Britney Spears is still relevant!? At this
point, I’ve come to think of her as a strange
memory of my youth, and a time when
every major pop singer was a teenager
singing about their sexuality while publicly
proclaiming to be virgins (think about how
this was truly an odd period). However, the
world’s top Britney Spears imitator, Michaela
Weeks, earns $450,000. She charges $5,400
for a single appearance. Can she sing?
According to The Daily Mail… maybe?
Michaela said: ‘I tried a bit of modelling
after that but every time I tried to do
something different people kept coming
back to the Britney thing.
‘In the end the pull was so strong I
packed in my waitressing job and
decided to give it a go full-time and I
haven’t looked back since.’
From there, work as a Britney lookalike
started flooding in and Michaela began
putting together a tribute act with the
help of a vocal coach and
choreographer.
Do you think this would be awesome? I read
these stories and think that it would probably
be some kind of lucky stroke of fate to be
born looking exactly like a much more
famous person. And then I think “no,
because her life will be forever limited to
looking exactly like Britney Spears. What if
she wanted to be a neuroscientist? She would
have to be a neuroscientist in a red leather
catsuit. That would be so difficult to do
neuroscience in.”
Or I guess she could dye her hair.
I suppose whether or not anyone has the
opportunity to take advantage of their looks
(models, for instance) always seems like a
weird stroke of luck, this incidence just
stands out a bit more.
Though, hell, for $5,000 an appearance I’d
pretend to be Britney Spears, and I look
absolutely nothing like her.
www.thegloss.com/2013/05/02/beauty/britney-spears-imitator-michaela-weeks-earns-450000/