Miss Piggy Miss Piggy being moved on Extreme Makeover : Home Edition Miss Piggy is a Muppet character primarily played by Frank Oz . In 2001 , Eric Jacobson began performing her , although Oz has not been officially replaced . She began as a minor character in The Muppet Show TV series , but gradually developed into one of the central characters of the show . She is a pig who is convinced she is destined for stardom and nothing is going to stand in her way . Her public face tries to be the soul of feminine charm , but can instantly fly into a violent rage whenever she thinks she 's insulted or thwarted . Kermit the Frog has learned this all too well since he is the usual target for her karate chops . When she is n't sending him flying through the air , she is often smothering him in ( unwanted ) kisses . The first draft of the puppet was a blonde , beady-eyed pig who appeared briefly in the 1975 pilot special , `` The Muppet Show : Sax and Violence , `` in a sketch called `` Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs. '' She was unnamed in that show , but by the time `` The Muppet Show '' began in 1976 , she was recognizably Miss Piggy -- sporting large blue eyes , wearing a flowing white gown , and jumping on Kermit , the love of her life . The fact that she was intended to be a bit player is reflected in her formulaic name , which some say was patterned after Miss Mousey , Kermit 's love interest in the 1974 special `` The Muppet Valentine Show '' . However , one of the former Muppeteers has recently revealed that the true inspiration for Miss Piggy was singer Peggy Lee , who often billed herself as `` Miss Peggy Lee '' and sported long blonde hair . Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show , as the Queen of Hearts Miss Piggy soon developed into a major character , as the Muppet creators recognized that a lovelorn pig could be more than a one-note running gag . Frank Oz has said that while Fozzie Bear is a two-dimensional character , and Animal has no dimensions , Miss Piggy is one of the few Muppets to be fully realized in three dimensions . In an interview with the New York Times in 1979 , Frank Oz outlined Piggy 's biography : `` She grew up in a small town ; her father died when she was young and her mother was n't that nice to her . She had to enter beauty contests to survive , as many single women do . She has a lot of vulnerability which she has to hide , because of her need to be a superstar . `` In The Muppet Movie she has just won such a contest ( Miss Bogen County ) when she first meets Kermit and joins the Muppets . Eventually in the films , Kermit started returning her affections and ( unwittingly ) married her in The Muppets Take Manhattan —although subsequent events suggest that it was only their characters in the movie that married , and that their relationship is really the same as ever . The fact that their relationship - one of the most intriguing storylines of `` The Muppet Show '' - failed to develop is often cited as one of the reasons many viewers lost interest in the Muppets. [ citation needed ] Miss Piggy has a pet poodle , Foo-Foo . In the Jim Nabors episode of The Muppet Show , Kermit the Frog briefly reveals that Miss Piggy 's second name is Lee , an homage to the actress and singer Peggy Lee . However , this is the only time ( apart from various magazine articles and a Muppet book ) that a character calls her Piggy Lee . Furthermore , in the Avery Schreiber episode , Miss Piggy `` allows '' Avery to call her by her real name `` Pigathius '' . Thus , it could be said that Miss Piggy 's real name is `` Pigathius Lee '' , although these mentions are considered by Muppet fans to be non-canonical . Miss Piggy recently starred in the TV-movie `` The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz , `` appearing as all four witches . Miss Piggy also played a significant role in the 2002 Weezer music video Keep Fishin ' External links Muppet Wiki : Miss Piggy Tough Pigs : Transcripts of Miss Piggy and Kermit interviews Categories : Articles with unsourced statements | Muppet Show characters | Fictional divas | Fictional pigs | Fictional Misses , Mrs. , and Ms. | Hollywood Squares panelists | Fictional characters portrayed by the opposite sex In other languages : Français | Nederlands 