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Met Gala 2024: Zendaya Reveals Why She's Returning After Skipping the Last 5 Years! (Exclusive) You never forget your first time...at the Met Gala. Just ask Billie Eilish, who made her debut at the annual star-studded fashion event at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2021. "It's nuts," the singer, who turned heads at the event with a Marilyn Monroe-like blonde hairstyle and strapless peach Oscar de la Renta gown, said on the Howard Stern Show that December. "It's famous people famous people-ing." When you get so many celebs together showcasing extraordinary fashion styles, it's not easy to stand out. "Everybody's just embarrassed and insecure about what they're doing and saying," Billie said. "It was amazing though. It just was beautiful in there." But her favorite part is the lack of fangirling. "What's nice about other people that are in the same kind of world that you're in," she explained, "is they're not getting their phone out and shoving it in your face because they don't want that themselves and that is really relieving." Billie did go on to attend the two subsequent Met Galas and even snuck in an epic bathroom selfie with fellow celebs at the 2023 event. The Grammy winner was not the first celeb to break a longstanding no-selfie rule. At the event in 2017, a year after making her Met Gala debut in a sparkling Balmain gown, Kylie Jenner snapped her own group bathroom pics at the bash, featuring stars such as first-time-attendee Paris Jackson, then 19, wore a black Calvin Klein dress. Zendaya, one of the upcoming 2024 Met Gala co-chairs, was also a teenager when she made her Met Gala debut. At 18, the Euphoria star walked the red carpet at the 2015 event in a custom black and red Fausto Puglisi dress with a short, flared skirt, complete with a long train and sun design embellishments. She went on to attend four more Met Galas before taking a break for half a decade. Now, she is euphoric about her return to the charity ball on May 6 celebrating the museum's "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" exhibit. "It felt like the right time," Zendaya told E! News' Will Marfuggi at the Challengers premiere in Los Angeles April 16, "to try to go back to the Met." Look back at more stars' Met Gala debuts. Kevin Mazur/MG21/Getty Images For The Met Museum/Vogue Billie Eilish in 2021 In Oscar de la Renta Mike Coppola/Getty Images Timothée Chalamet in 2021 In a Haider Ackermann tuxedo and a Rick Owens turtleneck Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Dan Levy in 2021 In Loewe Theo Wargo/Getty Images Olivia Rodrigo in 2021 John Shearer/WireImage Megan Thee Stallion in 2021 In Stella McCartney Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Naomi Osaka in 2021 In Nicolas Ghesquière Mike Coppola/Getty Images Lil Nas X in 2021 In Atelier Versace Mike Coppola/Getty Images Pete Davidson in 2021 In Thom Browne Theo Wargo/Getty Images Megan Fox in 2021 In Dundas Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Laverne Cox in 2019 In Christian Siriano Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Lilly Singh in 2019 In Moschino Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Harry Styles in 2019 In Gucci Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Billy Porter in 2019 In Sam Ratelle Taylor Hill/Getty Images Cardi B in 2018 In Jeremy Scott Jackson Lee/FilmMagic Céline Dion in 2017 In Versace Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Paris Jackson in 2017 In Calvin Klein Rabbani and Solimene Photography/Getty Images Kylie Jenner in 2016 In Balmain Larry Busacca/Getty Images Zendaya in 2015 In Fausto Puglisi Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Gigi Hadid in 2015 In Diane von Furstenberg Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Hailey Bieber & Bella Hadid in 2015 Both in Topshop Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Lady Gaga in 2015 In Alexander Wang for Balenciaga Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Selena Gomez in 2014 In Diane von Furstenberg Rabbani and Solimene Photography/Getty Images Kendall Jenner In Topshop Jamie McCarthy/FilmMagic Gabrielle Union in 2014 In Prada TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images Kim Kardashian in 2013 In Givenchy Larry Busacca/Getty Images Jonas Brothers in 2012 In Brooks Brothers (Kevin), Calvin Klein Collection (Joe) and Richard Chai (Nick) Larry Busacca/Getty Images Chrissy Teigen & John Legend in 2011 In Chris March (Chrissy) Larry Busacca/Getty Images Cara Delevingne & Douglas Booth in 2011 In Burberry (Cara) Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Kristen Stewart in 2010 The Twilight alum wore a black taffeta asymmetrical Chanel spring 2008 Couture gown. Larry Busacca/Getty Images Karlie Kloss in 2010 In Donna Karan
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