Editing Miss Piggy (section)

===Origins and description===
In a 1979 interview with ''[[The New York Times]]'', performer [[Frank Oz]] outlined Piggy's biography: "She grew up in a small town (most likely [[Keystone, Iowa]]); her father died when she was young and her mother wasn't that nice to her. She had to enter [[Beauty pageant|beauty contests]] to survive. She has a lot of vulnerability which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar".<ref>{{cite news|last=Culhane|first=John|author-link=John Culhane|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/archives/the-muppets-in-movieland-muppets-moving-muppets.html|title=The Muppets in Movieland|work=The New York Times|date=June 10, 1979|access-date=May 15, 2020}}</ref> During development of ''The Muppet Show'', Oz assigned a hook for each Muppet he performed; Miss Piggy's hook was a "truck driver wanting to be a woman". Oz has also stated that while [[Fozzie Bear]] is a two-dimensional character and [[Animal (Muppet)|Animal]] has no dimensions, Miss Piggy is one of the few Muppet characters to be fully realized in three dimensions.

Piggy, truly a diva in a class of her own, is convinced she is destined for stardom, and nothing will stand in her way. She has a capricious nature, at times determined to (and often succeeding in) conveying an image of feminine charm, but suddenly flying into a violent rage (accompanied by her trademark karate chop and "[[kiai|hi-yah]]!") whenever she thinks someone has insulted or thwarted her. [[Kermit the Frog]] has learned this all too well; when she is not smothering him in kisses, she is sending him flying through the air with a karate chop.

She loves wearing [[long gloves]]; [[Hildegarde]], who used to wear them, once said, "Miss Piggy stole the gloves idea from me”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wwd.com/eye/people/disney-plus-muppets-now-miss-piggy-1203698258/|title=Miss Piggy Talks 'Muppets Now,' Pandemic Fashion and Giving Kermit a Makeover|first1=Booth|last1=Moore|date=August 13, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20050801/hildegardeobit01/cabaret-singer-hildegarde-is-dead-at-99 |title=Cabaret singer Hildegarde is dead at 99 |date=August 1, 2005 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=January 31, 2013}}</ref> Miss Piggy was also inspired by jazz singer [[Peggy Lee]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Anika |title=The Woman Behind Miss Piggy |language=en |work=Smithsonian |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-woman-behind-miss-piggy-11290861/?no-ist}}</ref>