Kim said that the dress did not fit over her hips at the first fit.
The reality TV star said that Ripley's denied her the chance to wear the dress.
She lost 16 pounds in three weeks.
Kim said that Ripley's took the Marilyn Monroe dress away from her when she tried it on for the first time.
Kim was trying to get the dress that Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy secured on the seventh episode of the second season of "TheKardashians".
She said on the show that the owners of the dress wouldn't allow her to wear it at one point.
"They pulled the whole thing from me so I can't even do it, and I'm angry," she said. They sent the original after I tried the prototype and saw if it fit. It wouldn't fit over my hips when I put it on. I was really sad.
Some people claimed that the dress she wore to the Met Gala had been damaged by her. A video showed that the dress had been damaged before it was worn by Kim.
She and Ripley's denied that she damaged the garment.
In a clip from the dress try-on session, she said that she would try everything and try to lose 10 lbs to fit in the dress.
She told her sisters at lunch that she wrote Ripley's a groveling, begging email, but that they were very firm in their refusal.
She lost 16 pounds in 3 weeks. When she wore the dress at the Met Gala, she only wore it for a short time and then changed into a replica.
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