We all remember that performance. It’s engraved in our memories forever. Yes, we’re talking about Miley Cyrus’ stage time at the MTV VMA’s 2013 a couple of months ago. It doesn’t matter what she does now, everything will go back to that day. That life changing moment when sweet Hannah Montana decided to explore her sexuality. Between the foam finger action, the twerking, the tongue sticking and the bears, we kind of forgot that Miley was supposed to be an accessory to Robin Thicke’s moment of greatness, which was overshadowed by the young pop starlet.
But it seems that it’s not only Robin Thicke who’s mad at Miley. Now, one of her backup dancers from the much-talked-about award show performance is sharing how she really felt after the raunch fest. "I had never been in a performance where I was purely meant to be gawked or laughed at. I will never forget that performance because it is what forced me to draw my personal line in the sand," Hollis Jane, who was dressed elaborately in a bear mask and costume, wrote on her personal blog.
Jane, who called herself “a little person” went on. “For the first time I felt truly ashamed of being a little person. We were being used simply because we were little. It felt like society still saw us as a joke, despite the fact there is literally nothing different about me other than the fact I am small." She added, "After our first dress rehearsal in the costumes with the crew, publicists, performers etc watching us, I walked out of the Barclay Center shaking and crying. Thankfully, my best friends, Kelly and Kerri, happened to be NYC to visit me. They were waiting for me and I walked up to them and broke down.”
“I love being the center of attention, but that was something different. I was being stared and laughed at for all of the wrong reasons. I was being looked at as a prop…as something less than human,” she said. Jane also said that she was asked to join Cyrus' tour but declined the offer. “When they asked me to audition for Miley’s tour, I was incredibly hesitant. The money was great and I would have gotten a free trip to Las Vegas. My computer had recently broken and my car needed (and still needs) multiple repairs. I could have fixed a lot of that with the Miley money. So, I sent in my audition tape. I found out I was chosen and was going to have to begin rehearsals the next day. In this whole process, I was never quite told what I would be dancing to or as with Miley,” she wrote. "I wondered if it was worth feeling less than human again. And frankly, it wasn't," she explained of her decision.
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