Kathy Bates revealed that Kim Kardashian once offered to feature her in an ad for the reality star’s shapewear line SKIMS.

However the collaboration never materialized, so Kathy is now reminding the reality star that she is still prepared to model for the brand.

She told People that Kim ‘sent me some SKIMS two or three years ago and she said she was going to put me in an ad. And so I think, Kim, I’m waiting. I’m ready.’

Kim, 43, launched SKIMS in 2019 and has since enlisted a head-spinning array of celebrity spokesmodels to help her plug the company.

Stars who have promoted SKIMS including Kate Moss, Cardi B, Lana Del Rey, Usher, Brooke Shields, Kim Cattrall, Ice Spice, Patrick Mahomes and Snoop Dogg.

Kathy Bates revealed that Kim Kardashian once offered to feature her in an ad for the reality star’s shapewear line SKIMS; Kathy pictured at the 2020 Oscars

Kim, 43, launched SKIMS in 2019 and has since enlisted a head-spinning array of celebrity spokesmodels to help her plug the company

More recently Kim has appeared in a supporting role on the latest season of American Horror Story – a show Kathy has acted on multiple times in past seasons.

Kim has been widely derided online for her portrayal of publicist Siobhan Corbyn on the anthology series’ new season Delicate.

However Kathy said she heard Kim is ‘doing a great job’ on the show – though she has not ‘had a chance to see it’ as she has been ‘learning lines’ for her own new series.

In recent months, Kathy has been busily working on a gender-flipped reboot of the classic 1980s legal series Matlock for CBS.

The original show was a mystery drama starring Andy Griffith as a cranky and formidably effective defense lawyer called Ben Matlock.

Now Kathy, 75, is starring in a new spin-off as Madeline ‘Matty’ Matlock, and this time the storyline has been given a distinctly comic flavor.

Matty is a woman in her 70s who goes back to work as a lawyer and is initially disdained by the younger colleagues at her firm.

However, she soon reveals that she is capable of using her harmless appearance and sweet-old-lady act to devastating effect in hoodwinking her professional adversaries.

More recently Kim has appeared in a supporting role on the latest season of American Horror Story – a show Kathy has acted on multiple times in past seasons (pictured 2016)

Kim has been widely derided online for her portrayal of publicist Siobhan Corbyn on the anthology series’ new season Delicate

Beau Bridges is co-starring as the head of Matty’s law firm, with Jason Ritter and Skye P. Marshall as his character’s son and daughter-in-law respectively.

The Matlock reboot was first announced in January of last year, and by May it emerged that the pilot had been picked up for a season.

However, a wrench was thrown in the works when the Hollywood strikes roiled the industry and forced productions galore onto the backburner.

Kathy’s new series managed to survive the ordeal and is now being filmed ahead of its release sometime during the 2024-2025 TV season on CBS.

The original Matlock ran from 1986 to 1995, first on NBC and then on ABC, and in the process acquired a devoted viewership.

Andy Griffith fronted the series amid a cast that at various stages included Linda Purl, Julie Sommars, Nancy Stafford and Carol Huston.

Meanwhile, during the years the original Matlock was on, Kathy was building a career as a formidably respected character actress on Broadway and in Hollywood.

In 1990, Kathy appeared in her Oscar-winning turn in Misery, playing the psychotically obsessed fan of a romance novelist played by James Caan.

She followed up that coup with another acclaimed performance in the 1991 drama Fried Green Tomatoes, also during the run of Matlock.