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Nicki Minaj Provocative Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Set For Removal

By Ny MaGee
Published on: 10:37 PST, Sep 9, 2015

Madame Tussauds has decided to remove the provocative Nicki Minaj wax figure after being violated by many fans since its unveiling at the museum in Las Vegas on August 4, International Business Times reports. Nicki has referred to her pornographic prop as “iconic,” often laughing off the images of fans using her likeness to simulate sex acts on.

The wax figure was inspired by Minaj’s “Anaconda” music video, a track that many have written off as one of the worse she’s dropped so far. Fans and colleagues have wondered why she signed off on a statue that depicts her in a stereotypical, hypersexualized position.

Prior to making the decision to uninstall the statue, Madam Tussauds attempted to increase security, saying in a statement that it planned to take “immediate steps to ensure more staff are present in this area and that the set around this particular figure is redesigned so that a picture like this cannot be taken again.” Sadly, that proved to be ineffective, as Saint Heron reported on Tuesday. While it’s unclear how the museum intends to repose or even replace the wax figure, fans will no longer be allowed the opportunity to pose inappropriately with their idol.

Outspoken rapper Azealia Banks warned that Nicki’s fans would react like perverts by “shoving their crotch in her face.” She was the first to blast Nicki and the museum for what she deemed a “racist” wax figure that depicts Minaj on her hands in knees, while her White contemporaries have figures depicting them standing up, like Britney Spears and Taylor Swift, and even the always-controversial Madonna’s wax figures were not modeled after a pearl-clutching scene from her infamous Sex book. Nicki Minaj is the only female wax figure posed in a very well-known sexual position. If one didn’t know any better, they would think the wax figure is that of an adult film star, and not of an award-winning musician.

Banks wrote in a tweet, “it would have made more sense for them to pose her standing up with a microphone in her hand.”

Nicki Minaj has yet to speak out about the museum’s decision to remove the statue, but don’t be shocked if she places all the blame for its removal on her kinky fans rather than take a modicum of responsibility for her poor decision to be immortalized as a sex fetish.

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