By now you’ve either toppled into a heap trying to do the viral Nicki Minaj Stiletto Challenge, or you won’t stop forwarding your successful attempt to all your annoyed friends. Congrats on that, because it’s not easy, not even for Minaj herself.
The trend started taking off earlier this summer when fans keyed in on a particularly athletic post from Minaj’s 2013 video for her Lil Wayne collab “High School” — in which she wears stilettos and crosses one leg over the other while balancing both feet on the ground near the edge of a pool — and began posting videos of themselves hitting the pose while balanced on all kinds of precarious props.
Naturally, the rapper decided to get in on the action as well in a post on Tuesday (Aug. 5) in which struck a series of poses on the ground near a pool while wearing a very short black dress. Here’s the thing: even Nicki realized that it’s not as easy as she made it look that first time.
In the post, Minaj apologized to her Barbz for not quite hitting the pose, explaining that she had a classic wardrobe malfunction while filming the video. “about that pose…. Ummm 😩 this Chanel dress was just a tad shorter than I thought & the thongs definitely didn’t help,” Minaj wrote. “Didn’t want to make it explicit.😃 Both feet on the ground tho. Ten toes. Ima put on a diff outfit that won’t show so much skin & do it again for you guys later.”
To date, a number of celebs have tried their hand at the challenge, including Ciara, Dancing with the Stars‘ Witney Carson and Jenna Bush Hager. They succeeded, but things did not go so well for Russian influencer Mariana Barutkina, 32, who became a cautionary tale after she tried to balance on a container of baby formula on top of a saucepan, but slipped off and fractured her spine.
