Power Pets: How a Photo Shoot Led Remy Bond to Fulfill Her Dream of Adopting a Pig
Billboard’s Power Pets is a feature focusing on musicians’ best friends — no, not the humans, but the furry (and some scaly and feathery!) ones who bring extra joy and companionship to artists. Celebrities will be sharing sweet details about their beloved pets and how their furbabies enrich their lives. For the fifth story in the series, we talked to singer Remy Bond.
Some little girls watch movies and dream of growing up to become princesses. But Remy Bond? She dreamed of one day having her own pet pig, just like Brittany Murphy’s character Molly in the 2003 dramedy Uptown Girls — and now, she does.
It all started with a Rolling Stone photo shoot, for which the dream-pop singer also borrowed a dress that late star Brittany Murphy wore in the film. “I was like, ‘This is the perfect time for me to get the pig I’ve always wanted,” Bond tells Billboard of acquiring her porcine pet in March or April. “I didn’t really tell anyone at the shoot that I was going to be bringing a pig … so I just showed up with Moo.” (Moo is named after the pig in Uptown Girls, Mu.)
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“It was really funny, because I didn’t know how much pigs squealed when you pick them up, so everyone at the Rolling Stone shoot was just, like, chasing her and too scared to touch her,” laughs the artist, who was named to Billboard‘s 21 Under 21 list this year. “But I wish I had gotten her earlier, because then [I’d have known] every pig squeals when you pick them up.”
While Moo was tiny — about 4 pounds, Bond estimates — and easy to pick up at the time, she says that tiny phase didn’t last long. “She’s fat as f–k!” the musician exclaims. “Every time I feed her, she doubles in size. I’m too scared to weigh her now.”
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