Like Hmong girls @ HNY, Princess work not easy, we paid royalty fee but worth it

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...The Disney fee royalty that is...

Florida woman works as a princess at Disney World for seven years. Then she reveals the real reason she decided to quit: ‘I loved the job’
A Florida woman spent seven years bringing Disney princesses to life at Walt Disney World — playing Ariel, Rapunzel, and Mary Poppins from ages 18 to 25. She loved the job. She also says she left it with permanent neck damage, a union grievance, and a final day she still isn't sure how to feel about. In a viral TikTok that has since sparked a follow-up, the 28-year-old is finally telling her story three years later. "Anyone will tell you — and there are people I used to work with that are on TikTok and they will tell you too — I should have quit way before I actually did," Katherine Randle (@katherinejrandle) said.

Why did the Disney princess quit?
The beginning of the end, Katherine explains, was a confluence of three things happening at once: she was disapproved out of Ariel (the character she was originally hired for and played for two years), the Mary Poppins meet-and-greet location was going down for refurbishment, and her body was breaking down from playing Rapunzel. The Rapunzel costume requires performers to wear a long, heavy braid. Over time, she says the weight and positioning of that braid gave Katherine severe arthritis in her neck. She reports that she went to the company's athletic trainers, health services, workers' comp, temporary disapprovals, and physical therapy. All of it on the company's dime, she says. According to Katherine, nothing worked. "The physical therapist that worked for the company said the only way you are going to stop being in pain is if you stop playing Rapunzel," she said. "Casting knew all of this. I had communicated this to them multiple times." She couldn't even complete a single eight-hour Rapunzel shift anymore without having to leave early due to pain, she says. And with Ariel gone and Mary Poppins temporarily unavailable, Rapunzel was the only character left on her schedule.

I took these photos when we visited Disney Paris:

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You can tell those princesses are not really comfortable in those costumes but gotta keep smiling ...

Reminds me of some Hmong girls at the Hmong New Year celebrations, all those heavy Hmong clothes and coins can be uncomfortable but they still smile...

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Took the photos of when we were in Japan below. The characters and princesses were the same but played by a different race...