If I ever get famous, what I would really, really like is for twenty artists to spend six months making a wax replica of my ass so it could go on display in Las Vegas. And then I would like people to send me Instagram photos of themselves licking it with the caption “let em eat my ass like a cupcake”.

This is what’s happened to Nicki Minaj, who had a wax figure made of herself for Madame Tussauds on the Las Vegas strip. The figure – which is inspired by her “Anaconda” video – shows the rapper on her hands and knees, surrounded by leaves and in a gold bikini. She looks incredible in that video. Her waxy twin, however, looks a bit dead-eyed and creepy, like waxwork models tend to. But that’s just one person’s opinion.

In true form, Minaj seems to adore this strange wax version of herself. Last night, she tweeted a photo of it ten times, and dubbed it “iconic” on her Instagram. She also appears to have had no idea that this was going to happen, saying: “YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WTF?!?!?!?!??!?? Had no idea they were really doing this.…” What a wonderful surprise. Let's look at it one more time.