Big Things Come in Small Packages: Mama Lou

If you check out her website, there’s a complete story about Mama Lou or the Legend of Mama Lou and how her family realized she was a strong woman when her mother, “by accident, dropped upon her a bowling ball of eight pounds” a habit (the legend goes) that "unfortunately most mothers are guilty of".
The little tot apparently saved herself from concussion and death by raising her “pudgy infant arms and catching the falling bowling ball in her outstretched hands.”
Fiji Showcase 2008 has brought this small strong lady to Fiji for the first time. Her most famous display of strength the telephone book ripping had people talking all over Fiji. And she didn’t fail to disappoint – she rips that phonebook in half and I have a niggling suspicion the little bit of strain that she displays while ripping the phonebook is just an act. I’m betting she can do it without batting an eyelid.
Impressed?
The Seattle native’s story is interesting: her mother was a clown and the 28-year-old has been in showbusiness for about 10 years.  
Mama Lou – a.k.a. Linsey Lindberg – weighs less than 65kilos and is just 153cm tall. Mama Lou, who has performed every single day of Fiji Showcase 2008, says she wants to teach people that size doesn’t matter.
“My show is really about how big things can come in small packages so I think everybody’s been very, very  impressed,” she said at the Fiji Showcase 2008 venue yesterday. “There’s been a lot of guys who’ve tried to rip their phonebook and they’ve come back and said they couldn’t do it.”
Mama Lou said the reaction from the children of Suva has been the highlight of this trip.
“The kids have been the best part of this trip. Every once in a while a kid will come up at the end of the show and give me a big hug and this means more to me than hundreds of people who want to shake my hand,” she said.
“If I can make just one kid believe in impossible things, than I feel like everything’s been worth it,” she said.
You can catch Mama Lou at the Vodafone Arena in Laucala Bay until Saturday July 12th 2008 during Fiji Showcase 2008.