Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance left a little person back up dancer feel dehumanized and small.

Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance left one of the backup dancers “shaking and crying.”

Hired to perform at the Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance in the bear costume because of her small stature, the dancer was treated like a prop, not as a performer hired for her talent.

Little person actress Hollis Jane was hired to perform as a back up dancer at the Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance. She is speaking out about her treatment at the hands of Miley Cyrus. She says she was treated more like a prop than a person.

After friends saw that Miley Cyrus hired a little person guitarist for her Saturday Night Live performance, Hollis Jane’s friends prompted her to write her piece because the performance was lauded for using a little person performance and Hollis Jane didn't think it made up for her negative experience at the Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance.

In her blog, Hollis Jane writes "I was a bear in Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance. And it was my first time doing anything like that…anything where I was being used because of my height, not because of my talent. And I will be the first one to tell you that standing on that stage, in that costume was one of the most degrading things I felt like I could ever do. I realize not everyone shares my opinion and I might just be young and naive, but I feel like the acceptance of this kind of treatment has got to stop."

Hollis Jane says the Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance opened her eyes, "for the first time I felt truly ashamed of being a little person. We were being used simply because we were little. It felt like society still saw us as a joke, despite the fact there is literally nothing different about me other than the fact I am small. ... We can all agree that right now all Miley Cyrus wants to do is make society’s jaw drop. So what’s more “weird” or “freaky” than having little people parading around in your show? "

The Miley Cyrus VMAs 2013 performance was so dehumanizing that Hollis Jane "walked out of the Barclay Center shaking and crying."

Hollis Jane turned down an opportunity to join Miley Cyrus on her world tour.