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TV chat queen Oprah gets a less than flattering tubby bronze statue cast in her honour
Last updated at 09:58am on 01.02.08She has famously battled with her weight - but according to this tribute to the queen of daytime television, it appears to be a battle lost.
Controversial American sculptor Daniel Edwards latest work 'The Oprah Sarcophagus', is a very full-figured sculpture of Oprah Winfrey - and that's where the likeness begins and ends.
The work casts Miss Winfrey in bronze, as a nude, full-breasted woman with generous child-bearing hips.
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Double take: The statue depicts Winfrey as a full-breasted, curvaceous woman with generous child-bearing hips
However, it bears little likeness to the billionaire media mogul, save for the head of curly hair that fans out around her.
Instead, the artwork shares an uncanny likeness to the coffinette which held the body of Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun.
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The real thing: Billionaire television mogul Oprah Winfrey has been immortalised in a less than flattering bronze 'sarcophagus' statue by artist Daniel Edwards
Edwards, 42, says his piece pays homage to the closest thing America has to a living deity.
The artist's pieces typically address celebrity and popular culture in ways that have often stirred controversy.
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Oprah's statue looks uncannily like the coffinette of Egyptian boy king, Tutankhamun
Last year a row broke out over a statue which depicted a 'dead' Prince Harry clutching a cameo locket of his late mother, Princess Diana.
His other works include a life-sized statue of Britney Spears giving birth while nude on her hands and knees on a bearskin rug, and a dead Paris Hilton.
Giving birth: Artist Daniel Edwards with a sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth
Dead heiress: This life-size sculpture of Paris Hilton which depicted the heiress dead
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Sorry, no resemblance to Tut in any way except perhaps the golden color and obvious Egyptian style. Its beautiful and she should be very pleased with the work.
- D Plevelich, Elkhart Indiana
Beautiful.
How can anyone not love this sumptuous, sensuous, fertile-goddess-like, primal sculpture?
- Becky Fessenden, South Bend, USA
She's in the guise of fertility goddesses. It's about celebrating her feminity and also Africanness by associating her with this kind of image. If you are going to poke fun at anything, make a big deal about the puritanical attitudes that insist that she's wearing what can only be described as a bikini top, which kind of negates the earth mother thing and looks completely stupid.
- Nu, london
Oprah will be President of the U.S.A. - it's only a matter of time.
- John, London
