Which Disney Princess are You?

I'm the mother of a 3 year old girl, so my life is hopelessly inundated with fairy tales and clever, opinionated, somewhat feminist princesses who inevitably find themselves in trouble.

One day, when I was watching The Little Mermaid for the 423rd time in my life and thinking that my eyeballs might fall out of their sockets if they had to be glued to a swarm of merry dancing sea creatures for even one more second, a thought entered my mind.

I thought, how would these fairy tales have ended up if the plots had been about the princesses discovering the raw vegan diet?

It was an interesting concept to me since all these princesses seemed to have one thing in common - they all wanted the prince, I mean, success on the diet and health in the long term.

Here are the thoughts that kept me entertained for the rest of the movie and saved my eyeballs from permanent damage.

Cinderella
Cinderella was a very earnest princess. When she found out about the raw diet, she immediately knew it was for her. She tried and tried and tried even though her evil stepmother and ugly stepsisters judged her and sabotaged her efforts when they found out her desires.

Happily, Cinderella was strong of heart and decided that her health was more important to her than keeping others happy. She eventually broke off ties with the people who were making her life miserable and successfully hooked up with a fruitarian prince, and lived happily ever after in a castle with huge organic orchards in the surrounding lands.

Aurora/Sleeping Beauty
Aurora was pretty happy with her life. She was a young beautiful girl who had everything going for her. Somebody at court told her about the raw diet once, but she was in the pink of health and didn't really want to hear about it at the time.

Then one day, an evil witch cast a spell on her and made her very sick, like for a zillion years. While sick, she vaguely remembered someone telling her about raw diets and curing sickness, but she had a hard time conceiving that changing her lifestyle could actually be the answer.

About a hundred years later, a handsome raw vegan athlete prince guy came to town and they met. She was quite taken with him and the stuff he said made sense. He taught her the principles of health and nutrition, and she realized that she was truly sick and tired of being sick and tired. She finally decided to take the plunge and her health was restored. They got married and lived happily ever after.

Belle/Beauty and the Beast.
Belle was one pretty feisty gal. When she first encountered the fruitarian diet, she was in shock at how crazy it sounded. She quickly recovered from the shock though, and decided to set out to prove it dead wrong.

So she argued about it, digging up all the research she could find. She struggled and grappled with the issues that come with this diet constantly, and was vehemently antagonistic about it toward anyone who tried to talk to her about it.

One day, she came to the realization that the reason she'd been fighting it all long, was because she was afraid of embracing it. And it dawned on her that she was slowly falling in love with the idea itself. So from that day on she worked on throwing off her armor off and made a gradual transition to the lifestyle. She lived happily ever after.

Ariel/Little Mermaid
Ariel was born curiouser than cat. Growing up, her family never, ever served her fruit...only seaweed and fish and stuff like that. But one day she realized that there was a whole new world out there, one where people not only walked on 2 legs, they also ate fruit. She gradually became very drawn to that world and tried to learn all she could about it.

Her family was furious with her and made it very difficult for her to pursue her new interests, but she persisted. Finally, one day, she just decided to do it. She had to be sneaky about it, but she succeeded in transitioning to this new lifestyle under the radar.

She had some horrendous detox issues along the way. She got sick, lost her voice and her tail too. However, she knew what her goal was in the end and nothing was going to deter her from reaching it.

When her family realized just how important this was to her, and they saw her emerge from the initial detox fully happy, healthy and thriving, they had a change of heart and from that day on, fully supported her choices fully. She lived happily ever after (with a hot prince named Eric.)

So, Which Disney Princess are You?
Was there one story that particularly touched your heart today? :) I think I'm mostly a Cinderella. What about you?

If you're not on the raw vegan diet and are not interested in it, that's okay too. These princesses all share a similar story of reaching a certain goal and we all have our own goals. I'd still love for you to tell me if there's one princess whose attitude and story parallels your own!

I only had the time and space to tell 4 princess stories today, so feel free to add Jasmine, Snow White and any other general fairy tale princess stories to the mix if you feel inclined.

Oh, and men, if you answer this one, you get extra points for bravery and sportsmanship.