Nicki Minaj wax figure at Madame Tussauds mocked for looking 'nothing like her' was approved by singer in 2015
Madame Tussauds Berlin has come under fire for unveiling a wax statue of rapper Nicki Minaj that, according to the fans, looks nothing like the singer.
The wax figure unveiled on Tuesday, January 7 held a crouching position on a table in a jungle setting and was dressed in the outfit that Nicki wore during her 2014 iconic music video of her song 'Anaconda' with a gold chained bra and high-waisted black underwear.
“That wax figure of Nicki Minaj got her looking like the cleaning lady off of family guy. Try again on that one,” wrote a disappointed fan, with another commenting, “The new Nicki Minaj wax statue in Berlin had to be intentionally awful, right? There’s no way they thought this was good!”
Mimicking a similar sentiment, another one wrote, "Listen, I’m not even die-hard Nicki Minaj fan but she can RAP & [people] don’t give her talent the credit it deserves. That wax figure Madame Tussaud’s [sic] put out… that’s not Onika Maraj. I’m so sorry. Does Google not exist? They looked at that mess & said 'yah, we got it.' No, you don’t."
However, according to TMZ, Nicki gave her stamp of approval to the wax figure of herself years ago, when it was originally unveiled at the museum's Las Vegas branch in August 2015.
In fact, the musician's team reportedly worked with the statue makers before the 'Chun Li' singer signed off on it.
At the time, Nicki could not stop praising her statue, saying that she could not wait to see it in person and even a video of it, commending how much it looked like her. The unveiling came just as she was celebrating the completion of the one-year anniversary of her iconic song 'Anaconda.'
The statue made headlines at the time too as fans could not stop touching it in inappropriate places and snapping selfies with it.
The statue was moved to the museum's Germany location because Madame Tussauds keeps on shuffling the wax creations as a means to keep the visitors engaged.
