Kim Kardashian is breaking her silence about the lengths she went through to fit into her borrowed Met Gala dress.
About a month ago, Kardashian, 41, wore Marilyn Monroe's skin-tight, sparkling nude dress that the singer and performer wore to sing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
In order to fit into the figure-hugging piece of history, Kardashian told pal LaLa Anthony on the red carpet that she lost 16 pounds in order to don the dress, which couldn't be altered.
Headlines swirled off of the fashion moment — both about her being coupled up with new boyfriend Pete Davidson and about her rapid weight loss.
"To me it was like, ‘OK, Christian Bale can do it for a movie role and that is acceptable.’ Even Renée Zellweger gained weight for a role. It’s all the same to me," Kardashian said in the interview published Wednesday.
Bale dropped to nearly 121 pounds to play an insomniac in 2004's film "The Machinist" and Zellweger gained weight for her iconic role in 2001's "Bridget Jones's Diary."
Kardashian isn't an actress (though she tried it out during her "Saturday Night Live" debut), but she saw fitting into Monroe's dress as a leading role.
Kardashian's crash diet took place over three weeks, prompting concern from critics and experts.
Critics on social media worried that Kardashian's choice glamorized diet culture, using weight loss as an aesthetic choice, not one for health or wellness.
She told Vogue in May her weight loss was achieved through wearing a sauna suit, running on the treadmill and cutting all sugar and carbs, mostly leaning on vegetables and protein.