Pity poor Lil’ Kim – the lusty, busty rapper’s first week in the big house knocked her off her perch in very short order, inmates at her federal lockup in Philadelphia have revealed.
First, the hip-hop star was forced to watch in horror as a prison barber took clippers to her long mane, shearing off several pricey extensions – only a day after she’d had her own stylist give her a trim.
The result: An eyesore of uneven locks that made her look like a fashion disaster.
“She looked like a wreck,” said Shakyi Muhammad, who was released last week from the detention center after a three-month stint.
“She didn’t look anything like she does on the out side.”
Next, several star-struck prisoners pelted her with outrageous questions about her sex life and demanding to know if she’s had plastic surgery.
A week ago, Lil’ Kim, 30, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, began serving her 366-day sentence for lying to a grand jury about a 2001 rap-war shootout out side the Hot 97 radio studio in lower Manhattan.
And just minutes after arriving, her trademark wise-ass attitude vanished as fast as Vanilla Ice’s career, something her fellow jailbirds noticed.
“Nobody wants to be in prison, but you gotta make it what it is,” said Muhammad, 40, told The Post.
“They made her cut her hair. When she came in, her hair was half-blond – blond in the back and dark in the front.
“But then they cut it all uneven, with half of it still shoulder length and other half going way up.”
Next, Kim was forced to change clothes – and the difference was dramatic.
Kim stripped off her Sean John sweat suit and sneakers, swapping them for a drab prison-issue green button-down, short-sleeve shirt, green pants and slippers.
“She looked like a mess,” said Tricia Brancohi, 24, who did a year in the can.
Kim was locked in solitary for the first 24 hours and then released among the rest of the inmates.
“She ain’t no celebrity – she’s just like one of us,” another prisoner said.
“She gets treated just like one of the inmates.”
By the end of her first week, Kim seemed to relax, inmates said.
“I know if she was in the street, she wouldn’t give us the time of day, but she became very friendly,” Muhammad said.
Kim was to be assigned a cellmate this week and also given a prison job.