With the recent release of Disney’s new Cinderella movie, I have pondered this poor young girl’s dilemma and often wondered why her Fairy Godmother didn’t give Cinderella some REAL advice. Some that she could actually use not just on the night of the ball but in her life. For happily ever after.
What good was it fluffing her up in a pretty dress, sending her off on a date with a man she’d met once, knowing it was all going to fall apart at midnight ( sounds an awful lot like many of MY dates)?
These days I am a proud divorced mother of three , struggling to get through each day while attempting to retain a morsel of sanity. Life isn’t a fairytale at all. It’s real and sometimes as ugly as those step sisters.
So what would I tell Cinderella if I was her Fairy Godmother?
1. Enjoy your body. The actress who played you in the movie had to go on a starvation diet and suck her ribs into a corset so even for her, that teeny tiny waist was fleeting. As soon as your body spits out a child, elastic waists are your friend.
2. Don’t you DARE run off with the first man you get serious with! I know this from personal experience. Play around the kingdom for a while.
3. If you think you’re sick of housework now, wait until you’ve been at work for eleven hours and come home to dishes, vacuuming, cooking dinner for kids who probably won’t eat it, scooping dog poo off the lounge because one of the kids didn’t let it outside, and sewing buttons on a shirt that HAS to be worn within 5 minutes notice. And all this within 10 minutes of being home.