METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                     METROPOLITAN LIFE SEPARATE ACCOUNT UL

               FLEXIBLE PREMIUM VARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE POLICES
                                   (METFLEX)

                      SUPPLEMENT DATED DECEMBER 30, 2005
             TO THE PROSPECTUS DATED MAY 1, 2005 (AS SUPPLEMENTED)

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (the "Company") has filed an application
with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") requesting an order to
allow the Company to remove certain variable investment options ("Existing
Funds") and to substitute new options ("Replacement Funds") as shown below.
Each of the Replacement Funds is a Portfolio of the Metropolitan Series Fund,
Inc. or the Met Investors Series Trust and is currently available as an
investment option under your Policy.

To the extent required by law, approval of the proposed substitutions is being
obtained from the state insurance regulators in certain jurisdictions.

The Company believes that the proposed substitutions are in the best interest
of Policy Owners. In each case, the Replacement Fund will have at least similar
investment objectives and policies as the Existing Fund. The Company will bear
all expenses related to the substitutions, and they will have no tax
consequences for you. The Company anticipates that, if such order is granted,
the proposed substitutions will occur on or about May 1, 2006.

The proposed substitutions and respective advisers and/or sub-advisers are:



EXISTING FUND AND CURRENT ADVISER
(WITH CURRENT SUB-ADVISER AS NOTED)                           REPLACEMENT FUND AND SUB-ADVISER
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ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN GROWTH AND INCOME PORTFOLIO   (right arrow) LORD ABBETT GROWTH AND INCOME PORTFOLIO
(CLASS B)                                                     (CLASS A)

Alliance Capital Management, L.P.                             Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC
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DREYFUS VIF APPRECIATION PORTFOLIO              (right arrow) T. ROWE PRICE LARGE CAP GROWTH PORTFOLIO
(SERVICE SHARES)                                              (CLASS A)

The Dreyfus Corporation                                       Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC

(Fayez Sarofim & Company)
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VIP GROWTH PORTFOLIO                            (right arrow) T. ROWE PRICE LARGE CAP GROWTH PORTFOLIO
(SERVICE CLASS)                                               (CLASS A)

Fidelity Management and Research Company                      T. Rowe Price Associates Inc.

(Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.,
Fidelity Management & Research (Far East) Inc.,
Fidelity International Investment Advisers,
Fidelity Investments Japan Limited, Fidelity
Investment Money Management, Inc., and FMR Co.,
Inc.)
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TEMPLETON GROWTH SECURITIES FUND                (right arrow) OPPENHEIMER GLOBAL EQUITY PORTFOLIO
(CLASS 2)                                                     (CLASS A)

Templeton Global Advisors Limited                             OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

(Templeton Asset Management Limited)
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Please note that:

  .   No action is required on your part at this time. You will not need to
      file a new election or take any immediate action if the SEC approves the
      substitution.

  .   The elections you have on file for allocating your cash value, premium
      payments and deductions will be redirected to the Replacement Fund unless
      you change your elections and transfer your funds before the substitution
      takes place.

  .   You may transfer amounts in your Policy among the variable investment
      options and the fixed option as usual. The substitution itself will not
      be treated as a transfer for purposes of the transfer provisions of your
      Policy, subject to the Company's restrictions on transfers to prevent or
      limit "market timing" activities by Policy Owners or agents of Policy
      Owners.

  .   If you make one transfer from one of the above Existing Funds before the
      substitution, or from the Replacement Fund after the substitution, any
      transfer charge that might otherwise be imposed will be waived from the
      date of this Notice through the date that is 30 days after the
      substitution.

  .   On the effective date of the substitution, your cash value in the
      variable investment option will be the same as before the substitution.
      However, the number of units you receive in the Replacement Fund will be
      different from the number of units in your Existing Fund, due to the
      difference in unit values.

  .   There will be no tax consequences to you.

Following the substitutions, we will send you a prospectus for Met Investors
Series Trust and Metropolitan Series Fund, Inc., as well as notice of the
actual date of the substitutions and confirmation of transfers.

Please contact us at 1-888-458-2654 if you have any questions.

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