From being literally sewn into their gowns on the way to the red carpet to crash dieting and full body hair removal (yeesh!) – there are tall tales in Hollywood of what it takes to get prepared for the Met Gala extravaganza. This year, the theme was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”, which yielded the opportunity for some pretty intense looks that needed a lot of preparation.
With Instagram as our lens into all of the behind-the-scenes action, we were granted an intimate preview of how the stars got ready for the “party of the year”. Some stars chose to calm their nerves by cuddling with their beloved pets, others reached out to friends for moral support, and still others spent most of their time prepping with trusted beauty entourages.
Below, you can see all of the the action before the celebrities arrived on the red carpet for their Met Gala 2018 photo ops.
