05/03/2026
This is definitely an OLD photo, but one of my favourite photos ever! 🌷✨
I don't get really personal on my "cosplay" accounts, but I think it's important and I'm going to start opening up more about my experiences with "princessing", performing and owning a business!
I have put on a decent amount of weight since this photo. It's pre-marriage, pre-covid and pre-finding out that I have Hashimoto's Disease/Thyroiditis. I have struggled a lot to feel beautiful and have had many break downs due to costumes not fitting the way they did before, or at all. I just have not been a fan of who I was seeing in the mirror before me.
I have learned that as long as I am true to the Character, and focus on the magic, I will (and still have never) had any children question how I look. Oftentimes, on the hardest days when I feel the worst, the kids give me unprompted compliments or just look at their favourite Princess with huge smiles and twinkles in their eyes, and it reminds me why I do what I do, and that I am enough.
I do want to work hard to get more "in shape" and know that now I have health answers and medication, I can start trying to find a new normal and help myself to start feeling confident and beautiful again soon!
(Please note: I am not attributing weight to beauty. It has just been a personal struggle physically and mentally and now having answers and being able to open the door to change is making me feel motivated and positive!)
