Madame Tussauds Berlin unveiled a Nicki Minaj wax figure on Tuesday (Jan. 7), and while the statue was intended to resemble the rapper's seductive look from her famed "Anaconda" music video, the Barbz were not impressed.
Angry fans voiced their frustration on social media, saying the figure's facial structure and skin tone were closer to that of the late Selena or reality star Kourtney Kardashian. "There is no way that is supposed to be Nicki Minaj!?!" Twitter user @Traysijetta wrote. "It’s not even her shade of brown!!! Just like all brown people don’t look alike, all kinda sorta almost random brown people wax figures don’t pass for any ‘fill in the blank’ celebrity of color."
Check out more scathing social media reactions below.
Nicki looking at the figure like pic.twitter.com/L3jRAfHqUg
— Ryan ➐ and 69k others (@ryanryader) January 7, 2020
if these media outlets don’t stop posting that ugly ass wax figure of nicki I will actually scream into the abyss pic.twitter.com/A1iQ2ZlyEl
— hector (@nickisgivenchy) January 7, 2020
Listen, I’m not even die hard Nicki Minaj fan but she can RAP & ppl don’t give her talent the credit it deserves. That wax figure Madame Tussaud’s put out…that’s not Onika Maraj. I’m so sorry. Does google not exist? They looked at that mess & said “yh, we got it”. No, you don’t. pic.twitter.com/VtQmLYgy0D
— Zu (@ghetto004) January 7, 2020
Madame Tussauds after unveiling Nicki’s wax figure pic.twitter.com/Ud2ZaY6H8r
— chris (@pradagws) January 7, 2020
me looking at nicki minaj wax figure pic.twitter.com/bXK67x5tv8
— ッ (@yaniqxe) January 7, 2020
I don’t know how but that Nicki Minaj wax figure is absolutely racism. — pic.twitter.com/qFjk89wyRn
— D ® E W | K A N G (@drewscotty) January 7, 2020
Did people forget how unrecognizably bad that Nicki Minaj wax figure looked the first time it went around?
— I’m Gary (@noyokono) January 7, 2020
Nicki Minaj’s wax figure be like… pic.twitter.com/BmWw3G5SPa
— Mónica Mendoza Martínez (@LipMyStockingMM) January 7, 2020
Nicki Minaj is so ethereally beautiful that nobody can recreate her, that's why all her wax figures look off.
— Kate (@KateAdored) January 7, 2020
If I was @NICKIMINAJ I would have them take that wax figure down ASAP. That does look like nicki and ya won’t take our culture from us.
— Alice (@Alice29893082) January 7, 2020
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