--- title: Met Gala 2017: Carly Steel Interview on Her Reaction Meme description: Carly Steel discusses her reaction to Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady in the viral photo of her at the 2017 Met Gala. canonical: https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-02T17:46:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:48.398Z og:title: Meet the Woman in a Crown Who Went Viral at the Met Gala og:description: On Tom Brady and Gisele: "Is this Westworld? og:url: https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3799780407c4a0c1/6988cba2ab6d770f596adee0/gettyimages-675659788.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Woman in a Crown Who Went Viral at the Met Gala twitter:description: On Tom Brady and Gisele: "Is this Westworld? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3799780407c4a0c1/6988cba2ab6d770f596adee0/gettyimages-675659788.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meet the Woman in a Glittery Crown Who Went Viral at the Met Gala > Sponsored content. 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The photograph of her internet-winning reaction went viral_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 2, 2017 5:46 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 2, 2017 5:46 PM UTC _ET_ correspondent [Carly Steel](http://time.com/4763111/carly-steel-tom-brady-met-gala/) woke up to find that a photo of herself reacting to Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen at the Met Gala had gone viral. The photograph of her internet-winning reaction to the co-chairs kissing was taken at the 69th annual ball held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday night, where she was conducting red carpet interviews. The second she laid eyes on the supermodel and her football star husband, she instantly felt it was a moment of “genuine affection on the carpet.” “I think I was living vicariously. I had many thoughts running through my mind. The first was, is this [_Westworld_](http://time.com/4590844/westworld-season-finale-questions/)? How can two people be so perfect?” she told TIME, joking that the power couple is something that Dr. Ford might create to amuse the guests of the artificial theme park on the hit HBO show. > [](https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/859172103555174400) At first she hoped for a quick interview, but the funny TV correspondent decided she wasn’t interested. “I thought ‘Oh I hope they come over so I can interview them,’ because I always love to talk to Tom Brady. But then I realized, ‘No, I don’t want Gisele to come over, because she looks so amazing, so I don’t want to stand next to her.'” Steel wore a dress by acclaimed designer Christian Siriano, and the headgear was a carefully considered decision. “I didn’t want Christian to feel like I ruined his look with a crazy headpiece and never work with me again,” she said, so she asked for Siriano’s approval, and she got it. “I thought this was the perfect opportunity to wear a crown. _Game of Thrones_!” When the queen briefly removed the crown, so it didn’t obstruct her team’s camera, music legend Celine Dion was there to put it back in its rightful position on her head. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/"},"headline":"Meet the Woman in a Glittery Crown Who Went Viral at the Met Gala","datePublished":"2017-05-02T17:46:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:48.398Z","description":"The photograph of her internet-winning reaction went viral","url":"https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3799780407c4a0c1/6988cba2ab6d770f596adee0/gettyimages-675659788.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3799780407c4a0c1/6988cba2ab6d770f596adee0/gettyimages-675659788.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals","caption":"\"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals","creditText":"Sean Zanni—Patrick McMullan via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/","name":"Meet the Woman in a Glittery Crown Who Went Viral at the Met Gala"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"The photograph of her internet-winning reaction went viral","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4763567/met-gala-2017-carly-steel-interview/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```