When we’re 70, we can only hope to give as few fucks as Peruvian legend La Tigresa del Oriente. She’s the animal print-loving Amazonian cougar we dream of becoming. The singer/dancer got her start as a makeup artist, after her dreams of performing were thwarted by her parents and conservative husband. Thankfully, the internet came around to give her career a boost, and helped her low-budget tracks achieve meme status so we can treasure La Tigresa 4ever.
And while many of us will never be on her level, it doesn’t mean we can’t learn from her. Below are some reasons why
She married a 25 year old.
She took what Kim Kardashian did and took it up a notch. Not only was her wedding televised on Al Aire, but she and her 45-years-younger husband wore matching leopard print outfits, basically unseating Britney and Justin, who previously wore the most iconic couple’s jean-on-jean-on-jean outfit.
The symbolic wedding was officiated by an Andean shaman.
She took what Kim Kardashian did and took it up a notch. Not only was her wedding televised on Al Aire, but she and her 45-years-younger husband wore matching leopard print outfits, basically unseating Britney and Justin, who previously wore the most iconic couple’s jean-on-jean-on-jean outfit.
The symbolic wedding was officiated by an Andean shaman.
She posed nude at 70.
There’s probably no one more proud of being naked than La Tigresa. Her nude pictorial first broke in early June, and it continues to be something she talks about and posts about.
She commits to her bit.
Perhaps other people in their tercera edad would grow tired of being so over the top all the time (see: Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj), but La Tigresa can’t stop, won’t stop.
She uses her platform to spread messages of luv.
La Tigresa loves the gays, and there’s no way they don’t love her back.