KC shooting victim says Kim Kardashian shapewear saved her life. Can that happen?

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A Kansas City shooting victim has caught the attention of Kim Kardashian by claiming that a Skims bodysuit from Kardashian’s line of shapewear kept her from bleeding to death earlier this year.

Kim Kardashian saved my life. This New Year’s I got shot four times. The night I got shot, under my dress I was wearing a Skims shaping bodysuit. It was so tight on me that it literally kept me from bleeding out,” Angelina Wiley, 22, said in a TikTok posted in May.

“I recommend it. I’m definitely going to buy some more. I mean I should wear it every day. It’s like body armor for women. Call it fate or Jesus but I’ma call it Kim.”

Last weekend, Kardashian posted Wiley’s TikTok on her own Instagram story. She wrote “wowww” and added the praying hands emoji.

The attention made Wiley’s video go viral. As of Thursday afternoon, it had been viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Is it possible the shapewear saved Wiley?

Maybe, a little, Dr. Sean Nix, director of trauma at Saint Luke’s Health System, told The Star.

“Pressure on a wound does decrease bleeding and it saves lives, believe it or not,” Nix said. “On extremities, I guess I could see that.

“In the abdomen … OK, fine, a little bit of extra pressure on the abdominal wall, maybe that helped. I can’t say absolutely not.

“I can’t say I would recommend people start wearing shapewear to stop bleeding. But in her case, if that’s what she feels, OK. It’s just not something that would immediately be my go-to for treatment.”

Nix said he’d give Kardashian’s shapewear “a partial victory” in this case.

Wiley, who goes by @honeygxd on TikTok, has posted several times about what happened that night when she was shot while waiting for a Lyft. In one she holds her cat and wonders what would have happened to her pet if she had died that night.

Wiley’s mother contacted KCTV-5 after the shooting and identified her daughter as one of the people shot early Jan. 1 near Westport Road and Mill Street.

Wiley suffered a ruptured bladder and a cracked pelvis, requiring physical therapy, said her mother, Tracy Weatherby.

Kansas City shooting victim Angelina Wiley explained on TikTok how her Kim Kardashian Skims shaper saved her life.
Kansas City shooting victim Angelina Wiley explained on TikTok how her Kim Kardashian Skims shaper saved her life.

The investigation is ongoing and there have not been any arrests or charges, a Kansas City Police Department spokesman told The Star this week.

In a TikTok she posted in March, Wiley and a friend, both wearing form-fitting dresses, are shown dancing around in what looks like a public bathroom. “Thirty minutes after this was taken paramedics were cutting this dress off of me to see how many times I got shot,” Wiley wrote.

In the comments, she told followers that a “guy in a ski mask started shooting outside the club while I was waiting for my Lyft.”

In a new video posted over the weekend, she explained more about how the Skims shaper redistributed her “stomach fat” and, she says, prevented the bullets from doing more damage.

She revealed that three months after the shooting, the bullet in her leg was taken out but one in her stomach remains.

She said she was “sad” that paramedics had to cut the bodysuit off of her and that police took it for evidence. She had worn it for the first time the night of the shooting.

It had arrived at her house just hours before and she was so excited to try it she didn’t even wash it before wearing it, which she called “foul.”

Angelina Wiley right before she was shot early on New Year’s Day.
Angelina Wiley right before she was shot early on New Year’s Day.

She said Skims “gave me a refund which was super nice.”

Nearly 3,000 comments have been left on the TikTok Kardashian spotlighted. Several people campaigned to get Kardashian to hire Wiley as a Skims model.

Someone urged Kardashian to “send her a new one for free pls this girl can’t be walking around w a bullet hole in her skims.”

“This feels like an SNL skit. So glad you’re okay!!” wrote another.

A GoFundMe created for Wiley’s medical expenses on Jan. 2 called the violence “senseless.”

“This random act of violence has shaken us all to our core. We are raising funds so that Nina does not have to worry about expenses while she is recovering,” the GoFundMe page says.

“Her job is working with troubled youth which requires stamina and physical capabilities that she will not have for an unknown amount of time. Missed wages need to be last on her mind.

“The road ahead is full of unknowns. We continue to ask for your prayers, your well wishes and if able, any donations to support our Nina.”

In an update on July 8, Wiley wrote that she is continuing “physical therapy and working on my mental health with doctors. I’ve gone through ups and downs as I hopped, scooted, and rolled around everywhere when I couldn’t walk.

“I continue to have a lot of struggles with my hip ever since the fracture as well as many other pains. The bullet still in me causes random pains and honestly I struggle with severe PTSD ever since the shooting. It has made returning to work full time difficult.”

As of Thursday the fund had raised $4,123 of its $6,500 goal.

Wiley told People magazine that Skims reached out to her through Instagram “and they’re sending me some of their favorite pieces. I’m so excited!”

Wiley was unavailable for further comment.

The night of the shooting, Wiley was wearing the $68 Skims seamless strapless sculpt thong bodysuit.