Miley Cyrus dancer: 'I felt degraded in teddy bear costume'
One of the little people Miley Cyrus hired for her provocative MTV Video Music Awards performance in August (13) has blasted the singer for turning her into a figure of fun.
Hollis Jane was among the dancers who dressed up in bear costumes for the pop star's We Can't Stop set, and she has now taken to her blog to lash out at her one-time boss.
She writes, "I will be the first one to tell you that standing on
that stage, in that costume was one of the most degrading things I
felt like I could ever do.
"I realize not everyone shares my opinion and I might just be young
and naive, but I feel like the acceptance of this kind of treatment
has got to stop... I had never been in a performance where I was
purely meant to be gawked or laughed at. I will never forget that
performance because it is what forced me to draw my personal line
in the sand.
"After our first dress rehearsal in the costumes with the crew,
publicists, performers etc. watching us, I walked out of the
Barclay Center shaking and crying. I was being stared and laughed
at for all of the wrong reasons. I was being looked at as a prop...
as something less than human."
Cyrus faced a barrage of criticism after her VMAs performance after
stripping to her flesh-colored latex underwear for a suggestive
performance of Blurred Lines with Robin Thicke.