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In today's video, we experience a day in the life of a professional fairy tale princess for hire. This professional princess takes us through how she earns a living and what this career means to her. Watch this video to see what this princess for hire's life is like.

This video was originally published on Broadly and is being repurposed by Refinery29.

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Transcript
00:05I always loved princesses. I loved watching the movies about them. I love
00:11dressing up as them. My job is to make people's dreams come true. I own the Los
00:17Angeles Princess Company. These are all my costumes. These are all the wigs. I
00:23have a section for each character and then each of them has their own makeup
00:28which is really important to me because nobody naturally looks like all these
00:32characters. You kind of have to know how to make yourself look like them a little
00:36bit. I always thought I was going to be a professional actor and I was for a long
00:44time but I quickly found that this was the thing that people were willing to pay
00:49for and I still kind of consider myself a real actor but can't really like go on
00:55auditions all the time anymore or anything like that. My specialty is really the
01:00performing so I always try to really bring the character to life. I used to
01:06think it was really extreme to wear colored contacts for this job but kids
01:11notice everything. This is Cinderella. All right I think we're ready to go.
01:23I need coffee or else I might not make it through the day. I'm not selling myself as a Disney
01:30princess.
01:30Cinderella is in the public domain. Not every other character is but I don't use
01:35their copyrighted names but I play by the rules. Going into my first party.
01:39Hello everyone. Wow that dress is beautiful. Wow I think it's even lovelier than mine.
01:59Rapunzel.
02:03Okay. I probably will have to ask someone to help me. I usually do.
02:11Hi. Hi. Would you do me a big favor and zip me up?
02:14And what? And zip me up? Oh sure. Thank you so much. I just can't do it myself.
02:18Thank you so much. Yeah sure. You're a pro. Hi princess.
02:23Oh my goodness. I'm so happy to see you. But then I didn't care because it was the best day
02:29ever. Yay.
02:36Bye princess.
02:38I am dead tired. Not gonna lie. We went from North Hollywood to Tarzana back to North Hollywood and then
02:48I had two parties in Beverly Hills very close to each other and now we're in Northridge and we are
02:55going to be done for the day after this.
02:56Hi princess Riley. Happy birthday. Mother Gothel was so jealous of my hair that she stole me and put me
03:05in a tower.
03:07I really tried to bring the character to life. With theater it was all about me. Look at me. Look
03:14at me. But with this it's like my job is to bring so much happiness to people.
03:19Oh yay. Can anyone guess how we all lived? Happily ever after. Alright good job.
03:30It's not a job that you do forever but I would really miss this job if one day I couldn't
03:35do it anymore. Bye.
03:37I'm hoping by the time I get there that I will just be tired of it but like I haven't
03:43reached that point yet.
03:46My parties start at $180 an hour but a lot of that money goes back in the business. So this
03:53is not a job you get into if you want to be rich.
03:56I definitely live very humbly but it's worth it. I'd rather just making it by doing something I really love
04:04but definitely it can be a little stressful.
04:07I've been doing this five years already and I know that you know my time is coming up and hopefully
04:13when I reach that age I'll be able to know when it's time to hang up the crown.
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