“Too ugly” to take part in the olympics opening ceremony
Written by chameleonfridays on August 12th, 2008
In a staggering demonstration of China’s vanity, the little girl who ’sang’, Lin Miako, was actually miming at the olympics opening ceremony.
The real singer, also seven years old, was Yang Peiyi.
She was replaced at the last minute, olympic organisers refusing to let her go on stage, because she was deemed too chubby and her teeth were uneven.
Young women have enough issues with body image when they become teenagers, what would something like this do to a little girls confidence. Words fail me.
It reminds me of the awful way Michelle McManus was treated having won Pop Idol in 2003. Given just the contractual amount of promotion, thus reducing her record sales (who buys things they haven’t heard), and forcing her to seek a career based on her Gillian Mckeith weightloss. Michelle is a talented singer but again wasn’t deemed to have the right image to be promoted as a solo artist.
