Zune Thinzar is fast becoming known on social media as Myanmar’s answer to Kim Kardashian.
Racy photos posted to the curvaceous model’s Facebook page, where she is pictured usually nearly naked, have been ‘liked’ and shared thousands of times.
But with the admiration has come plenty of viciousness, with social media users criticizing her racy attire as inappropriate in conservative Myanmar.
And that aggression reached dangerous levels on Tuesday night when audience members at her show in the Karen state capital threw stones and cobs of corn at the stage.
They battered her and fellow performer Zar Htet with small stones and eaten corn, she told The Irrawaddy, and not relenting until another singer took to the stage.
“When I realized that they were throwing stones at the stage, I told them to hit me if they really wanted to do so,” she said.
“Then, they threw more stones. I don’t want to say anything more about it. I believe that they were just judging me superficially.”
Her reputation probably hasn’t been helped by supporting the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) ahead of last November’s election, dominated by the opposition National League for Democracy.
