Jakarta, Nov 29: A 22-year-old student
Charmian Chen, who also works as a model, was visiting the Sacred
Monkey Forest Ubud in bali last month, when two monkey began
pulling down her dress, The Daily Mail reported.
Charmian Chen from Taiwan was on holiday on the tropical Indonesian
island feeding long-tailed macaques when she was singled out.
The two macaques apparently spotted a piece of corn that had fallen
down Chen's top and decided they wanted it back.
Despite her valiant effors to fend it off, one monkey managed to
pull down her top leaving the red-faced model to cover herself as
best she could, with her hands.
But what should have been an amusing holiday wardrobe malfunction
has ended up catapulting Chen to internet superstardom.
Pictures of the incident have made headline news in her native
Taiwan, with TV stations asking her to appear and talk about
it.
The images have also spread around the globe, appearing on blog
sites and forums in the U.S. and Britain.
She said: 'I was on holiday and at first the pictures were just
funny, but when I got back to Taiwan I had all these people trying
to add me as friends on Facebook.
'I thought "that's a bit strange", and then one of them said they'd
seen the pictures and I was really surprised, the next thing I knew
I had TV stations ringing me.
'I was on vacation then in Bali so I didn't mind it, but back in
Taiwan I was still studying so I didn't want to become famous just
for my boobs.
'But actually it has been fun, people do come up to me and say
"you're the monkey girl" and it does make me laugh.'
Chen said the macaques, as well as being hungry, were also
attracted to bikinis worn by many visitors.
She added: 'I think when they took my top down it was because of
the corn but the park staff warn visitors that bright bikinis worn
under dresses do attract the monkeys.
'I think it's the bright colours which they think might be fruit,
well I don't know about that but it was very strange at the
time.'