Sometimes the best Met Gala stories aren’t about the A-listers on the red carpet—they’re about what goes down in the bathroom.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Brooks Nader, 29, just revealed that Bad Bunny allegedly made a move on her sister, Grace Ann Nader, 26, during the Costume Institute’s fashion extravaganza earlier this month. The twist? The rapper was virtually unrecognizable, transformed by aged prosthetics created by makeup artist Mike Marino to explore the exhibition’s focus on the aging body. According to Brooks, Grace Ann encountered a mysterious older-looking gentleman in the bathroom who asked for her number—only later realizing it was Bad Bunny, 32, in full costume.
“She was cracking me up because she was like,‘I was in the bathroom with this guy who was like 90 years old and he had a younger voice and asked for my number,'”Brooks told Page Six in an interview published on Friday, May 15. The whole situation was clearly peak Met Gala chaos, complete with Brooks adding a sibling jab for good measure:“Yeah, she’s an idiot, obviously.”When pressed about whether Grace Ann actually gave up her digits, Brooks admitted she didn’t follow up—partly out of FOMO, partly because she was too busy working on the Baywatch film in Los Angeles.
Grace Ann showed up and showed out at the gala in a custom Mugler dress featuring a sheer-paneled corset top and fitted skirt with a delicate train, paired with diamonds and a yellow diamond ring. Bad Bunny, meanwhile, committed fully to the bit: alongside the aging prosthetics, he wore an all-black tuxedo he designed in collaboration with Zara, accessorized with a bow tie, diamond pinky ring, huggie hoops, and a gold-handled cane. He walked the red carpet looking like he could’ve been Grace Ann’s grandfather—which, technically, made the whole bathroom encounter even more absurd.
The real comedy here isn’t just that a major rapper went undercover in latex and makeup to ask for a stranger’s number. It’s that the Met Gala’s most ridiculous moment might’ve happened completely off-camera, and we only found out because Brooks decided to air her family’s dirty laundry to Page Six. Fashion’s biggest night delivered yet again—just not in the way anyone expected.
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