“Too ugly” to take part in the olympics opening ceremony

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…..

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Tags: Olympics, Image

~ by chameleonfridays on September 4, 2008.