’ but ‘fascinating’ to be living it and learning at the same time.

‘There’s not a chance I’m missing this. This is like what I live for,’ Kim says in confession, before adding at her home gym that her ‘butt is all wet’ and she needs her butt to shrink.

‘I love you Marilyn, but our curves are in different places,’ Kim says as her trainer laughs, as Kim tells her she’ll work out tonight and tomorrow morning.

The episode cuts to an airfield as Khloe, Corey and Kris boards Kylie’s private plane en route to New York City for the Met.

‘I am like literally panicking about tomorrow. Not just about the Met, but also the f***ing verdict,’ Khloe says, as news footage shows jury deliberations continue with the trial.

‘The facts are the facts, the fact though that we’re in trial blows my mind,’ Khloe adds, as Kris says they didn’t do anything dishonest.

Khloe is wondering why it’s taking so long but Kris says nothing surprises her anymore, as Kris boards her plane before they take off for New York City.

The family lands in New York and heads to their hotel as a bottle of vodka is heard clinking in the backseat which Kris admits she hates it with ‘everything in my body.’

Kris points out ‘the city’ as Khloe knows Kris will launch into another story about when she was a flight attendant based in New York City.

‘I feel like we’ve gone through every memory at this point,’ Khloe says in confession.

Back in Milan, Kourtney and Travis are getting ready to head to New York City themselves as Khloe tries to get Travis to not look at pictures of her wedding dress on her phone.

Kourtney explains they’re going directly to Tom Brown for their fitting for their Met looks while her team thanks her for a ‘magical’ trip.

‘I have no idea what time it is. We’ve been on Italy time zone, now we’re in New York. We’ve been eating pasta and drinking cappuccinos. I think it’s the opposite of everyone’s Met prep,’ Kourtney says in confession.

Kourtney and Travis go to their fitting at Tom Brown for both of their first ever Met, as Kourtney explains in confession that they’re the first couple Tom Brown is dressing together.

‘I don’t think we feel nervous about going to the Met. I think we’re just happy experiencing it together,’ Kourtney adds.

She adds that Tom’s vision was to have Travis, ‘polished and buttoned-up and proper and I am the unfinished version, like deconstructed of Travis’ look. It’s kind of the opposites of what we are.’

They try on various looks apart, but they really ‘come together’ when they’re next to each other, with Kourtney saying they’re not taking ‘solo pics.’

‘Our looks work together, which is how we feel at our stage in our lives,’ Kourtney explains in confession.

Travis thinks that both of their looks together are a ‘conversation piece’ but they wouldn’t be solo.

Across town, Kim is in her hotel with hairstylist Chris Stapleton, revealing they’re watching the new Marilyn Monroe documentary on Netflix, to get in the mood.

‘Tomorrow is Met Monday and I didn’t get a lot of sleep because we had to pull an all-nighter to dye my hair blonde,’ Kim adds in confession.

She adds the hair dying process is ‘tedious and annoying’ but adds it’s, ‘dedication’ on her part.

Chris says the last time they did this it took a week to get the color and now they have just two days.

He adds that Kim is ‘so dedicated’ and he’s ‘never met anyone more dedicated than Kim.’

‘It has to be the right color. My hair can’t fall out. We have to get it right. We have one day to dye it. We’re gonna be up for 15 hours,’ Kim says.

A producer asks how many Met Gala’ she’s been to as she counts all the looks up and says she’s gone to eight Met Gala’s and this will be her ninth.

‘This I can’t walk, I can’t sweat, I can’t breathe. If one little stone falls off, I’ll have to pay millions of dollars,’ Kim adds.

Chris adds this year is different because she won’t be leaving the hotel wearing her red carpet look.

‘I can’t walk out of the hotel and walk down. They’re gonna have to put up barriers, get me out of the hotel in a robe. They’re putting a dressing thing on the red carpet, and I’m gonna put it on there,’ Kim says.

A producer asks, ‘Oh, you’re not getting dressed here?’ Kim answers, ‘No, because I can’t sit in a car, I can’t risk it. It’s so fragile, you guys. No one can touch me. So if anyone touches me and gets their oils on the dress… it’s too risky to get in the car and leave from the hotel and do it.’

‘So, all of this – the losing the weight, dying the hair for 30 hours, leaving the hotel in a robe, getting there, changing on the red carpet, just walking to the top of the red carpet, then changing again into a replica of the dress, because we can’t risk sitting in it and eating dinner, is all for maybe 10 minutes of my life, just on the red carpet. Like that’s it,’ Kim says, though Chris adds, ‘It will live in history.’

A producer asks, ‘What do you think people are going to say about you wearing the dress?’

‘I’m a little nervous some people will hate and be like, “How dare she think she can just step into Marilyn’s dress, and I get that,’ Kim says.

Chris adds, ‘You are like the modern-day Marilyn, so I love that you’re still being you,’ as Kim adds, ‘I don’t want to say I’m the modern-day Marilyn,’ and Chris says, ‘I’ll say it. She’s the modern-day Marilyn,’ but Kim says, ‘I don’t think that.’

‘I love that Marilyn was a normal girl and figured it out and became the most famous woman in the entire world. It’s just fascinating,’ Kim says.

‘This year’s Met is all about dedication and hard work and having my own voice and vision. Being determined and making s**t happen. I’ve never had that strong of willpower in my life before,’ Kim says in confession.

A producer mentions that they might read the verdict for the Blac Chyna trial during the Met Gala, as Kim jokes, ‘I’m cleared from defamation so I don’t care what happens to those hoes… I’m just kidding.’

They show the slow progression of Kim’s hair dye job before the episode cuts to Khloe visiting Kylie in her hotel, trying on her full Met Gala look, when Kendall arrives too.

Kylie tries to decide if she wears a sheer t-shirt over the dress as Kylie says it’s, ‘kinda cool.’

‘I love going to the Met. I love everything about it. I chose the white dress. I’m just ready to honor Virgil and his work and his brand and it’s definitely a very special moment,’ Kylie says in confession.

Kim walks in with her hair covered in foil as she takes pictures on her phone, while reflecting in confession about how they always talked about everyone going to the Met together.

‘This is crazy. We always talked about this and how fun it would be if all the sisters went together,’ Kim says in confession.

Kylie adds in confession that they are still waiting for the verdict of the trial, while Kim checks Kylie’s phone and notices something.

‘Your phone gives me such anxiety. 1,600 text messages? I can’t let my phone get past five, ‘Kim admits.

Kylie adds in confession that the trial has been, ‘very very stressful’ and ‘we just want it to be over, honestly.’

Kim adds, ‘We just want this behind us and obviously it’s been super stressful so… I think we should just focus on the Met and the good times and a fun sister moment no matter how it goes,’ as the episode comes to an end.

The preview for next week’s penultimate ninth Seasons 2 episode shows Kim stating she was in ‘disbelief’ that she pulled off her Marilyn Monroe vision.

They show footage of the family leaving the hotel as Kris admits in confession that they’re still waiting for the verdict.

They’re all getting glammed up when Kim says the verdict is in and they have 30 minutes, as Kim says, ‘Honestly, what could she get from us?’

‘Our f***ing dignity,’ Khloe responds, as she reveals in confession her anxiety is ‘heightened’ and her being there is already ‘outside my comfort zone.’

Kendall is seen topless with a billowing black dress as she admits, ‘For a moment, we considered doing the carpet with no shirt.

She opted for a black top but when she’s in the limo she says she has to pee… as she’s given an ice bucket.

‘Nobody judge me,’ Kendall says as Kim admits she just wants to make sure everything is perfect… but that’s not the case.

Kim is seen in the car telling someone on the phone, ‘this is such a big f***-up, you missed the drop-off.’

‘One thing after another was going wrong and I was like, “Oh do not f**k with me today,’ Kim says in confession as the preview ends.

The brief post-credit scene shows Kylie saying she is ‘obsessed’ with her mom Kris Jenner, and when a producer asks if she’s Kris’ favorite, Kylie says, ‘That’s exactly what I’m saying.’

‘We actually have a relationship like she has no other kids, yeah. We’re always like, “Those f***ers over there,”’ joking she doesn’t remember their names.