Dita Von Teese, 52, Embraces ‘Objectification’ Post-Intimate Burlesque Show

Dita Von Teese has revealed the moments she ‘wants to feel objectified and sexualised’ after stunning fans with her latest show.

The burlesque star, 52, has been taking to the stage in her Diamonds And Dust show, which features ‘high glamour, bold women, and dangerous games’ at the Emerald Theatre in London.

And speaking to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast, Dita shared that she feels there is still ‘taboo’ around feeling sexualised and desired, and admitted the moments she feels most objectified, haven’t been when she’s on stage.

She said: ‘Interestingly, the times I feel objectified are never to do with being on stage or doing what I do. 

‘It’s always other weird things in life that you’re just like, ”Oh, God, it’s so weird to have somebody asking me that question” or maybe somebody will recognize me for instance and they ask for a picture and I’ll pose for their picture and then somebody else will be like, they don’t know who I am, they just are like, ”why does those people want a picture?”

‘And they’ll be very aggressive and like, ”I want one too” and you’re just like, oh, that’s where you feel objectified when people put their hands on you or ‘I need this too’ or ”can you do this?”

Dita Von Teese has revealed the moments she ‘wants to feel objectified and sexualised’ after stunning fans with her latest show

The burlesque star has been taking to the stage in her Diamonds And Dust show , which features ‘high glamour, bold women, and dangerous games’ at the Emerald Theatre in London

‘Anything like that I feel objectified. I know it’s really taboo to say, but sometimes you’re just like, ”I just want to be objectified for a minute. Wouldn’t that be nice?”

‘I want to be sexualized and objectified sometimes. 

‘I think I’m also so used to having a theatre full of women that are there maybe because they read my book or whatever, or they follow me and then sometimes, especially this happens in Vegas, when there’s people that don’t know me, they don’t know what my show is about. 

‘They are just walking into it and they’re just like, ‘yeah, this is hot’ and I’m like, ‘oh good I’m glad that it’s still sexy and hot too’. 

‘I like to create a show that feels if you have never heard of me, you’re still going to be like, ‘that was so much fun. I’ve never seen anything like that in my life.’

Credited with re-popularising burlesque, Dita, born Heather Renée Sweet, is an American vedette and businesswoman.

A vedette is the main female artist of a show derived from cabaret and its subcategories of revue, vaudeville, music hall or burlesque.

In January, Dita left Lorraine viewers swooning in a plunging gown as she revealed the ‘most outrageous challenge of her life’ on the hit daytime show.

Speaking to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast, Dita shared that she feels there is still ‘taboo’ around feeling sexualised and desired

Dita showed off her famous sense of style as she attended Jean Paul Gaultier and House of Holland’s star-studded Pride Brunch on Sunday

She showed off her famous figure in an eye-catching purple corset and a matching skirt, teamed with stiletto heels

The model opened up to Lorraine Kelly about her time on The Masked Dancer.

Dita starred on the ITV competition back in 2021 and dressed as a beetroot in a green and purple dress with a mask the shape of the vegetable. 

She revealed to Lorraine how she had suffered with vertigo from riding a mechanical bull and subsequently found dancing on the show difficult. 

Dita said: ‘I had vertigo from riding my mechanical bull, I was riding my mechanical bull, swinging my head around and I triggered a vertigo thing and it was a problem for a year so I’m doing The Masked Dancer with this head and the lights on the floor were crazy, it was outrageous.

‘It was one of the biggest challenges of my life but it was funny and I loved it,’ the dancer added.

The show was filmed during the Covid pandemic and Dita stayed at Claridges during the filming. 

Dita said: ‘It was my favourite, besides doing the show and laughing throughout, it was right when the pandemic started and it was a full lockdown here and I was the only guest at Claridges.’

She enjoyed a mostly empty hotel and ‘special treatment’ during her stay.

‘I had it all to myself, I’d come wafting down that staircase in the mornings in my nightgown. There were like five people working there and I just had special treatment and they were like sure, you can stay there, because I’m a friend of the hotel,’ Dita added.

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