Tori Spelling is recalling her major wardrobe malfunction on the red carpet.
“I did have a nip slip situation at the … what was I presenting at? It was either the Billboard Music Awards or the American Music Awards,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 51, said on the Tuesday, March 4, episode of her “MisSpelling” podcast. “It was during the phase where I had platinum hair and I had the corkscrew curls — very Drew Barrymore — thin eyebrows, big dark lips. And this was one I had got styled for.”
Spelling was seemingly referring to her look for the 23rd Annual American Music Awards in 1996. She explained that the look was “light blue” with a “shimmery” and “see-through” texture. Instead of going for a gown, she wore a blouse with either “one” or “two buttons” that showed off her belly. Spelling completed the look with matching pants.
“At the time, I was all about tight dresses so I was trying something new and the stylist was like, ‘This would look great.’ So I was styled and glammed for this,” she recalled. “I guess we didn’t take into consideration that it was see-through.”
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Spelling attended the event with Patrick Muldoon, whom she was dating at the time. (She walked the red carpet solo since she was a presenter that evening.)
When Spelling was posing for photos, she noticed that the press was “chit-chattering” about something.
“I’m looking up flashes everywhere [I] couldn’t even see the sea of paparazzi … and I could just hear people being, ‘Oh my god,’” she reflected. “My publicist swooped in and whispered, ‘Wait’ and she took me off. You could either see through my top or I had a nip slip. We can google it.”
Spelling added that she was “pretty sure” that she didn’t wear a bra or nipple covers with her outfit at the time. The actress then realized another factor that contributed to her wardrobe malfunction.
“Oh! I think I had just gotten my boob job a little bit before that so they were very perky and out there and hard,” she said. “The top was cut open in a way that if I turned you could just see all through the entire side of the boob. It was side boob, that’s what it was.”
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Spelling explained that if you searched for photos of the incident online, they most likely would not be there since her publicist at the time fixed her outfit.
“She readjusted me. She stopped the press line,” she recalled. “I went backstage and then I was good to go with some scotch tape bundled up under there.”
Spelling added that in order to prevent another mishap when she was presenting during the awards show someone backstage was able to “quick fix” the top.
