Cardi B Almost Wore a Green Replica of Her Black Met Gala Dress

Cardi B keeps her options open!

On Tuesday, May 7, just one day after the 2024 Met Gala, the “Enough” rapper, 31, used social media to let her fans know that she actually had an alternate version of her dress available to wear to the annual event. 

“Green or Black?” Cardi captioned a tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter).

The post contained a video of the “WAP” hitmaker standing still in an enormous green lace gown as a member of her team walked around her to get a 360-degree view. In the behind-the-scenes clip, the superstar was make-up-free for her dress fitting. 

Cardi also interacted with her supporters and let them know why she opted for black. 

“WHY DIDNT YOU GO WITH THE GREEN SISTER OMG,” one person said in response to the clip. 

“It wasn’t photographing well …It translated different on all lighting and and angles on camera,” Cardi replied.

She also reposted a second, longer clip of the fitting that had been tweeted by a fan page. 

“Cardi’s #MetGala Prep: Day 1,” the footage was titled. 

The video showed the New York native entering a room with multiple dresses in both colors. 

“This is not what I was expecting,” she said while glancing around the room, also asking why it “smells like fish.”

“Don’t have me smelling like fish at the Met Gala,” she playfully warned. 

As the clip went on, Cardi continued with fittings, saying she was scared and admitting that the Met Gala gives her anxiety. 

“It’s tight right there. It gotta be cut,” she said while wearing the green dress as one of her stylists cut the bottom of the garment. “I wanna get it over with. Every time — I feel like every year we do this, it’s just like.”

After a beat, Cardi confessed, “Next year I’m not doing it.”

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Monday’s event marked the Grammy winner’s fifth time attending the gala, which benefits the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Fast X actress arrived in quite possibly the largest gown the gala has ever seen. 

This year’s theme was “The Garden of Time," and according to her stylist Kollin Carter’s Instagram, Cardi went as “The Black rebellious Rose.”

Once the event wrapped, the “Bodak Yellow” artist was joined by her husband Offset for Richie Akiva's 10th annual "The After" Met Gala afterparty, held at Casa Cipriani.

Cardi stepped out seemingly channeling a rose in a structured red dress. The couple was photographed holding hands as they walked together at the A-list affair. 

She and the Migos rapper, 32, share daughter Kulture, 5½, and son Wave, 2½.