US socialite Kim Kardashian and comedian Pete Davidson arrive for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York. – The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. The Gala’s 2022 theme is “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)ANGELA WEISS
Lest we forget that this same event is where they first met last year, at 2021’s delayed Met Gala – the night where Kim arrived donned in a head to toe black garment obscuring her entire face, and yet still somehow managed to make in-roads with her now-boyfriend Pete.
While it was previously believed that Pete and Kim first met at Pete’s stomping ground of the Saturday Night Live show, Kim recently revealed during a podcast interview that the couple had in fact had their first encounter at the glitzy event – where comically Kim was unable to exchange numbers with Pete due to wearing her bonkers costume.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: (L-R) Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson attend The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)Jamie McCarthy
The couple are said to have been dating since October 2021, after they reignited their attraction to one another on SNL (where Kim actually kissed Pete as part of a sketch). Then, in February 2022, Pete publicly referred to Kim as his girlfriend for the first time.
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Anyway, this isn’t the couple’s big event debut – they got that out of the way last weekend, at the the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. They have also been through a fair few milestones as a couple recently, including Kim sharing two cute PDA posts of her and Pete on her Instagram account, and a string of public date nights.
However, for the reasons we’ve mentioned, this appearance is still a pretty big deal for the couple, as the site of their, well, meet-iversary.
Plus, it’s a time where all eyes have been on Kim – so sharing the spotlight with a new beau is big news.
And Kim pulled out the stops, lewk wise (although when doesn’t she?).
Rumours proved true for Kim’s look – fans had been speculating that she’d rock up in a sheer, glittering dress previously owned by Marilyn Monroe, which the late starlet wore while singing a sultry ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’ to President John F Kennedy in 1962.
Lo and behold, Kim did deliver. It was clear from the moment she turned up on that red velvet carpet that she was wearing the famous gown. And it sounds like it was one hell of an effort to rock this famous sartorial choice.
In her interview, she said, “Yes, well, this is Marilyn Monroe’s dress, it’s 60 years old… I had this idea to put it on and try it on and it came with armed guards and gloves, I tried it on and it didn’t fit me. And I looked at them and I said give me three weeks, I had to lose 16 pounds down today to be able to fit this, it was such a challenge, it was like a role, I was determined to fit it. I don’t think they believed that I was going to do it.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: (Exclusive Coverage) Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian attend The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue )Cindy Ord/MG22
Pete, dressed suavely in a black suit, complete with matching tie and corsage, said very little in response to the interviewer’s compliment that he looked “hot”, apart from joking – well, given that it’s Pete, likely not joking – that Kim hadn’t let him “wear my propellor hat so it’s fine.”
